List of Graeco-Roman geographers
From Wikipedia, in a visual modern way
- Pre-Hellenistic Classical Greece
Reconstruction of the Oikumene (inhabited world) as described by Herodotus in the 5th century BC.
- Homer
- Anaximander
- Hecataeus of Miletus
- Massaliote Periplus
- Scylax of Caryanda (6th century BC)
- Herodotus
- Hellenistic period
- Pytheas (died c. 310 BC)
- Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax (3rd or 4th century BC)
- Megasthenes (died c. 290 BC)
- Autolycus of Pitane (died c. 290 BC)
- Dicaearchus (died c. 285 BC)
- Deimakos (3rd century BC)
- Timosthenes (fl. 270s BC)
- Eratosthenes (c. 276-194 BC)
- Scymnus (fl. 180s BC)
- Hipparchus (c. 190-120 BC)
- Agatharchides (2nd century BC)
- Posidonius (c. 135-51 BC)
- Pseudo-Scymnus (c. 90 BC)
- Diodorus Siculus (c. 90-30 BC)
- Alexander Polyhistor (1st century BC)
- Roman Empire period
15th century reconstruction of Ptolemy's map.
- Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
- Strabo (64 BC - 24 AD)
- Pomponius Mela (fl. 40s AD)
- Isidore of Charax (1st century AD)
- Mucianus (1st century AD)
- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD), Natural History
- Marinus of Tyre (c. 70–130)[1]
- Ptolemy (90-168), Geography
- Pausanias (2nd century)
- Agathedaemon of Alexandria (2nd century)
- Dionysius of Byzantium (2nd century)
- Agathemerus (3rd century)
- Tabula Peutingeriana (4th century)
- Alypius of Antioch (4th century)
- Marcian of Heraclea (4th century)
- Expositio totius mundi et gentium (AD 350–362)
- Julius Honorius (very uncertain: 4th, 5th or 6th century)
- Byzantine Empire
- Hierocles (author of Synecdemus) (6th century)
- Cosmas Indicopleustes (6th century)
- Stephanus of Byzantium (6th century)
Source: "List of Graeco-Roman geographers", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, October 17th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Graeco-Roman_geographers.
See also
References
- ^ Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider (ed.): "Marinus", Brill's New Pauly, Brill, 2010:
M. of Tyre (Μαρῖνος; Marînos), Greek geographer, 2nd cent. AD
External links
- Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller:
- Geographi graeci minores, Carolus Muellerus (ed.), 2 voll., Parisiis, editoribus Firmin-Didot et sociis, 1855-61: vol. 1 (1882 reprint), vol. 2, tabulae.
- Gottfried Bernhardy:
- Geographi graeci minores, Godofredi Bernhardy (ed.), Lipsiae in libraria Weidmannia, 1828: vol. 1.
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