Mapping Mediterranean Lands
Published on 1. December 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
63 pages
978-960-86960-3-7 (ISBN)
Description
This special issue of the Gennadius Library's periodical, The New Griffon, presents six essays about the Library's map collection and its place in a larger project to bring together, in a digital repository, maps and charts of the Mediterranean held in American overseas research centers. The text is presented in both English and Greek.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Athens
Greece
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
32 col figs.
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
279 gr
ISBN-13
978-960-86960-3-7 (9789608696037)
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Person
Maria Georgopoulou is Director of the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Content
Mapping Mediterranean Lands (Maria Georgopoulou); "Mapping the Mediterranean" in the Gennadius Library (Leonora Navari); American Overseas Digital Library Medmaps Inventory Database of the ASCSA Gennadius Library Maps Program (Alexis Malliaris); Francesco Grimani at the Gennadius Library (Haris Kalligas); The Cartography of the Greek Enlightenment, 1700-1820 (George Tolias); Pre-Linnean Taxonomies, Edenic Visions, and Cosmographic Dreams: Pierre Belon's Mappings of Mount Athos (Veronica della Dora)