Rufio Festo Avienio e Marciano di Eraclea. Metodologia e pratica della geografia in età tardo-antica fra Occidente e Oriente

• Autores: Varia Brillante
• Localización: Antiquité tardive: revue internationale d'histoire et d'archéologie, ISSN 1250-7334, Nº. 30, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Les Sassanides en conflit : géopolitique de l’empire perse tardo-antique), págs. 217-224
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • In this paper, the author shows the interconnections between the works of the Latin poet Avienius (notably his Ora maritima) and those of the Greek geographer, Marcianus of Heraclaea. Even though they are considered to be part of two different literary histories, they share such similarities, that they could be jointly seen as representing a peculiar moment in the development of Greek geographical writing. The first paragraph deals with their biographies and shows that both authors belong to a cultivated élite and probably worked in two periods of time not far from one another. Based on close parallels between their writings, the second paragraph stresses the similarities of their ways of working. Both authors consider the reading of various ancient texts more important for their geographical knowledge than a close observation of the world that they want to describe. In the last paragraph, the peculiarity of this position, never chosen before by other geographers, is further discussed.