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].

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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Superior document:Brill's Companions in Classical Studies,
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.
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Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill's companions in classical studies.
Physical Description:1 online resource (508 p.)
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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.