{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0090.tlg001.local004","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local004/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0090.tlg001.local004","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":["Aubrey Diller"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Agathemerus. \"Sketch of Geography\"","edition":null,"publisher":"Duke University Libraries","place":"Duke University","date":"1975","volume":"16","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":[],"funders":["Harvard Library Arcadia Fund"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2016 - 2018","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig), 2015 - 2017","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig), 2015 - 2017","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/8681","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Agathemerus. Geographiae Informatio. ed. Aubrey Diller. Agathemerus. \"Sketch of Geography\", Duke University, Duke University Libraries, 1975. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0090.tlg001.local004","excerpt":"Ἀναξίμανδρος ὁ Μιλήσιος ἀκουστὴς Θάλεω πρῶτος ἀπετόλμησε 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 Κιτιεὺς 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 δ’ ἡγεῖσθαι 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 δὲ ✝οὐροειδῆ , Ποσειδώνιος δ’ ὁ Στωϊκὸς σφενδονοειδῆ καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local004/#tlg0090-tlg001-local004-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local004/#tlg0090-tlg001-local004-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local004/#tlg0090-tlg001-local004-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local004/#tlg0090-tlg001-local004-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local004/#tlg0090-tlg001-local004-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local004/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local004.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090/tlg001/local004.json.gz"}}