Studies of the rivers of Asia Minor in antiquity. Volume 1.
Artois University Press| N° d'inventaire | 21125 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 427p., maps, illustrations, color photos, paperback. |
| Publication | Arras, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
The divine Scamander, the meandering Meander, the gold-bearing Pactolus, the swirling Xanthos, the beautiful Caique, the great Sangarios or the Halys, the dividing line between Lower and Upper Asia... Asia Minor includes many rivers and important waterways. Several of them interested ancient authors. Some have thus become famous and have entered the collective memory, associated with the image of this geographical area. Yet few works exist on the rivers and lakes of the Anatolian peninsula in Antiquity. Moreover, there is no comprehensive study on the scale of Asia Minor in this field. This present work, divided into two volumes, offers an initial approach. It is the result of three study days held at the University of Artois between 2010 and 2011. The first volume focuses on the question of the river as an object of history. It thus takes into consideration the representations of rivers in ancient tradition and seeks to explore the diversity of studies permitted by the subject. The second volume presents the study of several waterways, from the Bosphorus to the Euphrates. These are all specific cases that bring us back to the local, the diverse, and the concrete: the river in its territory. This first approach is an invitation to continue research in a promising field.
The divine Scamander, the meandering Meander, the gold-bearing Pactolus, the swirling Xanthos, the beautiful Caique, the great Sangarios or the Halys, the dividing line between Lower and Upper Asia... Asia Minor includes many rivers and important waterways. Several of them interested ancient authors. Some have thus become famous and have entered the collective memory, associated with the image of this geographical area. Yet few works exist on the rivers and lakes of the Anatolian peninsula in Antiquity. Moreover, there is no comprehensive study on the scale of Asia Minor in this field. This present work, divided into two volumes, offers an initial approach. It is the result of three study days held at the University of Artois between 2010 and 2011. The first volume focuses on the question of the river as an object of history. It thus takes into consideration the representations of rivers in ancient tradition and seeks to explore the diversity of studies permitted by the subject. The second volume presents the study of several waterways, from the Bosphorus to the Euphrates. These are all specific cases that bring us back to the local, the diverse, and the concrete: the river in its territory. This first approach is an invitation to continue research in a promising field.