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Ancient Geography - The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome (Paperback)
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Ancient Geography - The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome (Paperback)
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Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros
palimpsest), and new editions of existing texts (by geographical
authorities who include Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Pseudo-Skylax
and Strabo) have been produced. There has been much archaeological
research, especially at the perimeters of the Greek world, and a
more accurate understanding of ancient geography and geographers
has emerged. The topic is therefore overdue a fresh and sustained
treatment. In offering precisely that, Duane Roller explores
important topics like knowledge of the world in the Bronze Age and
Archaic periods; Greek expansion into the Black Sea and the West;
the Pythagorean concept of the earth as a globe; the invention of
geography as a discipline by Eratosthenes; Polybios the explorer;
Strabo's famous Geographica; the travels of Alexander the Great;
Roman geography; Ptolemy and late antiquity; and the cultural
reawakening of antique geographical knowledge in the Renaissance,
including Columbus' use of ancient sources.
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