Mercury's wings : exploring modes of communication in the classical world /
Mercury's Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World is the first-ever volume of essays devoted to ancient communications. Comparable previous work has been mainly confined to articles on aspects of communication in the Roman empire. This set of 18 essays with an introduction...
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2017
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / by F.S. Naiden, Richard Talbert
- Part one. Networks. Environmental perspectives on ancient communication / by Grant Parker
- Libraries and communication in the ancient world / Matthew Nicholls
- Communication and Roman long-distance trade / Taco Terpstra
- Military communication : the example of the classical battlefield / F.S. Naiden
- Part two. Modes. Monuments of the Hittite and Neo-Assyrian empires during the Late Bronze and Iron ages / James F. Osborne
- Communicating with images in the Roman empire / Jennifer Trimble
- Musical persuasion in early Greece / Timothy Power
- Gesture in the ancient Mediterranean world / Gregory S. Aldrete
- Part three. Divinities. Messaging and the gods in Mesopotamia : signals and systematics / Seth Richardson
- Pilgrimage and communication / Ian Rutherford
- The inspired voice : enigmatic oracular communication / Julia Kindt
- Christianity / Michael Kulikowski
- Part four. Engagements. Cross-cultural communication in the Hellenistic Mediterranean and Western and South Asia / Michael Canepa
- Cross-cultural communication in Egypt / J.G. Manning
- Diplomatic communication in the ancient Mediterranean / Sheila L. Ager
- Coinage and the Roman economy / Kenneth W. Harl
- Communicating through maps : the Roman case / Richard Talbert.
