List of Graeco-Roman geographers

Pre-Hellenistic Classical Greece

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Reconstruction of the Oikumene (inhabited world) as described by Herodotus in the 5th century BC.

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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 of Chios (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

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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)
• 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

External links

• 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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