Geography and the Classical World: Unearthing Historical Geography?s Forgotten Past. This item is unavailable.Geography and the Classical World: Unearthing Historical Geography?s Forgotten Past

Geography and the Classical World is the first full-length study to explore the emergence of classical geography - the geographical study of the ancient Mediterranean, in particular the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. With adventurous beginnings in the Society of Dilettanti, the subject flourished in both Britain and America, as geographers, explorers, classicists and historians all contributed to its rise. But in the 1920s it went into decline, and an important part of the geographical and classical tradition was lost. In recovering this field of inquiry that once lay at the heart of both geography and the classical tradition, Professor Koelsch has written a pioneering work of outstanding scholarship that will be of interest to historical geographers, classicists, historians and students of the classical tradition.

William Koelsch is Professor Emeritus of History and Geography, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, USA. His research centres around the history of geography and especially on the relations between geography and the classics in Britain and the United States.