Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography /

Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography /

Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography edited by S. Bianchetti, M. R. Cataudella, H. J. Gehrke is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the ancient world that focuses on a selection of topics considered crucial for understanding the development of geographical thought. In t...

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Main Author: Bianchetti, Serena.

Other Authors: Gehrke, Michele Cataudella andHans-Joachim.

Format: eBook

Language: Undetermined

Published: [S.l.] : [publisher not identified], 2015.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online II, ISBN: 9789004284869.

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Geography, Ancient.
Historical geography.
Electronic books.

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Call Number: G86 .B53 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 Persian Geography and the Ionians: Herodotus /
  • Reinhold Bichler
  • 2 The Sea of the Greeks and Romans /
  • Pietro Janni
  • 3 The Concept of "Magna Graecia" and the Pythagoreans /
  • Gianfranco Maddoli
  • 4 Systems of Borders in Ancient Greece /
  • Giovanna Daverio Rocchi
  • 5 The "Revolution" of Alexander the Great: Old and New in the World's View /
  • Hans-Joachim Gehrke
  • 6 Geographical Description and Historical Narrative in the Tradition on Alexander's Expedition /
  • Veronica Bucciantini
  • 7 Some Scientific Approaches: Eudoxus of Cnidus and Dicaearchus of Messene /
  • Michele R. Cataudella
  • 8 The "Invention" of Geography: Eratosthenes of Cyrene /
  • Serena Bianchetti
  • 9 Progress in the Sciences: Astronomy and Hipparchus /
  • Klaus Geus
  • 10 The Indian Ocean from Agatharchides of Cnidus to the Periplus Maris Erythraei /
  • Didier Marcotte
  • 11 The So-called Confusion between India and Ethiopia: The Eastern and Southern Edges of the Inhabited World from the Greco-Roman Perspective /
  • Pierre Schneider
  • 12 Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and his Geographical Work /
  • Pascal Arnaud
  • 13 The Romans and the World's Measure /
  • Anne Kolb
  • 14 Strabo's Geography /
  • Francesco Prontera
  • 15 News from the East? Roman-Age Geographers and the Pontus Euxinus /
  • Eckart Olshausen
  • 16 Rome and Iberia: The Making of a Cultural Geography /
  • Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti
  • 17 The Geographies of Pliny and his 'Ape' Solinus /
  • Kai Brodersen
  • 18 The "Revolution" of Ptolemy /
  • Germaine Aujac
  • 19 The Tabula Peutingeriana and Antique Cartography /
  • Michael Rathmann
  • 20 Geography and Religion: The Lists of the Thearodokoi /
  • Emilio Galvagno
  • 21 Eusebius and the Representation of the Holy Land /
  • Jan R. Stenger
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Geographical Names
  • Index Locorum
  • Index of Personal Names and Selected Technical Terms.