Geographers of the ancient Greek world : selected texts in translation

Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic to the Late Antique period.

Most of these texts are, however, hard for non-specialists to find, and many have never been translated into English.

This volume, the work of an international team of experts, presents the most important thirty-six texts in new, accurate translations.

In addition, there are explanatory notes and authoritative introductions to each text, which offer a new understanding of the individual writings and demonstrate their importance: no longer marginal, but in the mainstream of Greek literature and science.

The book includes twenty-eight newly drawn maps, images of the medieval manuscripts in which most of these works survive, and a full Introduction providing a comprehensive survey of the field of Greek and Roman geography.