'… these volumes contain an amazing amount of information, often not easily available previously, and they will remain the standard for its topic for a long time.' Duane W. Roller, Sehepunkte

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.
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Introduction: Greek geography and geographers D. Graham J. Shipley; Time-line D. Graham J. Shipley; Prologue: The Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, 2. 484–760) D. Graham J. Shipley; Part I. Archaic Period: 1. Aristeas of Prokonnesos David C. Braund; 2. Skylax of Karyanda D. Graham J. Shipley; 3. Hekataios of Miletos D. Graham J. Shipley; Part II. Classical Period: 4. Hanno of Carthage Richard J. A. Talbert and D. Graham J. Shipley; 5. Hippokrates of Kos (?), Airs, Waters, and Places D. Graham J. Shipley; 6. Eudoxos of Knidos D. Graham J. Shipley; 7. Pseudo-Skylax D. Graham J. Shipley; 8. Pytheas of Massalia D. Graham J. Shipley; Part III. Hellenistic Period: 9. Dikaiarchos of Messana D. Graham J. Shipley; 10. Timosthenes of Rhodes D. Graham J. Shipley; 11. Herakleides Kritikos D. Graham J. Shipley; 12. Eratosthenes of Kyrene D. Graham J. Shipley; 13. Mnaseas of Patara Daniela Dueck; 14. Skymnos of Chios D. Graham J. Shipley; 15. Agatharchides of Knidos, On the Erythraian Sea Stanley M. Burstein and D. Graham J. Shipley; 16. Hipparchos of Nikaia D. Graham J. Shipley; 17. The Nikomedean Periodos ['Pseudo-Skymnos'] D. Graham J. Shipley; 18. Artemidoros of Ephesos D. Graham J. Shipley; 19. Poseidonios of Apameia Katherine J. Clarke; 20. Dionysios son of Kalliphon D. Graham J. Shipley; 21. Menippos of Pergamon J. Brian Campbell; Part IV. Roman Period: 22. Juba II of Mauretania D. Graham J. Shipley; 23. Isidoros of Charax Richard J. A. Talbert; 24. Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Cosmos (De mundo) D. Graham J. Shipley; 25. Pseudo-Arrian, Circumnavigation of the Erythraian Sea Colin E. P. Adams; 26. Pseudo-Plutarch, On the Names of Rivers and Mountains and the Things in them J. Brian Campbell; 27. Arrian of Nikomedeia, Circumnavigation of the Euxine Aidan Liddle; 28. Dionysios Periegetes Yumna Z. N. Khan; 29. Agathemeros son of Orthon D. Graham J. Shipley; 30. Dionysios of Byzantion Oliver Nicholson and Thomas Russell; 31. Pseudo-Hippolytos, Stadiasmos (Stade Table or Circumnavigation of the Great sea) James W. Ermatinger and Robert C. Helmer; Part V. Late Antique Period: 32. Avienus (Avienius), Ora maritima (The Sea Coast) Ralph Morley; 33. Expositio totius mundi et gentium (Account of the Whole World and its Peoples) and Iunior Philosophus Richard J. A. Talbert; 34. Markianos of Herakleia D. Graham J. Shipley; 35. Hypotypōsis tēs geōgraphias en epitomēi (Outline of Geography in Summary) D. Graham J. Shipley; 36. Pseudo-Arrian, Circumnavigation of the Euxine D. Graham J. Shipley.
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The first comprehensive collection of authoritative translations of the so-called 'minor' Greek geographers, with introductions and notes.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781009174893
Publisert
2024-04-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
2500 gr
Høyde
249 mm
Bredde
176 mm
Dybde
75 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Kombinasjonsprodukt
Antall sider
1240

Om bidragsyterne

GRAHAM SHIPLEY is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester, and the author of many studies of Greek history that bring together written sources, archaeology, and landscape, such as The Greek World after Alexander (2000) and The Early Hellenistic Peloponnese (Cambridge, 2018). In 2018 he was elected a member of the international association GAHIA, 'Geography & Historiography in Antiquity'.