Publication

2019 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

93,750 words, Guess

Page Count

375 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004388628
  • ISBN-109004388621
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018047724
  • OCLC Control Number1061869113
  • Better World Books9789004388628
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCDS70.63.C36 2019
  • LCCDS70.63 .C36 2019

Description

"In Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland, Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical writing of Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy, the anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi, and Ammianus Marcellinus. This inter-imperial borderland between the Roman Empire and the Arsacid and Sasanid Empires provided fertile ground for Roman geographical writers to articulate their ideas about space, boundaries, and imperial power. By examining these geographical descriptions, Hamish Cameron shows how each author constructed an image of Mesopotamia in keeping with the goals and context of their own work, while collectively creating a vision of Mesopotamia as a borderland space of movement, inter-imperial tension, and global engagement"--

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