Isidore of Charax
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Isidore of Charax (
Name
Isidore's name has been interpreted by editor and translator W.H. Schoff[2] to indicate that he was from the city of Charax in Characene on the northern end of the present Persian Gulf. However, the Greek charax merely means "palisade" and there were several fortified towns that bore the name (see Charax).
Parthian Stations
Isidore's best known work is "The
In its surviving form, "The Parthian Stations" appears to be a summary from some larger work. A reference in
The 1st-century
The 2nd-century
A collection of translations of the various fragments attributed to Isidore of Charax were published with commentary in "The Parthian Stations", a forty-six-page booklet by Wilfred Harvey Schoff in 1914. The Greek text in that volume is that established by Karl Müller.[7]
References
- ^ Davis, Richard (2002). "Greece ix. Greek and Persian Romances". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XI, Fasc. 4. pp. 339–342.
- ^ Schoff, Wilfred H. (1914), Parthian Stations by Isidore of Charax: The Greek text, with a translation and commentary, Philadelphia: Commercial Museum
- ^ Athenaeus of Naucratis. Deipnosophistae, iii.46.
- ^ Pliny, Natural History vi.31.
- ^ Pliny. Natural History, ii.112, iv.5, iv.30, iv.37, v.6, v.9, v.35-39, v.43.
- ^ Lucian of Samosata. Macrobii 15 and 18
- ^ Müller, Karl. Geographi Græci Minores, I, pp. 244–256. Paris, 1853.