A Manual of Ancient Geography: With a Map Showing the Retreat of the 10, 000 Greeks Under Xenophon (Classic Reprint)FB&C Limited, 2017 - 510 páginas Excerpt from A Manual of Ancient Geography: With a Map Showing the Retreat of the 10, 000 Greeks Under Xenophon The work is divided into four books, of which the first, furnishn a brief outline of the gradual exten sion of geographical knowledge among the nations of antiquity, may serve as an introduction to the study, and has been printed in a somewhat smaller type, though it should be borne in mind, that without this intro duction many portions of ancient geography, especially the ideas and allusions of the poets, cannot be under stood. The Space allowed to the description of any particular country or place, has been determined by the more or less important position it occupies in the history of antiquity, so that the south of Europe and western Asia occupy the greater part of the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
