Mercury's wings : exploring modes of communication in the ancient world / edited by F.S. Naiden and Richard J.A. Talbert.
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Physical Description: | xxxiv, 419 pages ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 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.