Marcian of Heraclea (Greek: Μαρκιανὸς Ἡρακλεώτης, Markianòs Hērakleṓtēs; Latin: Marcianus Heracleënsis; fl. c. 4th century AD) was a minor Greek geographer from Heraclea Pontica in Late Antiquity.[1]
His known works are:
A Periplus of the Outer Sea.[2][3] It mentions places from the Atlantic ocean to China.[1]
An epitome of Menippus of Pergamon.[4]
An epitome of Artemidorus Ephesius:[5]
Artemidorus and Menippus both likely wrote around the 1st century AD.[6] Only little survives of the epitomes, through citations in the work of Stephanus of Byzantium,[7] but in the case of Menippus there is also some manuscript material. From it, it seems Marcian had not improved much upon Menippus.[6] Early in its publication history, the work of Pseudo-Scymnus had been attributed to Marcian. Apart from his writings, philologists believe that an annotated collection Marcian made of his sources in geography formed the basis of today's extant manuscripts of these earlier works.[7][8]
^ abKazhdan, A. P (1991). The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium. Vol. 2. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 1302. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
^Periplus maris exteri, ed. Müller (1855),515-562.
^Schoff, 1927
^Menippi periplus maris interni (epitome Marciani), ed. Müller (1855), 563-572.
MarcianofHeraclea (Greek: Μαρκιανὸς Ἡρακλεώτης, Markianòs Hērakleṓtēs; Latin: Marcianus Heracleënsis; fl. c. 4th century AD) was a minor Greek geographer...
just beyond the English Channel. Ptolemy (Geographia, 2. 21) and MarcianofHeraclea (Periplus, 2. 42) both placed Hyperborea in the North Sea which they...
referred to Britain as Bretannikē, which is treated a feminine noun. MarcianofHeraclea, in his Periplus maris exteri, described the island group as αἱ Πρεττανικαὶ...
citation of Avignon (Aouen(n)ion) was made by Artemidorus of Ephesus. Although his book, The Journey, is lost it is known from the abstract by Marcianof Heraclea...
on the coast of ancient Paphlagonia. According to Arrian it was situate 180 stadia west of Stephane, but according to MarcianofHeraclea only 150. The...
geographers, and the first specific mention of the Golden Chersonese may be in the work ofMarcianofHeraclea. Chersonese means peninsula in Greek, and...
Prettanoi, "the Britons". Strabo used Βρεττανική (Brettanike), and MarcianofHeraclea, in his Periplus maris exteri, used αἱ Πρεττανικαί νῆσοι (the Prettanic...
p.27). See also Brown (1948: p.124) Indeed, MarcianofHeraclea goes so far as to accuse Eratosthenes of plagiarizing Timothenes work wholesale. See Bunbury...
distinct from Sīnae. MarcianofHeraclea, a condenser of Ptolemy, tells us that the "nations of the Sinae lie at the extremity of the habitable world,...
Strabo. Indeed, MarcianofHeraclea went so far as to accuse Eratosthenes' Geographica of being nothing but the wholesale plagiarism of Timosthenes work...
refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition. MarcianofHeraclea, Periplus, p. 72. Strabo, Geography, §12.3.10 Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire...
the name ofHeraclea or Heracleia (Ἡράκλεια); which we find sometimes used alone, and sometimes with additions Heraclea Thraciae and Heraclea Perinthus...
later times. Not only does this name occur in MarcianofHeraclea and Hierocles, but on coins of the time of Antoninus and Lucius Verus we find the legend...
vernacular name of the city, or the name given to its port. The city is named by classical sources such as Pliny the Elder, MarcianofHeraclea and Pomponius...
p. 15. MarcianofHeraclea, p. 73. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 6.2. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). An inventory of archaic and...
in Asiatic Turkey. MarcianofHeraclea, Periplus p. 72; Anon. Peripl. P. E. p. 6. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman...
of the great islands therein, by MarcianofHeraclea, Philadelphia, 1927. Wilfred Harvey Schoff at the University of Pennsylvania library website Schoff...
Periplus Ponti Euxini. Vol. p. 13. Apollon. 2.795; Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 34; MarcianofHeraclea, Menippi periplus maris interni, p. 70; Memnon, ap. Phot...
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