Article ID: CBB311549590

Ptolémée ethnographe II. Nature et fonction des notices ethnographiques dans la Géographie (2021)

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This article is the second part of a series devoted to ethnographic records in the Geography (after «GeogrAnt», XXVI, 2017, pp. 47-60), and aims to determine their content and status. Based on an examination of the theoretical prolegomena (I, 1– II, 1), it analyses Ptolemy’s ethnographic information in Books IV and VI-VII dealing with the Indian Ocean, an area for which the author depended on the reports of navigators and merchants. It clarifies the signalling function of such records (which Ptolemy refers to as παρασημασία) and proposes to recognise them as indications of origin, intended to highlight information that was to be checked and, if necessary, corrected before being incorporated into the map.

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Authors & Contributors
Prontera, Francesco
Marcotte, Didier
Maier, Felix K.
Seubert, Philippe
Leroy, Pierre-Olivier
Haushalter, Arthur
Journals
Geographia antiqua
Technai, An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology
Concepts
Geography
Cartography
Roman Empire
Explorers and Exploration
Navigation
Surveying
People
Ptolemy, Claudius
Strabo
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Onesicritus of Astypalaea
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista
Time Periods
Ancient
Republic of Venice (697–1797)
Renaissance
16th century
Places
Mediterranean region
Hellenistic world
Indian Ocean
Europe
Persian Gulf
Middle and Near East
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