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Around the Roman world in 180 days

by Beryl Mary Screen (submitted by Jan van der Crabben)
published on 09 May 2012

The dissertation is intended to show whether it is possible for a Roman traveller to make a journey around the Roman world in the year C.E. 210, within 180 days, in a manner similar to that of Phileas Fogg, a character in Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in Eighty Days (1874). The Roman’s 180-day adventure to complete the journey within the set time incorporates logistics and itinerary on ancient roads, canals and sea voyages, and quotes Horace, Juvenal, Pausanias, Ovid and Strabo.

Verne linked the past, an ancient two thousand year old water system in Aden – with his traveller who also visited the site. The Roman traveller will link the past with the present, viewing ancient building and engineering works such as the Lyonnais aqueducts, and the Greek use of curvature in design when building the Parthenon. Parts of such construction remain in situ for the present-day traveller to view.

PhD Dissertation, University of South Africa, 2005

Written by Beryl Mary Screen, linked by Jan van der Crabben, published 09 May 2012. Source URL: http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/1591/dissertation.pdf?sequence=1.

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