Designs and narratives of a global-local geography in the Roman Empire in the II century

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the design of a Roman imperial geography in the second century through the use of the concepts of globalization and glocalization. For this, both concepts will be instrumentally defined in modern and historiographic terms, studying their eventual presence in the creation of a new geographical narrative of the Roman Empire through written sources and the political praxis of the emperor Hadrian. It will be argued that these issues created a new form of geographical vision of the orbis terrarium, designing a global geography of the Roman Empire and installing diferentes views of local scale.