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Mercury’s Wings marks a milestone as the first-ever volume devoted to ancient communications. Its eighteen wide-ranging essays by art historians, Assyriologists, Classicists and Egyptologists explore communications as a powerful vehicle not just for the transmission of information, but also for the conduct of religion, commerce, diplomacy, culture and more.
Contents; Figures, Maps, and Tables; Abbreviations; Contributors; Introduction, by F. S. Naiden and Richard Talbert; Part I Networks; 1 Environmental Perspectives on Ancient Communication, by Grant Parker; 2 Libraries and Communication in the Ancient World, by Matthew Nicholls; 3 Communication and Roman Long-distance Trade, by Taco Terpstra; 4 Military Communication: The Example of the Classical Battlefield, by F. S. Naiden; Part II Modes; 5 Monuments of the Hittite and Neo-Assyrian Empires during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages, by James F. Osborne; 6 Communicating with Images in the Roman Empire, by Jennifer Trimble; 7 Musical Persuasion in Early Greece, by Timothy Power; 8 Gesture in the Ancient Mediterranean World, by Gregory S. Aldrete; 9 Exercising Sympathy in Mesopotamian Letters, by Seth Richardson; Part III Divinities; 10 Messages and the Mesopotamian Gods: Signals and Systematics, by Seth Richardson; 11 Pilgrimage and Communication, by Ian Rutherford; 12 The Inspired Voice: Enigmatic Oracular Communication, by Julia Kindt; 13 Christianity, by Michael Kulikowski; Part IV Engagements; 14 Cross-cultural Communication in the Hellenistic Mediterranean and Western and South Asia, by Matthew Canepa; 15 Cross-cultural Communication in Egypt, by J. G. Manning; 16 Diplomatic Communication in the Ancient Mediterranean, by Sheila L. Ager; 17 Coinage and the Roman Economy, by Kenneth W. Harl; 18 Communicating through Maps: The Roman Case, by Richard Talbert; Gazetteer; Index
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