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100	1		_aNiebuhr, Barthold Georg, _d1776-1831
245	1	0	_aLectures on ancient ethnography and geography, volume 2 (of 2)
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-04-15
508			_aTim 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)
520			_a"Lectures on ancient ethnography and geography, volume 2 (of 2)" by Niebuhr is a scholarly historical and geographical lecture series written in the mid-19th century. It examines the ancient Mediterranean through the lenses of philology, geography, and history, with this volume centering on Italy—its peoples, languages, political divisions, and landscapes—before moving across the wider classical world. Expect rigorous source criticism, bold hypotheses about ethnonyms and migrations, and detailed reconstructions of terrain, climate zones, and urban layouts. The opening of the volume first maps what “Italy” meant to Greeks and Romans and how its name and borders expanded, arguing for a native origin (Viteliu/Italus) and tracing successive waves of Oenotrians, Oscans/Opicans, Sabellians, Etruscans, and Gauls, along with the linguistic dominance of Oscan among Sabellian peoples. It contrasts Greek labels and prejudices (Opici, Ausonia) with Roman usage, then follows the political enlargement of “Italy” up to the Alps under Augustus and the durable administrative regions that followed. A broad physical survey divides the peninsula into “Greek Italy,” central Italy, and northern Italy by climate and vegetation; describes the Alps and Apennines; notes volcanic and limestone belts; and sketches major rivers (Po, Tiber, Arno, Liris, Aufidus) and surrounding seas. Turning to historical geography, it outlines early ethnographic mosaics, the Augustan eleven regions and later fifteen provinces, and the spread and legal senses of Latinitas, including the Prisci Latini. It then portrays Latium’s geology and the making of the Pontine marshes, before giving a compact topography of Rome from hill-set nuclei (Palatine, Quirinal, Caelian, Aventine) and the Septimontium to the Servian agger and, later, Augustus’s fourteen urban regions. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: Walton and Maberly, 1853
653			_aHistory, Ancient
653			_aEthnology
653			_aGeography, Ancient
700	1		_aSchmitz, Leonhard, _d1807-1890
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/lecturesonancien02niebuoft
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78452
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