Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. archaeology), with a view to stimulating a broad-based discussion among readers and critics of Herodotus and ancient Greek literature and culture more generally. However the book also considers the spatial imaginary through the lens of other authors (e.g. There is a particular focus on Herodotus’ Histories-a text that is increasingly taken up by classicists as the example of how ancient perceptions of space may have been rather different to the cartographic view that we tend to assume. The chapters explore the rich array of representational devices employed by authors from this era, whose narrative depictions of spatial relations defy the logic of images and surfaces that dominates contemporary cartographic thought. This book responds to these analytical and methodological challenges by focusing on the ancient Greek experience, conceived of in terms of both its literature and material culture remains. In contrast to the traditional ‘topographic’ perspective, the territorial extent of economic and political realms is being increasingly conceived though a ‘topological’ lens, in which the nature and frequency of links among different sites matter more than the physical distances between them. Despite earlier expectations that globalization would eradicate the need for geographical space and distance, ‘maps matter’ today in ways that were unimaginable a mere two decades ago.
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