This article focuses on to the work performed by the Bematists (specialists in ancient Greece who were trained to measure distances by counting their steps), Dicaearchus of Messana (350-285 BC), and Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276-195 BC), and on their contribution to geography and cartography.
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Jane Lucy Lightfoot;
(2014)
Between Literature and Science, Poetry and Prose, Alexandria and Rome: The Case of Dionysius’ "Periegesis of the Known World"
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Francesco Prontera;
(2010)
Carta e testo nella geografia antica
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Klaus Geus;
(2015)
Alexander und Eratosthenes: der Feldherr und der Geograph
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Pascal Arnaud;
(2017)
Le traitement cartographique de l’information périplographique et diaplographique par Ptolémée: quelques exemples
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Francesco Prontera;
(2017)
Da Strabone a Tolemeo: cartografia generale e regionale
(/isis/citation/CBB755353886/)
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Pietro Janni;
(2017)
Tolomeo, uno «sconfitto della storia»?
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Silvia Panichi;
(2018)
Come si aggiorna la geografia antica: il Sud dell’ecumene tra Eratostene e Strabone
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André Laronde;
(2010)
Les Ptolémées et la Méditerranée
(/isis/citation/CBB528442027/)
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Didier Marcotte;
(2010)
La mer Érythrée et le Sud de l'oekoumène, thème politique dans l'ethnographie hellénistique
(/isis/citation/CBB122402743/)
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Philippe Seubert;
(2017)
Délimitation et divisions de l’Arabie, d’Eratosthène à Ptolémée
(/isis/citation/CBB139661885/)
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Serena Bianchetti;
(2018)
Le Alpi e i grandi fiumi europei nella Geografia di Eratostene
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Marica Milanesi;
(2015)
Storia antica e esperienza moderna nella geografia del Cinquecento. Gerardo Mercatore e la geografia degli antichi
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María Paz de Hoz;
(2014)
Lucian's Podagra, Asclepius and Galen. The Popularisation of Medicine in the Second Century AD
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John Lennart Berggren;
(2014)
Mathematics & Religion in Ancient Greece and Medieval Islam
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Luis Arturo Guichard;
García Alonso, Juan Luis;
María Paz Hoz (de);
(2014)
The Alexandrian Tradition: Interactions between Science, Religion, and Literature
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Laurent Bricault;
(2014)
Isis, Sarapis, Cyrus and John: Between Healing Gods and Thaumaturgical Saints
(/isis/citation/CBB457895981/)
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Marco Antonio Santamaría;
(2014)
The Song of Orpheus in the "Argonautica" and the Theogonic Library of Apollonius
(/isis/citation/CBB690325115/)
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Laura Miguélez-Cavero;
(2014)
Nonnus' Natural Histories: Anything to do with Dionysus?
(/isis/citation/CBB606325617/)
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Pierre Schneider;
(2018)
L’Indus, le Gange et l’océan: les grands deltas indiens vus de la Méditerranée
(/isis/citation/CBB734308775/)
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Clelia Martínez Maza;
(2014)
Christian Paideia in Early Imperial Alexandria
(/isis/citation/CBB542876607/)
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