Pomponius Mela: Geography of the World: Translation and Commentary

This volume offers a fresh translation and the first English-language commentary of Pomponius Mela, an Iberian intellectual who wrote a three-book geographical description of the Roman world under the emperor Claudius. The translation is as faithful to the original Latin as possible to give the Latinless reader a real taste of Mela's style.

In the detailed commentary, Irby highlights Mela's sources (Herodotus, Sallust, and Caesar, among others) and stylistic influences, including Vergil, Ovi...