A History of Ancient Geography

Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury (1811-95), 9th Baronet, was a classical scholar, barrister and Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds, UK. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a member of its Council in 1846-7, he was also a leading contributor to Sir William Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. His A History of Ancient Geography is regarded as his magnum opus. Duane Roller is Professor Emeritus, Department of Classics, Ohio State University, USA.

Volume 1
Introduction by Duane Roller

Preface
List of Maps
Chapter I. Introductory
Chapter 2. Voyage of the Argonauts
Chapter 3. Homeric Geography
Chapter 4. Homer to Hecataeus
Chapter 5. Hecataeus
Chapter 6. Herodotus
Chapter 7. Geography of Herodotus: Asia
Chapter 8. Geography of Herodotus: Africa
Chapter 9. Voyage of Hanno
Chapter 10. Writers after Herodotus
Chapter 11. Writers after Xenophon
Chapter 12. Expedition of Alexander
Chapter 13. Voyage of Nearchus
Chapter 14. Successors of Alexander
Chapter 15. The Ptolemies in Egypt
Chapter 16. Eratosthenes

Volume 2
List of Maps

Chapter 17. Geographers after Eratosthenes
Chapter 18. Polybius to Posidonius
Chapter 19. Caesar's Wars
Chapter 20. Roman Empire under Augustus
Chapter 21. Strabo
Chapter 22. Strabo (continued)
Chapter 23. Strabo to Flint
Chapter 24. Pliny
Chapter 25. Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
Chapter 26. Pliny to Ptolemy
Chapter 27. Marinus Tyrius
Chapter 28. Ptolemy
Chapter 29. Ptolemy (continued)
Chapter 30. Geography after Ptolemy
Chapter 31. Geography after Ptolemy (continued)

Index