Making Mesopotamia - Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland

Making Mesopotamia - Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland

In Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland , Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical writing of Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy, the anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi, and Ammianus Marcellinus. This inter-...

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Main Author: Cameron, Hamish.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Series: Impact of Empire 32.
Impact of Empire Online, ISBN: 9789004411142.

Subjects:

Geography, Ancient, in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Borderlands > Rome > History.
Borderlands > Iran > History > To 1500.

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Call Number: DS70.63

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Maps
  • A Note on the Maps
  • Introducing the Borderland
  • Tradition and Narrative
  • Knowing
  • Naming
  • Narrating
  • Moving
  • Movement and Power
  • Carrying
  • Ruling
  • Epilogue: Connecting
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography.