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
