Geographers of the Ancient Greek World

Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo Pausanias and Ptolemy but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic to the Late Antique period. Most of these texts are however hard for non-specialists to find and many have never been translated into English. This volume the work of an international team of experts presents the most important thirty-six texts in new accurate translations. In addition there are explanatory notes and authoritative introductions to each text which offer a new understanding of the individual writings and demonstrate their importance: no longer marginal but in the mainstream of Greek literature and science. The book includes twenty-eight newly drawn maps images of the medieval manuscripts in which most of these works survive and a full Introduction providing a comprehensive survey of the field of Greek and Roman geography.