Ovid’s (43 BC–AD 17) involuntary journey into exile gave posterity the most prominent literary description of the Black Sea region in antiquity since Herodotus‘(c. 484–c. 425 BC) Histories. Without ever having been there, Ovid also mentions Crimea (cf. Tristia, IV, 4), which had been a part of the ancient Greek world before coming under Roman influence during …
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Publius Ovidius Naso: Tristia. Ex Ponto, ed. Arthur Leslie Wheeler [The Loeb Classical Library 151], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press and London: William Heinemann Ltd 1959 Signature: Zo-OVI 1361-5240/c Figures: Frontispiece; Contents; p. 177, 178 Following Emperor Augustus’s (63 BC–AD 14) edict in 8 AD, Ovid was exiled from Rome to Sarmatian Tomis (Constanța, Romania) …
Claudii Ptolemaei: Geographiae Codex Urbinas Graecus 82. Phototypice depictus consilio et opera curatorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae, ed. Joseph Fischer [Codices e Vaticanis selecti 19], 4 vols., Lugduni Batavorum: Brill and Lipsiae: Harrassowitz 1932, vol. 2,2 Signature: Zh 500-5320/2(2 grgr Figures: Frontispiece; I (World Map, 2 parts); IX (European part of Sarmatia) The German Jesuit and geographer Josef …
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Heinrich Kiepert: Atlas Antiquus. Zehn Karten zur alten Geschichte [1861], 3rd ed., Berlin: Dietrich Reimer 1863 Signature: Zi 100-4610/b raro VII Figures: Frontispiece; Tab. 2, 3 and 10 Heinrich Kiepert’s (1818–1899) Atlas Antiquus originally contained ten historical-topographical maps when it was first edited in 1861 and underwent repeated revisions thereafter. By 1896, twelve editions had …
