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Geographers of the Ancient Greek World

Geographers of the Ancient Greek World

Geographers of the Ancient Greek World

Selected Texts in Translation
Volume 2:
D. Graham J. Shipley, University of Leicester
April 2024
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    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.

    • Provides accurate, and in some cases the first, English translations of these ancient geographical works, together with authoritative introductions and notes
    • Delivers up-to-date, authoritative assessments of the character, significance, and legacy of each text
    • The main Introduction presents a comprehensive, accessible survey of the whole of Ancient Greek and Roman geography, and the place of geographical writing within it

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    April 2024
    Hardback
    9781009184229
    576 pages
    251 × 179 × 35 mm
    1.16kg
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    Table of Contents

    • Part IV. Roman Period:
    • 22. Juba II of Mauretania D. Graham J. Shipley
    • 23. Isidoros of Charax Richard J. A. Talbert
    • 24. Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Cosmos (De mundo) D. Graham J. Shipley
    • 25. Pseudo-Arrian, Circumnavigation of the Erythraian Sea Colin E. P. Adams
    • 26. Pseudo-Plutarch, On the Names of Rivers and Mountains and the Things in them J. Brian Campbell
    • 27. Arrian of Nikomedeia, Circumnavigation of the Euxine Aidan Liddle
    • 28. Dionysios Periegetes Yumna Z. N. Khan
    • 29. Agathemeros son of Orthon D. Graham J. Shipley
    • 30. Dionysios of Byzantion Oliver Nicholson and Thomas Russell
    • 31. Pseudo-Hippolytos, Stadiasmos (Stade Table or Circumnavigation of the Great sea) James W. Ermatinger and Robert C. Helmer
    • Part V. Late Antique Period:
    • 32. Avienus (Avienius), Ora maritima (The Sea Coast) Ralph Morley
    • 33. Expositio totius mundi et gentium (Account of the Whole World and its Peoples) and Iunior Philosophus Richard J. A. Talbert
    • 34. Markianos of Herakleia D. Graham J. Shipley
    • 35. Hypotypōsis tēs geōgraphias en epitomēi (Outline of Geography in Summary) D. Graham J. Shipley
    • 36. Pseudo-Arrian, Circumnavigation of the Euxine D. Graham J. Shipley.
      Contributors
    • D. Graham J. Shipley, Richard J. A. Talbert, Colin E. P. Adams, J. Brian Campbell, Aidan Liddle, Yumna Z. N. Khan, Oliver Nicholson, Thomas Russell, James W. Ermatinger, Robert C. Helmer, Ralph Morley

    • Author
    • D. Graham J. Shipley , University of Leicester

      GRAHAM SHIPLEY is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester, and the author of many studies of Greek history that bring together written sources, archaeology, and landscape, such as The Greek World after Alexander (2000) and The Early Hellenistic Peloponnese (Cambridge, 2018). In 2018 he was elected a member of the international association GAHIA, 'Geography & Historiography in Antiquity'.