Author: Peter Edmund Laurent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
An Introduction to the Study of Ancient Geography
Author: Peter Edmund Laurent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
An Introduction to the Study of Ancient Geography
Author: Peter Edmund Laurent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
New Directions in the Study of Ancient Geography
Author: Duane W. Roller
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9781734003116
Category : Geography, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9781734003116
Category : Geography, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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.
An Introduction to the Study of Ancient Geography
Author: Peter Edmund Laurent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ancient Geography
Author: Duane W. Roller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857739239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857739239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
History of Ancient Geography
Author: James Oliver Thomson
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601438
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601438
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
The Geography Behind History
Author: William Gordon East
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393004199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In this book, Professor East discusses the vital relationship between history and geographical conditions. Drawing examples from ancient times up to the present, he demonstrates that a study of history must include consideration of the physical conditions under which an event occurs, and that "the particular characteristics of this setting serve not only to localise but also to influence part at least of the action." Topographical position, climate, distribution of water and minerals, the placement of routes and towns, and ease or difficulty of movement between districts and countries are among the factors which the historian must take into account. Book jacket.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393004199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In this book, Professor East discusses the vital relationship between history and geographical conditions. Drawing examples from ancient times up to the present, he demonstrates that a study of history must include consideration of the physical conditions under which an event occurs, and that "the particular characteristics of this setting serve not only to localise but also to influence part at least of the action." Topographical position, climate, distribution of water and minerals, the placement of routes and towns, and ease or difficulty of movement between districts and countries are among the factors which the historian must take into account. Book jacket.
Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Near East
Author: Jim Roy
Publisher: Leicester Nottingham Studies i
ISBN: 9781785705502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The purpose, mode, and presentation of travel offers a window onto a wide range of features of ancient cultures - sense of place, perceptions of space, relations with foreign powers, engagements with other cultures, and a deeper understanding of one's own culture, among others. The chapters in this volume take on a range of these issues, and leading scholars of the history and culture of Egypt, Greece and the eastern regions of the Graeco-Roman world assess the importance of travel in a world much less sedentary than often assumed. Indeed, their work shows that travel was embedded in the cultures of the ancient eastern Mediterranean. Together they demonstrate the cultural importance and the influence on culture that travel had in these societies.
Publisher: Leicester Nottingham Studies i
ISBN: 9781785705502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The purpose, mode, and presentation of travel offers a window onto a wide range of features of ancient cultures - sense of place, perceptions of space, relations with foreign powers, engagements with other cultures, and a deeper understanding of one's own culture, among others. The chapters in this volume take on a range of these issues, and leading scholars of the history and culture of Egypt, Greece and the eastern regions of the Graeco-Roman world assess the importance of travel in a world much less sedentary than often assumed. Indeed, their work shows that travel was embedded in the cultures of the ancient eastern Mediterranean. Together they demonstrate the cultural importance and the influence on culture that travel had in these societies.
A History of Ancient Geography
Author: Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description