Author: James Oliver Thomson
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Duane W. Roller
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9781734003116
Category : Geography, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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A collection of essays on current studies in ancient geography, extending over an area from ancient Mesopotamia and the prehistoric New World to the Roman Empire. Essays include examinations of ancient cosmology, ancient navigation, and literary interpretations of geography.

Author: Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: Duane W. Roller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857739239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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The last dedicated book on ancient geography was published more than sixty years ago. 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.

Author: Robert Mayo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Melanie Waldron
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1484635523
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Geography Matters in Ancient Greece looks at how the Greek Empire changed through time and gives fascinating insights into many different aspects of Greek life through its geography. Read about how the hot climate affected the crops that Greeks could grow and the housing and clothing they needed, how the Mycenaeans were able to protect themselves from attackers by using the natural features of their landscape and their natural resources of stone and how its proximity to the Mediterranean Sea helped the Greek Empire in trading and in strengthening their military might.

Author: Serena Bianchetti
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004284710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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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 this work, scholars, all of whom are specialists in a variety of fields, examine the interaction of humans with their environment and try to reconstruct the representations of the inhabited world in the works of ancient historians, scientists, and cartographers. Topics include: Eudoxus, Dicaearchus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Agatharchides, Agrippa, Strabo, Pliny and Solinus, Ptolemy, and the Peutinger Map. Other issues are also discussed such as onomastics, the boundaries of states, Pythagorism, sacred itineraries, measurement systems, and the Holy Land.

Author: Edward Herbert Bunbury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 804

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Author: Daniela Dueck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521197880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world.

Author: Lee L. Brice
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004283722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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In Aspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography colleagues and students honor Richard J.A. Talbert for his numerous contributions and influence on the fields of ancient history, political and social science, as well as cartography and geography. This collection of original and useful examinations is focused around the core theme of Talbert’s work – how ancient individuals and groups organized their world, through their institutions and geography. The first half of the book considers institutional history in chapters on such diverse topics as the Roman Senate, Roman provincial politics and administration, healing springs, gladiators, and soldiers. Chapters on the geography of Thucydides and Alexander III, imperial geography, tracking letters and using sundials round out the second half of the book.