List of Graeco-Roman geographers

Pre-Hellenistic Classical Greece

Reconstruction of Hecataeus' map

• Homer
• Anaximander
• Hecataeus of Miletus
• Massaliote Periplus (?)
• Scylax of Caryanda (6th century BC)
• Herodotus

Hellenistic period

• Pytheas (died c. 310 BC)
• Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax (4th or 3rd century BC)
• Megasthenes (died c. 290 BC)
• Autolycus of Pitane (died c. 290 BC)
• Dicaearchus (died c. 285 BC)
• Deimakos (3rd century BC)
• Timosthenes (fl. 270s BC)
• Eratosthenes (c. 276-194 BC)
• Scymnus (fl. 180s BC)
• Hipparchus (c. 190-120 BC)
• Agatharchides (2nd century BC)
• Posidonius (c. 135-51 BC)
• Pseudo-Scymnus (c. 90 BC)
• Diodorus Siculus (c. 90-30 BC)
• Alexander Polyhistor (1st century BC)

Roman Empire period

15th century reconstruction of Ptolemy's map.

• Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
• Strabo (64 BC - 24 AD)
• Pomponius Mela (fl. 40s AD)
• Isidore of Charax (1st century AD)
• Mucianus (1st century AD)
• Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD), Natural History
• Marinus of Tyre (c. 70-130)^[1]
• Ptolemy (90-168), Geography
• Pausanias (2nd century)
• Agathedaemon of Alexandria (2nd century)
• Dionysius of Byzantium (2nd century)
• Agathemerus (3rd century)
• Tabula Peutingeriana (4th century)
• Alypius of Antioch (4th century)
• Marcian of Heraclea (4th century)
• Expositio totius mundi et gentium (AD 350-362)
• Julius Honorius (very uncertain: 4th, 5th or 6th century)

Byzantine Empire

• Hierocles (author of Synecdemus) (6th century)
• Cosmas Indicopleustes (6th century)
• Stephanus of Byzantium (6th century)

See also

• History of geography

References

1. Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider (ed.): "Marinus", Brill's New Pauly, Brill, 2010:

   M. of Tyre (Μαρῖνος; Marînos), Greek geographer, 2nd cent. AD

External links

• Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Muller:
  • Geographi graeci minores, Carolus Muellerus (ed.), 2 voll., Parisiis, editoribus Firmin-Didot et sociis, 1855-61: vol. 1 (1882 reprint), vol. 2, tabulae.
• Gottfried Bernhardy:
  • Geographi graeci minores, Godofredi Bernhardy (ed.), Lipsiae in libraria Weidmannia, 1828: vol. 1.