A sweeping history of Ancient exploration, the first full-scale account in over a century Odysseus.
To the Ends of the Earth not only offers a fresh look at the Ancient world, but also significantly contributes to an understanding of premodern World history by releasing Greco-Roman antiquity from its relative isolation and placing it in a global context..
By the third century CE remote civilizations were Connected as never before and the foundational dynamics of these voyages later contributed to European overseas exploration in the Early Modern Age.
This book explains why adventurers, traders, colonisers, generals, and envoys set out over and over to explore new horizons, the intentions that guided them, and the long-term consequences of their discoveries.
He traces the pathways and periods of Ancient discovery--from the North Atlantic to China, from the Russian steppes to the Sahara--understanding these journeys not as isolated actions, but within their political, military, economic, and cultural contexts.
Schulz provides a sweeping, 1000-year history of all of Eurasia.
Through the prisms of trade, travel, and politics, Raimund J.
Rather, exploration was, and still is, an integral and driving force of economic, political, and cultural development.
Ranging from the Mediterranean Bronze Age to the third century CE, it reveals long-distance, explorative campaigning to be more than a mere ephemeral phenomenon of Ancient history.
To the Ends of the Earth is the first modern history of Ancient exploration in over a century.
These expeditions were built on earlier voyages, notably those by Bronze Age Egyptians and Mesopotamians, and led to further global travel, trade, and warfare among the Romans, Persians, Scythians, Indians, and Chinese.
Their voyages of discovery (and conquest), most dramatically under Alexander the Great, are but the most famous examples of Ancient exploration.
Such tales reflected and instilled a sense of confidence in the Greeks as they explored the limits of their world.
Greek mythology is full of tales of heroes setting out for the unknown.
Heracles.
Jason and the Argonauts.
A sweeping history of Ancient exploration, the first full-scale account in over a century Odysseus
