Discussion
Match the List-I and List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| (a) Homer | (1) Outline of Geography |
| (b) Hecataeus | (2) Historical Memoir |
| (c) Strabo | (3) Illiod and Odyssey |
| (d) Ptolemy | (4) Ges-Periodos |
Answer: C
The correct matching is a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1.
- Homer: the Iliad and the Odyssey, the epics that preserve the earliest Greek picture of the known world.
- Hecataeus of Miletus: Ges Periodos ('Journey round the earth'), the first systematic description of the world, earning him the title of father of geography.
- Strabo: besides his seventeen-book Geographica, he wrote the Historical Memoirs, a history continuing Polybius.
- Ptolemy: the Geographike Hyphegesis, the 'Guide' or outline of geography, with its tables of latitudes and longitudes.
Options that give Homer the Historical Memoir or put Hecataeus with anything other than Ges-Periodos are wrong; the option ending c-1, d-4 swaps Strabo and Ptolemy with the wrong works.
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