[Born] 63 B.C. Amaseia, Pontus [Died] c. 21 AD. Ancient Greek geographer and historian from Amaseia, Pontus. In 44 BC he went to Rome to study geography and philosophy as an Aristotelian, but switched to the Stoic school under the influence of Athenodorus, the teacher of Octavian (Augustus). He stayed in Rome until at least 31 BC, continuing Polybius's History of the World and writing the 47-volume Historika hypomnēmata, which describes the history of the Roman Empire up to the time of its establishment. In 29 BC he visited the island of Gyarrus in the Aegean Sea on his way to Corinth, and in 25 or 24 BC he sailed up the Nile to Philae. He then began writing the Geographia (17 volumes), which he seems to have stopped for a while, but resumed in 14 and completed in 23. While "Notes on History" has been largely lost, "Geography" has survived almost completely and defines the purpose and methodology of geography. It provides easy-to-read, if not necessarily scientific, descriptions of Iberia, Gaul, Italy, the Danube River basin, the Black Sea coast, Greece, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean coast of Africa, and Mauretania, including their historical and economic development, myths, customs, and the ecology of flora and fauna. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
[生]前63. ポントス,アマセイア [没]後21頃.ポントス,アマセイア 古代ギリシアの地理学者,歴史家。前 44年ローマに出てアリストテレス学派として地理,哲学を学び,オクタウィアヌス (アウグスツス ) の師アテノドロスの影響でストア学派に転じた。少くとも前 31年までローマに滞在,ポリュビオスの『世界歴史』を続けて,ローマ帝政成立までを記した 47巻の『歴史覚え書』 Historika hypomnēmataを書いた。前 29年コリントへの途上エーゲ海のギュアロス島を訪れ,前 25年または前 24年にナイル川をフィラエまで遡航した。その後『地理学』 Geōgraphia (17巻) の著述に着手,一時中断したと思われるが,14年に再開,23年に完成した。『歴史覚え書』はほとんど散逸したが,『地理学』はほぼ完全に現存,地理学の目的と方法論の定義をはじめ,イベリア,ガリア,イタリア,ドナウ川流域,黒海沿岸,ギリシア,コーカサス,小アジア,インド,ペルシア,メソポタミア,シリア,パレスチナ,紅海,アフリカの地中海岸およびマウレタニアについて,その史的経済的発展,神話,風俗習慣,動植物の生態などを含めて必ずしも科学的ではないが読みやすく記述している。 出典 ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典について 情報 |
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