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pre-Hellenistic Classical Greece

reconstruction of Hecataeus' map

• Scylax of Caryanda (6th c. BC)
• Anaximander
• Hecataeus of Miletus
• Massaliote Periplus (?)

Hellenistic period

• Pytheas (d. ca. 310 BC)
• Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax (4th or 3rd c. BC)
• Megasthenes (d. ca. 290 BC)
• Autolycus of Pitane (d. ca. 290 BC)
• Dicaearchus (d. ca. 285 BC)
• Deimakos (3rd c. BC)
• Eratosthenes (ca. 276-194 BC)
• Scymnus (fl. 180s BC)
• Hipparchus (ca. 190-120 BC)
• Agatharchides (2nd c. BC)
• Posidonius (ca. 135-51 BC)
• Pseudo-Scymnus (ca. 90 BC)
• Diodorus Siculus (ca. 90-30 BC)
• Alexander Polyhistor (fl. 70s BC)

Roman Empire period

15th century reconstruction of Ptolemy's map.

• Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
• Strabo (64 BC - 24 AD)
• Pomponius Mela (fl. 40s AD)
• Isidore of Charax (1st c. AD)
• Mucianus (1st c. AD)
• Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD), Natural History
• Ptolemy (90-168 AD), Geography
• Pausanias (2nd c.)
• Agathedaemon of Alexandria (2nd c.)
• Dionysius of Byzantium (2nd c.)
• Agathemerus (3rd c.)
• Tabula Peutingeriana (4th c.)
• Alypius of Antioch (4th c.)
• Marcian of Heraclea (4th c.)

Byzantine Empire

• Hierocles (author of Synecdemus) (6th c.)
• Cosmas Indicopleustes (6th c.)
• Stephanus of Byzantium (6th c.)

See also

• History of geography

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