Abstract
As no early treatise on Greek geography has survived, the materials for re-constructing Greek notions of this subject have to be extracted from historical writers, or from later compendia of Roman date, such as Strabo and Pliny. This Mr. Warmington has done, giving English translations throughout, and grouping the passages under the main heads of cosmology, climatology, physical and political geo graphy, exploration and mathematical geography with cartography. It was a pity to exclude writers so important as Xenophon and (in the main) Aristotle, though the difficulties of treatment are obvious. Necessary commentary is interpolated among the excerpts, or added in footnotes. There is a service able introduction and a good index.
Greek Geography.
By E. H. Warmington. (The Library of Greek Thought.) Pp. xlviii + 269. (London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1934.) 5s. net.
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[Short Notices]. Nature 134, 617 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134617b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/134617b0