Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 1
Selected Texts in Translation

The first comprehensive collection of authoritative translations of the so-called 'minor' Greek geographers, with introductions and notes.

D. Graham J. Shipley (Author)

9781009194204, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 April 2024

664 pages
25.1 x 17.9 x 4.1 cm, 1.33 kg

'[T]he two volumes offer easy access to translations of the fragmentary geographical authors of the Greek world from the early Archaic to Late Antiquity that are otherwise only available in very scattered (or even nonexistent) form. The collection will undoubtedly find its place as a handbook and reference work in many libraries.' Julian Gieseke, Historische Zeitschrift

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.

Introduction: Greek geography and geographers D. Graham J. Shipley
Time-line D. Graham and J. Shipley
Prologue: the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, 2. 484–760) D. Graham J. Shipley
Part I. Archaic Period: 1. Aristeas of Prokonnesos David C. Braund
2. Skylax of Karyanda D. Graham J. Shipley
3. Hekataios of Miletos D. Graham J. Shipley
Part II. Classical Period: 4. Hanno of Carthage Richard J. A. Talbert and D. Graham J. Shipley
5. Hippokrates of Kos (?), Airs, Waters, and Places D. Graham J. Shipley
6. Eudoxos of Knidos D. Graham J. Shipley
7. Pseudo-Skylax D. Graham J. Shipley
8. Pytheas of Massalia D. Graham J. Shipley
Part III. Hellenistic Period: 9. Dikaiarchos of Messana D. Graham J. Shipley
10. Timosthenes of Rhodes D. Graham J. Shipley
11. Herakleides Kritikos D. Graham J. Shipley
12. Eratosthenes of Kyrene D. Graham J. Shipley
13. Mnaseas of Patara Daniela Dueck
14. Skymnos of Chios D. Graham J. Shipley
15. Agatharchides of Knidos, On the Erythraian Sea Stanley M. Burstein and D. Graham J. Shipley
16. Hipparchos of Nikaia D. Graham J. Shipley
17. The Nikomedean Periodos ['Pseudo-Skymnos'] D. Graham J. Shipley
18. Artemidoros of Ephesos D. Graham J. Shipley
19. Poseidonios of Apameia Katherine J. Clarke
20. Dionysios son of Kalliphon D. Graham J. Shipley
21. Menippos of Pergamon J. Brian Campbell.

Subject Areas: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]