Pomponius Mela
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer. He died c 45 CE. His little work (De situ orbis libri III.) is a mere compendium, occupying less than one hundred pages of ordinary print, dry in style and deficient in method, but of pure Latinity, and occasionally relieved by pleasing word-pictures. Excepting the geographical parts of Pliny's Historia naturalis (where Mela is cited as an important authority) the De situ orbis is the only formal treatise on the subject in Classical Latin. Little is known of the author except ...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer. He died c 45 CE. His little work (De situ orbis libri III.) is a mere compendium, occupying less than one hundred pages of ordinary print, dry in style and deficient in method, but of pure Latinity, and occasionally relieved by pleasing word-pictures. Excepting the geographical parts of Pliny's Historia naturalis (where Mela is cited as an important authority) the De situ orbis is the only formal treatise on the subject in Classical Latin. Little is known of the author except his name and birthplace the small town of Tingentera or Cingentera in southern Spain, on Algeciras Bay (Mela ii. 6,
96; but the text is here corrupt). The date of his writing may be approximately fixed by his allusion (iii. 6
49) to a proposed British expedition of the reigning emperor, almost certainly that of Claudius in AD 43.
96; but the text is here corrupt). The date of his writing may be approximately fixed by his allusion (iii. 6
49) to a proposed British expedition of the reigning emperor, almost certainly that of Claudius in AD 43.
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