{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0090.tlg001.local005","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local005/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0090.tlg001.local005","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":["Samuel Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Arriani periplus Ponti Euxini, Anonymi periplus Ponti Euxini, qui Arriano falso adscribitur. Anonymi periplus Ponti Euxini et Maeotidis paludis., Anonymi mensura Ponti Euxini. Agathemeri hypotyposes geographiae. Fragmenta duo geographica.","edition":null,"publisher":"Sumptibus C.L. Fritzschii","place":"Lipsiae","date":"1842","volume":"1","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://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044085078467?urlappend=%3Bseq=316","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Agathemerus. Geographiae Informatio. ed. Samuel Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann. Arriani periplus Ponti Euxini, Anonymi periplus Ponti Euxini, qui Arriano falso adscribitur. Anonymi periplus Ponti Euxini et Maeotidis paludis., Anonymi mensura Ponti Euxini. Agathemeri hypotyposes geographiae. Fragmenta duo geographica., Lipsiae, Sumptibus C.L. Fritzschii, 1842. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0090.tlg001.local005","excerpt":"Ἀναξίμανδρος ὁ Μιλήσιος, ἀκουστὴς Θάλεω, πρῶτος ἐτόλ μησε τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐν πίνακι γρά ψαι. Μεθ᾿ ὃν Ἑκα ταῖος ὁ Μιλήσιος, ἀνὴρ πολυπλανὴς, διηκρίβωσεν ὥστε θαυμασθῆναι τὸ πρᾶγμα. Ἑλλάνικος γὰρ Λέσβιος ἀνὴρ πολυΐστωρ 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 Δελφοὺς, 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 σφενδονο ειδῆ καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local005/#tlg0090-tlg001-local005-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local005/#tlg0090-tlg001-local005-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local005/#tlg0090-tlg001-local005-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local005/#tlg0090-tlg001-local005-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local005/#tlg0090-tlg001-local005-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local005/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local005.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090/tlg001/local005.json.gz"}}