Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- PART IV: Roman Period
- PART V: Late Antique Period
- 32 Avienus (Avienius), Ora maritima (The Sea Coast)
- 33 Expositio totius mundi et gentium (Account of the Whole World and its Peoples) and Iunior Philosophus
- 34 Markianos of Herakleia
- 35 Hypotypōsis tēs geōgraphias en epitomēi (Outline of Geography in Summary)
- 36 Pseudo-Arrian, Circumnavigation of the Euxine
- Sources of Extracts (Selected)
- Works Cited
- Concordances
- Selective Index
33 - Expositio totius mundi et gentium (Account of the Whole World and its Peoples) and Iunior Philosophus
from PART V: - Late Antique Period
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- PART IV: Roman Period
- PART V: Late Antique Period
- 32 Avienus (Avienius), Ora maritima (The Sea Coast)
- 33 Expositio totius mundi et gentium (Account of the Whole World and its Peoples) and Iunior Philosophus
- 34 Markianos of Herakleia
- 35 Hypotypōsis tēs geōgraphias en epitomēi (Outline of Geography in Summary)
- 36 Pseudo-Arrian, Circumnavigation of the Euxine
- Sources of Extracts (Selected)
- Works Cited
- Concordances
- Selective Index
Summary
This chapter presents a new, annotated translation melding the two Latin versions of one text: first, the Expositio totius mundi et gentium (Account of the Whole World and its Peoples); second, the Orbis descriptio (Description of the Globe) preserved under the name of Iunior Philosophus, which includes additional material. The chapter introduction shows how the work, dating to around the mid-4th century AD, is an impressionistic outline of world geography region by region, focused upon the East and characterized by subjective judgements about non-Roman peoples; maybe originally written in Greek or a third language; possibly by someone with commercial interests and a home in the eastern Mediterranean area. The value of the work may lie in what it tells us about semi-popular knowledge of world geography.
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- Geographers of the Ancient Greek WorldSelected Texts in Translation, pp. 921 - 938Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024