Features of common sense geography
Subtitle: implicit knowledge structures in ancient geographical texts
By: edited by Klaus Geus and Martin Thiering
Series: Antike Kultur und Geschichte -- Bd. 16; Antike Kultur und Geschichte -- Bd. 16.
Publisher: Lit
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9783643905284
Subjects: Geografischer Raum; Antike; Antiken; Raumwahrnehmung; Geografi; Ancient Geography
Description: "The contributions in this volume combine fundamental questions of common sense geography with case studies of ancient geographical texts. The book seeks to bridge synchronic cognitive linguistic and cognitive psychological approaches to ancient texts with a diachronic perspective. The mental modelling of common sense geography is a fruitful theoretical approach to gain deeper insights in universal and cultural-specific mnemonic representational systems on the one hand, and to enhance our understanding of ancient geography on the other."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-360) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Common sense geography and mental modelling: setting the stage / Klaus Geus & Martin Thiering; title: What is common sense geography?: some preliminary thoughts from a historical perspective / Anca Dan & Klaus Geus & Kurt Guckelberger; title: Ancient mariners between experience and common sense geography / Pascal Arnaud; title: Looking for bird's-eye view in ancient Greek sources / Thomas Poiss; title: The Mediterranean islands and the common sense geography / Gian Franco Chiai; title: Ancient perceptions and representations of the island Britannia / Serena Bianchetti; title: Hard and soft space in the ancient world / Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen; title: A "day's journey" in Herodotus' Histories / Klaus Geus; title: Xenophon's Anabasis and the common Greek mental modelling of spaces / Anca Dan; title: Hierotopia and ethno-geography: (para- )scriptural traditions and landscape perception / Florentina Badalanova Geller; title: Berossos on Kos from the view of common sense geography Markham J. Geller; title: The achievements of common sense geography / Kurt Guckelsberger; title: Towards a cognitive-linguistic reconstruction of the spatial orientation in ancient texts: the example of Dionysius Periegetes / Ekaterina Ilyushechkina & Günther Görz & Martin Thiering; title: Implicit knowledge structures as mental models in common sense geography / Martin Thiering.