A Dissertation on the Geography of Herodotus; with a Map
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ISBN13: 9780217751759
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...We thus gain sufficient space for the disproportionate extension of the Adriatic sea assumed by Scylax, who places its innermost angle near the Ister, an arm of which falls into it. 3 IV, 99. Even Scylax calls it an anpairripiov. 4 IV, 101. 5 IV, 48. 6 IV, 80. 'II, 26; IV, 49, 50. 8 IV, 101. 9 See above, p. 28. 10 Tii irpQQ /36p-w in rrjQ xPIS rairqQ oi1SuQ tsi fpaaai ro arptKtQ--dXXii iripriv?/?q rov'lvrpov ipr)fwQ xapr) faivirai tivai, V, 9. The corresponding parallel of the eastern boundary is not less distorted. Herodotus does notuppose it to be the Maeotic lakeor the, y.Tanais, but a line dividing that lakeand sepa-rt: rating the Royal Scythians from the SaurojTiatasw. ' As he supposed the lake Maeotis to be not much smaller than the Pontus, the greatest length of which he reckons at more than 11,000 stadiaH, it can at the most be admitted that he conceived the Scythians to extend to the mouth of the Tanais: --a determination which, like all others of the same kind, is as certain as the figure which results from it is false. He might with tolerable accuracy have taken the line from the Aluta to the mouth of the Don as the chord of an arc, and the whole of Scythia as the segment of the circle: instead of which he regarded its northern boundary between these points as the fourth side of a square of 60,000 geographical square miles, sixteen millions of square stadia. Hippocrates conceives the Rhipaean mountains to form this northern boundary15, undoubtedly following Hecataeus, the author (at least amongst the Greeks) of the legend of the Hyperboreans, who are inseparably connected with the supposed existence of that icy ridge16. Herodotus ridicules the idea of the Hyperboreans beyond the seat of the cold wind, as if he positively denied the existence ..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217751759 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021775175X |
| Weight | 0.22 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.14 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 58 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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