A History of Ancient Geography
Author: Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780819601384
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Author: Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780819601384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Oliver Thomson
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780819601438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Duane W. Roller
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781734003116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays on current studies in ancient geography, extending over an area from ancient Mesopotamia and the prehistoric New World to the Roman Empire. Essays include examinations of ancient cosmology, ancient navigation, and literary interpretations of geography.
Author: Duane W. Roller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-08-27
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0857739239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe last dedicated book on ancient geography was published more than sixty years ago. 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.
Author: Serena Bianchetti
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-11-24
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9004284710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrill'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.
Author: Alexander Cunningham
Publisher:
Published: 1871
Total Pages: 644
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Gordon East
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780393004199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Professor East discusses the vital relationship between history and geographical conditions. Drawing examples from ancient times up to the present, he demonstrates that a study of history must include consideration of the physical conditions under which an event occurs, and that "the particular characteristics of this setting serve not only to localise but also to influence part at least of the action." Topographical position, climate, distribution of water and minerals, the placement of routes and towns, and ease or difficulty of movement between districts and countries are among the factors which the historian must take into account. Book jacket.
Author: Adam T. Smith
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 548
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil recently, the South Caucasus was a virtual /terra/ /incognita/ on Western archaeological maps of southwest Asia. The conspicuous absence of marked places, of site names, toponyms, and topography gave the impression of a region distant, unknown, and vacant. The Joint American-Armenian Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies (Project ArAGATS) was founded in 1998 to explore this terrain. Our investigations were guided by two overarching goals: to illuminate the social and political transformations central to the regions unique (pre)history and to explore the broader intellectual implications of collaboration between the rich archaeological traditions of Armenia (former U.S.S.R.) and the United States. This volume provides the first encompassing report on the ongoing studies of Project ArAGATS, detailing the general context of contemporary archaeological research in the South Caucasus as well as the specific context of our regional investigations in the Tsaghkahovit Plain of central Armenia. The book opens with detailed examinations of the history of archaeology in the South Caucasus, the theoretical problems that currently orient archaeological research, and a comprehensive reevaluation of the material bases for regional chronology and periodization. The work then provides the complete results of our regional investigations in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, including the findings of the first systematic pedestrian survey ever conducted in the Caucasus. Thanks to the results presented in this volume, and Project ArAGATSs ongoing excavations in the area, the Tsaghkahovit Plain is today the best known archaeological region in the South Caucasus. The present volume thus provides archaeologists with both an orientation to the prehistory of the South Caucasus and the complete findings of the first phase of Project ArAGATSs field investigations.
Author: Daniela Dueck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 0521197880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world.
Author: Eratosthenes
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010-01-24
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 069114267X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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. This is the first collation of the more than 150 fragments of the Geographika in more than a century. Each fragment is accompanied by an English translation, a summary, and commentary. Duane W. Roller provides a rich background, including a history of the text and its reception, a biography of Eratosthenes, and a comprehensive account of ancient Greek geographical thought and of Eratosthenes' pioneering contribution to it. This edition also includes maps that show all of the known places named in the Geographika, appendixes, a bibliography, and indexes.