Mercury's wings

• Titel: Mercury's wings
• Titelzusatz: exploring modes of communication in the ancient world
• Mitwirkende: Naiden, F. S. [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Talbert, Richard J. A. [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by F.S. Naiden and Richard J.A. Talbert
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2017
• Jahr: [2017]
• Umfang: xxxiv, 419 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538684-4
• Schlagwörter: (s)Kommunikation / (s)Antike
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: NG 1600
• RVK-Notation: LG 7900
• RVK-Notation: NH 5250
• K10plus-PPN: 876027842

Abstract

Introduction -- Networks. Environmental perspectives on ancient communication / by Grant Parker -- Libraries and communication in the ancient world / by Matthew Nicholls -- Communication and Roman long-distance trade / by Taco Terpstra -- Military communication: the example of the classical battlefield / by F. S. Naiden -- Modes. Monuments of the Hittite and neo-Assyrian empires during the late bronze and iron ages / by James F. Osborne -- Communicating with images in the Roman Empire / by Jennifer Trimble -- Musical persuasion in early Greece / by Timothy Power -- Gesture in the ancient Mediterranean world / by Gregory S. Aldrete -- Exercising sympathy in Mesopotamian letters / by Seth Richardson -- Divinities. Messages and the Mesopotamian gods: signals and systematics / by Seth Richardson -- Pilgrimage and communication / by Ian Rutherford -- The inspired voice: enigmatic oracular communication / by Julia Kindt -- Christianity / by Michael Kulikowski -- Engagements. Cross-cultural communication in the Hellenistic Mediterranean and Western and South Asia / by Matthew Canepa -- Cross-cultural communication in Egypt / by J. G. Manning -- Diplomatic communication in the ancient Mediterranean / by Sheila l. Ager -- Coinage and the Roman economy / by Kenneth W. Harl -- Communicating through maps: the Roman case / by Richard Talbert