J. A. Talbert Richard - Mercurys wings: exploring modes of communication in the ancient world

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Names: Naiden, F. S. editor. | Talbert, Richard J. A., 1947 editor.

Title: Mercurys wings : exploring modes of communication in the ancient world / edited by Fred S. Naiden and Richard J. A. Talbert.

Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016036929| ISBN 9780195386844 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190663285 (ebook) | ISBN 9780199983414 (online content)

Subjects: LCSH: CommunicationHistory.

Classification: LCC P90 .M435 2017 | DDC 302.2/09dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016036929

, by F. S. Naiden and Richard Talbert

, by Grant Parker

, by Matthew Nicholls

, by Taco Terpstra

, by F. S. Naiden

, by James F. Osborne

, by Jennifer Trimble

, by Timothy Power

, by Gregory S. Aldrete

, by Seth Richardson

, by Ian Rutherford

, by Julia Kindt

, by Michael Kulikowski

, by Matthew Canepa

, by J. G. Manning

, by Sheila L. Ager

, by Kenneth W. Harl

, by Richard Talbert

(All maps made by the Ancient World Mapping Center and reproduced with permission)

Scholarly journals, collections, editions, and names of ancient Greek and Latin authors are abbreviated as in The Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD4), 4th ed. 2012. Eds. S. Hornblower, A. Spawforth, and E. Eidinow (Oxford: Oxford University Press); otherwise as in the Packard Humanities Institute, Searchable Greek Inscriptions, , and (for Classics journal titles) Lanne philologique. Akkadian documents of all kinds are abbreviated as in the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD) (1956. Chicago: University of Chicago Press); Akkadian dictionary entries also refer to this work. Akkadian and other Near Eastern journal titles are abbreviated as in the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, Abbreviations for Assyriology, . Numismatic works and journals are abbreviated as by the American Numismatic Society, .

Sheila L. Ager, professor of classical studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada, is the author of Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 33790 BC (1996), and of several articles on interstate conflict resolution, just war, and diplomacy. She has contributed chapters to the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Hellenistic World (2003) and Companion to Ancient Greek Government (2013).

Gregory S. Aldrete is Frankenthal Professor of History and Humanistic Studies at the University of WisconsinGreen Bay. He is the author of several books exploring practical aspects of the ancient world, including Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome (1999), Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome (2007), Daily Life in the Roman City (2008), and Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor (2013).

Matthew Canepa, professor of art history at the University of Minnesota, is the author of The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship Between Rome and Sasanian Iran (2009), and editor of Theorizing Cross-Cultural Interaction Among the Ancient and Early Medieval Mediterranean, Near East and Asia (2010).

Kenneth W. Harl is professor of history at Tulane University. He is the author of Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East,A.D.180275 (1987), and Coinage in the Roman Economy from 300B.C. toA.D. 700 (1996). He is completing the publication of the coins from the excavations of Gordion, Turkey, and planning a study that reassesses the strategic clash between Rome and its Iranian foes.

Julia Kindt is associate professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. Her books Rethinking Greek Religion and Revisiting Delphi: Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece were published in 2012 and 2016 respectively.