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Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s. Ixxviii. 23). The sun,moon, and stars were fixed in this heaven, and had their respectiveofi&ces assigned with an exclusive regard to the wants and convenienceof the earth (Gen. i. 14-18; Ps. civ. 19-23). Beneath the earth wassheol, ^hell, which extended beneath the sea (Job xxvi. 5, 6), andwas thus supposed to be conterminous with the upper world: it had inpoetical language its gates (Is. xxxviii. 10) and bars (Job xvii. 16), andwas the abode of departed spirits, the house appointed for the living (Job xxx. 23). § 15. Before quitting the subject of early Biblical geography, itwould be well to remind the reader that the Hebrew^ names are re-tained as the designations of the tribes or the countries inhabited bythem throughout the whole of the Old Testament. Our translatorshave unfortunately adopted the classical names instead, and thus wehave Mesopotamia for Aram-Naharaim ; Ethiopia for Cush ;*Chald£ea for Chasdim ; Grsecia for Javan; Armenia forArarat; and Assyria for Asshur.
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Map of the World, according to Homer CHAPTEE II. THE WORLD AS KXCWX TO THE GREEK POETS. § 1. Homer: the extent and source? of liis information. Progress ofmaritime discovery. §-2. General Yie^ys of tlie earths form. § 3. Itsdivisions. § 4. Real geography—Greece, Asia Elinor, &c. § 5.Poetical geogTaphv. § 6. Hesiod. § 7. ^Eschylus. § 8. Pindar. § 1. The earliest description of the world in classical literature isfound in the Homeric poems. AYithont fixing the date of theircomposition, Ave may safely assnme that they represent the viewsof the Greeks from ahont the 10th to the 8th century b.c. Homeris supposed to have been a native of Smyrna : however this mayhe, there is ahundant evidence in the poems themsehes that he hadlived for some time in Greece ; his descriptions are those of an eye-witness : he must have been acquainted with all that lies southwards IG THE WOELD AS KNOWN TO THE GREEK POETS. Book I. of the Ambracian Gulf on the western coast, and of Olympus on thee

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