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Author : Daniela Dueck
Release : 2012-04-26
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 880/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Geography in Classical Antiquity by : Daniela Dueck
Download or read book Geography in Classical Antiquity written by Daniela Dueck. This book was released on 2012-04-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world.
Author : Duane W. Roller
Release : 2015-08-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 239/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ancient Geography by : Duane W. Roller
Download or read book Ancient Geography written by Duane W. Roller. This book was released on 2015-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Serena Bianchetti
Release : 2015-11-24
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 710/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography by : Serena Bianchetti
Download or read book Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography written by Serena Bianchetti. This book was released on 2015-11-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography edited by S. Bianchetti, M. R. Cataudella, H. J. Gehrke is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the ancient world that focuses on a selection of topics considered crucial for understanding the development of geographical thought. In this work, scholars, all of whom are specialists in a variety of fields, examine the interaction of humans with their environment and try to reconstruct the representations of the inhabited world in the works of ancient historians, scientists, and cartographers. Topics include: Eudoxus, Dicaearchus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Agatharchides, Agrippa, Strabo, Pliny and Solinus, Ptolemy, and the Peutinger Map. Other issues are also discussed such as onomastics, the boundaries of states, Pythagorism, sacred itineraries, measurement systems, and the Holy Land.
Author : Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Release : 1971
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 384/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Ancient Geography by : Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Download or read book A History of Ancient Geography written by Henry Fanshawe Tozer. This book was released on 1971. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Koelsch
Release : 2020-12-24
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 378/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Geography and the Classical World by : William A. Koelsch
Download or read book Geography and the Classical World written by William A. Koelsch. This book was released on 2020-12-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late eighteenth century, a new subject emerged that was one of the earliest forms of historical geography. It was called ancient geography or classical geography. Geographers, historians and classicists all contributed to its rise, as it flourished in both Britain and America. Yet in the 1920s, as geography took a different turn, the subject began to decline. As a result the story has been omitted from more recent histories of geography and indeed from the classical tradition. William Koelsch's pioneering volume in the Tauris Historical Geography Series is the first full-length work to explore the emergence of the subject, its successes and failures, and to explore its role in the geographical tradition. The author gives equal prominence to the story as it unfolded in both Britain and America. The result is a work of outstanding scholarship that reveals a rich and important part of the geographical and classical tradition that has until now been overlooked -- Editor.
