Ancient geography : the discovery of the world in classical Greece and Rome /

Ancient geography : the discovery of the world in classical Greece and Rome /

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Author / Creator:Roller, Duane W., author.
Imprint:London : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
©2015
Description:1 online resource (294 pages)
Language:English
Series:Library of classical studies ; 9.
Library of classical studies ; 9.
Subject:
Geography, Ancient.
Geography, Ancient.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12540467
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ISBN:9780857725660
0857725661
9780857739230
0857739239
9781784530761
178453076X
9781784530761
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:"Before Columbus there was Eratosthenes: 'inventor' of the discipline of geography as it is known today. There was Alexander the Great: the man who sought to reach the very ends of the known world and whose empire spanned three continents. And there was Strabo: author of the Geographica, a 17-volume encyclopaedia of geographical knowledge which expounded the definition, history and mathematics of geography. In this, the first major study of ancient geography and geographers to be published in English for over 60 years, Duane W. Roller offers a comprehensive account of these, and the many other, ancient pioneers and the frontiers that defined their world. Ranging from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome is the definitive guide to how the triumphs and the errors of antiquity laid the foundations for millennia of voyaging and exploration."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Other form:Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe Roller, Duane W. Ancient geography . Discovery of the world in classical Greece and Rome

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