List of Graeco-Roman geographers

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Pre-Hellenistic Classical Greece
Reconstruction of the Oikumene (inhabited world) as described by Herodotus in the 5th century BC.
Reconstruction of Hecataeus' map
  • Homer
  • Anaximander
  • Hecataeus of Miletus
  • Massaliote Periplus
  • Scylax of Caryanda (6th century BC)
  • Herodotus
Hellenistic period
  • Pytheas (died c. 310 BC)
  • Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax (3rd or 4th century BC)
  • Megasthenes (died c. 290 BC)
  • Autolycus of Pitane (died c. 290 BC)
  • Dicaearchus (died c. 285 BC)
  • Deimakos (3rd century BC)
  • Timosthenes (fl. 270s BC)
  • Eratosthenes (c. 276-194 BC)
  • Scymnus (fl. 180s BC)
  • Hipparchus (c. 190-120 BC)
  • Agatharchides (2nd century BC)
  • Posidonius (c. 135-51 BC)
  • Pseudo-Scymnus (c. 90 BC)
  • Diodorus Siculus (c. 90-30 BC)
  • Alexander Polyhistor (1st century BC)
Roman Empire period
15th century reconstruction of Ptolemy's map.
  • Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
  • Strabo (64 BC - 24 AD)
  • Pomponius Mela (fl. 40s AD)
  • Isidore of Charax (1st century AD)
  • Mucianus (1st century AD)
  • Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD), Natural History
  • Marinus of Tyre (c. 70–130)[1]
  • Ptolemy (90-168), Geography
  • Pausanias (2nd century)
  • Agathedaemon of Alexandria (2nd century)
  • Dionysius of Byzantium (2nd century)
  • Agathemerus (3rd century)
  • Tabula Peutingeriana (4th century)
  • Alypius of Antioch (4th century)
  • Marcian of Heraclea (4th century)
  • Expositio totius mundi et gentium (AD 350–362)
  • Julius Honorius (very uncertain: 4th, 5th or 6th century)
Byzantine Empire
  • Hierocles (author of Synecdemus) (6th century)
  • Cosmas Indicopleustes (6th century)
  • Stephanus of Byzantium (6th century)

See also[]

  • History of geography

References[]

  1. ^ Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider (ed.): "Marinus", Brill's New Pauly, Brill, 2010:

    M. of Tyre (Μαρῖνος; Marînos), Greek geographer, 2nd cent. AD

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