Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 1: Selected Texts in Translation [Hardcover]

The first comprehensive collection of authoritative translations of the so-called 'minor' Greek geographers, with introductions and notes.A collection of the thirty-six most important but less well-known Greek geographical texts in new translations, many of them never before published in English, with up-to-date introductions and notes. This volume will promote a better understanding of the whole of ancient Geography from early Greece to the late Roman period.A collection of the thirty-six most important but less well-known Greek geographical texts in new translations, many of them never before published in English, with up-to-date introductions and notes. This volume will promote a better understanding of the whole of ancient Geography from early Greece to the late Roman period.Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic to the Late Antique period. Most of these texts are, however, hard for non-specialists to find, and many have never been translated into English. This volume, the work of an international team of experts, presents the most important thirty-six texts in new, accurate translations. In addition, there are explanatory notes and authoritative introductions to each text, which offer a new understanding of the individual writings and demonstrate their importance: no longer marginal, but in the mainstream of Greek literature and science. The book includes twenty-eight newly drawn maps, images of the medieval manuscripts in which most of these works survive, and a full Introduction providing a comprehensive survey of the field of Greek and Roman geography.Introduction: Greek geography and geographers D. Graham J. Shipley; Time-line D. Graham and J. Shipley; Prologue: the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, 2. 484760) D. Graham J. Shipley; Part I. Archaic Period: 1. Aristeas of Prokonnesos David C. Braund; 2. Skl“8