List of Graeco-Roman geographers




Pre-Hellenistic Classical Greece



Reconstruction of Hecataeus' map



  • 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 (4th or 3rd 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)



See also


  • History of geography


References





  1. ^ 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 Muller:

    • 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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