Marcianus of Heraclea, Epitome of Artemidorus’ Geography 576.19-27
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Context
Marcianus from Heraclea Pontica on the southwestern coast of the Black
Sea was a geographer of Late Antiquity who is best known for his compendia of earlier
scholarship, including an epitome of the Late Hellenistic Geographic
Description by Artemidorus of Ephesus. In this passage from his survey of
Asia, Marcianus quotes Artemidorus concerning the relative situation of Strato’s Tower,
Dor, and Mount Carmel. The same quotation appears at Stephanus of Byzantium, Book
of Nations Δ 150, written six to seven centuries after Artemidorus’ work and
two to three centuries after Marcianus’s work.
Text
ΑΣΙΑ. Βιβλ. θʹ. Δῶρος, πόλις Φοινίκης. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ· “Μετὰ δὲ ἡ πάλαι
Δῶρος, νῦν δὲ Δῶρα καλεῖται.” Καὶ Ἀρτεμίδωρος Δῶρα τὴν πόλιν οἶδεν ἐν Ἐπιτομῇ τῶν ιαʹ·
“Συνεχῶς δʼ ἐστὶ Στράτωνος πύργος, εἶτα ἔνι Δῶρα, ἐπὶ
χερσονησοειδοῦς τόπου κείμενον πολισμάτιον, ἀρχομένου τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ Καρμήλου.” Καὶ ἐν θʹ
Γεωγραφουμένων τὸ αὐτό.
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Textual Note
Ed. Müller 1855Translation
ASIA. Book 9.
Doros, a city in Phoenicia. Hecataeus in [his book on] Asia: “After that is the city
called Doros in the old times but today Dora.” And Artemidorus mentions the city Dora in
Epitome of 11 books: “Continuing on is Straton’s
Tower, and then Dora, a town situated on the peninsula where Mount Carmel
begins.” And the same thing in Geographic Description 9.
Translation Note
Trans. J. L. RifeWorks Cited
- 1 Pseudo-Scylax of Caryanda and Marcianus of Heraclea, Geographi Graeci minores I, ed. Karl Müller, vol. 1, 2 vols. (Paris: Ambroise-Firmin Didot, 1855), p: 576.19-27.
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Joseph L. Rife, “Marcianus of Heraclea, Epitome of Artemidorus’ Geography 576.19-27,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/207.
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