Author: James Oliver Thomson
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601438
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: Duane W. Roller
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9781734003116
Category : Geography, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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A collection of essays on current studies in ancient geography, extending over an area from ancient Mesopotamia and the prehistoric New World to the Roman Empire. Essays include examinations of ancient cosmology, ancient navigation, and literary interpretations of geography.

Author: Duane W. Roller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857739239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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The last dedicated book on ancient geography was published more than sixty years ago. Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros palimpsest), and new editions of existing texts (by geographical authorities who include Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Pseudo-Skylax and Strabo) have been produced. There has been much archaeological research, especially at the perimeters of the Greek world, and a more accurate understanding of ancient geography and geographers has emerged. The topic is therefore overdue a fresh and sustained treatment. In offering precisely that, Duane Roller explores important topics like knowledge of the world in the Bronze Age and Archaic periods; Greek expansion into the Black Sea and the West; the Pythagorean concept of the earth as a globe; the invention of geography as a discipline by Eratosthenes; Polybios the explorer; Strabo's famous Geographica; the travels of Alexander the Great; Roman geography; Ptolemy and late antiquity; and the cultural reawakening of antique geographical knowledge in the Renaissance, including Columbus' use of ancient sources.

Author: William Gordon East
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393004199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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In this book, Professor East discusses the vital relationship between history and geographical conditions. Drawing examples from ancient times up to the present, he demonstrates that a study of history must include consideration of the physical conditions under which an event occurs, and that "the particular characteristics of this setting serve not only to localise but also to influence part at least of the action." Topographical position, climate, distribution of water and minerals, the placement of routes and towns, and ease or difficulty of movement between districts and countries are among the factors which the historian must take into account. Book jacket.

Author: Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Author: Alexander Cunningham
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Author: Edward Herbert Bunbury
Publisher:
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Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 736

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Author: Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 820

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Author: Serena Bianchetti
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004284710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the ancient world that focuses on topics considered crucial for understanding the development of geographical thought.