Geographi Graeci minores

A two-volume work devoted to the lesser Greek geographers, edited by Karl Müller (1813–94) and published in 1855–61.

Karl Müller (Edited by)

9781108016377, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 April 2010

736 pages, 1 b/w illus.
24.4 x 3.7 x 17 cm, 1.15 kg

Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller (1813–94), who wrote in Latin under the name Carolus Müllerus, was a German classicist whose monumental five-volume Fragmenta historicorum graecorum (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection) remains an important resource today. Between 1855 and 1861, he also produced this valuable two-volume collection of the works of lesser-known Greek geographers. Volume 2 (1861) contains texts from the Roman imperial period, including Dionysius of Byzantium's Anaplus Bospori ('Voyage through the Bosphorus') and the work of Dionysius Periegetes, which is accompanied by Latin paraphrases from antiquity by Rufus Festus Avienus and Priscian, as well as the commentary on it by Eustathius of Thessalonica. The surviving Greek texts have parallel Latin translations, and Müller's extensive prolegomena (also in Latin) discusses what is known about the authors, their works and the manuscript sources.

Prolegomena
Dionysii Byzantii Anaplus Bospori thracii
Dionysii orbis descriptio
Rufi festi Avieni descriptio orbis Terrae
Prisciani periegesis
Eustathii commentarii
Paraphrasis
Scholia eis Dionysion
Nikephorou geographia Synoptike
Agathemeri geographiae informatio
Anonymi geographia in sphaera intelligenda
Anonymi geographia compendaria
Fragmenta
Totius orbis descriptio
Chrestomathiae e Strabonis geographicorum Lib. I–XVII
Pseudo-Plutarchus de fluviorum et montium nominibus.

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