Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geograghicae Enarrationis Libri Octo
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
Load more
Recommended publications
-
Ireland Ireland Is Not the Prime Concern of This Website, and Its Main Author Cannot Claim to Know Its Landscape and History Really Well
Ireland Ireland is not the prime concern of this website, and its main author cannot claim to know its landscape and history really well. Nevertheless Ireland does offer useful insights into the earliest geographical names of western Europe, because it was never conquered by the Roman army. Importantly, there is just one main source for its earliest names: Ptolemy’s Geography names 53 of them. So all of Ireland can be tackled in this one article. The locations of Ptolemy’s Irish names have long been discussed, with recent attempts to improve the logic by Darcy and Flynn (2008), Kleineberg, Marx, and Lelgemann (2012), Warner (2013), and Counihan (2019). The present article was begun partly to help the work of Dmitri Gusev and colleagues, which is still only partly published at a conference. It takes the best Greek spellings from Stückelberger and Graßhoff (2006). Each name is transcribed once into the Latin alphabet and its position in Ptolemy’s text is reported as 2,2,2 or similar. In the words of one website: “The tribal and place-names in Ireland listed by Ptolemy were Celtic, and many survive in Old or Middle Irish forms.” This is a reasonable view, but the hard work of historical linguists (notably de Bernardo Stempel, 2000,2005) to find parallels in Celtic languages for elements in early Irish names has had disappointingly little success. This led Mallory (2013) to stress how much Ptolemy’s text might have been corrupted over the centuries. However, as name- to-place assignments have improved, with better geographical understanding and access to reliable texts, the linkage between Ireland’s earliest names and written Celtic languages has got weaker. -
Revue Celtique
H 1ftBHffiHH —IHE11 wBÈÈH m «Il WÊÊKË ni IIp |hS jijiI I mm ÉMWk Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 http://www.archive.org/details/revueceltique50pari REVUE CELTIQUE c / ï ^7> <> / FONDÉE PAK 9 H. GA1DOZ 1870-1885 û? CONTINUÉE PAR tri H. D'ARBOIS DE ] U H A IN VI II. H 1886-iQTO DIRIGÉE PAK J. LOTH Professeur honoraire au Collège de France Membre de l'Institut AVEC I K CONCOURS DH E. EUNAULT M.-L. SJŒSTEDT J. VENDU Y ES Professe ir honoraire Directrice d'Études Professeur à la Faculté à la F-scnlté des Lettres à l'École Pratique des I.ettrts de Paris tic Poitiers des Hautes-Études Membre de l'Institut ET DE PI.USIKUKS SAVANTS FRANÇAIS ET ETRANGERS Année 1933. — Vol. L PAK1S LIBRAIRIE ANCIENNE HONORÉ CHAMPION e ), QUAI MAI. AQUAIS (6 ) •933 £87348 THE ANXALS OF CONNACHT (R. I. A. Stowe C III i) INTRODUCTION I The chronicle whiclTwe are hère beginning to print is eon- tained in the Royal Irish Academy MS. Stowe C III I. It lias been commonly known, at least since /818, as The Aimais of Connacht. There is no title or ineipit in the AÏS,, and this name suits the work at least as well as an)' other that might be invent- ed for it. About ioo years out of the 321 covered by this recoid were printed, from transcripts, in 1871 to supply the long hiatus in The Annals of Loch Ce ; but the text has never before been edited completelv or from the original. -
British Isles
REMAKES ON PTOLEMY'S CtEOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH ISLES. COMMUNICATED TO THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES BY HENRY BRADLEY, ESQ. WESTMINSTER: PRINTED BY NICHOLS ANI) SONS, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET. 1884. FROM THE AUCIT AEOLOG I Λ, VOL. XLYII [. PTOLEMY'S GEOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH ISLES. To the Alexandrian Claudius Ptolemy, wlio flourished about the middle of the second Century after Christ, belongs tlie honour of liaving achievecl the final systernatisation of the results of ancient research in the two sciences of astronomv and geography. His treatise on Geography continued to be the Standard text-book on its own subject, as his Almagest Avas the Standard text-book on astronomy, until the brilliant discoveries of the fifteenth Century called the attention of Europe to their defects. The portion of Ptolemy's Geography relating to Britain has been for three centuries the subject of rnnch elaborate discussion among Englisli antiquaries. With regard, however, to the identification of very many of Ptolemy's positions, the conclusions of recent authorities of eminence are very far from being unani- mous. This divergence of opinion is in part due to the imperfections of Ptolemy's own knowledge of British geography; but to a much greater extent it may be ascribed to the extreme laxity of the metliods of investigation wliich have usually been adopted. In attempting an original examination of this sub- ject I am deeply sensible of the disadvantages arising from my unavoidably scanty acquaintance with the work of previous inquirers. The strongly favour- able opinion of some eminent scholars, to wliom an outline of the present Paj)er has been submitted, has, however, induced me to venture on offering it to the Society. -
A Classical Atlas, to Illustrate Ancient Geography
(o Victorian -\ 910.938 F493c 1857 Joseph Earl and Genevieve Thornton Arrington Collection of 19th Century Americana Brigham Young University Library BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY 3 1197 21976 0722 CLASSICAL ATLAS, TO ILLUSTRATE ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY; COMPRISED IN TWENTY-FIVE MAPS, SHOWING TBE VARIOUS DIVISIONS OF THE WORLD AS KNOWN TO THE ANCIENTS; COMPOSED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES. WITH &n Bt&ex of tfte Ancient anfo Jfflotiem flames BY ALEXANDER G. FINDLAY, P.E.G.S. LONDON: WILLIAM TEGG & CO, 85, QUEEN STREET, CHEAPSIDE. 1857. : LONDON BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. YtPft CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION, pp. v. to xvi. I. ORBIS VETERIBUS NOTUS. XIV. GERMANIA. II. ROMA. XV. VINDELICIA, NORICUM, RHiETIA, PANNONIA, ET III. ITALIA SEPTENTRIONALIS. ILLYRICUM. IV. ITALIA MEDIA. XVI. HISPANIA. V. ITALIA MERIDIONALIS. XVII. AFRICA SEPTENTRIONALIS. VI. ATHENE. XVIII. JEGYPTUS. VII. PELOPONNESUS ET ATTICA. XIX. ASIA MINOR. VIII. GRiECIA SEPTENTRIONALIS. XX. PAL^STINA. IX. INSULA MARIS MGMl. XXI. SYRIA. X. MACEDONIA, THRACIA, IL- XXII. ARMENIA, MESOPOTAMIA, LYRIA, MCESIA, ET DACIA. ASSYRIA, ET BABYLONIA. XL BRITANNIA. XXIII. ARABIA. XII. INSULJE BRITANNICiE. XXIV. IMPERIUM PERSICUM, v> XII) GALLIA. XXV. INDITE. INDEX TO THE MAPS, pp. 1 to 44. v INTRODUCTION. In the representation of Ancient Geography there is this disadvantage, that we use authorities, m many cases incomplete and mutilated in themselves, treating of subjects which frequently were very imperfectly known to their authors. It is true that very often the ancient writings are so lucid and explicit that we are compelled to acknowledge our inferiority in knowledge, and modern enterprise is continually re-discovering (so to speak) that which was perfectly familiar in the early ages ; and although, in many instances, we are enabled to follow their narratives and descriptions even to the most minute particulars, and apply them to existing facts ; yet, to make a complete picture of the countries av tnu period, we are compelled to fill up many vacancies, and supply many features from less clear and correct sources.