Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 192 pages)
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9780691214115
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-188)
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Introduction. - What Ptolemy expected his reader to know ; - The place of the Geography in Ptolemy's work ; - Ptolemy's evolving conception of the world ; - Marinos and other sources ; - Ptolemy's map projections and coordinate lists ; - The manuscripts of the Geography ; - The maps in the manuscripts ; - Early readers and translators ; - Modern editions and translations of the Geography ; - Our translation - Ptolemy, Guide to drawing a map of the world. - Book 1; - Book 2 ; - Book 7 ; - Book 8 - Plates and maps - Appendices. - Appendix A : the journeys of Flaccus and Maternus to the Aithiopians ; - Appendix B : Marinos' calculation of the latitude of Cape Prason ; - Appendix C: the trade route across central Asia ; - Appendix D : the breadth of the Mediterranean according to Marinos and Ptolemy ; - Appendix E : the sail to Kattigara ; - Appendix F : The miscellaneous criticisms of Marinos' data ; - Appendix G : textual notes ; - Appendix H : geographical index.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Berggren, J.L Ptolemy's Geography Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2000 ISBN 0691010420
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
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Altertumswissenschaften
Schlagwort(e):
Quelle
Mehr zum Autor:
Ptolemaeus, Claudius 100-178
Mehr zum Autor:
Berggren, J. L. 1941-
