Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Greek Geography and Geographers
- Time-line
- Prologue: The Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, 2. 484–760)
- Part I Archaic Period
- Part II Classical Period
- Part III Hellenistic Period
- 9 Dikaiarchos of Messana
- 10 Timosthenes of Rhodes
- 11 Herakleides Kritikos
- 12 Eratosthenes of Kyrene
- 13 Mnaseas of Patara
- 14 Skymnos of Chios
- 15 Agatharchides of Knidos, On the Erythraian Sea
- 16 Hipparchos of Nikaia
- 17 The Nikomedean Periodos [‘Pseudo-Skymnos’]
- 18 Artemidoros of Ephesos
- 19 Poseidonios of Apameia
- 20 Dionysios son of Kalliphon
19 - Poseidonios of Apameia
from Part III - Hellenistic Period
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Greek Geography and Geographers
- Time-line
- Prologue: The Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, 2. 484–760)
- Part I Archaic Period
- Part II Classical Period
- Part III Hellenistic Period
- 9 Dikaiarchos of Messana
- 10 Timosthenes of Rhodes
- 11 Herakleides Kritikos
- 12 Eratosthenes of Kyrene
- 13 Mnaseas of Patara
- 14 Skymnos of Chios
- 15 Agatharchides of Knidos, On the Erythraian Sea
- 16 Hipparchos of Nikaia
- 17 The Nikomedean Periodos [‘Pseudo-Skymnos’]
- 18 Artemidoros of Ephesos
- 19 Poseidonios of Apameia
- 20 Dionysios son of Kalliphon
Summary
This chapter presents new, annotated translations of the testimonia and fragments of the much-travelled Poseidonios of Apameia (c.135–c.51 BC), selected for their geographical content and arranged as 75 extracts. (Translations of passages of Strabo are adapted with permission from the work of D. W. Roller, and a lengthy passage of Priscianus Lydus from the translation by I. G. Kidd.) The chapter introduction notes the bias introduced into our understanding of Poseidonios’ geography by the particular interests of Strabo and Athenaios, the commonest sources of extracts; and demonstrates Poseidonios’ achievement in integrating cosmology, philosophy, and geographical thought. Prominent advances made by his writing are in areas such as the tides, climatic zones, and the interaction of humankind with the natural environment.
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- Geographers of the Ancient Greek WorldSelected Texts in Translation, pp. 561 - 611Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024