The Perseus Digital Library provides access to a growing number of primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient geography. If you are interested in knowing more about Perseus and the full scope of its holdings, please consult their Classics Collection Overview.
Perseus Resources for Ancient Geography
Perseus documents directly relevant to the study of ancient geography include:
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Pausanias’
Description
of Greece
English translation of Jones and Ormerod (LCL: 1918)
Greek text after the edition of Spiro (Teubner: Leipzig, 1903) -
The Perseus
Site Catalog
Provides brief English-language descriptions of some ancient Greek and Roman sites, in some cases with images and links to other materials in the Perseus Digital Library - S. Platner and T. Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Oxford UP: London, 1929)
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Pliny the Elder’s Natural History
English translation of Bostock and Riley (Taylor and Francis: London, 1855)
Latin text after the edition of Mayhoff (Teubner: Leipzig, 1906). -
Site Photography
A heterogeneous collection of digital images of Greek and Roman sites - W. Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (John Murray: London, 1854)
- R. Stillwell et al., eds., The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (Princeton UP, 1976)
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Strabo’s Geography
(books 6-14)
English translation of Jones (Harvard, 1924)
Greek text after the edition of Meineke (Teubner: Leipzig, 1877)
