Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- PART IV: Roman Period
- 22 Juba II of Mauretania
- 23 Isidoros of Charax
- 24 Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Cosmos (De mundo)
- 25 Pseudo-Arrian, Circumnavigation of the Erythraian Sea
- 26 Pseudo-Plutarch, On the Names of Rivers and Mountains and the Things in them
- 27 Arrian of Nikomedeia, Circumnavigation of the Euxine
- 28 Dionysios Periegetes
- 29 Agathemeros son of Orthon
- 30 Dionysios of Byzantion
- 31 Pseudo-Hippolytos, Stadiasmos (Stade Table or Circumnavigation of the Great Sea)
- PART V: Late Antique Period
- Sources of Extracts (Selected)
- Works Cited
- Concordances
- Selective Index
31 - Pseudo-Hippolytos, Stadiasmos (Stade Table or Circumnavigation of the Great Sea)
from PART IV: - Roman Period
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- PART IV: Roman Period
- 22 Juba II of Mauretania
- 23 Isidoros of Charax
- 24 Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Cosmos (De mundo)
- 25 Pseudo-Arrian, Circumnavigation of the Erythraian Sea
- 26 Pseudo-Plutarch, On the Names of Rivers and Mountains and the Things in them
- 27 Arrian of Nikomedeia, Circumnavigation of the Euxine
- 28 Dionysios Periegetes
- 29 Agathemeros son of Orthon
- 30 Dionysios of Byzantion
- 31 Pseudo-Hippolytos, Stadiasmos (Stade Table or Circumnavigation of the Great Sea)
- PART V: Late Antique Period
- Sources of Extracts (Selected)
- Works Cited
- Concordances
- Selective Index
Summary
This chapter presents a new, annotated translation of the anonymous Stadiasmos, written no later than the 3rd century AD but possibly as early as the 1st, whose surviving extracts add up to a gazetteer of towns, harbour facilities, and distances from Tunisia around the eastern Mediterranean as far as the southern Aegean. The chapter introduction discusses the author’s use of technical terms and their meanings, and the work’s relationship to the Latin Maritime Itinerary, suggesting that in light of its detailed navigational content it was probably a ‘piloting manual’ rather than a desk-based study for an ‘armchair geographer’ or an administrative document. Four new maps show a selection of places along the coasts described.
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- Geographers of the Ancient Greek WorldSelected Texts in Translation, pp. 853 - 886Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024