Geography Archive
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From periphery to centre: pagan continuity and revival in Britain and Rome during the late fourth century AD
Posted on February 4, 2013 | No CommentsThe term 'cult acts' has also been posited as a mare apt description of Roman religious practice, and this certainly does account for the panoply of practices of a religious nature that existed in the Roman world; differences in culture, class, geography and ancestry led individuals to seek religious affiliatians unique to themselves -
The Circumnavigation of Africa
Posted on December 5, 2012 | No CommentsIt is commonly believed that the first circumnavigation of Africa was made by the Portuguese under Vasco da Gama in A.D. 1497-99. However a closer look at the records will reveal that they in fact were not the first people to do so. -
Forests and Warfare in World History
Posted on December 3, 2012 | No CommentsFor better and for worse, both woods and warfare are fundamental factors in human life, and have been for a very long time. -
An interactive secondary education history class project using cartographic heritage interfaces: The Ancient Olympia landscape key-study
Posted on December 2, 2012 | No CommentsThis work is an experiment on the implementation of cartography, maps and Cartographic Heritage in the teaching of History, History of Art and relevant courses in the secondary education, giving at the same time a 'technology' notion and reference in this teaching, since the map use is of central importance. -
The Old and the Restless: The Egyptians and the Scythians in Herodotus’ Histories
Posted on August 24, 2012 | No CommentsOn a historiographical level, if we look at all the ethnographic material in the Histories, it appears that Herodotus wishes the reader to view the world and its peoples in a sort of grid. Scythia and Egyptians are the extremes (in several ways) and other central cultures like the Greeks and Persians fall into place between them. -
Maps in the Service of the State: Roman Cartography to the End of the Augustan Era
Posted on August 19, 2012 | No CommentsIt is not only by chance, therefore, that it is in three particular applications of mapping-road organization, land survey for centuriation, and town planning-that Roman maps, or descendants of them, have survived. -
The Greco-Roman Conception of the North from Pytheas to Tacitus
Posted on August 14, 2012 | No CommentsThe article summarizes Greek and Roman knowledge of the farthest northern frontiers by providing a survey of principal sources for the researcher of classical antiquity, and the archaeologist. -
From Ptolemy to Pilgrimage: Images of Late Antiquity in Geography, Travel and Cartography
Posted on June 29, 2012 | No CommentsA survey of Greek and Latin geographical tradition during Late Antiquity (c. 200-600 CE), when various genres of travel narrative rose to prominence. -
Interactive map of the Roman Empire now online
Posted on May 24, 2012 | No CommentsORBIS, an interactive digital model of the ancient Roman transportation system, shows how the empire was shaped by economic constraints. -
Mineral Exploration and Fort Placement in Roman Britain
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsBritain yields gold, silver, and other metals, to make it worth conquering. - Tacitus
