Identifier: studentsmanualof00smit (find matches)
Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e, written by Arrian in the second cen-tury after Christ, the materials of which were gathered from thesecontemporary sources, particularly from the AAorks of Ptolemy andAristobulus. ^ The History of the Wars of Alexander, by Ptolemy, son of Lagus ; TheJournal of Xearchiis, describing his voyage down the Indus end along the IndianOcean to the mouth of the Euphrates; The Annals of Alexander, and otherworks, by Onescritus, describing the lands in the interior of Asia—Sogdiana,Bactria. &:c-, and India : he is the first to notice Taprobane, Ceylon ; History ofAlexander, by Cleitarchus, vrho not only describes India, but portions of the westand north of Europe; Alexanders Campaigns, History of Greece, by Anaxi-menes of Lampsacus ; Alexanders Campaigns, by Aristobulus of Cassandria inMacedonia; History of Greece, and other works, by Callisthenes of Olympus;* Alexanders Life, byHieronymus of Cardia, the author also of an historical workdescribing the foundation and antiquities of Rome.
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P O X T INfap of the Chcrsonesus Trachea, according to Herodotus. ( 42 ) CHAPTEE IV. THE WORLD AS KXOWX TO THE GEOGRAPHERS. § 1. Review of the progress of discovery: India; Caspian Sea; Chinaand the East : Western Europe: the Amber Isles : Atlantic Ocean:Phoenician influence : northern discoveries of Himilco and Pytheas:Africa^ Hanno. Euthymenes, Periplus of AiTian. § 2. Geographicalwriters. § 3. Eratosthenes. § 4. Hipparchus. § 5. Polybius.§ 6. Minor geographical writers. § 7. Strabo : Posidonius ; Ge-minus; Marinus. §8. The discoveries of the Romans: Italy, Illyria,Spain, Africa, Armenia, Gaul and Britain, Asia, Moesia, &c. § 9.Roman waiters: Caesar, Sallust, Tacitus, Livy. § 10. Mela; Pliny;Arrian; Pausanias. §11. Ptolemy; Agathemerus, Dionysius, Peri-egetes, Stephanus Byzantinus. § 12. PeripU and Itineraries. § 1. We are now approaching the time when, under the auspicesof Eratosthenes, geography was raised to the dignity of a science.Hitherto it had been treated i

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