A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind : Visualising Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World / Iain Ferris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferris, Iain, author.

Series:

Archaeopress Roman archaeology ; Volume 115.

Archaeopress Roman Archaeology Series ; Volume 115

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical geography.

Geographical perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2024]

Summary:

This study considers the relationship between geography and power in the Roman world, most particularly the visualisation of geographical knowledge in myriad forms of geography products: geographical treatises, histories, poems, personifications, landscape representations, images of barbarian peoples, maps, itineraries, and imported foodstuffs.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents Page

List of Figures and Tables

Figure 1. Relief depicting architrave supported by the figures of two caryatids, Pozzuoli. Early first century AD. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. (Photo: Author).

Figure 2. Example of a Roman 'geography product'. Statue personification of the River Arno. Exact provenance uncertain, probably Rome. Hadrianic. Musei Vaticani, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Figure 3. Example of a Roman 'geography product'. Nilotic scene on a terracotta Campana plaque. Mid-first century AD. British Museum, London. (Photo: Copyright Trustees of the British Museum).

Figure 4. Example of a Roman 'geography product'. Sarcophagus depicting the Indian triumph of Bacchus, Ostia/Portus. Second to third century AD. Museo Archeologico Ostiense. (Photo: Author).

Figure 5. The Map of Bedolina at the rock art site of Bedolina, near Capo di Ponte, Valcamonica, Lombardy. Italian Bronze Age (c. 1500-1400 BC) and Iron Age (between 600-400 BC). (Photo: Angelo Fossati).

Figure 6. The Map of Bedolina at the rock art site of Bedolina, near Capo di Ponte, Valcamonica, Lombardy. Italian Bronze Age (c. 1500-1400 BC) and Iron Age (between 600-400 BC). (Photo: Angelo Fossati).

Figure 7. Survey drawing of the Map of Bedolina. (Photo: Angelo Fossati/Footsteps of Man Cooperativo).

Figure 8. The Liver of Piacenza. Etruscan, second century BC in Museo Civico Palazzo Farnese, Piacenza. Modern replica in Museo Etrusco Guarnacci, Volterra. (Photo: Copyright Jerónimo Roure Pérez).

Figure 9. Roma/Tellus, the Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome. 13-9 BC. (Photo: Author).

Figure 10. Vegetal decoration, the Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome. 13-9 BC. (Photo: Author).

Figure 11. Detail, the Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome. 13-9 BC. (Photo: Author).

Figure 12. The Prima Porta statue of Augustus. c. 20 BC. Musei Vaticani, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Figure 13. Detail of the decorated cuirass, the Prima Porta statue of Augustus. c. 20 BC. Musei Vaticani, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Figure 14. Portrait bust of Cicero. First century BC, Rome. Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Figure 15. Wall painting depicting treaty negotiations between Romans and Samnites. Esquiline Hill, Rome. 300-280 BC. Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Figure 16. The bronze Capitoline Wolf, still widely considered to be of an Etruscan date, with Romulus and Remus added later. Musei Capitolini, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Figure 17. A Proto-Etruscan cinerary urn in the form of a model of a contemporary hut, perhaps like the Casa Romuli. Alban Hills, Lazio. 900-800 BC. British Museum, London. (Copyright Trustees of the British Museum).

Figure 18. Relief depicting Aeneas at the future site of Rome. The ship of Aeneas is docked on the right. Rome. AD 140-150. British Museum, London. (Photo: Copyright Trustees of the British Museum).

Figure 19. The ficus ruminalis depicted on one of the Plutei of Trajan or Anaglypha Traiani. Trajanic, possibly later and Hadrianic. Curia Julia, Roman Forum. (Photo: Author).

Figure 20. Bronze sestertius coin issue of Vespasian, Rome mint. AD 71. Reverse image of Roma seated on the seven hills. British Museum, London. (Photo: Copyright Trustees of the British Museum).

Figure 21. Face of altar to Mars and Venus, with depiction of Faustulus, Numitor, and Faustus, the She-Wolf nursing Romulus and Remus, and Tiberinus, Ostia. Trajanic or Hadrianic. Palazzo Massimo Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Figure 22. Detail of face of altar to Mars and Venus, with depiction of the She-Wolf nursing Romulus and Remus and Tiberinus looking on, Ostia. Trajanic or Hadrianic. Palazzo Massimo Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Figure 23. Apotheosis scene, with the youthful personification of the Campus Martius in attendance, on relief panel from the Arco di Portogallo, Rome. AD 136-138. Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Figure 24. Wall painting of Bacchus in front of Mount Vesuvius. Lararium of the Casa del Centenario or House of the Centenary, Pompeii. AD 55-79. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. (Photo: Author).

Figure 25. Detail of buildings on reliefs from the Tomb of the Haterii, Rome. Late Flavian or early Trajanic. Musei Vaticani, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Figure 26. Detail from the end panel of a marble sarcophagus, showing St Peter and his jailers in the city of Rome. Rome. Fourth century AD. Musei Vaticani, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Figure 27. Roman architecture on coins. Bronze sestertius of Titus, reverse the Colosseum from a bird's-eye view, Rome mint. AD 80-81. British Museum, London. (Photo: Copyright Trustees of the British Museum).

Figure 28. Roman architecture on coins. Gold aureus of Nero, reverse the Temple of Vesta, Rome mint. AD 65-66. British Museum, London. (Photo: Copyright Trustees of the British Museum).

Figure 29. Roman architecture on coins. Gold aureus of Claudius, reverse a triumphal arch in Rome, Rome mint. AD 41-45. British Museum, London. (Photo: Copyright Trustees of the British Museum).

Figure 30. Relief from a sarcophagus, depicting a busy harbour scene at Portus. Rome. Mid-third century AD. Musei Vaticani, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Figure 31. Marble Christian sarcophagus relief from Rome depicting ship approaching the harbour at Portus and its lighthouse. Fourth century AD. Musei Vaticani, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Figure 32. Wall painting of Roma. Originally fourth century AD, San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome. Probably a heavily-overrestored Venus. Palazzo Massimo Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Figure 33. Face of painted altar bearing image of Roma/Tellus, Milan. Late first to early second century AD. Museo Civico Archeologico, Milan. (Photo: Author).

Figure 34. Detail of the Base of Tiberius, showing one group of the fourteen Tychai of Asian cities. Pozzuoli. AD 30-31. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. (Photo: Author).

Figure 35. Head of Tyche, Classe. Second century AD. Classis Ravenna Museo della Città e del Territorio, Classe. (Photo: Author).

Figure 36. Tombstone of Lucius Aurelius Hermia, butcher on the Viminal Hill, Rome. First century BC. British Museum, London. ( Photo: Copyright Trustees of the British Museum).

Figure 37. Massive statue of the personified Tiber (originally probably the Tigris), Campidoglio, Rome. Originally in the Baths of Constantine, Rome. Early fourth century AD. (Photo: Author).

Figure 38. Massive statue of the personified Nile, probably from the Temple of Isis in the Campus Martius, Rome. Very late first century AD. Musei Vaticani, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Figure 39. Massive statue of the personified Nile, Campidoglio, Rome. Originally in the Baths of Constantine, Rome. Early fourth century AD. (Photo: Author).

Figure 40. Gold aureus coin issue of Hadrian, Rome mint. AD 130-138. Reverse image of the personification of the Nile. British Museum, London. (Photo: Copyright Trustees of the British Museum).

Figure 41. Detail of relief panel showing submission of personification of Mesopotamia to Trajan, with personifications of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris in attendance. The Arch of Trajan at Benevento. AD 114-118. (Photo: Author).

Figure 42. The personified figure of the River Danube. Scene III, Trajan's Column, Rome. AD 113 (Photo: Author).

Figure 43. Bronze sestertius of Trajan, Rome mint, AD 104-111. Reverse of personification of Danuvius (River Danube) throttling and subduing the personified Dacia. British Museum, London. (Photo: Copyright Trustees of the British Museum).

Figure 44. Bronze sestertius of Trajan, Rome mint, AD 116-117. Reverse of emperor standing over seated personifications of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, with personified Armenia seated left. British Museum, London. (Photo: Copyright Trustees of the Bri

Figure 45. Stone head of Rhine god Rhenus from a mausoleum, Bonn. Second century AD. Rheinisch Landesmuseum, Bonn. (Photo: Carole Raddato).

Figure 46. Black and white mosaic depicting the Nile. Piazzale delle Corporazioni, Ostia. AD 150-170. (Photo: Author).

Figure 47. The rain god. Scene XVI, the Column of Marcus Aurelius, Rome. AD 180-192. (Photo: Author).

Figure 48. The Pesaro wind rose, Via Appia, Rome. End of second century AD. Museo Oliveriano, Pesaro. (Photo: Author).

Figure 49. Roman/Campanian landscape wall painting from Pompeii. Early first century AD to AD 79. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. (Photo: Author).

Figure 50. Roman/Campanian landscape wall painting from Pompeii. Early first century AD to AD 79. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. (Photo: Author).

Figure 51. Roman/Campanian landscape wall painting from Pompeii. Early first century AD to AD 79. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. (Photo: Author).

Figure 52. Relief depicting a sacro-idyllic landscape, Rome. First to second century AD. Palazzo Massimo Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome. (Photo: Author).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Print version: Ferris, Iain A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind: Visualising Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World

ISBN:

9781803277820

OCLC:

1439598011