Topoi.org: Topoi | The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations Online

A research network with a focus on the study of the ancient world. Central mission is the interplay of space and knowledge in ancient civilizations.

tópoi), originally means “place’, “landscape’, “area’, or “region’. But even in Antiquity, the notion tópoi included much more: It also referred to imagined places, at which something can be mentally...

Within the Excellence Cluster Topoi, the researchers in this project developed an exhibition on Ctesiphon to show that the existing culture did not “simply come to an end” and that the new culture eme...