{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0090.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0090.tlg001.local001","title":"Geographiae Informatio","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Agathemerus","authorityName":"AGATHEMERUS Geogr.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0090-agathemerus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0090-agathemerus/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Geographi Graeci Minores","edition":null,"publisher":"Ambroise-Firmin Didot","place":"Paris, France","date":"1861","volume":"2","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike International 4.0 License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":["University of Leipzig","Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro"],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Editor","names":[]},{"role":"Supervisor","names":[]},{"role":"Supervisor","names":[]},{"role":"Supervisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/stream/geographigraeci02mlgoog#page/n546/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Agathemerus. Geographiae Informatio. Geographi Graeci Minores, Paris, France, Ambroise-Firmin Didot, 1861. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0090.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Ἀναξίμανδρος ὁ Μιλήσιος, ἀκουστὴς Θάλεω, πρῶτος ἐτόλμησε τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐν πίνακι γράψαι· μεθ᾿ ὅν Ἑκαταῖος ὁ Μιλήσιος, ἀνὴρ πολυπλανὴς, διηκρίβωσεν ὥστε θαυμασθῆναι τὸ πρᾶγμα· Ἑλλάνικος γὰρ ὁ Λέσβιος, ἀνὴρ πολυίστωρ, ἀπλάστως παρέδωκε τὴν ἱστορίαν. εἶτα Δαμάστης ὁ Σιγειεὺς τὰ πλεῖστα ἐκ τῶν Ἑκαταίου μεταγράψας περίπλουν ἔγραψεν· ἑξῆς Δημόκριτος καὶ Εὔδοξος καὶ ἄλλοι τινὲς γῆς περιόδους καὶ περίπλους ἐπραγματεύσαντο. Οἱ μὲν οὖν παλαιοὶ τὴν οἰκουμένην ἔγραφον στρογγύλην, μέσην δὲ κεῖσθαι τὴν Ἑλλάδα, καὶ ταύτης Δελφούς· τὸν ὀμφαλὸν γὰρ ἔχειν τῆς γῆς. πρῶτος δὲ Δημόκριτος, πολύπειρος ἀνὴρ, συνεῖδεν, ὅτι προμήκης ἐστὶν ἡ γῆ, ἡμιόλιον τὸ μῆκος τοῦ πλάτους ἔχουσα· συνῄνεσε τούτῳ καὶ Δικαίαρχος ὁ Περιπατητικός· Εὔδοξος δὲ τὸ μῆκος διπλοῦν τοῦ πλάτους, ὁ δὲ Ἐρατοσθένης πλεῖον τοῦ διπλοῦ· Κράτης δὲ ὡς ἡμικύκλιον, Ἵππαρχος δὲ τραπεζοειδῆ, ἄλλοι οὐροειδῆ, Ποσειδώνιος δὲ ὁ Στωϊκὸς σφενδονοειδῆ καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local001/#tlg0090-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local001/#tlg0090-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local001/#tlg0090-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local001/#tlg0090-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local001/#tlg0090-tlg001-local001-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}