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MARCIANUS (c. A.D. 400)

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MARCIANUS (c. A.D. 400) , See also:Greek geographer, was See also:born at See also:Heraclea in See also:Pontus. Two of his See also:works have been preserved in a more or less mutilated See also:condition. In the first, the Periplus of the See also:Outer See also:Sea, in two books, in which he proposed to give a See also:complete description of the coasts of the eastern and western oceans, his See also:chief authority is See also:Ptolemy; the distances from one point to another are given in stades, with the See also:object of rendering the See also:work easier for the See also:ordinary student. In this he follows See also:Protagoras, who, according to See also:Photius (See also:cod. 188), wrote a See also:sketch of See also:geography in six books. The work contains nothing that cannot be learned from Ptolemy, whom he follows in calling the promontory of the Novantae (See also:Mull of See also:Galloway) the most See also:northern point of See also:Britain. Improving on Ptolemy, he makes the See also:island of Taprobane (See also:Ceylon) twenty times as large as it is in reality. The second, the Periplus of the Inner Sea (the Mediterranean), is a meagre See also:epitome of a similar work by See also:Menippus of See also:Pergamum, who lived during the times of See also:Augustus and Tiberius. It contains a description of the See also:southern See also:coast of the Euxine from the Thracian See also:Bosporus to the See also:river See also:Iris in Pontus. A few fragments remain of an epitome by Marcianus of the eleven books of the Geographumena of See also:Artemidorus of Ephesi-s.

See J. See also:

Hudson, Geographiae veteris scriptures graeci minores, vol. i. (1698), with See also:Dodwell's dissertation; C. W. See also:Muller, Geographici graeci minores, vol. i. pp. cxxix., 515–573; E. See also:Miller, Periple de Marcien d'Heraclee (1839) ; S. F. G. See also:Hoffmann, Marciani Periplus (1841); E. H. See also:Bunbury, Hist. of See also:Ancient Geography (1879), ii. 66o; A.

Forbiger, Handbuch der See also:

alten Geographie, vol. i. (1842).

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