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Geography in Classical Antiquity
What were the limits of knowledge of the physical world in Greek and Roman antiquity? How far did travellers get and what did they know about far-away regions? How did they describe foreign countries and peoples? How did they measure the earth, and distances and heights on it? Ideas about the physical and cultural world are a key aspect of ancient history, but until now there has been no up-to-date modern overview of the subject. This book explores the beginnings and development of geographical ideas in Classical antiquity and demonstrates technical methods for describing landscape, topographies and ethnographies. The survey relies on a variety of sources: philosophical and scientific texts but also poems and travelogues; papyrological remains and visual monuments.
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Ethnies et territoires hispaniques dans la Géographie de Ptolémée
La Géographie de Ptolémée, pour la péninsule Ibérique, est d’une richesse inégalée dans notre documentation, puisqu’il compte plus de soixante noms de peuples, dont près d’un tiers sont inédits. Elle ne reflète pourtant pas le panorama ethnique des provinces hispaniques à l’époque de son auteur, ni même d’une date antérieure identifiable. En étudiant sa logique interne et en cherchant à identifier et à dater ses sources, on montre ici que l’ethnographie de Ptolémée reflète l'existence d'une sorte de vulgate romaine, sur laquelle se fonde sa description, et qui laisse voir que les Romains utilisaient de manière usuelle des noms de peuples, souvent d’origine indigène, pour nommer les populations et les régions administrées et intégrées dans leurs cadres. Si les éléments de cette vulgate sont pourtant étonnamment disparates, beaucoup représentent des ethnonymes identifiés par les Romains durant la période de conquête, et qui ont continué leur histoire dans les cadres provinciaux ou seulement, parfois, dans ceux de l'historiographie.
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Geography in classical antiquity
\"What were the limits of knowledge of the physical world in Greek and Roman antiquity? How far did travellers get and what did they know about far-away regions? How did they describe foreign countries and peoples? How did they measure the earth, and distances and heights on it? Ideas about the physical and cultural world are a key aspect of ancient history, but until now there has been no up-to-date modern overview of the subject. This book explores the beginnings and development of geographical ideas in Classical antiquity and demonstrates technical methods for describing landscape, topographies and ethnographies. The survey relies on a variety of sources: philosophical and scientific texts but also poems and travelogues; papyrological remains and visual monuments\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ancient Geography
Before Columbus there was Eratosthenes: 'inventor' of the discipline of geography as it is known today. There was Alexander the Great: the man who sought to reach the very ends of the known world and whose empire spanned three continents. And there was Strabo: author of the Geographica, a 17-volume encyclopaedia of geographical knowledge which expounded the definition, history and mathematics of geography. In this, the first major study of ancient geography and geographers to be published in English for over 60 years, Duane W. Roller offers a comprehensive account of these, and the many other, ancient pioneers and the frontiers that defined their world. Ranging from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome is the definitive guide to how the triumphs and the errors of antiquity laid the foundations for millennia of voyaging and exploration.
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Eratosthenes' geography
This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this work, which for the first time described the geography of the entire inhabited world as it was then known, Eratosthenes of Kyrene (ca. 285-205 BC) invented the discipline of geography as we understand it. A polymath who served as librarian at Alexandria and tutor to the future King Ptolemy IV, Eratosthenes created the terminology of geography, probably including the word geographia itself. Building on his previous work, in which he determined the size and shape of the earth, Eratosthenes in the Geographika created a grid of parallels and meridians that linked together every place in the world: for the first time one could figure out the relationship and distance between remote localities, such as northwest Africa and the Caspian Sea. The Geographika also identified some four hundred places, more than ever before, from Thoule (probably Iceland) to Taprobane (Sri Lanka), and from well down the coast of Africa to Central Asia.
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