TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dueck,Daniela
AU  - Brodersen,Kai
TI  - Geography in classical antiquity
T2  - Key themes in ancient history
SN  - 9780521197885
AV  - G84 D852 G 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Classical geography
KW  - Geography, Ancient
KW  - History
KW  - Geography
KW  - Greece
KW  - Rome
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / General
N1  - Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Descriptive geography; 3. Mathematical geography; 4. Cartography; 5. Geography in practice; HKBU library; YT2025 M09
N2  - "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"--
ER  -