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Greek map of the world (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


 		Keywords
geography
presocratics
Period
3rd century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Agathemenus, 2.471-472 (C. Muller, Geographi Graeci Minores):
Anaximander, the Milesian, the disciple of Thales, was the first to draw the inhabited world on a tablet … and the ancients drew the inhabited world as round and Greece lay in the middle, and Delphi (lay) in the middle of it for it is the umbilicus of the Earth … and swift flowing Oceanus completed a circle around the earth.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Agathemenus, 2.471-472 (C. Muller, Geographi Graeci Minores)

Bibliography

Horowitz 1998, 41Horowitz, Wayne. Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns 1998.

Amar Annus


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