Geographers of the Ancient Greek World
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 25 March 2024
- 18 April 2024
- ISBN:
- 9781009194211
- 9781009194204
- Dimensions:
- (244 x 170 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 1.33kg, 664 Pages
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Book description
Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic to the Late Antique period. Most of these texts are, however, hard for non-specialists to find, and many have never been translated into English. This volume, the work of an international team of experts, presents the most important thirty-six texts in new, accurate translations. In addition, there are explanatory notes and authoritative introductions to each text, which offer a new understanding of the individual writings and demonstrate their importance: no longer marginal, but in the mainstream of Greek literature and science. The book includes twenty-eight newly drawn maps, images of the medieval manuscripts in which most of these works survive, and a full Introduction providing a comprehensive survey of the field of Greek and Roman geography.
Reviews
‘This splendid collection will surely become an indispensable tool for further research on ancient geography as a science, on specific features of ancient geographical subgenres and on individual authors and works, many of which still remain understudied.’
Johannes Engels Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review
‘[T]he two volumes offer easy access to translations of the fragmentary geographical authors of the Greek world from the early Archaic to Late Antiquity that are otherwise only available in very scattered (or even nonexistent) form. The collection will undoubtedly find its place as a handbook and reference work in many libraries.’
Julian Gieseke Source: Historische Zeitschrift
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