Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography edited by S. Bianchetti, M. R. Cataudella, H. J. Gehrke is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the ancient world that focuses on a selection of topics considered crucial for understanding the development of geographical thought. In this work, scholars, all of whom are specialists in a variety of fields, examine the interaction of humans with their environment and try to reconstruct the representations of the inhabited world in the works of ancient historians, scientists, and cartographers. Topics include: Eudoxus, Dicaearchus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Agatharchides, Agrippa, Strabo, Pliny and Solinus, Ptolemy, and the Peutinger Map. Other issues are also discussed such as onomastics, the boundaries of states, Pythagorism, sacred itineraries, measurement systems, and the Holy Land.
Author(s): Serena Bianchetti, Michele Cataudella, Hans-Joachim Gehrke (eds.)
Series: Brill's Companions in Classical Studies
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: xviii+490
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Part 1: Geography before Geography
1 Reinhold Bichler: Persian Geography and the Ionians: Herodotus
2 Pietro Janni: The Sea of the Greeks and Romans
3 Gianfranco Maddoli: The Concept of “Magna Graecia” and the Pythagoreans
4 Giovanna Daverio Rocchi: Systems of Borders in Ancient Greece
5 Hans-Joachim Gehrke: The “Revolution” of Alexander the Great: Old and New in the World’s View
6 Veronica Bucciantini: Geographical Description and Historical Narrative in the Tradition on Alexander’s Expedition
Part 2: Geography between Science and Politics
A. Geographical Science
7 Michele R. Cataudella: Some Scientific Approaches: Eudoxus of Cnidus and Dicaearchus of Messene
8 Serena Bianchetti: The “Invention” of Geography: Eratosthenes of Cyrene
9 Klaus Geus: Progress in the Sciences: Astronomy and Hipparchus
B. The Thought of the Farthest Horizon in the Greek and Roman Tradition
10 Didier Marcotte: The Indian Ocean from Agatharchides of Cnidus to the Periplus Maris Erythraei
11 Pierre Schneider: The So-called Confusion between India and Ethiopia: The Eastern and Southern Edges of the Inhabited World from the Greco-Roman Perspective
C. Geography and Politics in the Roman Empire
12 Pascal Arnaud: Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and his Geographical Work
13 Anne Kolb: The Romans and the World’s Measure
14 Francesco Prontera: Strabo’s Geography
15 Eckart Olshausen: News from the East? Roman-Age Geographers and the Pontus Euxinus
16 Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti: Rome and Iberia: The Making of a Cultural Geography
17 Kai Brodersen: The Geographies of Pliny and his ‘Ape’ Solinus
D. Cartographical Science in Alexandria
18 Germaine Aujac: The “Revolution” of Ptolemy
Part 3: Geographical Rebounds
19 Michael Rathmann: The Tabula Peutingeriana and Antique Cartography
20 Emilio Galvagno: Geography and Religion: The Lists of the Thearodokoi
21 Jan R. Stenger: Eusebius and the Representation of the Holy Land
