Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 1: Selected Texts in Translation

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. Frontmatter 2 Dedication 6 Epigraph 8 Contents 10 List_of_Figures 15 List_of_Maps 16 List_of_Tables 17 Contributors 18 Preface 22 Glossary 26 Abbreviations 33 Introduction_Greek_Geography_and_Geographers 38 Time-line 123 Prologue_The_Homeric_Catalogue_of_Ships_Iliad_2_484760 133 Archaic_Period 144 Aristeas_of_Prokonnesos 146 Skylax_of_Karyanda 157 Hekataios_of_Miletos 164 Classical_Period 184 Hanno_of_Carthage 186 Hippokrates_of_Kos_Airs_Waters_and_Places 194 Eudoxos_of_Knidos 214 Pseudo-Skylax 230 Pytheas_of_Massalia 268 Hellenistic_Period 284 Dikaiarchos_of_Messana 286 Timosthenes_of_Rhodes 295 Herakleides_Kritikos 312 Eratosthenes_of_Kyrene 326 Mnaseas_of_Patara 397 Skymnos_of_Chios 407 Agatharchides_of_Knidos_On_the_Erythraian_Sea 410 Hipparchos_of_Nikaia 482 The_Nikomedean_Periodos_Pseudo-Skymnos 503 Artemidoros_of_Ephesos 538 Poseidonios_of_Apameia 598 Dionysios_son_of_Kalliphon 649 Menippos_of_Pergamon 657