The Mirage of the European Sarmatia in the Context of the Text History and Maps of Ptolemy’s “Geography” Cover Image

Мираж европейской Сарматии на фоне истории текста и карт «Географии» Птолемея
The Mirage of the European Sarmatia in the Context of the Text History and Maps of Ptolemy’s “Geography”

Author(s): Petr V. Shuvalov
Subject(s): History, Geography, Regional studies, Historical Geography, Maps / Cartography, Ancient World
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: Ptolemy; stemmatology; maps; historiography
Summary/Abstract: Works of O. A. W. Dilke, A. Diller, P. Schnabel, J. Fischer and others enable the author to conclude that the handmade maps are descendents of Ptolemy's maps. An alternative hypothesis (i. e. that the maps were a later product by the Byzantine scholars who used Ptolemy's text) seems to be not very well grounded.

  • Page Range: 261-275
  • Page Count: 15
  • Publication Year: 2011
  • Language: Russian