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Geography, Ancient --- Early works to 1800. --- Strabo. --- Early works to 1800 --- Strabo --- Geography, Ancient - Early works to 1800 --- Strabo. - Geography

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East and West --- History, Ancient --- World history --- Geography, Ancient --- Historiography --- Early works to 1800 --- Herodotus

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"The colonnaded axes define the visitor's experience of many of the great cities of the Roman East. How did this extraordinarily bold tool of urban planning evolve? The street, instead of remaining a mundane passage, a convenient means of passing from one place to another, was in the course of little more than a century transformed in the Eastern provinces into a monumental landscape which could in one sweeping vision encompass the entire city. The colonnaded axes became the touchstone by which cities competed for status in the Eastern Empire. Though adopted as a sign of cities' prosperity under the Pax Romana, they were not particularly 'Roman' in their origin. Rather, they reflected the inventiveness, fertility of ideas and the dynamic role of civic patronage in the Eastern provinces in the first two centuries under Rome. This study concentrates on the convergence of ideas behind these great avenues, examining over fifty sites in an attempt to work out the sequence in which ideas developed across a variety of regions-from North Africa around to Asia Minor. It looks at the phenomenon in the context of the consolidation of Roman rule."--

Cities and towns, Ancient --- Roman provinces --- Streets --- Provinces of Rome --- Avenues --- Boulevards --- Thoroughfares --- Roads --- Geography, Ancient --- History --- Romans --- Social aspects --- Cities and towns, Ancient. --- Kolonnade. --- Roman provinces. --- Streets. --- Städtebau. --- To 1500. --- Middle East. --- Römisches Reich --- Ostprovinzen.

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The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, texts, poems and paintings of the developing empire. Tantalised by the unique status of the river, explorers were sent to find the sources of the Nile, while natural philosophers meditated on its deeper metaphysical significance. Andy Merrills' book, Roman Geographies of the Nile, examines the very different images of the river that emerged from these descriptions - from anthropomorphic figures, brought repeatedly into Rome in military triumphs, through the frequently whimsical landscape vignettes from the houses of Pompeii, to the limitless river that spilled through the pages of Lucan's Civil War, and symbolised a conflict - and an empire - without end. Considering cultural and political contexts alongside the other Niles that flowed through the Roman world in this period, this book provides a wholly original interpretation of the deeper significance of geographical knowledge during the later Roman Republic and early Principate.

Classical antiquities. --- Geografie. --- Romans --- Romans. --- Römerzeit. --- 332 B.C.-640 A.D. --- Egypt --- Egypt. --- Nile River --- Nile River. --- Ägypten --- Antiquities, Roman. --- History --- History. --- Antiquities, Roman --- Geography --- Geography, Ancient. --- Ancient geography --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Bahr en Nīl --- Nahr an Nīl --- Nīl River --- Nilus River