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.