Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 1

Selected Texts in Translation

D. Graham J. Shipley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

664 Seiten

2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-19420-4 (ISBN)

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A collection of the thirty-six most important but less well-known Greek geographical texts in new translations, many of them never before published in English, with up-to-date introductions and notes. This volume will promote a better understanding of the whole of ancient Geography from early Greece to the late Roman period.

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.

GRAHAM SHIPLEY is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester, and the author of many studies of Greek history that bring together written sources, archaeology, and landscape, such as The Greek World after Alexander (2000) and The Early Hellenistic Peloponnese (Cambridge, 2018). In 2018 he was elected a member of the international association GAHIA, 'Geography & Historiography in Antiquity'.

Introduction: Greek geography and geographers D. Graham J. Shipley; Time-line D. Graham and J. Shipley; Prologue: the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, 2. 484–760) D. Graham J. Shipley; Part I. Archaic Period: 1. Aristeas of Prokonnesos David C. Braund; 2. Skylax of Karyanda D. Graham J. Shipley; 3. Hekataios of Miletos D. Graham J. Shipley; Part II. Classical Period: 4. Hanno of Carthage Richard J. A. Talbert and D. Graham J. Shipley; 5. Hippokrates of Kos (?), Airs, Waters, and Places D. Graham J. Shipley; 6. Eudoxos of Knidos D. Graham J. Shipley; 7. Pseudo-Skylax D. Graham J. Shipley; 8. Pytheas of Massalia D. Graham J. Shipley; Part III. Hellenistic Period: 9. Dikaiarchos of Messana D. Graham J. Shipley; 10. Timosthenes of Rhodes D. Graham J. Shipley; 11. Herakleides Kritikos D. Graham J. Shipley; 12. Eratosthenes of Kyrene D. Graham J. Shipley; 13. Mnaseas of Patara Daniela Dueck; 14. Skymnos of Chios D. Graham J. Shipley; 15. Agatharchides of Knidos, On the Erythraian Sea Stanley M. Burstein and D. Graham J. Shipley; 16. Hipparchos of Nikaia D. Graham J. Shipley; 17. The Nikomedean Periodos ['Pseudo-Skymnos'] D. Graham J. Shipley; 18. Artemidoros of Ephesos D. Graham J. Shipley; 19. Poseidonios of Apameia Katherine J. Clarke; 20. Dionysios son of Kalliphon D. Graham J. Shipley; 21. Menippos of Pergamon J. Brian Campbell.

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2024
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	179 x 251 mm
Gewicht	1330 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-009-19420-8 / 1009194208
ISBN-13	978-1-009-19420-4 / 9781009194204
Zustand	Neuware