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List of Graeco-Roman geographers
Summary
Pre-Hellenistic Classical Greece
Reconstruction of the
Oikumene
(inhabited world) as described by Herodotus in the 5th century BC.
Reconstruction of Hecataeus' map
Homer
Anaximander
(died
c.
546 BC
)
Hecataeus of Miletus
(died
c.
476 BC
)
Massaliote Periplus
(6th century BC)
Scylax of Caryanda
(6th century BC)
Herodotus
(died
c.
425 BC
)
Hellenistic period
Pytheas
(died
c.
310 BC
)
Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax
(3rd or 4th 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
(63 BC – AD 24)
Pomponius Mela
(fl. 40s AD)
Isidore of Charax
(1st century AD)
Mucianus
(1st century AD)
Pliny the Elder
(AD 23 – 79),
Natural History
Marinus of Tyre
(AD 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
edit
History of geography
References
edit
^
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
edit
Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller
:
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.