Books by Christian Jacob

A novel work in the history of cartography, this book argues that maps are as much about thinking as seeing, as much about the art of persuasion as the science of geography. It is innovative in its philosophical motivation and its interdisciplinary approach to looking at and writing about maps.

Christian Jacob presents a completely fresh and unique reading of Athenaeus's Sophists at Dinner (ca. 200 ce), a text long mined merely for its testimonies to lost classical poets. Connecting the world of Hellenistic erudition with its legacy among Hellenized Romans, Jacob helps the reader navigate the many intersecting paths in this enormous work.