Daniela Dueck (Bar Ilan Univ.): Analphabetic geography

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Join us at 5:00PM for light refreshments, the talk will begin at 5:15 PM.

What did common people in Greek and Roman societies know, or could know, about geography? The great majority of modern discussions of the life and ideas of the ancients are based on literary texts, which, by definition, reflect the world of free, educated, elite males. Illiterate males, women and children are usually left out for mere absence of evidence. The talk focuses on recovering the geographical knowledge that could be available to them, even if illiterate.

Daniela Dueck is an associate professor in Bar Ilan university. She is the author of Geography in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge, 2012) and is currently studying fragments of lost geographical works and popular ideas of geography in Greek and Roman societies.