Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 2: 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 Roman_Period 16 Juba_II_of_Mauretania 18 Isidoros_of_Charax 40 Pseudo-Aristotle_On_the_Cosmos_De_mundo 50 Pseudo-Arrian_Circumnavigation_of_the_Erythraian_Sea 71 Pseudo-Plutarch_On_the_Names_of_Rivers_and_Mountains_and_the_Things_in_them 97 Arrian_of_Nikomedeia_Circumnavigation_of_the_Euxine 127 Dionysios_Periegetes 147 Agathemeros_son_of_Orthon 196 Dionysios_of_Byzantion 207 Pseudo-Hippolytos_Stadiasmos_Stade_Table_or_Circumnavigation_of_the_Great_Sea 240 Late_Antique_Period 274 Avienus_Avienius_Ora_maritima_The_Sea_Coast 276 Expositio_totius_mundi_et_gentium_Account_of_the_Whole_World_and_its_Peoples_and_Iunior_Philosophus 308 Markianos_of_Herakleia 326 Hypotyposis_ts_geographias_en_epitomi_Outline_of_Geography_in_Summary 372 Pseudo-Arrian_Circumnavigation_of_the_Euxine 387 Sources_of_Extracts_Selected 415 Works_Cited 425 Concordances 482 Selective_Index 554