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The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman world to come down to us from antiquity. Today it is among the treasures of the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Richard Talbert's study presented in Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered offers a long-overdue reinterpretation and appreciation of the map as a masterpiece of both mapmaking and imperial Roman ideology. Here, the ancient world's traditional span, from the Atlantic to India, is dramatically remoulded; lands and routes take pride of place, whereas seas are compressed. Talbert posits that the map's true purpose was not to assist travellers along Rome's highways, but rather to celebrate the restoration of peace and order by Diocletian's Tetrarchy. Such creative cartography influenced the development of medieval mapmaking. With the aid of digital technology, this book enables readers to engage with the Peutinger Map in all of its fascinating immensity more closely than ever before.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Rome's World
• Author: Richard J. A. Talbert
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 376
• EAN: 9780521764803
• ISBN: 0521764807
• ID: 04095190
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 982 g
• Dimensions: 263 × 187 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. August 2010

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