Explore how geography, in particular the sea, shaped ancient Greece's agricultural practices, approach to trade and warfare, and colonial expansion.

Strabo’s “Geography,” written as Rome was turning from republic to empire, became an imperial handbook to the lay of the land. Sarah Pothecary’s new translation is a colossus of roads ...

THE want of a short, popular history of classical geography is one which has been long felt, and there is no doubt that the little volume before us will help to fill it. The great work by the late ...