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	Pomponius Mela -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Pomponius Mela, who wrote around (Click link for more info and facts about AD 43) AD 43, was the earliest (An inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire) Roman (An expert on geography) geographer.
		Excepting the geographical parts of (Roman author of an encylclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)) 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 (Any dialect of the language of ancient Rome) Latin.
		Mela has been without probability identified by some with L. Annaeus Mela of Corduba, son of (Click link for more info and facts about Seneca the rhetorician) Seneca the rhetorician, and brother of (Click link for more info and facts about the great Seneca) the great Seneca.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/pomponius_mela.htm (512 words)

	Classics Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Pomponius Mela described the world as it was known to the ancient Romans, both geographically and ethnographically.
		Mela knows of the Chinese and reports geographic and cultural information about Sri Lanka and India as well as the Mediterranean and European places that are less strange to him.
		Pomponius Mela is a puzzle, and so is his one extant work, The Description of the World.
	www.coh.arizona.edu /classics/faculty/Romer/mela.html (578 words)

	F. E. Romer: Pomponius Mela's Description of the World, University of Michigan Press
		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.
		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.
	www.press.umich.edu /titleDetailDesc.do?id=15122 (307 words)

	POMPONIUS MELA HOME PAGE
		Pomponius Mela was a Spaniard from Baetia in southern Spain who flourished in the first century AD.
		Pomponius Mela's description of the world / [translated with an introduction by] F.E. Romer.
		Although it is a pleasure to see minor authors such as Mela once again in print there are significant advantages in having them also available on the Web where they may be accessed in a machine-readable and searchable format.
	ourworld.cs.com /latintexts/mela_home_page.htm (281 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1998.11.20
		Citation of Mela's sources is also uneven; borrowings from Herodotus are sometimes noted and sometimes not, with a few extensive and important paraphrases entirely overlooked (Mela 3.85, e.g.).
		Romer's interpretation of Mela rests, as his introduction explains, on a new and complex assessment of the text's "literary premises," especially "the effect of melding the acts of writing, reading and traveling" (p.
		His purported "discovery of Mela the littérateur" distracts the reader from the simpler, more straightforward pleasure of Mela's text, that of surveying the earth in a glance and zooming in on its most bizarre, paranormal phenomena.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr-cgi-dev/1998/1998-11-20.html (886 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1012 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Editio Princeps of Pomponius Mela ap-.peared at Milan, in 4to.
		We have an old translation into English: "The rare and singular Work of Pomponius Mela, that excellent and worthy Cos- mographer, of the Situation of the World, most orderly prepared, and divided every parte by its selfe: with the Longitude and Latitude of everie Kingdome, Regent, Province, Rivers, andec.
		The Mela was first published in 1585, the Solinus in 1587, and then both were bound up in one volume, and reissued with the above title in 1590.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2120.html (987 words)

	Romer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		A remark by Vitruvius (8.2.6) illustrates one level of the difficulty but, taken together, Pomponius Mela's Chorographia and the prefaces to Lucian's True History (1.1-4) and Ptolemy's Gêographia (1.1) identify the real boundaries of the genre.
		The reader visits the coasts of the known world and meets, on its outermost edges, the creatures of mythology (Hyperboreans, Goat-Pans, etc.); the boundary between fact and fiction is flexible.
		Lucian both spoofs chorographers and, like Mela, patterns his novella on the voyage that is essential to two chorographic types.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/98mtg/abstracts/Romer.html (234 words)

	Mela Pomponius
		Excepting the geographical parts of Pliny's Historia naturals (where Mela is cited as an important authority) the De situ orbis is the only formal treatise on the subject in classical Latin.
		Of northern Europe his knowledge was imperfect, but he speaks vaguely of a great bay ("Codanus sinus ”) to the north of Germany, among whose many islands was one, "Codanovia,” of pre-eminent size; this name reappears in Pliny as "Scandinavia.” Mela's descriptive method is peculiar and inconvenient.
		Instead of treating each continent separately he begins at the Straits of Gibraltar, and describes the countries adjoining the south coast of the Mediterranean; then he moves round by Syria and Asia Minor to the Black Sea, and so returns to Spain along the north shore of the Euxine, Propontis, andc.
	www.ermeland.de /mela_pomponius.htm (634 words)

	Roman Republic and Empire 264 B.C.E.-476 C.E.: Geography History Summary
		Pomponius Mela, from Tingentera in the south of Spain, near Gibraltar, probably wrote his geographical work De chorographia sometime after 43 C.E. Geographical writers in Latin were a rarity during the Roman period, although authors such as Tacitus and Pliny dabbled in the subject.
		As is the case both with Strabo's geography in Greek and with later writers in Latin (such as Pliny the Elder), Mela was uninterested in the details of mathematical geography.
		Pomponius Mela's Description of the World, translated by Frank E. Romer (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998).
	www.bookrags.com /history/worldhistory/roman-republic-empire-geography/sub13.html (249 words)

	Pomponius Mela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Pomponius Mela, que escribió alrededor del ANUNCIO 43, era el geographer romano más temprano.
		Mela ha estado sin la probabilidad identificada por alguno con L. Annaeus Mela de Corduba, del hijo del seneca el rhetorician, y del hermano del gran seneca.
		Pero Pomponius es único entre geographers antiguos en eso, después de dividir la tierra en cinco zonas, de las cuales dos eran solamente habitables, él afirma la existencia de antichthones, habitando la zona templada meridional inaccesible a la gente de las regiones templadas norteñas del calor unbearable de la correa del torrid que interviene.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/po/Pomponius%20Mela.htm (648 words)

	Mela, Pomponius -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It is a riverside religious fair held four times every 12 years, rotating between Haridwar on the Ganges River, Ujjain on the Sipra, Nashik on the Godavari, and Allahabad, which lies at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati.
		The literature of the empire is both abundant and competent, for which the emperors' encouragement and financing of libraries and higher education were perhaps in part responsible.
		His name was Titus Pomponius, that of Atticus being given him later from his long residence in Athens (88–65 BC) and his intimate acquaintance with Greek literature and language; he assumed the name of Quintus Caecilius Pomponianus when his...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051859?tocId=9051859 (583 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Compostela
		A famous city of Spain, situated on an eminence between the Sar (the Sars of Pomponius Mela) and Sarela.
		Here stood in those days the city of Iria, capital of the Gallician Caporos, as may be seen from its Roman ruins, especially the inscriptions, some of which are contemporary with the beginning of the Christian Era.
		Pomponius Mela, who lived in the reign of Emperor Claudius, i.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04187b.htm (1138 words)

	POMPONIUS MELA - LoveToKnow Article on POMPONIUS MELA
		POMPONIUS MELA - LoveToKnow Article on POMPONIUS MELA
		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.
		Nothing is known of the author except his name and birthplacethe small town of Tingentera or Cingentera in southern Spain, on Algeciras Bay (Mela ii.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MELA_POMPONIUS.htm (642 words)

	Mela - Festivals of India -Kumbh Mela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Pomponius Mela was a Spaniard from Baetia in southern Spain who flourished in the first Pomponius Mela's description of the world / [translated with an
		I’ll be delighted to host a mela in august or september Please give me the last mela of 2005 as well as the first mela of 2006 - both!
		The Kumbha Mela (the Pot Fair) is celebrated in a twelve year cycle at Prayag, Hardwar, Nasik, and Ujjain.
	www.toplnk.com /tpl/mela.htm (221 words)

	All words on Pomponius Mela
		Of northern Europe his knowledge was imperfect, but he speaks vaguely of a great bay ("Codanus sinus") to the north of Germany, among whose many islands was one, "Codanovia," of pre-eminent size; this name reappears in Pliny as "Scandinavia." Mela's descriptive method is peculiar and inconvenient.
		Like most classical geographers he conceives the Dark Continent as surrounded by sea and not extending very far south.
		Even those in the same family are often extremely Some require urging, others checking.
	www.allwords.org /po/pomponius-mela.html (759 words)

	Seres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Pomponius Mela gives the following details on the Seres:
		The Indians and Scythians occupy the two extremities, the Seres are in the middle" (Pomponius Mela, De Situ Orbis, I, 2).
		The Seres come between the two; a race eminent for integrity, and well known for the trade which they allow to be transacted behind their backs, leaving their wares in a desert spot" (Pomponius Mela, De Situ Orbis, III, 7).
	www.firebird.cn /wiki/Seres (883 words)

	Buy.com - Pomponius Mela's Description of the World : Pomponius Mela : ISBN 0472084526
		The Description of the World (Chorographia), written by Pomponius Mela, was last translated into English more than 400 years ago, and is the earliest surviving geographical work in Latin.
		His description is in the form of a voyage around the three "known" continents -- Africa, Asia, and Europe.
		Romer's introduction assesses Mela as a literary and geographic writer, while his translation matches Mela's style.
	www.buy.com /prod/Pomponius_Mela_s_Description_of_the_World/q/loc/106/30425493.html (703 words)

	WU Libraries, Special Collections, Online Exhibitions: Terra Incognita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Shown here is the titlepage from a reprint of the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela's Description of the World.
		The outer edges of all the continents remained unfamiliar to the Romans, and it was here that creatures of mythology were believed to exist.
		Mela included historical, cultural, mythological as well as geographical information in his work, and numerous copies and translations circulated throughout Europe during this age of exploration.
	library.wustl.edu:800 /units/spec/exhibits/terra/maps.html (217 words)

	BiblioVault - Pomponius Mela's description of the world
		BiblioVault - Pomponius Mela's description of the world
		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.
		F. Romer is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Arizona.
	www.bibliovault.org /BV.book.epl?BookId=4460 (298 words)

	History and Overview
		He also describes it as the birth place of Leto, which explains why the islanders particularly revere Apollo, her son, and mentions a huge, round temple, presumably Stonehenge...
		Pomponius Mela mentions the six-month-long days and nights and adds "...a sacred land, their country is open to the sun and extremely fertile." [the italics are mine]
		Mela's description certainly describes a second alien base which was located above the Arctic Circle.
	www.jbum.com /idt/history.html (978 words)

	Search Results for mela - Encyclopædia Britannica
		It is a riverside religious fair held four times every 12 years, rotating between Haridwar on the Ganges River, Ujjain on the Sipra, Nashik on the...
		Among other classical or semiclassical dance forms are bhagavatha mela, mohini attam, and kuravañci.
		The Maha Kumbh Mela, or “Great Pitcher Festival,” drew some 110 million people to the city of Prayagraj (Allahabad), India, over 42 days in January and February.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=mela&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (417 words)

	MELA, POMPONIUS (ft. c. A.D. 43) - Online Information article about MELA, POMPONIUS (ft. c. A.D. 43)
		A.D. 43) - Online Information article about MELA, POMPONIUS (ft. c.
		Pliny's Historic naturalis (where Mela is cited as an important authority) the De situ orbis is the only formal See also:
		Strabo; the latter was probably unknown to Mela.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MEC_MIC/MELA_POMPONIUS_ft_c_AD_43_.html (847 words)

	Pomponius Mela - Iulius Solinus - Antoninus Aug(ustus) - P(ublius) Victor - Dionysios (Periegetes) Afer., (De situ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Pomponius Mela - Iulius Solinus - Antoninus Aug(ustus) - P(ublius) Victor - Dionysios (Periegetes) Afer., (De situ orbis).
		Pomponius Mela - Iulius Solinus - Antoninus Aug(ustus) - P(ublius) Victor - Dionysios (Periegetes) Afer.
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	www.polybiblio.com /buebau/549.html (116 words)

	notes
		BRITANNORUM MORES 5 Pomponius Mela III.li.1 In a sidenote Camden reminds us of his previous conjectural emendation, vitro for vitro (which is read by modern editors).
		SCOTI 9 ut inquit Porphyrio According to a sidenote, this is from Pomponius Porphyrioâs commentary on Horace, Ars Poetica.
		KENT 29 ut e Senca habet Pomponius Sabinus The ultimate reference is to Seneca, Dialogi VI.xiv.3.
	www.philological.bham.ac.uk /cambrit/notes.html (5570 words)

	Mela - MELA Committee on Iraqi Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The MELA Committee on Iraqi Libraries web presence is produced in The formatting and html are copyright © 2003 MELA Committee on Iraqi Libraries.
		Temporary tent city at the Allahabad Kumbha Mela, India The greatest of these, the Kumbha Mela, is a riverside festival held four times every twelve
		The MELA Executive Board convened the Committee on Iraqi Libraries to Documents published under the auspices of the MELA Committee on Iraqi Libraries
	link-submit.com /lsm/mela.html (259 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.12.08
		Book III summarizes the geography of Spain, Gallia Narbonensis, Italy, Sicily, Noricum, Pannonia, Upper Moesia, and Dalmatia, and thus is a fundamental text for historians of the early Roman Empire, as has long been recognized, Zehnacker's commentary adds little to what is known about roads, military campaigns, inscriptions, tribal units, and travellers' accounts.
		One wishes that there was a better accounting for the variations of approach to geography by the Romans to help us compare Strabo and his local tales, Pomponius Mela and the concept of coastal regions one could tour, and whatever Solinus added to the whole picture as he borrowed Pliny's own account.
		French and German scholarship are well represented in the notes and commentary, but, as is typical of many volumes in the Budé series, there is little notice taken of outstanding research in English, in this case scholarship on Roman geography, map making, road building, land surveying, urban planning, and the role of climate and rainfall.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-12-08.html (1189 words)

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