The so-called ‚Itinerary Stade‘ and the Accuracy of Eratosthenes' Measurement of the Earth

Klio 100 (1):153-177 (2018)
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Summary This paper presents a new argument against the widely accepted view that Eratosthenes and some other Greek authors of the pre-Roman period measured distances in special stades that were much shorter than the ‚common‘ stade of 185 m attested by the majority of sources.

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