Streontion

Streontion ( Greek  Στρεόντιον ) is a place name given in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the more northerly in the interior of Germania (πόλεις) with 31 'longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 52 ° 10' latitude or 52 ° 20 'latitude becomes. According to Ptolemy, Streontion lies between Bogadion and Amisia . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed.

So far the place could not be located safely. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemy, is currently (2016) locating streontion according to the corrected ancient coordinates in the region around today's Bad Driburg in North Rhine-Westphalia ; thus the polis could have been another station on Hellweg - one of the most important east-west routes in Germania magna.

Remarks

1. ^ Ptolemy, Geographia ( 2, 11, 13 )
2. ^ Hermann Reichert :  Streontion. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 30, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018385-4 , p. 78. ( payable via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
3. ^ Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch, Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decoding of Ptolemy's "Atlas of the Oikumene". Scientific Buchgesell., Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 , p. 46.

literature

• Hermann Reichert :  Streontion. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 30, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018385-4 , p. 78. ( payable via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
• Hermann Reichert :  Streounintia. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 30, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018385-4 , pp. 78-79. ( chargeable via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
• Hermann Reichert :  Ptolemaeus. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 23, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017535-5 , pp. 567-597. ( chargeable via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
• Alfred Stückelberger, Gerd Graßhoff (ed.): Ptolemaios, Handbook of Geography (Greek-German) . Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-7965-2148-7 (work in 2 half-volumes, with CD-ROM).
• Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: The old Germanic toponyms as well as non-Germanic toponyms of Germania. A handbook on its etymology using a bibliography by Robert Nedoma. Published by Hermann Reichert (= Philologica Germanica 34). Fassbaender, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902575-62-3 , pp. 320–321.

Web links

• Edition of Geographike Hyphegesis with translation and map of Germania magna , accessed on November 16, 2016
• Google Earth in ancient times. In: Der Spiegel. 39/2010, accessed November 16, 2016