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| author | Fasolo, Michele |
| title | La Via Egnatia I. Da Apollonia e Dyrrachium ad Herakleia Lynkestidos |
| year | 2005 (2nd ed.) |
| location | Roma |
| publisher | Istituto Grafico Editoriale Romano |
| description | The Egnatia Way, that run through the Balkans from the Adriatic coast to the Dardanelles, has been one of the most important communication routes of the Roman world. The volume published by Michele Fasolo tackles for the first time the problem of the topographic reconstruction of such route with a more systematic and analytic approach; it organically co-ordinates, in fact, any written sources as well as the results of the archaeological researches and finds, but it also makes a critical revision of all remarks that many scholars made on such topic, starting from Nicola Bergier, at the dawn of modern topography. The first volume specifically aims at recovering, re-examining and updating the knowledge of Via Egnatia and the ancient path that preceded it, known in the Roman age as a road of Candavia, in the Albanian central region, running from the Adriatic coast to the area of Ochrida lake and, more eastwards, until the ancient town of Herakleia Lynkestidos in Northern Macedonia. The work is a far-reaching body made up of over 250 photos of monuments, landscapes (many of which aerial) and cartography which illustrate the most interesting pictures of the Albanian and Macedonian territory ever seen. As the first edition has quickly sold out, the volume has been reprinted, reviewed, updated and enriched with translations of passages of Edrisi, new photographs, cartography and table of contents, a full summary in English, in addition to those in German and Albanian, already existing in the previous edition. (F.W. Walbank, Emeritus Professor in Cambridge in his paper entitled "The via Egnatia".) Author's website... |