1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ARTEMIDORUS. (i) A geographer " of Ephesus " who flour ishcd about 100 B.C. After studying at Alexandria, he travelled extensively and published the results of his investigations in a large work on general geography (TA yiuypa.<t>ovntra) in eleven books, much used by Strabo and others. The original work is lost, but we possess many small fragments and larger fragments of an abridgment made by Marcianus of Ik-racleia (5th century), which contains the periplus of the Euxine and accounts of Bithynia and Paphlagonia. (…
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