THE PERIPLOI AND THE ORIGIN OF THEORETICAL GEOGRAPHY IN ANTIQUITY
Evgeniy Vasilyevich Afonasin1,2
1Novosibirsk National Research State University, 2, Pirogov st. Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
2Institute of Philosophy and Law, SB RAS, 8, Nikolaev st. Novosibirsk, 630090
Keywords: школа Аристотеля, география, расчет расстояний в античности, the school of Aristotle, geography, distance calculation in antiquity
Abstract
The article considers the earliest available evidences which show the influence of practical navigation information gathered by ancient travelers and discoverers on emerging theoretical geography. The analyzed sources are dated back mostly to the 6th century B.C. and related to the Peripatetic school in Athens. These include the Circumnavigation of the Inhabited World attributed to Pseudo-Skylax and fragments of geographical works of Aristotle’s follower Dicaearchus of Messana.
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