01873cam a2200301 a 4500 120213s2012 enka b 001 0 eng 9780521197885 9780521120258 SDU G84 D852 G 2012 Dueck, Daniela, 219248 Geography in classical antiquity / Daniela Dueck ; with a chapter by Kai Brodersen. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 142 p. : ill. Key themes in ancient history Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Descriptive geography; 3. Mathematical geography; 4. Cartography; 5. Geography in practice. HKBU library YT2025 M09 "What were the limits of knowledge of the physical world in Greek and Roman antiquity? How far did travellers get and what did they know about far-away regions? How did they describe foreign countries and peoples? How did they measure the earth, and distances and heights on it? Ideas about the physical and cultural world are a key aspect of ancient history, but until now there has been no up-to-date modern overview of the subject. 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"-- Classical geography. 219249 Geography, Ancient History. 219250 Geography Greece History. 219251 Geography Rome History. 219252 HISTORY / Ancient / General. 219253 Brodersen, Kai. 219254 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 112403 112403 0 0 lcc 0 G0084 D852 G2012 0 CGB 282228 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-17 2 0 G84 D852 G 2012 1000371262 2025-09-17 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-17 GBE