Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome

Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros palimpsest), and new editions of existing texts (by geographical authorities who include Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Pseudo-Skylax and Strabo) have been produced. There has been much archaeological research, especially at the perimeters of the Greek world, and a more accurate understanding of ancient geography and geographers has emerged. The topic is therefore overdue a fresh and sustained treatment. In offering precisely that, Duane Roller explores important topics like knowledge of the world in the Bronze Age and Archaic periods
Greek expansion into the Black Sea and the West
the Pythagorean concept of the earth as a globe
the invention of geography as a discipline by Eratosthenes
Polybios the explorer
Strabo's famous Geographica
the travels of Alexander the Great
Roman geography
Ptolemy and late antiquity
and the cultural reawakening of antique geographical knowledge in the Renaissance, including Columbus' use of ancient sources.