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Pytheas Of Massalia
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Author : Lionel Scott
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-21
Pytheas Of Massalia written by Lionel Scott and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-21 with History categories.
Pytheas of Massalia (Marseille), mariner, explorer, geographer and astronomer, made a pioneering voyage into the then unknown Atlantic around 325 BC, reaching Britain and the Baltic; this book collects and translates the references to him and his book (which is lost), and discusses and explains them. The Greeks of Pytheas' time knew virtually nothing of northern Europe beyond the often-fantastical stories of traders, and Pytheas was the first person to provide factual, first-hand information on this region. His journey covered Iberia, France, Britain, from where he travelled so far north that he encountered ice floes; he then reached the Baltic. It was he who recorded Thule, and his astronomy enabled him to locate it on the Arctic Circle. Two thirds of our references to Pytheas come from Pliny and Strabo; their methods of work, as well as the perils of manuscript transmission, are explored in this volume. Scott also includes discussions and appendices on these areas to enable the scope of available references to be understood as a whole. There are some details of Pytheas' voyage that are lost, but the book offers balanced reasons for proposing how we may reasonably fill them in. The breadth of Pytheas' achievements and the areas and topics his work covers mean that he has a wide range of appeal within classical studies and ancient history. This volume provides an invaluable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of early geography and astronomy, and Greece’s knowledge of and relationship to the rest of Europe in this period.
Pytheas Of Massalia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Pytheas Of Massalia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Classical geography categories.
North To Thule
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Author : John Frye
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
North To Thule written by John Frye and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Discoveries in geography categories.
Pytheas Of Massalia The Epic Sea Voyage Of Discovery To North Western Europe As Reported And Discussed By Ancient Authors
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Author : Siegfried Waldemar Kutin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Pytheas Of Massalia The Epic Sea Voyage Of Discovery To North Western Europe As Reported And Discussed By Ancient Authors written by Siegfried Waldemar Kutin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
On The Ocean
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Author : Pytheas (of Massalia.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
On The Ocean written by Pytheas (of Massalia.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
The Extraordinary Voyage Of Pytheas The Greek
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Author : Barry W. Cunliffe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Extraordinary Voyage Of Pytheas The Greek written by Barry W. Cunliffe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Some 2,300 or more years ago an amazing expedition, headed by Pytheas, set out from the Greek colony of Massalia (Marseilles) to explore the terrifying, fabled lands of northern Europe: a mysterious, largely conjectural zone which, according to Greek science, was too cold to sustain human life.
Pytheas Von Massalia
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Author : Hans Joachim Mette
language : de
Publisher: Kleine Texte für Vorlesungen und Übungen
Release Date : 1952
Pytheas Von Massalia written by Hans Joachim Mette and has been published by Kleine Texte für Vorlesungen und Übungen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Religion categories.
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Closing The Helix
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Author : Margarett Mirley
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2007
Closing The Helix written by Margarett Mirley and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Greece categories.
Opulent eastern cities were still reeling from Alexander's devastating conquests when Pytheas the Greek adventurer quietly slipped moorings at Massalia in southern Gaul to face the unknown ocean and explore the remote north. Pytheas the adventurer, who rounded Britain and even ventured as far as the Baltic Sea so long ago, is a fascinating enigma. What inspired him to do it? Adventure? Trade? The pursuit of knowledge? Or had he personal reasons? Not only an educated adventurer who survived to write two books, Pytheas was surely young to embark on such a gruelling and hazardous expedition.He was also clearly familiar with celestial navigation and ships - as would any merchant who traded out of Massalia. Only fragments and reference to his accounts remain, yet such were his revelations that 200 years on the Roman geographer Strabo, who never went beyond the straits of Sicily, called him a lying fantasist...because Pytheas also claimed to have ventured far beyond Britain to a mysterious place called Thoule. Not only were his astronomical observations there used by ancient scholars to prove that the earth was a sphere, tantalising hints reveal what else Pytheas recorded of that extraordinary three year expedition. But what of Pytheas the man? Who went with him? How did they travel such distances - and get by hostile Phoenicians who controlled access to the great ocean?
The Extraordinary Voyage Of Pytheas The Greek
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Author : Barry Cunliffe
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2003-03-04
The Extraordinary Voyage Of Pytheas The Greek written by Barry Cunliffe and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-04 with History categories.
Around 330 b.c., a remarkable adventurer named Pytheas set out from the Greek colony of Massalia (now Marseille) on the Mediterranean Sea to explore the fabled, terrifying lands of northern Europe. Renowned archaeologist Barry Cunliffe here re-creates Pytheas's unprecedented journey, which occurred almost 300 years before Julius Caesar landed in Britain. Beginning with an invaluable pocket history of early Mediterranean civilization, Cunliffe illuminates what Pytheas would have seen and experienced—the route he likely took to reach Brittany, then Britain, Iceland, and Denmark; and evidence of the ancient cultures he would have encountered on shore. The discoveries Pytheas made would reverberate throughout the civilized world for years to come, and in recounting his extraordinary voyage, Cunliffe chronicles an essential chapter in the history of civilization.
The Greek Empire Of Marseille
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Author : Christopher Gunstone
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2013-07-23
The Greek Empire Of Marseille written by Christopher Gunstone and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-23 with Greeks categories.
Where does the name Britain come from and who gave it? The astronomer Pytheas of Massalia (Marseille) exploring the North Atlantic in the 320s B.C. discovered, measured, circumnavigated and named Britain 265 years before the Romans. He took measurements at five points on his journey, which have been verified. He corrected the position of the North Pole and developed the theory that the earth was a sphere. Marseille (Massalia) in France was founded by Greeks in 600 B.C. en route to get silver from Spain. Due to the Persian invasion in 546 B.C. Greek refugees from Ionia swelled their western colonies and settlements. Marseille now led and founded several cities of its own in France, Spain, Monaco and Corsica still existing today as Nice, Monaco, Antibes, Le Brusc, Agde, Roses, Sant Marti d'Empuries and Aleria. Marseille saved Rome from extinction when besieged by the Celts in 390 B.C. and played a crucial part in stopping supplies from Spain reaching Hannibal fighting the Romans in Italy. Hannibal and his elephants went over the Alps to avoid a well-fortified Marseille blocking the fabled coastal road used by mythical Hercules. Aristotle, Strabo and Cicero praised Marseille's government as the 'best ordered' of all the aristocracies. Marseille (Massalia) the city founded by merchants could be described, given another definition of an empire, as 'an extensive enterprise under a unified authority'. Marseille lasted as an independent Greek city-state over 700 years: continuing as a Greek city under the Romans: and for a period under the Franks from the sixth century A.D. After a long siege Marseille suffered its first defeat by Julius Caesar in the civil war with Pompey losing most of its empire. With Caesar dead attempts to regain its lost territories were blocked by Mark Antony while the city itself was allowed to stay independent. Marseille continued as a Greek university city of famous schools where 'notable' Romans and the consul Agricola, Governor of Britain, were educated. Quotes from primary sources give you the words of the time together with archaeological evidence on a remarkable and little known part of our history.