Brill's companion to ancient geography : : the inhabited world in Greek and Roman tradition / / edited by Serena Bianchetti, Michele R. Cataudella and Hans-Joachim Gehrke ; contributors, Pascal Arnaud [and twenty others].

• Superior document: Brill's Companions in Classical Studies,
• Author: Bianchetti, Serena.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bianchetti, Serena,; Cataudella, Michele R.,; Gehrke, Hans-Joachim,; Arnaud, Pascal,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions in classical studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (508 p.)
• Notes: Title from content provider.

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 this work, scholars, all of whom are specialists in a variety of fields, examine the interaction of humans with their environment and try to reconstruct the representations of the inhabited world in the works of ancient historians, scientists, and cartographers. Topics include: Eudoxus, Dicaearchus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Agatharchides, Agrippa, Strabo, Pliny and Solinus, Ptolemy, and the Peutinger Map. Other issues are also discussed such as onomastics, the boundaries of states, Pythagorism, sacred itineraries, measurement systems, and the Holy Land.

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.