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. ©2016 |
Utgivningsår: | 2016 |
Upplaga: | 1st ed. |
Språk: | English |
Serie: | Brill's companions in classical studies.
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Fysisk beskrivning: | 1 online resource (508 p.) |
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Innehållsförteckning:
- 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.