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Episode Synopsis "Episode 6 - Early Hellenistic Exploration with the Pseudo-Skylax"
In this episode, we look at the first decades of Hellenistic exploration in the North, South and West of the Mediterranean, from the northern Caspian sea to south Sudan. We revisit a few previously-mentioned locations, witness the precursors to the true establishment of the discipline of geography, and begin to envisage the idea that it might actually be possible to circumnavigate Africa (Libya)...
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More episodes of the podcast The History of Exploration
- Episode 9 - Polybius on the Trail of the Ancients
- Episode 8 - Eratosthenes and the Invention of Geography
- Episode 7 - Eudoxus of Cyzicus Doesn't Always Drink Beer, But When He Does...
- Episode 6 - Early Hellenistic Exploration with the Pseudo-Skylax
- Episode 5 - Tylos and the Arabian Coast
- Episode 4D - The Coast of Gedrosia
- Episode 4C - Into the Indian Ocean
- Episode 4B - Down the Indus River
- Episode 4A - Nearchus and Alexander in India
- Episode 3B - North, to Ultima Thule
- Episode 3A - Pytheas the Massaliot's Journey to Britain
- Episode 2 - The Voyage of Hanno the Navigator
- Episode 1 - Necho II's Expedition and the Early Mediterranean Explorers
- Episode 0 - Introduction
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