Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Greek Geography and Geographers
- Time-line
- Prologue: The Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, 2. 484–760)
- Part I Archaic Period
- Part II Classical Period
- 4 Hanno of Carthage
- 5 Hippokrates of Kos (?), Airs, Waters, and Places
- 6 Eudoxos of Knidos
- 7 Pseudo-Skylax
- 8 Pytheas of Massalia
- Part III Hellenistic Period
4 - Hanno of Carthage
from Part II - Classical Period
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Greek Geography and Geographers
- Time-line
- Prologue: The Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, 2. 484–760)
- Part I Archaic Period
- Part II Classical Period
- 4 Hanno of Carthage
- 5 Hippokrates of Kos (?), Airs, Waters, and Places
- 6 Eudoxos of Knidos
- 7 Pseudo-Skylax
- 8 Pytheas of Massalia
- Part III Hellenistic Period
Summary
This chapter presents a new, annotated translation of the purported Circumnavigation by Hanno of Carthage, preserved in one of the two major manuscript collections of Greek geography. It narrates an expedition round the coast of north-western Africa, perhaps as far as Cameroon. Selected testimonia and fragments are arranged as nine extracts. The chapter introduction outlines the main controversies surrounding the text–whether it is a genuine 5th-century BC work; whether it was translated from the Punic; whether it records an actual voyage–while the notes assess details of the content, such as the apparent description of an encounter with gorillas. A new map illustrates the possible extent of the journey.
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- Geographers of the Ancient Greek WorldSelected Texts in Translation, pp. 149 - 156Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024