Statius Sebosus

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Statius Sebosus was an ancient Roman geographer, whose writings are lost, apart from a few excerpts, in the Naturalis historia of Pliny the Elder . He lived between the early 1st century BC. And the time of Pliny, who names him as an informant for the distance from Meroe to the Mediterranean coast, further for the distance of the Hesperides Islands and the Fortunates ( Canary Islands ) and finally for a Ganges monster. From this it can be seen that Statius Sebosus dealt with areas on the periphery of the known world. The exact content of his work is not known, which Pliny may not use directly, but through excerpts from an earlier author such as Varro .

literature

  • FF Hudemann: The Roman navigator Statius Sebosus . In: Journal for antiquity studies . 10th year, Kassel 1852, columns 17-23 .
  • Klaus Sallmann : The geography of the elder Pliny in its relationship to Varro . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1971, p. 42 .
  • Klaus Sallmann: Statius [II 5]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , Sp. 929.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 6, 183.
  2. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 6, 202.
  3. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 9, 46.
personal data
SURNAME Statius Sebosus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sebosus, Statius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman geographer
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1st century BC Chr.