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Book Synopsis Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 1 by : D. Graham J. Shipley
Download or read book Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 1 written by D. Graham J. Shipley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Ancient Geography by : Duane W. Roller
Download or read book Ancient Geography written by Duane W. Roller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Book Synopsis Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 2 by : D. Graham J. Shipley
Download or read book Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 2 written by D. Graham J. Shipley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography by : Serena Bianchetti
Download or read book Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography written by Serena Bianchetti and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the ancient world that focuses on topics considered crucial for understanding the development of geographical thought.
Book Synopsis Lexicon and Atlas of the Modern World Coinciding with the Ancient Greek World by : Joseph R. Laurin
Download or read book Lexicon and Atlas of the Modern World Coinciding with the Ancient Greek World written by Joseph R. Laurin and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEXICON AND ATLAS OF THE MODERN WORLD COINCIDING WITH THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD From Solon of the sixth century BCE to Alexander the Great of the fourth century BCE, the Ancient Greek World covered about six percent of our Modern World, but in this small inhabited territory many of the greatest deeds of history were accomplished in places whose names remained the same to this day or changed with the subsequent civilizations. In order to retrieve from this book some brief information about nearly four thousand of these places the researchers can approach it by their names in either the Modern world or the Ancient Greek World. For the Ancient Greeks, the earth was a flat oval sphere surrounded by a huge Ocean, longer from west to east than from north to south. In addition to Hellas (Greece), their world encompassed the lands of Southern Europe, North Africa and Egypt, and West and Central Asia. In relation to the Modern World, it covered from the British Isles and Gibraltar in the west to western China and India in the east and from southern Germany, the Ukraine and Kazakhstan in the north to north Africa, Ethiopia and the Arabian Sea in the south. In this publication, cities, islands, mountains, regions, rivers and seas are listed alphabetically with a brief description in the Lexicon and a reference to their locations on forty-two maps in the Atlas. They are all listed again by groups in the Index. Between the monumental publications about the geography of the Ancient Greek World and the specialized ones, there remained between them a gap to be filled in by an instrument providing a fairly comprehensive and always brief, clear and easy-to-handle listing of places. Filling in this gap with such an instrument is the purpose of this publication addressed primarily to the busy readers and writers of all types. http://www.greekancienthistory.com/
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World by : David Sacks
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World written by David Sacks and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the people, places and events found in over 2,000 years of Greek civilization.
Book Synopsis Geography and Ethnography by : Kurt A. Raaflaub
Download or read book Geography and Ethnography written by Kurt A. Raaflaub and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, whohave analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviewsof a wide range of pre-modern societies. Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity throughto the Age of Discovery Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies aroundthe globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from theGreeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials
Book Synopsis Geographers of the Ancient Greek World 2 Volume Hardback Set by : D. Graham J. Shipley
Download or read book Geographers of the Ancient Greek World 2 Volume Hardback Set written by D. Graham J. Shipley and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of the thirty-six most important but less well-known Greek geographical texts in new translations, many of them never before published in English, with up-to-date introductions and notes. This volume will promote a better understanding of the whole of ancient Geography from early Greece to the late Roman period"--
Book Synopsis Sacred Geography of the Ancient Greeks by : Jean Richer
Download or read book Sacred Geography of the Ancient Greeks written by Jean Richer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-12-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides proof of the existence and explains the significance of planned alignments between classical temples and oracle sites over a wide range of territory, pointing to an astrological system of planning in the ancient world. This system of symbolism may be used predictively and is supported by all relevant artifacts. Here is a unifying approach to the study of geomancy in the ancient world as a whole. Richer has found a network of significant geographic alignments, associated with the pathways of various legendary figures and gods, that are geomantic keys to many legends and texts. One of these texts is Plato’s Laws in which Plato describes the layout of the ideal city. Richer found Plato’s ideal city repeated around the most important oracular centers on ancient Greece. He shows how Plato’s description was a later codification of a much earlier practice of dividing geography into twelve regions under the patronage of the gods of the zodiac. Several such twelve-part divisions of the Greek Territories are presented here.
Book Synopsis Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 2 by : D. Graham J. Shipley
Download or read book Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 2 written by D. Graham J. Shipley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Ancient Greek I written by Philip S. Peek and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the ancient Greek language in an imaginative and accessible way that promotes creativity, deep learning, and diversity. The course is built on three pillars: memory, analysis, and logic. Readers memorize the top 250 most frequently occurring ancient Greek words, the essential word endings, the eight parts of speech, and the grammatical concepts they will most frequently encounter when reading authentic ancient texts. Analysis and logic exercises enable the translation and parsing of genuine ancient Greek sentences, with compelling reading selections in English and in Greek offering starting points for contemplation, debate, and reflection. A series of embedded Learning Tips help teachers and students to think in practical and imaginative ways about how they learn. This combination of memory-based learning and concept- and skill-based learning gradually builds the confidence of the reader, teaching them how to learn by guiding them from a familiarity with the basics to proficiency in reading this beautiful language. Ancient Greek I: A 21st-Century Approach is written for high-school and university students, but is an instructive and rewarding text for anyone who wishes to learn ancient Greek.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, Volume 2, Part 1 by : Anonymous
Download or read book Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, Volume 2, Part 1 written by Anonymous and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an authoritative reference work on Greek and Roman Geography. It covers the geography of the ancient world, including countries, cities, rivers, mountains, and other natural features. The volume is divided into two parts, with Part 1 covering ancient Greece and Macedon. The entries are arranged alphabetically, and each entry includes a brief history of the location and its significance in ancient times. This book is essential for anyone interested in ancient history and geography. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Geography Matters in Ancient Greece by : Melanie Waldron
Download or read book Geography Matters in Ancient Greece written by Melanie Waldron and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography Matters in Ancient Greece looks at how the Greek Empire changed through time and gives fascinating insights into many different aspects of Greek life through its geography. Read about how the hot climate affected the crops that Greeks could grow and the housing and clothing they needed, how the Mycenaeans were able to protect themselves from attackers by using the natural features of their landscape and their natural resources of stone and how its proximity to the Mediterranean Sea helped the Greek Empire in trading and in strengthening their military might.
Book Synopsis Eratosthenes' "Geography" by : Eratosthenes
Download or read book Eratosthenes' "Geography" written by Eratosthenes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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.
Book Synopsis The Geography of Strabo; Volume 1 by : John Robert Sitlington Sterrett
Download or read book The Geography of Strabo; Volume 1 written by John Robert Sitlington Sterrett and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work of geography and history provides a detailed and comprehensive look at the world as it was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans. Written by Strabo, a Greek philosopher and historian who lived in the first century BCE, the book covers a wide range of topics, including the geography of different regions, the customs and traditions of different peoples, and the political and military history of different empires. The book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the ancient world and its legacy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography by : William Smith
Download or read book A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Near East by : Jim Roy
Download or read book Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Near East written by Jim Roy and published by Leicester Nottingham Studies i. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose, mode, and presentation of travel offers a window onto a wide range of features of ancient cultures - sense of place, perceptions of space, relations with foreign powers, engagements with other cultures, and a deeper understanding of one's own culture, among others. The chapters in this volume take on a range of these issues, and leading scholars of the history and culture of Egypt, Greece and the eastern regions of the Graeco-Roman world assess the importance of travel in a world much less sedentary than often assumed. Indeed, their work shows that travel was embedded in the cultures of the ancient eastern Mediterranean. Together they demonstrate the cultural importance and the influence on culture that travel had in these societies.
