Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest known Roman geographer. He was born in Tingentera (now Algeciras) and died c. AD 45. His short...

lived "beneath another sky" than the Romans. The 1st-century geographer Pomponius Mela asserted that the lands of the Seres formed the center of the coast...

parts of Africa from Libya to the Red Sea. In his work Chorographia, Pomponius Mela mentions that they own no resources, and rather than speak, they make...

between. He was likely also the first person to use the word "geography". Pomponius Mela is unique among ancient geographers in that, after dividing the earth...

Τυρκαι (Turcae) may be an anachronism, and when Pliny the Elder and Pomponius Mela speak of "Tyrcae" it is possibly due to a false correction. Ellis Hovell...

world maps according to Strabo are reconstructions from his written text. Pomponius is unique among ancient geographers in that, after dividing the Earth...

of Achillea or Leuce with today's Snake Island. Pliny's contemporary Pomponius Mela (c. 43 AD) tells that Achilles was buried on an island named Achillea...

Marcellinus lists them as investigators of "obscure and profound subjects". Pomponius Mela was the first author to say that the druids' instruction was secret...

remained in common use throughout antiquity. The Roman geographer Pomponius Mela said that the inhabited earth ‘is entirely surrounded by the Ocean,...

say precisely to which (if any) of the three nations they belonged. Pomponius Mela, in his Description of the World (III.3.31) described the Hermiones...