Treatise on the Comparative Geography of Western Asia
Accompanied with an Atlas of Maps

This 1831 two-volume work surveys an area from Egypt to the Danube and from the Aegean to the Caspian Sea.

James Rennell (Author)

9781108072113, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 November 2014

434 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.55 kg

James Rennell (1742–1830) could be claimed as the father of historical geography. After a long career at sea and in India, during which he had learned surveying and cartography, he returned to England, and entered the circle of Sir Joseph Banks, who encouraged him to widen the his interests to include the geography of the ancient world. This two-volume work was published posthumously in 1831: Rennell had been working on the topic for many years, and had published a part of his findings in 1814, as Observations on the Topography of the Plain of Troy, also reissued in this series. The area covered in the treatise is a wide one, from Egypt to the Danube and from the Aegean to the Caspian Sea. In Volume 2, Rennell surveys the Greek and Roman territories of Asia Minor, and considers in detail the Roman road network of the area.

Part II. Asia Minor (continued): 2. Ionia
3. Caria
4. Lycia, etc.
5. Bithynia, etc.
6. Phrygia, etc.
Part III. Roman Roads in Asia Minor: 1. Roads leading from Constantinople to Syria
2. Roman roads on the east and south-east of Constantinople
3. Roman roads on the south and south-west of Constantinople
4. Roman roads in Thrace and Moesia
Part IV. Euxine: 1. Arrian's Periplus of the Euxine Sea
2. Heraclea, etc.
3. Trebizond, etc.
4. Dioscurias, etc.
5. The Cimmerian Bosphorus, etc.
6. The Chersonesus, etc.
7. The Borysthenes, etc.
8. Tomis, etc.
9. The Euxine and Caspian Seas
Index.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]