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A few practical geographies are accessible in translation and with commentaries, including Agatharchides (Burstein 1989), Pseudo-Scylax (Shipley 2011), and the Periplus Maris Erythraei (Casson 1989). Talbert’s examination of the Peutinger Table (2010) is quite illuminating. Isidorus of Charax’s work is the subject of some recent studies which argue how we should see him as a truly Hellenistic geographer and explorer and more than just a surveyor for Roman invasion: Schuol, Hartmann, Hauser, and Schmitt (all 2017). Considerable scholarship focuses on the philosophical geographies, and their cultural and historical contexts. For example, Clarke 1999 and Nicolet 1991 are both essential reading on the junction of Hellenistic and imperial Roman geographies, and Cameron 2019 examines the Roman encounter with Parthian geography. There are several important studies of Strabo’s aims and methods, including Dueck 2010 and Roseman 2005. Roller’s work on Eratosthenes (2010) is a useful reconstruction of his vast geographical project. Stevens 2016 offers an intriguing analysis of Theophrastus’s plant-based geography of the Near East.