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Author Dueck, Daniela, 1965-

Title Geography in classical antiquity / Daniela Dueck ; [contributions by] Kai Brodersen.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Key themes in ancient history
Key themes in ancient history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; GEOGRAPHY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY; KEY THEMES IN ANCIENT HISTORY; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; 1.1 OUTLINE AND GOALS; 1.2 FORMATS, CONTEXTS AND TERMINOLOGIES; 1.3 GEOGRAPHY AND POLITICS; 1.4 GREEK AND ROMAN GEOGRAPHY; CHAPTER 2 Descriptive geography; 2.1 EPIC, MYTH AND POETRY; 2.2 THE HISTORIOGRAPHIC TRADITION; 2.3 TRAVELOGUES AND CURIOSITIES; CHAPTER 3 Mathematical geography; 3.1 SHAPES AND SIZES; 3.2 THE THEORY OF CLIMATIC ZONES AND ETHNO-GEOGRAPHY; 3.3 LOCATING COORDINATES; CHAPTER 4 Cartography.
4.1 A PRE-MODERN WORLD4.2 DESCRIPTIVE AND SCIENTIFIC CARTOGRAPHY; 4.3 MAPS IN THE SERVICE OF THE STATE?; CHAPTER 5 Geography in practice; 5.1 THE CONNECTION BETWEEN EXPERIENCE AND TEXT; 5.2 POPULAR GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; Bibliography; Index.
Summary An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world.
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Subject Classical geography.
Classical geography.
Geography, Ancient -- History.
Geography, Ancient.
History.
Geography -- Greece -- History.
Geography.
Greece.
Geography -- Rome -- History.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Brodersen, Kai.
Other Form: Print version: Dueck, Daniela. Geography in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9780521197885
ISBN 9781139423380 (electronic book)
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