Geographers of the Ancient Greek World Set : Selected Texts in Translation

Shipley, D. Graham J.

ISBN 10: 1009174894 / ISBN 13: 9781009174893

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2024

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Synopsis:

Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic to the Late Antique period. Most of these texts are, however, hard for non-specialists to find, and many have never been translated into English. This volume, the work of an international team of experts, presents the most important thirty-six texts in new, accurate translations. In addition, there are explanatory notes and authoritative introductions to each text, which offer a new understanding of the individual writings and demonstrate their importance: no longer marginal, but in the mainstream of Greek literature and science. The book includes twenty-eight newly drawn maps, images of the medieval manuscripts in which most of these works survive, and a full Introduction providing a comprehensive survey of the field of Greek and Roman geography.

About the Author: GRAHAM SHIPLEY is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester, and the author of many studies of Greek history that bring together written sources, archaeology, and landscape, such as The Greek World after Alexander (2000) and The Early Hellenistic Peloponnese (Cambridge, 2018). In 2018 he was elected a member of the international association GAHIA, 'Geography & Historiography in Antiquity'.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Geographers of the Ancient Greek World Set :...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2024
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New