Geography, ethnography, and anthropology

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

Geography, Ancient
Ethnology, Greece
Ethnology, Rome
Greece, Civilization
Rome, Civilization
Rome (Italy), Buildings, structures, etc.

Sourcebooks

Cole, Thomas. Democritus and the sources of Greek anthropology. Cleveland, OH: Press of Western Reserve University, 1967. RAA.

Dudley, Donald. Urbs Roma: a source book of classical texts on the city and its monuments. London: Phaidon, 1967. F-11 3187.

Hipparchus. The geographical fragments of Hipparchus. Edited by D.R. Dicks. London: Athlone Press, 1960. D-12 8105.

Riese, Alexander, ed. Geographi latini minores. Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1964. D-16 3954.

Maps, atlases and images

Cornell, Tim. Atlas of the Roman world. New York: Facts on File, 1982. JFG 82-120.

Hammond, Nicholas G.L., ed. Atlas of the Greek and Roman World in Antiquity. Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1981. Map Div. 84-934.

Heyden, A.A.M van der, and H.H. Scullard, eds. Atlas of the Classical World. London; New York: Nelson, 1959. G-10 795.

Jones, Barri. An atlas of Roman Britain. Oxford, England: Blackwell, 1990. Map Div. 90-10987.

Kiepert, Heinrich. Neuer Atlas von Hellas und den hellenischen Colonieen. Berlin, 1872. BVB++.

Levi, Peter. Atlas of the Greek world. New York: Facts on File, 1980. Map Div. 83-382.

Morkot, Robert. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece. London; New York: Penguin, 1996. JFE 96-18213.

Myers, J. Wilson. The aerial atlas of ancient Crete. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992. JFG 92-974.

Oliphant, Margaret. The atlas of the ancient world: charting the great civilizations of the past. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992. JFG 92-1014.

Schoder, Raymond. Wings over Hellas: ancient Greece from the air. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. JFE 81-2221.

Talbert, Richard J. A., ed. Atlas of Classical History. London: Routledge, 1988. Map Div. 91-5122.

Talbert, Richard J.A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. *R-BVB 00-12774.

Bibliography and reference

Avery, Catherine B. The New Century handbook of classical geography. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972. JFD 73-3008.

Grant, Michael. A guide to the ancient world: a dictionary of classical place-names. Bronx, NY: H. W. Wilson, 1986. Map Div. 86-1021.

Nash, Ernest. Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome. New York: Praeger, 1968. MQM+.

Platner, Samuel Ball. A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Completed and revised by Thomas Ashby. London, Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1929. MQM.

Richardson, Lawrence. A new topographical dictionary of ancient Rome. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. *R-BWP 93-1541.

Smith, William, ed. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. New York, AMS Press, 1966. *R-Map Div.

Steinby, Eva. Lexicon topographicum urbis Romae. Vols. 1-2. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 1993-. JFN 94-39.

Stillwell, Richard. The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976. *R-MTG 76-722.

Travlos, John. Pictorial dictionary of ancient Athens. New York: Praeger, 1971. MQM+ 72-591.

Historical and critical studies

Barrett, Don, Trevor Bryce, and Max Kanowski. A map history of the ancient world. Melbourne, Australia: Longman Cheshire, 1987. Map Div. 90-4029.

Berggren, J. Lennart, and Alexander Jones. Ptolemy's Geography: an annotated translation of the theoretical chapters. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000. JFF 01-3065.

Cary, M. The Geographic Background of Greek & Roman History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981. JFE 97-6744.

Clarke, Katherine. Between geography and history: Hellenistic constructions of the Roman world. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. JFD 00-3960.

Dueck, Daniela. Strabo of Amasia: a Greek man of letters in Augustan Rome. New York: Routlege, 2000. JFE 00-13525.

Dougherty, Carol. The raft of Odysseus: the ethnographic imagination of Homer's Odyssey. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. JFE 01-6837.

Gardiner-Garden, John R. Greek conceptions on inner Asian geography and ethnography from Ephoros to Eratosthenes. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1987. *ONV 01-2667.

Gardiner-Garden, John R. Herodotos' contemporaries on Skythian geography and ethnography. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1987. JAX M-929.

Gernet, Louis. The anthropology of ancient Greece. Translated by John D.B. Hamilton and Blaise Nagy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1981. JFE 82-247.

Humphreys, S. C. Anthropology and the Greeks. Boston: Routledge & K. Paul, 1978. JFD 78-9354.

Kluckhohn, Clyde. Anthropology and the classics. Providence, Brown University Press, 1961. D-13 5010.

Leontis, Artemis. Topographies of Hellenism: mapping the homeland. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. JFE 95-9933.

Luce, J.V. Celebrating Homer's landscapes: Troy and Ithaca revisited. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. JFE 99-2715.

Munson, Rosaria Vignolo. Telling wonders: ethnographic and political discourse in the work of Herodotus. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2001. JFE 02-4401.

Pritchett, W. Kendrick. Studies in Ancient Greek Topography. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1965-. L-11 622.

Rykwert, Joseph. The idea of a town: the anthropology of urban form in Rome, Italy and the ancient world. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976. JLF 76-1101.

Sassi, Maria Michela. The science of man in ancient Greece. Translated by Paul Tucker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. JFE 01-13190.

Saunders, Catharine. Vergil's primitive Italy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1930. NTM.

Syme, Ronald. Anatolica: studies in Strabo. Edited by Anthony Birley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. JFE 95-7346