Agathemerus
Agathemerus (
Constantine the Great in 328 AD, as he only refers to the city as Byzantium. From his speaking of Albion ἐν ᾗ στρατόπεδα ἵδρυται, it has been thought that he wrote not very long after the erection of the Wall of Severus. This is probably true, but the language is scarcely definite enough to establish the point.[1]
Agathemerus's work consists chiefly of extracts from Ptolemy, Artemidorus Ephesius and other earlier writers. In his work, he gives a short account of the various forms assigned to the Earth by previous geographers. He calculated the distances between land masses and seas, and then laid down important distances on the inhabited part of the Earth using the stadiametric method.
References
- ^ Mason, Charles Peter (1867), "Agathemerus", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, p. 62, archived from the original on 2010-12-13, retrieved 2008-04-28
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Agathemerus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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