Al di qua delle Colonne d’Ercole

Scoperta e rappresentazioni del Mediterraneo

by Francesco Prontera

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Extent: 274 pages

Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

Subjects: Earth & Life Sciences , Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Biblioteca di Geographia Antiqua

Series volume number: 7

Language: Italian

Paperback (Published)

(May 2025)

ISBN: 9788822269461

6.65 x 9.41 inches

Price: $40.00

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The Mediterranean, a space of trade and conflict, was the pivot around which the Greco-Roman world revolved. But how was its unitary nature conceived? Still unknown to Homer and Hesiod, the distinction between the sea within and beyond the Pillars of Heracles was an unforeseen outcome of Greek and Phoenician colonization. Systematically described in Journeys round the Earth and in Peripli, the Mediterranean took shape in cartography from Eratosthenes to Ptolemy. Relying on ancient mappae mundi, medieval nautical charts and portolan charts, this book takes the reader through the extraordinary cognitive process that led to a broadening of the horizon of that “early” Mediterranean that was the Aegean Sea for the ancient Greeks.

  • By (author) Francesco Prontera