La geografia delle aree estreme (Nord-Est) nella “carta” alessandrina

• Autores: Serena Bianchetti
• Localización: Geografía y cartografía de la Antigüedad al Renacimiento: estudios en honor de Francesco Prontera / Encarnación Castro Páez (ed. lit.), Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti (ed. lit.), 2020, ISBN 978-84-18254-29-1, págs. 103-120
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The geographic area mentioned herein was initially drawn up by Eratosthenes and included both the Taurus line and the meridian that passed through the Caspian Sea. His map is based not only on documentation dating back to Alexander’s expedition, but also on the one of Seleucid origin. Indeed, we find that Eratosthenes repeatedly criticized the geographic framework of Alexander’s historians (see the Tanais-Iaxartes or the Paropamisos-Caucasus) and also searched for news drawn from local traditions, such as those transmitted by Persian and Seleucidic sources. Nevertheless, despite the absence or lack of information, Eratosthenes succeeded in using a geometric procedure to draw lines and points in order to reconstruct the contours of the inhabited world. In fact, traces of such can even be found in Ptolemy’s Geography.