An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world.

The last dedicated book on ancient geography was published more than sixty years ago. Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros palimpsest), a

Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography edited by S. Bianchetti, M. R. Cataudella, H. J. Gehrke is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the

In the late eighteenth century, a new subject emerged that was one of the earliest forms of historical geography. It was called ancient geography or classical g

Over the last two decades, research in cultural geography and landscape studies has influenced many humanities fields, including Classics, and has increasingly