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Isidore of Charax (Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Χαρακηνός, Isídōros o Charakēnós; Isidorus Characenus) was a Greco-Roman geographer of the 1st century BC and 1st century AD, a citizen of the Parthian Empire, about whom nothing is known but his name and that he wrote at least one work.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 36 relations: Antioch, Arabs, Athenaeus, Augustus, Book, Caravan (travellers), Characene, Charax, Charax Spasinu, Close reading, Deipnosophistae, Geographer, Geographical distance, Greece in the Roman era, Guide book, Historiography, India, Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller, List of Roman emperors, List of satirists and satires, Literary fragment, Longevity, Lucian, Mansio, Natural History (Pliny), Parthia, Parthian Empire, Pearl hunting, Persian Gulf, Phraates IV, Pliny the Elder, Roman Armenia, Schoenus, Tiridates II of Parthia, Trade route, Wilfred Harvey Schoff.

  2. 1st-century BC geographers
  3. 1st-century geographers
  4. Ancient Greek geographers
  5. Ancient Roman geographers
  6. People from the Parthian Empire

Antioch

Antioch on the Orontes (Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou)Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Δάφνῃ "Antioch on Daphne"; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ Μεγάλη "Antioch the Great"; Antiochia ad Orontem; Անտիոք Antiokʽ; ܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ Anṭiokya; אנטיוכיה, Anṭiyokhya; أنطاكية, Anṭākiya; انطاکیه; Antakya.

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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Athenaeus

Athenaeus of Naucratis (Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, Athēnaios Naukratitēs or Naukratios; Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD.

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Augustus

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire.

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Book

A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images.

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Caravan (travellers)

A caravan (from Persian) or cafila (from Arabic) is a group of people traveling together, often on a trade expedition.

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Characene

Characene (Ancient Greek: Χαρακηνή), also known as Mesene (Μεσσήνη) or Meshan, was a kingdom founded by the Iranian Hyspaosines located at the head of the Persian Gulf mostly within modern day Iraq.

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Charax

Charax (Χάραξ) may refer to.

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Charax Spasinu

Charax Spasinu, also called Charax Spasinou, Charax Pasinu, Spasinu Charax (ΣπασίνουΧάραξ), Alexandria (Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια) or Antiochia in Susiana (Greek: Ἀντιόχεια τῆς Σουσιανῆς), was an ancient port at the head of the Persian Gulf in modern day Iraq, and the capital of the ancient kingdom of Characene.

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Close reading

In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text.

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Deipnosophistae

The Deipnosophistae is an early 3rd-century AD Greek work (Δειπνοσοφισταί, Deipnosophistaí, lit. "The Dinner Sophists/Philosophers/Experts") by the Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis.

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Geographer

A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts.

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Geographical distance

Geographical distance or geodetic distance is the distance measured along the surface of the Earth, or the shortest arch length.

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Greece in the Roman era

Greece in the Roman era (Greek: Έλλάς, Latin: Graecia) describes the Roman conquest of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically.

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Guide book

A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists".

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Historiography

Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller

Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller (Carolus Müllerus; 13 February 1813 in Clausthal – 1894 in Göttingen) is best known for his still-useful Didot editions of fragmentary Greek authors, especially the monumental five-volume Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG) (1841–1870), which is not yet completely superseded by the series Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker begun by Felix Jacoby.

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List of Roman emperors

The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward.

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List of satirists and satires

This is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for involvement in satire – humorous social criticism.

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Literary fragment

A literary fragment is a piece of text that may be part of a larger work, or that employs a 'fragmentary' form characterised by physical features such as short paragraphs or sentences separated by white space, and thematic features such as discontinuity, ambivalence, ambiguity, or lack of a traditional narrative structure.

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Longevity

Longevity may refer to especially long-lived members of a population, whereas life expectancy is defined statistically as the average number of years remaining at a given age.

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Lucian

Lucian of Samosata (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal.

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Mansio

In the Roman Empire, a mansio (from the Latin word mansus, the perfect passive participle of manere "to remain" or "to stay") was an official stopping place on a Roman road, or via, maintained by the central government for the use of officials and those on official business whilst travelling.

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Natural History (Pliny)

The Natural History (Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder.

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Parthia

Parthia (𐎱𐎼𐎰𐎺 Parθava; 𐭐𐭓𐭕𐭅Parθaw; 𐭯𐭫𐭮𐭥𐭡𐭥 Pahlaw) is a historical region located in northeastern Greater Iran.

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Parthian Empire

The Parthian Empire, also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political and cultural power centered in ancient Iran from 247 BC to 224 AD.

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Pearl hunting

Pearl hunting, also known as pearling, is the activity of recovering or attempting to recover pearls from wild molluscs, usually oysters or mussels, in the sea or freshwater.

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Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.

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Phraates IV

Phraates IV (also spelled Frahad IV; 𐭐𐭓𐭇𐭕 Frahāt) was King of Kings of the Parthian Empire from 37 to 2 BC.

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Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. Isidore of Charax and Pliny the Elder are 1st-century geographers and ancient Roman geographers.

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Roman Armenia

Roman Armenia refers to the rule of parts of Greater Armenia by the Roman Empire from the 1st century AD to the end of Late Antiquity.

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Schoenus

Schoenus (schœnus; σχοίνος, schoinos, "rush rope"; i͗trw, "river-measure") was an ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman unit of length and area based on the knotted cords first used in Egyptian surveying.

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Tiridates II of Parthia

Tiridates II of Parthia was set up by the Parthians against Phraates IV in about 32 BC, but was expelled when Phraates returned with the help of the Scythians.

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Trade route

A trade route is a logistical network identified as a series of pathways and stoppages used for the commercial transport of cargo.

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Wilfred Harvey Schoff

Wilfred Harvey Schoff (1874–1932) was an early twentieth-century American antiquarian and classical scholar.

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See also

1st-century BC geographers

1st-century geographers

Ancient Greek geographers

Ancient Roman geographers

People from the Parthian Empire

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_of_Charax

Also known as Isidore Charax, Isidorus Characenus, Isidorus of Charax, Parthian Stations.