Expositio totius mundi et gentium

Expositio totius mundi et gentium ("A description of the world and its people") is a brief "commercial-geographical"^[1] survey written by an anonymous citizen of the Roman Empire living during the reign of Constantius II. The Greek original, composed between AD 350 and 362,^[2] is now lost, but comes to us through two Latin translations made during the sixth century.

The work is composed of three parts. The first (§ 1-21) describes lands east of the Roman Empire and contains the most legendary and least accurate geographical information.^[3] The second part (§ 22–62), the longest, describes the mainland provinces of the Empire,^[4] while the third (§ 63–68) describes island provinces.^[5]

^ or Handelsgeographie
^ Grüll, 2014 p.630. See also §.3: "Dominus orbis terrarum Constantius imperator"
^ Grüll, 2014, p.631
^ In order: Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, Asia Minor (without mention of the Black Sea), The Balkans, Italy, The Danube regions, Gaul, Spain and North Africa
^ East to west, from Cyprus to Britain

[1] r Handelsgeographie

[2] Grüll, 2014 p.630. See also §.3: "Dominus orbis terrarum Constantius imperator"

[3] Grüll, 2014, p.631

[4] In order: Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, Asia Minor (without mention of the Black Sea), The Balkans, Italy, The Danube regions, Gaul, Spain and North Africa

[5] East to west, from Cyprus to Britain

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