Ancient Geography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Geography write by Duane W. Roller. This book was released on 2015-08-27. Ancient Geography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
New Directions in the Study of Ancient Geography
New Directions in the Study of Ancient Geography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Directions in the Study of Ancient Geography write by Duane W. Roller. This book was released on 2020. New Directions in the Study of Ancient Geography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of essays on current studies in ancient geography, extending over an area from ancient Mesopotamia and the prehistoric New World to the Roman Empire. Essays include examinations of ancient cosmology, ancient navigation, and literary interpretations of geography.
History of Ancient Geography
History of Ancient Geography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of Ancient Geography write by James Oliver Thomson. This book was released on 1965. History of Ancient Geography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A History of Ancient Geography
A History of Ancient Geography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Ancient Geography write by Henry Fanshawe Tozer. This book was released on 1971. A History of Ancient Geography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography
Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography write by Serena Bianchetti. This book was released on 2015-11-24. Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
