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"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"--
List of contents
Part IV. Roman Period: 22. Juba II of Mauretania D. Graham J. Shipley; 23. Isidoros of Charax Richard J. A. Talbert; 24. Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Cosmos (De mundo) D. Graham J. Shipley; 25. Pseudo-Arrian, Circumnavigation of the Erythraian Sea Colin E. P. Adams; 26. Pseudo-Plutarch, On the Names of Rivers and Mountains and the Things in them J. Brian Campbell; 27. Arrian of Nikomedeia, Circumnavigation of the Euxine Aidan Liddle; 28. Dionysios Periegetes Yumna Z. N. Khan; 29. Agathemeros son of Orthon D. Graham J. Shipley; 30. Dionysios of Byzantion Oliver Nicholson and Thomas Russell; 31. Pseudo-Hippolytos, Stadiasmos (Stade Table or Circumnavigation of the Great sea) James W. Ermatinger and Robert C. Helmer; Part V. Late Antique Period: 32. Avienus (Avienius), Ora maritima (The Sea Coast) Ralph Morley; 33. Expositio totius mundi et gentium (Account of the Whole World and its Peoples) and Iunior Philosophus Richard J. A. Talbert; 34. Markianos of Herakleia D. Graham J. Shipley; 35. Hypotyp¿sis t¿s ge¿graphias en epitom¿i (Outline of Geography in Summary) D. Graham J. Shipley; 36. Pseudo-Arrian, Circumnavigation of the Euxine D. Graham J. Shipley.
About the author
GRAHAM SHIPLEY is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester, and the author of many studies of Greek history that bring together written sources, archaeology, and landscape, such as The Greek World after Alexander (2000) and The Early Hellenistic Peloponnese (Cambridge, 2018). In 2018 he was elected a member of the international association GAHIA, 'Geography & Historiography in Antiquity'.
