History: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 (died c. 546 BC)
  • Hecataeus of Miletus (died c. 476 BC)
  • Massaliote Periplus (6th century BC)
  • Scylax of Caryanda (6th century BC)
  • Herodotus (died c. 425 BC)
  • Ctesias (c. 401 BC)
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 (63 BC – AD 24)
  • Pomponius Mela (fl. 40s AD)
  • Isidore of Charax (1st century AD)
  • Mucianus (1st century AD)
  • Pliny the Elder (AD 23 – 79), Natural History
  • Marinus of Tyre (AD 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

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

  • Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller:
    • Geographi graeci minores, Carolus Muellerus (ed.), 2 voll., Parisiis, editoribus Firmin-Didot et sociis, 1855–61: vol. 1 (1882 reprint), vol. 2, tabulae.
  • Gottfried Bernhardy:
    • Geographi graeci minores, Godofredi Bernhardy (ed.), Lipsiae in libraria Weidmannia, 1828: vol. 1.



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