Iambulus
Iambulus or Jambulus (
His work did not survive in the original, but only as a fragment in Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca historica (II, 55–60).[3] Diodorus, who seems only to have transcribed lambulus in his description of the Indians, relates that lambulus was made a slave by the Ethiopians, and sent by them to a happy island in the eastern seas, where he acquired his knowledge. The whole account, however, has the appearance of a fiction, and the description which lambulus gave of the east, which he had probably never seen, consisted of nothing but fabulous absurdities.[4]
Iambulus is mentioned in the satirical novel
See also
- The City of the Sun
- True History
- Gulliver's Travels
References
- OCLC 1120737717.
A similar story was composed somewhat later by a certain Iambulus. His name looks Semitic and even Arabic
- JSTOR 43060194).
- ^ The Library of History of Diodorus Siculus II, 55-60
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Iambulus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 550.
- ^ True History, page 3
Further reading
- Fernandez Robbio, Matías S. (2010). "La travesía de Yambulo por las Islas del Sol (D.S., II.55-60). Introducción a su estudio, traducción y notas". MORUS – Utopia e Renascimento. 7: 27–41.
- Rose, H. J. (1939). "The date of Jambulus". The Classical Quarterly. 33: 9–10. S2CID 171081187.
- Winston, David (1976). "Iambulus' Island of the Sun and Hellenistic Literary Utopias". Science-Fiction Studies. 3: 219–227.
- "True History & Lucius or The Ass" by Lucian, translated by Paul Turner, Indiana University Press, 1974.