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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
Introduction: Greek geography and geographers D. Graham J. Shipley; Time-line D. Graham and J. Shipley; Prologue: the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, 2. 484-760) D. Graham J. Shipley; Part I. Archaic Period: 1. Aristeas of Prokonnesos David C. Braund; 2. Skylax of Karyanda D. Graham J. Shipley; 3. Hekataios of Miletos D. Graham J. Shipley; Part II. Classical Period: 4. Hanno of Carthage Richard J. A. Talbert and D. Graham J. Shipley; 5. Hippokrates of Kos (?), Airs, Waters, and Places D. Graham J. Shipley; 6. Eudoxos of Knidos D. Graham J. Shipley; 7. Pseudo-Skylax D. Graham J. Shipley; 8. Pytheas of Massalia D. Graham J. Shipley; Part III. Hellenistic Period: 9. Dikaiarchos of Messana D. Graham J. Shipley; 10. Timosthenes of Rhodes D. Graham J. Shipley; 11. Herakleides Kritikos D. Graham J. Shipley; 12. Eratosthenes of Kyrene D. Graham J. Shipley; 13. Mnaseas of Patara Daniela Dueck; 14. Skymnos of Chios D. Graham J. Shipley; 15. Agatharchides of Knidos, On the Erythraian Sea Stanley M. Burstein and D. Graham J. Shipley; 16. Hipparchos of Nikaia D. Graham J. Shipley; 17. The Nikomedean Periodos ['Pseudo-Skymnos'] D. Graham J. Shipley; 18. Artemidoros of Ephesos D. Graham J. Shipley; 19. Poseidonios of Apameia Katherine J. Clarke; 20. Dionysios son of Kalliphon D. Graham J. Shipley; 21. Menippos of Pergamon J. Brian Campbell.
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'.
