Lectures on ancient ethnography and geography, volume 1 (of 2) (Registro nro. 119171)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Niebuhr, Barthold Georg, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1776-1831 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Lectures on ancient ethnography and geography, volume 1 (of 2) |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
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| General note | Release date is 2026-04-15 |
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| Creation/production credits note | Tim Lindell, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) |
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| Summary, etc. | "Lectures on ancient ethnography and geography, volume 1 (of 2)" by Niebuhr is a collection of scholarly historical-geographical lectures written in the early 19th century. It investigates the peoples and landscapes of the classical world—especially Greece and its colonies—linking ethnography, topography, and history through close reading of ancient authorities. The work also reflects on how geographic knowledge developed from antiquity through early modern scholarship.<br/><br/>The opening of the volume presents a dedication and a translator’s preface explaining the lectures’ origin, editorial approach (an unabridged text not re-divided into lecture units), and scope, followed by a contents list centering on Greece and adjacent regions. The first lectures argue that history requires the study of circumstances—peoples, places, products, and institutions—outline a focus on Greek and Roman spheres, and note the fluid boundary between antiquity and the middle ages. A brisk historiography surveys post-Renaissance geography, contrasting bookish compilations with field-based progress, praising Cluver, Palmerius, and especially D’Anville, while critiquing Rennell and Mannert. Turning to ancient sources and ideas, it sketches the roles of Hecataeus, periploi, Herodotus, Eratosthenes, and Strabo; reviews ancient conceptions of the earth and winds; and discusses the naming and boundaries of Europe, Asia, and Libya. It then begins Greece proper: distinguishing Hellenes from Pelasgians, defining “continuous Hellas,” and introducing Peloponnesus—its seismic, mountainous terrain, fertile valleys, and agriculture—before contrasting pre- and post-Dorian political divisions and probing the mixed, composite character of the Homeric Catalogue. The narrative proceeds to Argolis (Argos, Mycenae, Tiryns), the Acte towns (Epidaurus, Troezen, Hermione, Haliae), nearby islands, and a detailed portrait of Corinth and Acrocorinthus, ending as it moves to chart Corinth’s cycles of commercial prosperity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Walton and Maberly, 1853 |
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| Uncontrolled term | History, Ancient |
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| Uncontrolled term | Ethnology |
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| Uncontrolled term | Geography, Ancient |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Schmitz, Leonhard, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1807-1890 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/lecturesonancien01niebuoft">https://archive.org/details/lecturesonancien01niebuoft</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78451">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78451</a> |
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