... traveling, concluding with a survey of the imaginative representation of travel in the literature of the Roman world. adventus (arrival) ritual cartography cartographic narrative hodological perspective Horace itineraries narratology of space profectio (departure) ritual Roman Empire spatial turn...

... a higher, cartographical vantage point. Herodotus’ alternative approach is to describe space from the down-to-earth perspective of a wandering traveller and measure distance in temporal rather than spatial units. The advantage of this so-called ‘hodological’ perspective, however, can be questioned...