Henry Fanshawe Tozer

A History of Ancient Geography

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1897 textbook traces the progress of geographical writing from Homeric times to the end of Rome's western empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9781108078757
• ISBN-10: 1108078753
• Artikelnr.: 41611922

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introductory
2. Geography of the Homeric period
3. Spread of the Greek colonies
4. Early geographical speculations: Hecataeus
5. Herodotus
6. Expeditions before the time of Alexander
7. Alexander's eastern expedition
8. Geography under the successors of Alexander: the voyage of Pytheas
9. Mathematical geography
10. Physical and historical geography
11. Geography as promoted by the Roman conquests
12. Strabo
13. Geography from the death of Augustus to that of Trajan (14-117 AD)
14. Roman frontier defences and roads
15. Estimates of mountains in antiquity
16. Ptolemy and later geographers
Index.