Product Description: Presented with facing Latin text, this is the first English translation and an up-to-date commentary of the Medicina Plinii, a late antique book on self-medication for travellers, adapted from Pliny’s Natural History, which became one of the most influential books of applied medicine and self-medication in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages...read more

Product Description: What were the limits of knowledge of the physical world in Greek and Roman antiquity? How far did travellers get and what did they know about far-away regions? How did they describe foreign countries and peoples? How did they measure the earth, and distances and heights on it? Ideas about the physical and cultural world are a key aspect of ancient history, but until now there has been no up-to-date modern overview of the subject...read more

Product Description: En 2007 una plataforma impulsada en internet estableció por votación popular las Siete Maravillas de nuestro mundo globalizado. Pero ¿cuáles fueron Las siete maravillas del mundo antiguo ¿Qué aspecto tenían? ¿Qué cualidades les conferían tal estimación? El presente libro de Kai Brodersen responde de forma detallada a esta...read more

Product Description: How was space perceived and presented in the Roman world? While it is tempting to assume that any modern historical atlas, with its maps of "the world as the Romans saw it", gives a sufficient answer to these questions, recent research has suggested that the issue is more complex than this...read more

Product Description: This volume presents a concise introduction to ancient geography, which surveys the actual geographical knowledge of antiquity and explores the crucial interrelationship between geographical knowledge and political decision and propaganda...read more