Late Antique Historiography

On Arabia

Title(s):
  • On Arabia
  • Αραβικά
    (Arabika, On Arabia)
Author:
Period covered:
Unknown
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (local history)
Remarks:
The identification of the author is doubtful: as West (1974: 282-4) points out, we know of thirty different men with the same name but none of them is mentioned as the author of an Arabiκa. The work was written after the death of Constantine the Great. According to most scholars, the author can be linked to an Uranius who was friend of Libanius.
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
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Sources:
Bibliography:
  • G. Bowersock (1983) Roman Arabia. Cambridge (MA) - London.
  • G. Bowersock (1988) 'The three Arabias in Ptolemy's Geography'. In: Géographie historique au Proche-Orient, ed. P.L. Gatier - B. Helly - J.P. Rey-Coquais. Paris: 47-53.
  • G. Bowersock (1996) Jacoby's fragments and two Greek historians of pre-Islamic Arabia. In: Collecting Fragments: Fragmente sammeln, ed. G. Most. Göttingen: 173-185.
  • P.-L. Gatier (2000) 'Gébala et la Gébalène: À propos de Flavius Joséphe, d'Eusèbe de Césarée et d'Ouranios'. Le muséon 113: 299-314.
  • F. Hommel (1906) 'Zu Uranios und Glaukos'. Philologus 65: 475-477.
  • P. Janiszewski (2006) The missing link: Greek pagan historiography in the second half of the third century and in the fourth century A.D. Warsaw.
  • H. Papenhoff (1961) 'Uranios (4)'. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft 9A.1: 947.
  • E. Stemplinger (1904) 'Studien zu Stephanos von Byzanz'. Philologus 6: 615-630.
  • A. Von Domaszewski (1908) 'Die politische Bedeutung der Religion von Emesa'. Archiv für Religionswissenschaft 11: 223-242.
  • H. Von Wissmann (1968) 'Uranios, Verfasser der Arabica'. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft Suppl. 9: 1278-1292.
  • J.M.I. West (1974) 'Uranius'. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 78: 282-284.