A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans: From the Earliest Ages Till the Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1 (Google eBook)

Edward Herbert Bunbury

J. Murray, 1879 - Geography, Ancient

Contents

• Geography more or less studied by different nations according to circum: 1
• colonies to the localities on the Euxine 3 Various accounts: 19
• NOTE: 25
• Of the lied Sea 28 his accurate knowledge of the Nile: 27
• NOTE A Argonautica of Orpheus: 28
• Geography of the Iliad: 39
• Geography of the Odyssey: 49
• NOTE A Composition of the Homeric Poems: 75
• Poetical Notices subsequent to Homer: 85
• Colonies: 91
• Great development of Greek enterprise in the 7th and 8th centuries: 119
• NOTE A Date of foundation of Cyrene: 127
• NOTE A Character of extant fragments of Heca: 153
• Scythia: 172
• Geographical details of the expedition accord well with the other state: 202
• NOTE A The Acta? of Herodotus: 207
• VOL I: 227
• Persian Empire Satrapies: 231
• account of the line of route from Sardis to Susa introduced as an inci: 249
• NOTE A Indian Tribute: 255
• CHAPTER VIII: 262
• Circumnavigation of Africa by: 289
• CHAPTER IX: 318
• Composition of the Anabasis: 359
• Page: 379
• Aristotle: 395
• NOTE A Age of Scylax: 404
• Military Operations in India: 438
• Return to Babylon: 454
• NOTE A Gordium: 463
• CHAPTER XIII: 525
• NOTE A Comparison with Pliny: 542
• CHAPTER XIV: 552
• Eratosthenes His division of the winds: 576
• Progress of Discovery in Western Europe Pytheas Timcsus: 589
• His views on Homeric geography 33 imperfect ideas of physical: 615
• NOTE A Observations of latitude: 661

Bibliographic information

• Title: A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans: From the Earliest Ages Till the Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1; A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans: From the Earliest Ages Till the Fall of the Roman Empire, A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans: From the Earliest Ages Till the Fall of the Roman Empire; Volume 1 of A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans, A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans
• Author: Edward Herbert Bunbury
• Publisher: J. Murray, 1879
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Jun 5, 2008