Making Mesopotamia - Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland / Hamish Cameron.

In Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland , Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical writing of Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy, the anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi, and Ammianus Marcellinus. This inter-...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, , Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Impact of Empire 32.
Physical Description:1 online resource (387 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Maps
  • A Note on the Maps
  • Introducing the Borderland
  • Tradition and Narrative
  • Knowing
  • Naming
  • Narrating
  • Moving
  • Movement and Power
  • Carrying
  • Ruling
  • Epilogue: Connecting
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography.