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Pomponius Mela's description of the world

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The Description of the World (Chorographia), written by Pomponius Mela, was last translated into English over 400 years ago, and is the earliest surviving geographical work in Latin. Although first published at the height of the Roman Empire, in roughly 44 C.E., Pomponius Mela's work circulated during Europe's great Age of Exploration. His description is in the form of a voyage around the three "known" continents--Africa, Asia, and Europe. Mela integrates geographical description with more familiar historical, cultural, and mythological information. F. E. Romer's translation and commentary on this work help the reader to appreciate the intellectual and physical shape of the ancient world as Mela and the Romans perceived it. Frank Romer's introduction assesses Mela as a literary and geographic writer, while his translation matches Mela's style. Mela knows of the Chinese and reports geographical and cultural information about Sri Lanka and India, as well as Mediterranean and European locales that are less remote to his experience. The outer edges of all the continents, including Europe, however, remained unfamiliar to the Romans, and it is on the inhabited world's outer edges that the creatures of legend and mythology were believed to live. Romer's commentary clarifies specific ideas raised in the text. He identifies and explains issues, and he points the reader to ancient sources and modern studies. This new study will intrigue students and teachers of ancient history. This edition of Mela's geography will be of interest to map lovers, historians, classicists, and anyone interested in history of travel, geography, and education. F.E. Romer is Professor and Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, East Carolina University. He is the author of numerous articles and has received awards for both his writing and teaching.… (mere)
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An annotated translation of Pomponius Mela's De Chorographia (also known as Cosmographia or De Situ Orbis; ca AD 44), a description of the world as known to a first century Roman, in the form of an imaginary voyage first counterclockwise around the African, Asiatic, and European coasts of the Mediterranean, then clockwise around the "outer", oceanic coasts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, back to the Straits of Gibraltar. Northern Europe, northern and eastern Asia, and southern Africa being known to the Romans only by vague rumour, those sections tend to the fantastical. The bits about the Mediterranean lands are naturally far more accurate, but Mela's attitude is never that of a scientific geographer, but always that of a popularizer, putting down what every educated man ought know in as accessible and appealing format as he can. For the modern reader, the draw is the insight into how the Romans perceived their world.

Romer's annotations are mostly good, though occasionally he strays into an annoying didacticism: if I don't already agree that Mela's occasional dismissive remarks about "barbarian" peoples demonstrate cultural imperialism, the annotator telling me so isn't likely to change my mind. Mostly they deal with linguistic matters, or connections with other ancient writers on geography, especially Pliny and Strabo, or between different sections of Mela's work.
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The Description of the World (Chorographia), written by Pomponius Mela, was last translated into English over 400 years ago, and is the earliest surviving geographical work in Latin. Although first published at the height of the Roman Empire, in roughly 44 C.E., Pomponius Mela's work circulated during Europe's great Age of Exploration. His description is in the form of a voyage around the three "known" continents--Africa, Asia, and Europe. Mela integrates geographical description with more familiar historical, cultural, and mythological information. F. E. Romer's translation and commentary on this work help the reader to appreciate the intellectual and physical shape of the ancient world as Mela and the Romans perceived it. Frank Romer's introduction assesses Mela as a literary and geographic writer, while his translation matches Mela's style. Mela knows of the Chinese and reports geographical and cultural information about Sri Lanka and India, as well as Mediterranean and European locales that are less remote to his experience. The outer edges of all the continents, including Europe, however, remained unfamiliar to the Romans, and it is on the inhabited world's outer edges that the creatures of legend and mythology were believed to live. Romer's commentary clarifies specific ideas raised in the text. He identifies and explains issues, and he points the reader to ancient sources and modern studies. This new study will intrigue students and teachers of ancient history. This edition of Mela's geography will be of interest to map lovers, historians, classicists, and anyone interested in history of travel, geography, and education. F.E. Romer is Professor and Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, East Carolina University. He is the author of numerous articles and has received awards for both his writing and teaching.

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