Catalogue of Ancient Earthquakes in the Mediterranean Area Up to the 10th Century, Volume 1Catalogo in inglese dei terremoti, maremoti, subsidenze e frane di natura sismica nell’area mediterranea dal 760 a.C. al 995 d.C. Datazione, fonti storiche in lingua originale e tradotte, letteratura, area geografica coinvolta, effetti, intensità, mappe. Con un'introduzione sulla sismologia storica. (ubosb). |
Contents
an introduction 9 Research aims and stages | 9 |
Towards a new kind of historical seismology | 12 |
The seismic catalogue tradition | 17 |
The Mediterranean area over the long period | 20 |
Attitude and expression in the sources | 23 |
The measurement of time in ancient calendars | 31 |
Earthquake theories 42 Natural philosophy | 42 |
Religious thought | 47 |
Was there an antiseismic culture? | 79 |
The remains of ancient buildings and seismic archaeology | 81 |
The quantitative assessment of ancient earthquake effects | 83 |
Catalogue | 85 |
The Mediterranean in earliest times 87 Ancient Egyptian sources | 87 |
Earthquakes in the Hebrew Bible | 90 |
Earthquakes in Greek and Roman myth | 94 |
Suggestions for using the Catalogue | 101 |
Seismic disasters and the built environment | 54 |
unsolved problems | 55 |
The Greek city | 56 |
The type of the Roman city | 57 |
the case of Italy | 61 |
Byzantium and Armenia | 66 |
Metropolitan cities in the countries of Islam | 67 |
Nomads seminomads and shantytown dwellers | 68 |
elusive variables 69 Roman regions | 69 |
Buildings in Italy from the 6th to the 10th century | 75 |
Islamic regions | 77 |
Symbols and headwords | 104 |
Earthquakes from 760750 B c to 995 A D | 407 |
Short Catalogue and assessment of intensity | 408 |
Summary maps | 414 |
Ancient place names | 422 |
Information concerning the authors of the sources | 425 |
Bibliography 449 Abbreviations | 449 |
Sources | 450 |
Literature and catalogues | 463 |
Index | 488 |
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