Book description
This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have
analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide
range of pre-modern societies.
- Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to
the Age of Discovery
- Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies around the
globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the Greeks and
Romans to the peoples of ancient India
- Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials
Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University
Professor, and Professor of Classics and History, at Brown University.
His numerous publications include The Discovery of Freedom
(2004) and Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007,
co-authored with Josiah Ober and Robert Wallace). He is also the
editor of Social Struggles in Archaic Rome (Blackwell, 2005),
and War and Peace in the Ancient World (Blackwell, 2007), and
co-editor of A Companion to Archaic Greece (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
Richard J. A. Talbert is William Rand Kenan, Jr, Professor of
History and Classics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He is the editor of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and
Roman World (2000), and co-editor of Space in the Roman
World: Its Perception and Presentation (2004), as well as of
Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives,
New Methods (2008). His major study Rome's World: The
Peutinger Map Reconsidered will appear in 2010.
