Late Antique Historiography

Geography

Title(s):
  • Geography
  • Problemata
    (Problemata, Problems)
Author:
Period covered:
Unknown
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Geography
Remarks:
The authenticity of the author is in doubt, but Staab (1976) argues that he was an Ostrogothic geographer active at the court of Theoderic.
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • Cosmography of Ravenna 4.13.1, 4.17.1, 4.19.1, 4.20.1, 4.21.1, 4.22.1, 4.23.1, 4.24.1, 4.29.1, 4.42.1
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • J. Schnetz (1942) Untersuchungen über die Quellen der Kosmographie des anonymen Geographen von Ravenna (Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften: Philologisch-Historische Klasse, 6). Munich.
  • J. Schnetz (1940) Ravennatis anonymi Cosmographia et Guidonis Geographica, Stuttgart.
  • F. Staab (1976) 'Ostrogothic geographers at the court of Theoderic the Great: A study of some sources of the Anonymous Cosmographer of Ravenna'. Viator 7: 27-64.