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Thanks are owed to Graham Shipley for his helpful comments, bibliographical suggestions, and provision of publications. Any errors are the author’s own.

1 ssss1 Agathemerus §1 says that Anaximander “first attempted to draw the world on a table” (πρῶτος ἀπετόλμησε τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐν πίνακι γράψαι).

2 ssss1 See Xenophon’s Anabasis and Ctesias, FGrH 688 T1–2. Ctesias gives an account of the battle of Cunaxa in which his patron defeated Cyrus’s army, FGrH 688 F16 §§64–65.

3 ssss1 FGrH 1; Strabo 1.1.11; Agathemerus §1: Hecataeus was “widely travelled” (πολυπλανής); Dilke 1985: 56.

4 ssss1 Hdt. 4.44; Aristotle Pol. 1332b; FGrH 709. See Panchenko 2003: 274ff for Scylax’s later reception and 289ff for the argument that Scylax explored the Ganges. See Tuplin 1991: 242 and 271 for possible quotations of Scylax by Herodotus, Hecataeus, Ephorus, and others.

5 ssss1 Periplus Maris Erythraei 19: 6.28–29 (on Malichus II), 57: 19.2–5 (on Hippalos); see Casson 1989: 6–8; Parker 2001: 61. Arrian, Anab. 6.21.1–3, describes how Nearchus’s voyage was delayed by the monsoons, though they did not know the nature of the phenomenon.