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Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: Greek geography and geographers D. Graham J. Shipley; Time-line D. Graham and J. Shipley; Prologue: the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, 2. 484-760) D. Graham J. Shipley; Part I. Archaic Period: 1. Aristeas of Prokonnesos David C. Braund; 2. Skylax of Karyanda D. Graham J. Shipley; 3. Hekataios of Miletos D. Graham J. Shipley; Part II. Classical Period: 4. Hanno of Carthage Richard J. A. Talbert and D. Graham J. Shipley; 5. Hippokrates of Kos (?), Airs, Waters, and Places D. Graham J. Shipley; 6. Eudoxos of Knidos D. Graham J. Shipley; 7. Pseudo-Skylax D. Graham J. Shipley; 8. Pytheas of Massalia D. Graham J. Shipley; Part III. Hellenistic Period: 9. Dikaiarchos of Messana D. Graham J. Shipley; 10. Timosthenes of Rhodes D. Graham J. Shipley; 11. Herakleides Kritikos D. Graham J. Shipley; 12. Eratosthenes of Kyrene D. Graham J. Shipley; 13. Mnaseas of Patara Daniela Dueck; 14. Skymnos of Chios D. Graham J. Shipley; 15. Agatharchides of Knidos, On the Erythraian Sea Stanley M. Burstein and D. Graham J. Shipley; 16. Hipparchos of Nikaia D. Graham J. Shipley; 17. The Nikomedean Periodos ['Pseudo-Skymnos'] D. Graham J. Shipley; 18. Artemidoros of Ephesos D. Graham J. Shipley; 19. Poseidonios of Apameia Katherine J. Clarke; 20. Dionysios son of Kalliphon D. Graham J. Shipley; 21. Menippos of Pergamon J. Brian Campbell.
