Ancient geography : the discovery of the world in classical Greece and Rome

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. 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 Geographi...

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Main Author: Roller, Duane W. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
Series:Library of classical studies ; 9.
Subjects:
Geography, Ancient.
Classical geography.
European history.
TRAVEL > Essays & Travelogues.
Classical geography
Geography, Ancient
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Beginnings
  • The Expansion of the Greek Geographical Horizon
  • The Spread of Geographical Knowledge and Scholarship in the Classical Period
  • Pytheas and Alexander
  • The Legacy of Alexander and Pytheas
  • Eratosthenes and the Invention of the Discipline of Geography
  • The New Roman World
  • Geograpy in n the Augustan Period
  • The Remainder of the First Century AD
  • The Later Roman Empire.

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