Ptolemy's Geographia [Electronic resource] : Books I & II
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| Editor | Francis, Louis (ed.) |
| Availability | This resource is freely available, you should be able to download it now. |
| Languages | English |
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Encoding format: HTML 4.01 Transitional The pages are not individually numbered and the text itself flows continuously with no page breaks |
| OTA keywords |
Commentaries Gazetteers |
| LC keywords | Translations -- Great Britain -- 20th
century |
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| Creation Date | 1995-06 |
| Source Description | Claudii Ptolemaei Geographia / edidit Carolus Fridericus Augustus Nobbe Ptolemy, 2nd cent. Nobbe, Karl Friedrich August, 1791-1878 : Editio stereotypa 3 v. ; 14 cm. Sumptibus et typis Caroli Tauchnitii Lipsiae: 1843-1845 Note: The English translation in the electronic text was made from the Greek text of this publication |
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Mode of access: Online. OTA website Title proper taken from electronic text A translation into English and a commentary on Ptolemy's Geographia Books I & II, which contain a discussion of the art of mapmaking and an exhaustive description of the northern Roman Empire. It allows us to see not only the region through Ptolemy's eyes in the second century AD., but also the view of the cartographer Marinus, of unknown date, but almost certainly well before the occupation of Britain in 43AD After downloading this text, click on the file "Contents.html" to begin at the the Contents page of the text. Please note that the file must be extracted to a local folder on your computer to enable the HTML linkage Text also available from original website: http://reshistoriaeantiqua.co.uk |
