# From Ptolemy to Pilgrimage: Images of Late Antiquity in Geography, Travel & Cartography

A survey of Greek and Latin geographical tradition during Late Antiquity (c. 200-600 CE), when various genres of travel narrative rose to prominence. Scott Johnson links this mode of writing to the transition from a pagan/Greco-Roman world to a Christian one as new ways of explaining the known world mixed the classical inheritance with biblical and early Christian history. This mixture was to influence directly the new institution of Christian pilgrimage, while setting a foundation of religious practice for Byzantium, Islam and the western Middle Ages.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2011
- By: John W. Kluge Center (library Of Congress)
- Genres: Travel
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688695/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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