Written by a highly interdisciplinary range of contributors, New Worlds from Old Texts explores ancient Greek perceptions of space, and how they may have differed from the modern cartographic view.
Readers will come to this volume for diverse reasons - Herodotean scholarship, literary criticism, spatial theory, and/or new "mapping" technologies - and the editors are to be commended for seeing through their initial vision for a volume that brings together various strategies for re-imagining how the ancient Greeks and Romans conceived of their world.