Brill's companion to ancient geography : the inhabited world in Greek and Roman tradition / edited by Serena Bianchetti, Michele R. Cataudella and Hans-Joachim Gehrke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bianchetti, Serena, editor.

Cataudella, Michele R., editor.

Gehrke, Hans-Joachim, editor.

Brill Online Books and Journals.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Brill's companions in classical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geography, Ancient.

Historical geography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 490 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Other Title:

Companion to ancient geography : the inhabited world in Greek and Roman tradition

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Preface

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Part 1: Geography before Geography: Persian Geography and the Ionians: Herodotus / Reinhold Bichler

Sea of the Greeks and Romans / Pietro Janni

Concept of "Magna Graecia" and the Pythagoreans / Gianfranco Maddoli

Systems of Borders in Ancient Greece / Giovanna Daverio Rocchi

"Revolution" of Alexander the Great: Old and New in the World's View / Hans-Joachim Gehrke

Geographical Description and Historical Narrative in the Tradition on Alexander's Expedition / Veronica Bucciantini

Part 2: Geography between Science and Politics: A: Geographical Science: Some Scientific Approaches: Eudoxus of Cnidus and Dicaearchus of Messene / Michele R. Cataudella

"Invention" of Geography: Eratosthenes of Cyrene / Serena Bianchetti

Progress in the Sciences: Astronomy and Hipparchus / Klaus Geus

Part 2: Geography between Science and Politics: B. The Thought of the Farthest Horizon in the Greek and Roman Tradition

Indian Ocean from Agatharchides of Cnidus to the Periplus Maris Erythraei / Didier Marcotte

So-called Confusion between India and Ethiopia: The Eastern and Southern Edges of the Inhabited World from the Greco-Roman Perspective / Pierre Schneider

Part 2: Geography between Science and Politics: C. Geography and Politics in the Roman Empire

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and his Geographical Work / Pascal Arnaud

Romans and the World's Measure / Anne Kolb

Strabo's Geography / Francesco Prontera

News from the East? Roman-Age Geographers and the Pontus Euxinus / Eckart Olshausen

Rome and Iberia: The Making of a Cultural Geography / Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti

Geographies of Pliny and his 'Ape' Solinus / Kai Brodersen

Part 2: Geography between Science and Politics: D. Cartographical Science in Alexandria

"Revolution" of Ptolemy / Germaine Aujac

Part 3: Geographical Rebounds

Tabula Peutingeriana and Antique Cartography / Michael Rathmann

Geography and Religion: The Lists of the Thearodokoi / Emilio Galvagno

Eusebius and the Representation of the Holy Land / Jan R. Stenger

Bibliography

Index of Geographical Names

Index Locorum

Index of Personal Names and Selected Technical Terms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed January 20, 2016); 2016 date from PDF title page verso copyright statement, while CIP in PDF and EBSCOhost web page description list 2015).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Brill's companion to ancient geography.

ISBN:

9789004284715

9004284710

OCLC:

932051731

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.