Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation: Hanno, the King Nikomedes Periodos, and Avienus

ISBN-13: 9780367462543 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 202 str.

Duane W. Roller

Opis

This volume is a translation and commentary of three geographers from Greco-Roman antiquity: Hanno of Carthage, from around 500 BC; the Periodos Dedicated to King Nikomedes, from the last half of the second century BC, and Avienus, from the fourth century AD.

Spis treści

List of maps; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Carthaginian expansion and exploration; Chapter 2: The Periplous of Hanno; Chapter 3: The Periodos Dedicated to King Nikomedes; Chapter 4: The Ora Maritima of Avienus; Epilogue; Bibliography; Passages cited; Index

O autorze

Duane W. Roller is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the Ohio State University, USA, having received a Ph.D in Classical Archaeology from Harvard University, USA, and is the author of Cleopatra: A Biography, Cleopatra's Daughter and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era, and Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World.