LATER GEOGRAPHERS. 



ISIDOR OF SEVILLE. 



In his work Originum sive Etymologiarum Libri XX, Isidor of 

 Seville^ refers to Dor in the following terras (Bk. XV, ch. 1) : Dor 

 urbs fuit quondam potentissima, et versa vice Stratonis turris, 

 postea ab Herode, rege ludaeae, in honorem Caesaris Aiigusti Cae- 

 sarea nuncupata. In qua Cornelii domum Christi vidit^ ecclesia^, 

 et Philippi aediculas, et cubiculum quatuor virginum prophetarum. 



Isidorus Hispalensis lived from 565 to 636 A. D., becoming 

 bishop of Seville in 600. The work from which the passage above 

 is quoted is a comj^ilation of various sources. Among these 

 sources* are included Orosius, Jerome's Onomasticon, Solinus, Ser- 

 vius on Vergil, Josephus' Antiquities and Suetonius. His work 

 has not, therefore, the value of an original source. 



How little his knowledge of geography really was is indicated by 

 Isidor's evident confusion (in the passage quoted) of Dor and Cae- 

 sarea. In some way his sources seem to have given him the idea 

 that Dor was but another name for Strato's Tower; possibly on a 

 map the names were written confusedly^ The mention of bishops 

 of Dor contemporary with Isidor" clearly proves that the city was 

 in existence in his day. 



GEOGRAPHUS RAVENNAS. 



From the seventh century there has come down to us the work 

 of an anonymous writer on geography, who is referred to as Geog- 

 raphus Ravennas. His main source appears to be the Tabula Peu- 

 tingeriana; in addition he used several Greek writers as sources\ 



1 Ed. F. V. Otto, p. 462. (=Tom III Corpus Gram. Lat. Vet.) 

 2Var., "videt", "est". 



2 Var. " ecclesiam ". 



^ K. Miller, Mappae Mundi, VI, p. 59. 



5 K. Miller (Mappae Mundi, VI, Map 2) has tentatively reconstructed a 

 map on the basis of the work of Isidor. On this map "dor Cesarea " 

 appears between Tyrus and Joppe.— There are several T-shaped sketch 

 maps preserved in MSS. of this writer. 



^ See chapter on " Bishops of Dor ". 



' Miller, Mappae Mundi, VI, p. 34. 



