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Mercury's Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World Richa J. A. Talbert
Mercury's Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World
Richa J. A. Talbert
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.
456 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 25, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195386844 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 456 |
| Dimensions | 239 × 155 × 36 mm · 771 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Naiden, F. S. (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |
| Editor | Talbert, Richard J. A. (William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of Ancient History, William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of Ancient History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |