Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome (Library of Classical Studies Book 9)

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 --amazon. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1.the Beginnings -- 2.the Expansion Of The Greek Geographical Horizon -- 3.the Spread Of Geographical Knowledge And Scholarship In The Classical Period -- 4.pytheas And Alexander -- 5.the Legacy Of Alexander And Pytheas -- 6.eratosthenes And The Invention Of The Discipline Of Geography -- 7.the New Roman World -- 8.geography In The Augustan Period -- 9.the Remainder Of The First Century Ad -- 10.the Later Roman Empire. Duane W. Roller. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 252-260) And Indexes. "Before Columbus there was Eratosthenes: 'inventor' of the discipline of geography as it is known today. There was Alexander the Great: the man who sought to reach the very ends of the known world and whose empire spanned three continents. And there was Strabo: author of the Geographica, a 17-volume encyclopaedia of geographical knowledge which expounded the definition, history and mathematics of geography. In this, the first major study of ancient geography and geographers to be published in English for over 60 years, Duane W. Roller offers a comprehensive account of these, and the many other, ancient pioneers and the frontiers that defined their world. Ranging from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome is the definitive guide to how the triumphs and the errors of antiquity laid the foundations for millennia of voyaging and exploration."--Bloomsbury Publishing.