Marcian of Heraclea
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Marcian of Heraclea
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Marcian of Heraclea was a minor Greek geographer from Heraclea Pontica in Late Antiquity. His known works are:
- Periplus of the Outer Sea. It mentions places from the Atlantic ocean to China.
- An epitome of Menippus of Pergamon.
- An epitome of Artemidorus Ephesius:
- On the Distances of Cities from Rome. Artemidorus and Menippus both likely wrote around the 1st century AD. Only little survives of the epitomes, through citations in the work of Stephanus of Byzantium, but in the case of
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Greek geographer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcian_of_Heraclea
date created:
2008-05-05T09:52:04Z
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2024-09-09T18:33:32Z
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