Roads not Featured: A Roman Failure to Communicate?

Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 235-254

  Talbert, Richard J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

"Peutinger Map" a "beneficial ideology"; Augustus' work on the Via Flaminia; Image of the emperor, in construction of roads; Patara pillar, miliarium aureum; Road building, and Roman civilization; roads not featured, a Roman failure; Roman roads, pervasiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886343726     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118244326.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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