Ancient geography : the discovery of the world in classical Greece and Rome / Duane W. Roller.

"Before Columbus there was Eratosthenes: inventor of the discipline of geography as it is known today and the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth. There was Alexander the Great: the man who sought to reach the very ends of the known world and whose empire spanned three cont...

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Main Author: Roller, Duane W. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : I.B. Tauris, 2017.
Edition:Paperback edition.
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