Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introductory; 2. Geography of the Homeric period; 3. Spread of the Greek colonies; 4. Early geographical speculations: Hecataeus; 5. Herodotus; 6. Expeditions before the time of Alexander; 7. Alexander's eastern expedition; 8. Geography under the successors of Alexander: the voyage of Pytheas; 9. Mathematical geography; 10. Physical and historical geography; 11. Geography as promoted by the Roman conquests; 12. Strabo; 13. Geography from the death of Augustus to that of Trajan (14–117 AD); 14. Roman frontier defences and roads; 15. Estimates of mountains in antiquity; 16. Ptolemy and later geographers; Index.

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This 1897 textbook traces the progress of geographical writing from Homeric times to the end of Rome's western empire.