The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium (Greek Culture in the Roman World) - Hardcover

Thonemann, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107006880 ISBN 13: 9781107006881

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

This is a study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor, from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD. Using an astonishing breadth of sources, ranging from Byzantine monastic archives to Latin poetic texts, ancient land records to hagiographic biographies, Peter Thonemann reveals the complex and fascinating interplay between the natural environment and human activities in the Maeander valley. Both a large-scale regional history and a profound meditation on the role played by geography in human history, this book is an essential contribution to the history of the Eastern Mediterranean in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the Byzantine Middle Ages.

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Book Description:

Groundbreaking study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the Byzantine Middle Ages. Uses an astonishing breadth of sources, ranging from Byzantine monastic archives to Latin poetic texts, ancient land records to hagiographic biographies.

About the Author:

Peter Thonemann teaches ancient history at Wadham College, Oxford University. He is co-author of the widely acclaimed first volume of the Penguin History of Europe, The Birth of Classical Europe: A History From Troy to Augustine (with Simon Price). The Maeander was awarded the Hellenic Foundation's 2006 Award for the best ancient/classical thesis in Hellenic Studies, and Oxford University's Conington Prize for 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1107006880
• ISBN 13: 9781107006881
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 414