Based chiefly on the proceedings of a conference organized by the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University, Sept. 21-22, 2001.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-405) and index.
"This text examines the ancient and medieval history of the Mediterranean Sea and the lands around it"--Provided by publisher.
The Mediterranean and ancient history / W.V. Harris -- Practical Mediterraneanism: excuses for everything, from epistemology to eating / Michael Herzfeld -- Mediterraneans / David Abulafia -- Ecology and beyond: the Mediterranean paradigm / Alain Bresson -- The eastern Mediterranean in early antiquity / Marc Van De Mieroop -- Ritual dynamics in the eastern Mediterranean: case studies in ancient Greece and Asia Minor / Angelos Chaniotis -- The east-west orientation of Mediterranean studies and the meaning of north and south in antiquity / G.W. Bowersock -- Travel sickness: medicine and mobility in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the Renaissance / Peregrine Horden -- The ancient Mediterranean: the view from the customs house / Nicholas Purcell -- Travel and experience in the Mediterranean of Louis XV / Christopher Drew Armstrong -- The mirage of Greek continuity: on the uses and abuses of analogy in some travel narratives from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century / Suzanne Sa?d -- Mediterranean reception in the Americas / Francisco Marshall -- Alphabet soup in the Mediterranean basin: the emergence of the Mediterranean serial / Susan E. Alcock -- Egypt and the concept of the Mediterranean / Roger S. Bagnall -- Four years of corruption: a response to critics / Peregrine Horden, Nicholas Purcell.