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Title: Ancient Geography
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome
Author: Duane W. Roller
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1784539074
EAN: 9781784539078
ISBN: 9781784539078
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: History, Ancient History, Society & Culture
Release Date: 07/04/2017
Description: 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.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 138mm
Item Weight: 335g
Language: English
Release Year: 2017

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