Ancient Geography and Cartography Research Papers

The techniques of seismic surveying, especially reflection seismic, considerably varied during last year’s. The contribution to this variation mainly came from the oil industry, which has developed the geophysical methods for oil... more

La cartografía antigua como instrumento de estudio de la ciudad va más allá de una simple técnica. Como representación gráfica de la realidad urbana en un determinado momento, los planos antiguos de la ciudad contienen una foto fija que... more

La cartografía antigua como instrumento de estudio de la ciudad va más allá de una simple técnica. Como representación gráfica de la realidad urbana en un determinado momento, los planos antiguos de la ciudad contienen una foto fija que transmite la huella del tiempo en el espacio: el mapa es el territorio. Esta afirmación tan asertiva no es del todo real. El mapa es, en verdad, una simple representación gráfica del territorio, no el territorio en sí mismo, pero su capacidad de ilustración sobre un determinado lugar es de tal capacidad que bien podemos decir que los planos de las ciudades son el testimonio de su historia, una de las mejores muestras de su huella, el documento donde quizá mejor se refleja el legado de su construcción y, por supuesto, aquel soporte en el que se dibuja la actividad humana que ha tenido lugar en un espacio a lo largo del tiempo. Los mapas, así entendidos, no son sino un modo de contar la visión que en cada momento se tiene de los espacios y los acontecimientos, por lo que, finalmente, acaban convirtiéndose en testimonios. Por todo ello, debe considerarse a los mapas y planos antiguos de las ciudades, a la cartografía urbana antigua, como parte básica del acervo cultural de un lugar, más allá de una simple foto fija de cómo era cada núcleo en un momento determinado. En este caso se muestra el resultado de la georreferenciación de un plano urbano singular y detallado, el plano de la ciudad de Burgos levantado el 1 de julio del año 1894 por los ingenieros Mariano Martín Campos y Eduardo Lostau. Este documento se ha elegido por su calidad gráfica, su adecuada proyección, su precisión geométrica y su abundante y valiosa información sobre la ciudad que representa. El plano del año 1894 constituye, sin duda, una buena muestra del interesante conjunto cartográfico antiguo que se conserva en el Archivo Municipal de Burgos y es en el contexto de este fondo gráfico donde planteamos su puesta en valor mediante la técnica de su georreferenciación.

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- by Gonzalo Andrés López
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  History, Cultural History, Geography, Urban Geography

Tupikova, Irina; Geus, Klaus: Ptolemy’s data for the latitudes of Alexandria, Syene and Meroë: some observations. In: Hadravová, Alena; Hadrova. Petr; Lippincott, Kristen (eds.): The stars in the classical and medieval traditions. Prag:... more

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- by Irina Tupikova and +1
  Klaus Geus
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  History of Ancient Geography, Ancient Geography, Ptolemy, Ancient Astronomy

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- by Renate Burri
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  Geography, Cartography, Classics, Greek Literature

It is well known that Ptolemy’s Geography used systematically exaggerated values for longitudes, which made his map look excessively stretched from West to East in comparison with modern maps. According to one recent hypothesis, the... more

Advanced doctoral students whose dissertations are substantially concerned with the history of cartography are invited to contact the editor of this section (Dr Elizabeth Baigent, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford OX2 6PW, UK;... more

Around 500 BC, the Pythagoreans and Eleates put forward the idea that the earth is not a disc but a globe. At least at the time of Plato and Aristotle, philosophers and scientists accepted this new theory. Nevertheless, the age-old... more

Geus, Klaus: Wer ist Marinos von Tyros? Zur Hauptquelle des Ptolemaios in seiner "Geographie". In: Geographia antiqua 26 (2017), 13-22. Abstract – As Ptolemy himself acknowledged, Marinos of Tyros was the main source for his Geographike... more

ed. by A. Stückelberger / G. Graßhoff

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- by Renate Burri
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  Geography, Cartography, Classics, Greek Literature

The analysis of several reports of Ptolemy shows that already before Marinus of Tyre ancient geographers used a kind of projection, similar to the first Ptolemy’s projection. This could have been a kind of trapezoidal projection, which is... more

Project Supervisor for Magnetometric Survey at Pattanam: Researched, planned, and conducted a magnetometric survey, identifying sub-surface features and mapping the Indo-Roman maritime landscape of Pattanam. Processed data in Digital... more

Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Continued. Part V: Die Geographen is part of Felix Jacoby’s original planned work Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker.Part V: Die Geographen offers completely new material giving the... more

An inscription in Sabaic, recently discovered on the site of Jabal Riyâm (Yemen), gives an account of a journey—probably a diplomatic mission—carried out by a Sabaean dignitary on behalf of the rulers of the tribe of Ḥumlân. He listed the... more

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- by Jérémie Schiettecatte and +1
  Mounir Arbach
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  Historical Geography, Near Eastern Archaeology, Roman History, Near Eastern Studies

Since its surprising appearance in the early 16th century, the so-called Peutinger map has raised many questions. Above all, since then it has been very difficult for experts to provide answers as to the time of origin of a certainly... more

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- by Gregor Reisch
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  Roman History, Silk Road, Silk Road Studies, History of Plague

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- by Edward Dabrowa and +2
  Achim Lichtenberger
  Giusto Traina
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  Roman History, Sasanian History, Ancient Roman Numismatics, Parthian Empire

This article attempts to shed some light on the origins of Ptolemy’s map of the world, which remains a mystery. The premise is that Ptolemy and other ancient geographers largely drew on the same or a similar pool of sources and common... more

This paper presents a review of some aspects of the archaeological survey in which the impact of GIS has been most relevant. Those aspects include survey design and planning, geo-referencing of archaeological entities (error correction,... more

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- by Leonardo García Sanjuán
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  History, Geography, Human Geography, Historical Geography

FRANCO SÁNCHEZ, Francisco. “Les deux chemins opposés de la cartographie arabo-islamique médiévale: la mappemonde «islamique» («L'école d’al-Balḫī», Xe siècle) ou le monde en sa diversité (al-Šarīf al Idrīsī, XIIe siècle)”. En: Parcourir... more

FRANCO SÁNCHEZ, Francisco. “Les deux chemins opposés de la cartographie arabo-islamique médiévale: la mappemonde «islamique» («L'école d’al-Balḫī», Xe siècle) ou le monde en sa diversité (al-Šarīf al Idrīsī, XIIe siècle)”. En: Parcourir le monde, les voyages d'Orient / études réunies par Dominique de Courcelles. Paris : École des Chartes, 2013, pp. 29-49; 191-199 |
ISBN 978-2-35723-032-3 |
Resumen: Las últimas aportaciones al conocimiento en el ámbito de la geografía árabe islámica medieval, presentadas bajo la óptica de una doble línea evolutiva: Por un lado se presentan los textos de geografía que suponen un desarrollo de la geografía griega y helenística, en especial desde las aportaciones de la geografía astronómica y cartografía propiciadas por Claudio Ptolomeo (s. II e.C.), desarrollados en la corte abbasí en los ss. VIII-X y cuyo cénit es el Mapamundi de al-Mamún. En parelelo, en el Iraq abbasí se gestó la que se ha dado en llamar por sus textos la “escuela de al-Baljî” y por su cartografía la “escuela del atlas del islam” en los ss. IX-X, estos textos y cartografía se desvelan como una clara manipulación tendente a la consecución de una “islamización de la geografía”. Como corolario, se presenta al gran al-Idrīsī (m. 1175 e.C.), ceutí que trabajó en la corte de Sicilia al servicio del rey normando Roger II como la última evolución de la geografía y cartografía científica de raíces helenísticas; esta grandeza fue marginada por los sabios musulmanes coetáneos por haber sido generada y puesta al servicio de un rey cristiano como Roger II. Es tan importante la obra que, tras el Corán, fue la segunda obra árabe que se tradujo en roma en el s. XVI. | Abstrct: The latest contributions to knowledge in the field of medieval Arab Islamic geography are presented from the perspective of a double evolutionary line: on the one hand, geography texts are presented which represent a development of Greek and Hellenistic geography, especially from the contributions of astronomical geography and cartography promoted by Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century BC), developed at the Abbasid court in the 8th-10th centuries and whose zenith is the Mapamundi of al-Mamun. At the same time, in Abbasid Iraq, what has come to be known as the "al-Baljî school" for its texts and the "Islamic Atlas school" for its cartography in the 9th-10th centuries, these texts and cartography reveal themselves to be a clear manipulation aimed at achieving an "Islamisation of geography". As a corollary, the great al-Idrīsī (d. 1175 CE), a Ceutan who worked at the court of Sicily in the service of the Norman king Roger II, is presented as the ultimate evolution of scientific geography and cartography with Hellenistic roots; this greatness was marginalised by contemporary Muslim scholars because it was generated and put at the service of a Christian king like Roger II. The work is so important that, after the Qur'an, it was the second Arabic work to be translated in Rome in the 16th century. |

Link for downloading: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/31796
Link: http://www.enc.sorbonne.fr/content/parcourir-le-monde

The label ‘Illyrians’ was used in different contexts, probably developing as an ethnographic generalisation of foreigners related to similar indigenous language(s). In all certainty it developed in the sixth century BC but the evidence we... more

Geus, Klaus; Tupikova, Irina: Entdeckungsfahrten und Kartographie: Anmerkungen zu einer problembefrachteten Beziehung im Altertum. In: Schulz, Raimund (ed.): Maritime Entdeckung und Expansion: Kontinuitäten, Parallelen und Brüche von der... more

En las páginas que siguen, presentamos una valoración de la imagen que, de Iberia y Galia, podemos llegar a colegir en Estrabón. Esta valoración se hará desde una doble aproximación, por una parte, cartográfica y, por otra,... more

Roman Turdetania makes use of the literary and archeological sources to provide an updated state of knowledge from a postcolonial approach about the socio-cultural interaction processes and the subsequent romanisation of the populations... more

Paper details much information regarding Ptolemy, his family and his work, particularly with regards to geography and his understanding of the world.

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- by Roman Piso
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  Ancient History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Maritime Archaeology

This paper presents a new argument against the widely accepted view that Eratosthenes and some other Greek authors of the pre-Roman period measured distances in special stades that were much shorter than the ‚common' stade of 185 m... more

In this article, the author will attempt to present a balanced, unbiased historic and cartographic view to the reader interested in enhancing their knowledge of how and when the historically Armenian–populated region of Karabagh... more

Ի հաստատումն «Արզանի ավերակներ»-ում Տիգրանակերտի տեղորոշման վարկածի (Հ.Կիպերտ, Թ.Սինքլեր), հոդվածում փորձ է արվում հաշտեցնելու նյութական ծանրակշիռ տվյալները Տիգրանակերտի մ.թ.ա. 69 թ. ճակատամարտի պլուտարքոսյան նկարագրության հարուցած... more

Ի հաստատումն «Արզանի ավերակներ»-ում Տիգրանակերտի տեղորոշման վարկածի (Հ.Կիպերտ, Թ.Սինքլեր), հոդվածում փորձ է արվում հաշտեցնելու նյութական ծանրակշիռ տվյալները Տիգրանակերտի մ.թ.ա. 69 թ. ճակատամարտի պլուտարքոսյան նկարագրության հարուցած հակասության հետ, երբ քաղաքը նշվում է գետի արեւմտյան ափին, այնինչ «Արզանի ավերակներ»-ն ընկած են արեւելյան ափին։ Առաջարկվում է պատերազմի համահավանական այլընտրանքային սխեմա, որը ճշտիվ համապատասխանում է «Արզանի ավերակներ»-ի անմիջական տեղանքի բոլոր առանձնահատկություններին եւ առաջ քաշվում վարկած, որ Լուկուլլոսի ռազմական արշավանքները նկարագրող քարտեզում, որն ըստ երեւութին եղել է եւ աղբյուր ծառայել Պլուտարքոսի համար, բացակայել է հյուսիս-հարավ նշումը՝ հանգեցնելով կամայական ընթերցման։ Հույն կենսագիրն, այդպիսով, շփոթել է ոչ թե արեւելք-արեւմուտք ուղղությունը (ինչպես առաջարկում է Թ.Սինքլերը), այլ, ինչն ավելի հավանական է, հյուսիս-հարավը։ Մերժելով բազմաթիվ Տիգրանակերտերի գոյության վարկածը՝ քննարկվում են նաեւ Տակիտոսի եւ Պլինիոս Ավագի տեղեկությունները, որոնք հիմք են դարձել Տիգրանակերտը Թիլ-Էրմեն բլրակում տեղորոշելու համար։ In support of the localization of the ancient Armenian capital city of Tigranakert (Tigranocerta) at the site of the great archeological settlement known as “Ruins of Arzan”, proposed by H. Kiepert and further elaborated by T.A. Sinclair, an attempt is made to reconcile the strong supporting material evidence with the only contradiction that is Plutarch’s description of the Battle of Tigranakert in 69 BC, where the city is mentioned to the west of the river, while the “Ruins of Arzan” lie on its eastern bank. For this we propose an alternative yet equally valid battle plan which eluded the researchers all along. Reinterpreting this new alternative and reasoning that it correctly matches all other peculiarities of the immediate terrain surrounding Arzan, we assume that the original map describing the military advances of Lucullus, which may have existed and likely served as a source for Plutarch, lacked a North-South marking, leaving it open to interpretations by the Greek biographer, who thus confused not the East-West direction (as argued by T.A. Sinclair), but – more plausibly – the North-South. Hence, only a rotation (not horizontal mirroring) of the map is required to fully match the terrain, removing the contradiction and providing further credibility to this location proposal.

The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, texts, poems and paintings of the developing empire. Tantalised by the unique status of the river, explorers were sent to find the sources of the Nile,... more

Following the acceptance of the earth’s sphericity its surface was divided into two hemispheres and four habitable landmasses, one of which was named ‘the antipodes’. The bipartition into hemispheres was accomplished either by the equator... more

TUPIKOVA, Irina: Ptolemy´s circumference of the earth. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2014 (TOPOI – Towards of Historical Epistemology of Space = Preprint; 464).

Geus, Klaus: Le misurazioni delle Alpi nell’antichità: l’esempio di Plinio. In: Geographia antiqua 27 (2018, publ. 2019), 87–93. [ISSN 1121-8940].

Seit der Nennung eines Grenzgebirges namens Kετιον ὂρος (Cetius Mons) in der Geographike Hyphegesis des Claudius Ptolemaeus (um 150 n. Chr.) zwischen den beiden Provinzen Noricum und Pannonia Superior wurde vielfach versucht, dieses... more

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- by Susanne Lamm
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  Ancient History, Historical Geography, Roman History, Ancient Geography

Following the recent upsurge of interest in ancient geography and astronomy, together with the ever-present fascination with myth, this book offers a fresh study of what is commonly but erroneously known as ‘solar myth’. This subject has... more

Following the recent upsurge of interest in ancient geography and astronomy, together with the ever-present fascination with myth, this book offers a fresh study of what is commonly but erroneously known as ‘solar myth’. This subject has been at the margins of scholarly interest, mainly due to the now-outdated theories of myth that used solar phenomena as an interpretative key to explain the majority of traditional narratives. This book offers a more rigorous methodology and more selective interpretation applicable to a group of particular myths, those referencing solar phenomena. The class of ‘solar’ myths discussed in this book is thus formed out of traditional narratives that either explicitly include references to solar movement or the recognition of such references does not require strained interpretations.

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Marinus Anthony Van Der Sluijs, Concepts of Sun and Earth in the Ancient World - (T.) Bilić The Land of the Solstices. Myth, Geography and Astronomy in Ancient Greece. (BAR International Series 3039.) Pp. xiv + 198, ills. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2021. Paper, £49. ISBN: 978-1-4073-5862-8. The Classical Review, First View, pp. 1 - 3 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X21003607
Juan Antonio Belmonte, Myth and meteorology - The Land of the Solstices: Myth, Geography and Astronomy in Ancient Greece. Tomislav Bilić (BAR Publishing, Oxford, 2021). Pp. xiii + 198. £49. ISBN 9781407358628 (paper), Journal for the History of Astronomy 53.2, 2022, 233−234. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00218286221080452
Anthony F. Aveni, The Land of the Solstices: Myth, Geography, and Astronomy in Ancient Greece by Tomislav Bilíc, Oxford, BAR Publishing, 2021, 212 pp., £49 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-407-35862, Time and Mind, 15.2, 2022, 263−264. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2022.2122357
Robert Hannah, Tomislav Bilić, Land of the Solstices: Myth, Geography and Astronomy in Ancient Greece. BAR International Series 3039. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2021. 212 pp. ISBN: 9781407358628. £49.00. Journal of Skyscape Archaeology 8.2, 2022, 309–314. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1558/jsa.25604

The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE – c. 24 CE), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost... more

The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE – c. 24 CE), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost, his major opus of the Geography includes an encyclopaedic look at the entire world known at the time, numerous ethnographic, topographic, historical, mythological, botanical, zoological details and much more.

This volume offers various insights to the literary and historical context of the man and his world. The Companion, in 28 chapters written by an international group of scholars, examines several aspects of Strabo’s personality, the political and scholarly environment in which he was active, his choices as an author and his ideas of history and geography. This selection of ongoing Strabonian studies is an invaluable resource not just for students and scholars of Strabo himself, but also for anyone interested in ancient geography and in the world of the early Roman Empire.

Contents
Chapter 1 - Myrto Hatzimichali // Strabo’s philosophy and Stoicism
Chapter 2 - Nicholas Purcell // ‘Such is Rome…’ - Strabo on the ‘Imperial metropolis’
Chapter 3 - Jesper Majbom Madsen // Looking in from the outside: Strabo’s attitude towards the Roman people
Chapter 4 - Katherine Clarke // Strabo’s Mediterranean
Chapter 5 - Ekaterina Ilyushechkina // Strabo’s description of the North and Roman geo-political ideas
Chapter 6 - Benedict J. Lowe // Strabo and Iberia
Chapter 7 - Elvira Migliario // Strabo, Italy and the Italian peoples
Chapter 8 - Giusto Traina // Strabo and the history of Armenia
Chapter 9 - Jehan Desanges // Strabo’s Libya
Chapter 10 - Edward Dandrow // Ethnography and identity in Strabo’s Geography
Chapter 11 - Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen // Strabo’s roads
Chapter 12 - Marta García Morcillo // Patterns of trade and economy in Strabo’s Geography
Chapter 13 - María-Paz de Hoz // Strabo's cis-Tauran Asia: a humanistic geography
Chapter 14 - Klaus Geus and Kurt Guckelsberger // Measurement data in Strabo´s Geography
Chapter 15 - Pierre Moret // Strabo: from maps to words
Chapter 16 - Sarah Pothecary // Signposts and sub-divisions: hidden pointers in Strabo’s narrative
Chapter 17 - Catherine Connors // A river runs through it: waterways and narrative in Strabo
Chapter 18 - Daniela Dueck // Spicing up geography: Strabo’s use of tales and anecdotes
Chapter 19 - Johannes Wietzke // Strabo’s expendables: the function and aesthetics of minor authority
Chapter 20 - Jane L. Lightfoot // Man of many voices and of much knowledge; or, In search of Strabo’s Homer
Chapter 21 - Alexandra Trachsel // Strabo and the Homeric commentators
Chapter 22 - Lee E. Patterson // Myth as evidence in Strabo
Chapter 23 - Antonio Ignacio Molina Marín // Under the shadow of Eratosthenes: Strabo and the Alexander historians
Chapter 24 - Roberto Nicolai // Textual traditions and textual problems
Chapter 25 - Duane W. Roller // On Translating Strabo into English
Chapter 26 - Gościvit Malinowski // Strabo the historian
Chapter 27 - Søren Lund Sørensen // ‘So says Strabo’ - The reception of Strabo’s work in antiquity
Chapter 28 - Patrick Gautier Dalché // Strabo’s reception in the West (15th-16th centuries)

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Strabo/Dueck/p/book/9781138904330

Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Lettere e Flosofia DILEF Quarto Seminario di Geografia storica del mondo antico 8 novembre 2021 Gli istmi e le penisole nella tradizione antica tra storia, geografia e letteratura.... more

Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Lettere e Flosofia DILEF
Quarto Seminario di Geografia storica del mondo antico 8 novembre 2021
Gli istmi e le penisole nella tradizione antica tra storia, geografia e letteratura.
L’iniziativa si collega ai seminari di Geografia storica del mondo antico svoltisi a Firenze negli anni passati e intende proporre un approfondimento relativo a istmi e penisole come concetti diversamente declinati in contesti storico-geografici e letterari.
L’istmo inteso come luogo di passaggio e di separazione di spazi ecumenici è stato teorizzato già da H.Berger (1887) e, più recentemente, da F.Prontera (1986) che ha posto in evidenza la triplice valenza – topografica, corografica ed ecumenica- del concetto.
L’ importanza strategica e commerciale di istmi e penisole si coniuga, nella tradizione antica, anche ad un’ interpretazione mitico-eziologica della realtà geografica. Ad esempio il Peloponneso, così chiamato dall’omonimo eroe figlio di Tantalo e Dione, reca nella denominazione le tracce di una percezione insulare che affonda le radici verosimilmente nella circumnavigabilità della penisola, tale da porre in secondo piano il ruolo dell’istmo di Corinto. Una riflessione sulla costruzione mitico- letteraria in rapporto alla realtà storico-geografica di contesti specifici potrà contribuire verosimilmente alla comprensione dei processi mentali che hanno portato, con la progressiva conoscenza dei luoghi, ad una organica sistemazione dei dati geografici nel complesso di un patrimonio culturale condiviso e a rappresentazioni cartografiche scientificamente aggiornate.
Dal confronto di una documentazione che si è notevolmente arricchita, anche grazie all’apporto di materiali archeologici ed epigrafici, si intende giungere a una riflessione complessiva che si gioverà del contributo di giovani studiosi e di specialisti del settore.
Sessione mattutina
8.45-9.00 Apertura dei lavori Veronica Bucciantini Presiede Serena Bianchetti
9.00-9.30 Les ambiguïtés d’une terminologie dans la définition de la Péninsule Hylléenne chez Ps.-Skylax (§ 22) et Denys le Périégète (386-388).
Patrick Counillon (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne)
9.30-10.00 Il luogo... in posizione più favorevole tra quelli di Sicilia (Diod. 14, 58, 4): Zancle e la sua penisola falcata.
Edoardo Bianchi (Università di Verona)
10.00-10.30 Isthmos e porthmos nella Geografia di Strabone. Johanna Leithoff (Universität Erfurt)
10.30-11.00 Discussione 11.00-11.30 Pausa caffè
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Presiede Patrick Counillon
11.30-12.00 Le colonne d’Eracle nell’immaginario greco. Manuel Albaladejo Vivero (Universitat de València)
12.00-12.30 Istmo Tanais e mar Caspio: storia di un passaggio a Nord-Est. Serena Bianchetti (Università di Firenze)
12.30-13.00 Discussione
Sessione pomeridiana
Presiede Veronica Bucciantini
15.00-15.20 L’Hexamilion e l’iscrizione di Vittorino dall’Istmo (IG IV 204): il concetto di Hellas in età giustinianea.
Drusilla Firindelli (SAIA Atene)
15.20-15.40 Triangolo, foglia di quercia o stivale? La forma della Penisola Italiana nelle fonti antiche.
Philipp Köhner (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
15.40-16.00 La costa atlantica della Penisola Iberica in un frammento di Erodoro di Eraclea (FGrHist 31 F 2a).
Andrea Pierozzi (Università di Firenze)
16.00-16.30 Discussione Presiede Adalberto Magnelli
16.30-16.50 Alle porte dell’Egitto: la Penisola del Sinai e il Lago Sirbonide. Francesca Grasso (Università di Firenze)
16.50-17.10 Guerra civile, hybris o progresso? L’istmo di Corinto nella letteratura latina. Francesco Cannizzaro (Università di Firenze)
17.10-17.30 Vbique uitam agimus consularem et in Lucrino serii sumus (Symm. ep. VIII 23). La vita sull’istmo flegreo nel IV secolo d.C.
Maria Lubello (Università di Firenze)
17.30-18.00 La Χρυσῆ Χερσόνησος nella tradizione geografica antica. Veronica Bucciantini (Università di Firenze)
18.00-18.30 Discussione e chiusura dei lavori
Segreteria del Seminario: Mirco Innocenti [email protected]
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