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Most of the ancient geographers in the Roman days were Greek. The most important ones were Strabo (Greek, 64/63 BC - ca. 24 AD) who wrote famous the 17-volume work Geographica, which was a descriptive the history of geography and ethnography of the peoples of the then known world; Claudius Ptolemy (c. 90 AD - c. 168 AD) a Greek-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet from Alexandria, who wrote a Geographia which collected what was known about geography in his time; Pliny The Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus, Roman, 23 AD - 79 AD) who wrote the Naturalis Historia (Natural History) which was an encyclopaedia which collected much of the knowledge of his time, including geography; and Pausanias(Greek, 110 AD-180 AD) who was famous for his Description of Greece, a lengthy and detailed description of ancient Greece based on his travels which included obscure facts.
Other geographers were: Pomponius Mela (Roman, wrote in the 40s AD), Isidorus Characenus (Greek, all that is known about him is his name and that he wrote one work,) Marinus of Tyre (Greek, active in 10-150 AD), Agathodaemon (Greek , he was designer of some of the maps in Ptolemy's Geographia), Dionysius of Byzantium (Greek, 2nd century AD), Agathemerus(Greek, believed to have lived in the 3rd century AD), Alypius of Antioch (Roman, 4th century AD) Marcian of Heraclea(Greek 4th century AD, a minor geographer, and Julius Honorius (Roman, an important teacher of geography, it is uncertain when he leaved, estimated between late 4th - mid-6th century.
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ptolemy....
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ptolemy....
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ptolemy....
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