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Ancient geography : the discovery of the world in classical Greece and Rome /
"Before Columbus there was Eratosthenes: 'inventor' of the discipline of geography as it is known today. There was Alexander the Great: the man who sought to reach the very ends of the known world and whose empire spanned three continents. And there was Strabo: author of the Geographi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2015.
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| Colección: | Library of classical studies ;
9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Beginnings
- The Expansion of the Greek Geographical Horizon
- The Spread of Geographical Knowledge and Scholarship in the Classical Period
- Pytheas and Alexander
- The Legacy of Alexander and Pytheas
- Eratosthenes and the Invention of the Discipline of Geography
- The New Roman World
- Geograpy in n the Augustan Period
- The Remainder of the First Century AD
- The Later Roman Empire.