Geography
We know that in his description of Asia he stated the distances of places from one
another, and that the countries beyond the river Tanais were unknown to him. The work in
which he gave the results of his investigations, is called by Marcianus of Heracleia, a
περίπλους, and seems to be the same as the one more
commonly called called τὰ γεωγραφούμενα, or τὰ τῆς γεωγραφίας Βιβλία. It consisted of eleven books, of
which Marcianus afterwards made an abridgement. The original work, which was highly valued
by the ancients, and is quoted in innumerable passages by Strabo, Stephanus of Byzantium,
Pliny, Isidorus, and others, is lost ; but we possess many small fragments and some larger
ones of Marcianus' abridgement, which contain the periplus of the Pontus Euxeinus, and
accounts of Bithynia and Paphlagonia. The loss of this important work is to be regretted,
not only on account of the geographical information which it contained, but also because the
author entered into the description of the manners and costumes of the nations he spoke
of.
Editions
The fragments of Artemidorus were first collected and published by D. Höschel
in his Geographica, Aug. Vindel. 1600, 4to.The best collection is that in Hudson's Geographi Minores, vol. i.Two small fragments, not contained in Hudson, have been published by Van Goens in his
edition of Porphyrius's Antrum Nympharum, p. 87, and
a third, containing a description of the Nile is printed in Aretin's Beilträge zur Gesch. und Lit. vol. ii. p. 49, &c.
(Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 185, with the notes of Westermann.)