Rome's World
Rome's World The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman world to come down to us from antiquity. Richard Talbert's study presented in Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered offers a…
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Rome's World
The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman world to come down to us from antiquity. Richard Talbert's study presented in Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered offers a long-overdue reinterpretation and appreciation of the map as a masterpiece of both mapmaking and imperial Roman ideology. Today it is among the treasures of the Austrian National Library in Vienna.
Talbert posits that the map's true purpose was not to assist travellers along Rome's highways, but rather to celebrate the restoration of peace and order by Diocletian's Tetrarchy. Here, the ancient world's traditional span, from the Atlantic to India, is dramatically remoulded; lands and routes take pride of place, whereas seas are compressed. Such creative cartography influenced the development of medieval mapmaking.
With the aid of digital technology, this book enables readers to engage with the Peutinger Map in all of its fascinating immensity more closely than ever before.
World Past to World Present