Geographers Of The Ancient Greek World Volume 1

Author : D. Graham J. Shipley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009239868

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Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 1 by D. Graham J. Shipley Pdf

Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic to the Late Antique period. Most of these texts are, however, hard for non-specialists to find, and many have never been translated into English. This volume, the work of an international team of experts, presents the most important thirty-six texts in new, accurate translations. In addition, there are explanatory notes and authoritative introductions to each text, which offer a new understanding of the individual writings and demonstrate their importance: no longer marginal, but in the mainstream of Greek literature and science. The book includes twenty-eight newly drawn maps, images of the medieval manuscripts in which most of these works survive, and a full Introduction providing a comprehensive survey of the field of Greek and Roman geography.

Author : D. Graham J. Shipley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009207188

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Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 2 by D. Graham J. Shipley Pdf

Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic to the Late Antique period. Most of these texts are, however, hard for non-specialists to find, and many have never been translated into English. This volume, the work of an international team of experts, presents the most important thirty-six texts in new, accurate translations. In addition, there are explanatory notes and authoritative introductions to each text, which offer a new understanding of the individual writings and demonstrate their importance: no longer marginal, but in the mainstream of Greek literature and science. The book includes twenty-eight newly drawn maps, images of the medieval manuscripts in which most of these works survive, and a full Introduction providing a comprehensive survey of the field of Greek and Roman geography.

Author : Duane W. Roller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857739230

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Ancient Geography by Duane W. Roller Pdf

The last dedicated book on ancient geography was published more than sixty years ago. Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros palimpsest), and new editions of existing texts (by geographical authorities who include Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Pseudo-Skylax and Strabo) have been produced. There has been much archaeological research, especially at the perimeters of the Greek world, and a more accurate understanding of ancient geography and geographers has emerged. The topic is therefore overdue a fresh and sustained treatment. In offering precisely that, Duane Roller explores important topics like knowledge of the world in the Bronze Age and Archaic periods; Greek expansion into the Black Sea and the West; the Pythagorean concept of the earth as a globe; the invention of geography as a discipline by Eratosthenes; Polybios the explorer; Strabo's famous Geographica; the travels of Alexander the Great; Roman geography; Ptolemy and late antiquity; and the cultural reawakening of antique geographical knowledge in the Renaissance, including Columbus' use of ancient sources.

Author : D. Graham J. Shipley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1009184229

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Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 2 by D. Graham J. Shipley Pdf

Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic to the Late Antique period. Most of these texts are, however, hard for non-specialists to find, and many have never been translated into English. This volume, the work of an international team of experts, presents the most important thirty-six texts in new, accurate translations. In addition, there are explanatory notes and authoritative introductions to each text, which offer a new understanding of the individual writings and demonstrate their importance: no longer marginal, but in the mainstream of Greek literature and science. The book includes twenty-eight newly drawn maps, images of the medieval manuscripts in which most of these works survive, and a full Introduction providing a comprehensive survey of the field of Greek and Roman geography.

Author : Joseph R. Laurin
Publisher : Author House
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781477296974

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Lexicon and Atlas of the Modern World Coinciding with the Ancient Greek World by Joseph R. Laurin Pdf

LEXICON AND ATLAS OF THE MODERN WORLD COINCIDING WITH THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD From Solon of the sixth century BCE to Alexander the Great of the fourth century BCE, the Ancient Greek World covered about six percent of our Modern World, but in this small inhabited territory many of the greatest deeds of history were accomplished in places whose names remained the same to this day or changed with the subsequent civilizations. In order to retrieve from this book some brief information about nearly four thousand of these places the researchers can approach it by their names in either the Modern world or the Ancient Greek World. For the Ancient Greeks, the earth was a flat oval sphere surrounded by a huge Ocean, longer from west to east than from north to south. In addition to Hellas (Greece), their world encompassed the lands of Southern Europe, North Africa and Egypt, and West and Central Asia. In relation to the Modern World, it covered from the British Isles and Gibraltar in the west to western China and India in the east and from southern Germany, the Ukraine and Kazakhstan in the north to north Africa, Ethiopia and the Arabian Sea in the south. In this publication, cities, islands, mountains, regions, rivers and seas are listed alphabetically with a brief description in the Lexicon and a reference to their locations on forty-two maps in the Atlas. They are all listed again by groups in the Index. Between the monumental publications about the geography of the Ancient Greek World and the specialized ones, there remained between them a gap to be filled in by an instrument providing a fairly comprehensive and always brief, clear and easy-to-handle listing of places. Filling in this gap with such an instrument is the purpose of this publication addressed primarily to the busy readers and writers of all types. http://www.greekancienthistory.com/

Author : D. Graham J. Shipley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 1009174894

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Geographers of the Ancient Greek World 2 Volume Hardback Set by D. Graham J. Shipley Pdf

"A collection of the thirty-six most important but less well-known Greek geographical texts in new translations, many of them never before published in English, with up-to-date introductions and notes. This volume will promote a better understanding of the whole of ancient Geography from early Greece to the late Roman period"--

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021766941

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, Volume 2, Part 1 by Anonymous Pdf

This book is an authoritative reference work on Greek and Roman Geography. It covers the geography of the ancient world, including countries, cities, rivers, mountains, and other natural features. The volume is divided into two parts, with Part 1 covering ancient Greece and Macedon. The entries are arranged alphabetically, and each entry includes a brief history of the location and its significance in ancient times. This book is essential for anyone interested in ancient history and geography. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Serena Bianchetti,Michele Cataudella,Hans-Joachim Gehrke
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004284715

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Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography by Serena Bianchetti,Michele Cataudella,Hans-Joachim Gehrke Pdf

Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the ancient world that focuses on topics considered crucial for understanding the development of geographical thought.

Author : Eratosthenes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691142678

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Eratosthenes' "Geography" by Eratosthenes Pdf

This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this work, which for the first time described the geography of the entire inhabited world as it was then known, Eratosthenes of Kyrene (ca. 285-205 BC) invented the discipline of geography as we understand it. A polymath who served as librarian at Alexandria and tutor to the future King Ptolemy IV, Eratosthenes created the terminology of geography, probably including the word geographia itself. Building on his previous work, in which he determined the size and shape of the earth, Eratosthenes in the Geographika created a grid of parallels and meridians that linked together every place in the world: for the first time one could figure out the relationship and distance between remote localities, such as northwest Africa and the Caspian Sea. The Geographika also identified some four hundred places, more than ever before, from Thoule (probably Iceland) to Taprobane (Sri Lanka), and from well down the coast of Africa to Central Asia. This is the first collation of the more than 150 fragments of the Geographika in more than a century. Each fragment is accompanied by an English translation, a summary, and commentary. Duane W. Roller provides a rich background, including a history of the text and its reception, a biography of Eratosthenes, and a comprehensive account of ancient Greek geographical thought and of Eratosthenes' pioneering contribution to it. This edition also includes maps that show all of the known places named in the Geographika, appendixes, a bibliography, and indexes.

Author : John Robert Sitlington Sterrett,Strabo Sterrett
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021119822

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The Geography of Strabo; Volume 1 by John Robert Sitlington Sterrett,Strabo Sterrett Pdf

This classic work of geography and history provides a detailed and comprehensive look at the world as it was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans. Written by Strabo, a Greek philosopher and historian who lived in the first century BCE, the book covers a wide range of topics, including the geography of different regions, the customs and traditions of different peoples, and the political and military history of different empires. The book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the ancient world and its legacy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1174 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Classical geography
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000251287

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith Pdf

Author : Kurt A. Raaflaub,Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1444315668

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Geography and Ethnography by Kurt A. Raaflaub,Richard J. A. Talbert Pdf

This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, whohave analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviewsof a wide range of pre-modern societies. Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity throughto the Age of Discovery Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies aroundthe globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from theGreeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials

Author : Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Geography, Ancient
ISBN : UOM:39015055256211

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A History of Ancient Geography by Henry Fanshawe Tozer Pdf

Author : Michael Gagarin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3369 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Civilization, Classical
ISBN : 9780195170726

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The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome. - Vol. 1 - 7 by Michael Gagarin Pdf

Author : Henry Bensinger
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477707739

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Ancient Greek Geography by Henry Bensinger Pdf

Ancient Greeks lived in a landscape that received more than 300 days of sunshine each year and little rain. Readers will learn how Greeks used everything at their disposal, such as the sea, minerals in the earth, and fertile farmland, to flourish as a civilization. The concept of a society's relationship to its land and resources is covered in depth.