Between Geography and History Hellenistic Constructions of the Roman World [Hardcover]

The Roman empire radically affected geographical conceptions, evoking new ways of describing the earth and of constructing its history. This book explores the writings of three literary figures of the age--Polybius, Posidonius, and Strabo--and how they used and transformed pre-existing Greek traditions in order to describe the new world of Rome.

I. Geographical and Historiographical Traditions
II. Polybius and the Geographical History
III. Posidonius: Geography, History, and Stoicism
IV. Strabo and Space
V. Strabo and Time
VI. Strabo's Universalism: Geography, History, Rewriting the Roman World
Epilogue
APPENDIX A: The Arrangement of Posidonius'Histories
APPENDIX B: The Fragments of Posidonius'Histories
APPENDIX C: Strabo's Acknowledged Sources Arranged Region by Region
Bibliography
Index of passages
Index of subjects