Geography in Classical Antiquity

Informationen zum Autor Daniela Dueck is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at Bar Ilan University. Kai Brodersen is President of the University of Erfurt and holds the Chair of Ancient Culture. Klappentext An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world. Zusammenfassung This book explores the beginnings and development of geographical ideas in Classical antiquity and demonstrates technical methods for describing landscape! topographies and ethnographies. The survey relies on a variety of sources: philosophical and scientific texts but also poems and travelogues; papyrological remains and visual monuments. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Descriptive geography; 3. Mathematical geography; 4. Cartography; 5. Geography in practice.

Product details

• Authors: Daniela Dueck, Daniela (Bar-Ilan University Dueck, Dueck Daniela
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2012
• EAN: 9780521197885
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19788-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Key Themes in Ancient History; Key Themes in Ancient History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Travel > Travel guides > World, Arctic, Antarctic; History of Ideas, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Historical Geography, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology