Geography In Classical Antiquity
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Geography in Classical Antiquity
Author | : Daniela Dueck,Kai Brodersen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2012-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521197885 |
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An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world.
Ancient Geography
Author | : Duane W. Roller |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2015-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780857739230 |
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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.
A History of Ancient Geography
Author | : Henry Fanshawe Tozer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Geography, Ancient |
ISBN | : UOM:39015011229658 |
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Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome
Author | : Daniela Dueck |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2020-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781000225020 |
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This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside of textual transmission. It explores understanding of geography among the non-elites, as opposed to scholarly and scientific geography solely in written form which was the province of a very small number of learned people. It deals with non-literary knowledge of geography, geography not derived from texts, as it was available to people, educated or not, who did not read geographic works. This main issue is composed of two central questions: how, if at all, was geographic data available outside of textual transmission and in contexts in which there was no need to write or read? And what could the public know of geography? In general, three groups of sources are relevant to this quest: oral communications preserved in writing; public non-textual performances; and visual artefacts and monuments. All of these are examined as potential sources for the aural and visual geographic knowledge of Greco-Roman publics. This volume will be of interest to anyone working on geography in the ancient world and to those studying non-elite culture.
A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans
Author | : Edward Herbert Bunbury |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Classical geography |
ISBN | : HARVARD:TZ1MTD |
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Brill s Companion to Ancient Geography
Author | : Serena Bianchetti,Michele Cataudella,Hans-Joachim Gehrke |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2015-11-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004284715 |
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Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the ancient world that focuses on topics considered crucial for understanding the development of geographical thought.
The Classical Manual
Author | : James Skerret Shore Baird |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Classical antiquities |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HN6CWL |
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A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans
Author | : Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Classical geography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015062188589 |
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