A Manual of Ancient History: Particularly with Regard to the Constitutions, the Commerce, and the Colonies, of the States of AntiquityHeeren, A. H. L. (Arnold Hermann Ludwig)
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A Manual of Ancient History: Particularly with Regard to the Constitutions, the Commerce, and the Colonies, of the States of Antiquity
Heeren, A. H. L. (Arnold Hermann Ludwig)
Geography, Ancient; History, Ancient
[In English we have the laborious work of Dr. Hales:
HALES (WILLM.) _New Analysis of Chronology, explaining the History
and Antiquities of the primitive Nations of the World, etc._ Lond.
1809-12, 4 vols. 4to. New edition, corrected and improved, 1830, 4
vols. 8vo.
BLAIR'S _Chronology and History of the World, from the Creation to
the present Time_. Lond. 1803, folio.
And for the brilliant period of Greece and Rome the satisfactory
volumes:
H. F. CLYNTON'S _Fasti Hellenici. The civil and literary Chronology
of Greece, from the fifty-fifth to the hundred and twenty-fourth
Olympiad_. Second edition, with additions. Oxford, 1827, 4to. And
the continuation of the same work to the death of Augustus, Oxford,
1830, 4to. In this valuable work, much light is also thrown upon
the chronology of the times anterior to the period with which the
first volume is principally occupied.]
14. In ancient geography there is much care required to distinguish the
fabulous from the true. With regard to true geography, as an auxiliary
science to history, all that can be expected is some general information
respecting the nature and peculiarities of the countries, respecting
their political divisions, and finally, respecting the principal
cities:--Long lists of the names of places would be quite superfluous.
Fabulous geography constitutes a part of the mythology of every
nation, and differs in each, because the ideas formed by every
early nation respecting the form and nature of the earth are
peculiar to itself. True geography gradually comes to light as
civilization increases, and discovery widens its
horizon.--Necessity of treating it historically, on account of the
manifold changes to which the division and the face of the
countries of the ancient world have been at various periods
subjected.
CHRISTOPH. CELLARII _Notitia Orbis Antiqui_. Lips. 1701-1706, 2
vols. 4to. _cum observat._ J. C. SCHWARZII. Lips. 1771, et iterum
1773. This work was for a long time the only, and is still an
indispensable, treatise on ancient geography.
# H. MANNERT, _Geography of the Greeks and Romans_. Nuremberg,
1788-1802. This work, now completed in 15 volumes, may be justly
designated classical, from the historical and critical learning
which the author has everywhere displayed. Vol. I, contains Spain;
II, Gallia et Britain; III, Germania, Rhaetia, Noricum; IV, The
Northern parts of the World, from the Wessel to China; V, India and
the Persian Empire to the Euphrates, 2 parts; VI, Asia Minor, 3
parts; VII, Thrace, Illyria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Epirus; VIII,
Northern Greece, Peloponnesus, and the Archipelago; IX, Italy and
Sicily, Sardinia, etc. 2 parts; X, Africa, 2 parts.
# F. A. UKERT, _Geography of the Greeks and Romans, from the
earliest periods to the time of Ptolemy_: first part, first
division, contains the historical, the second contains the
mathematical sections. Weimar, 1816; with maps.
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