Eratosthenes' Geography /

Eratosthenes' Geography / / Eratosthenes; ed. by Duane W. Roller.

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This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this work, which for the first time described the geography of the entire inhabited world as it was then known...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Eratosthenes,
HerausgeberIn:
Roller, Duane W.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 3 line illus. 7 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Abbreviations
  • Eratosthenes and the History of Geography
  • Eratosthenes Geographika
  • Book 1
  • Book 2
  • Book 3
  • Summaries and Commentaries
  • Commentary to Book 1
  • Commentary to Book 2
  • Commentary to Book 3
  • Gazetteer
  • Maps
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1. On the Measurement of the Earth
  • Appendix 2. Testimonia for the Life of Eratosthenes
  • Appendix 3. Lengths of Measurement
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Passages Cited
  • General Index

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