Julius Honorius, also known as Julius Orator, was a teacher of geography during

Late Antiquity Late antiquity marks the period that comes after the end of classical antiquity and stretches into the onset of the Early Middle Ages. Late antiquity as a period was popularized by Peter Brown (historian), Peter Brown in 1971, and this periodiza ...

. He is known only by a single work, ''Cosmographia'', which is a set of notes he had written down by one of his students while he lectured about a world map (''sphaera''), and by references to this work by later writers such as

Cassiodorus Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585), commonly known as Cassiodorus (), was a Christian Roman statesman, a renowned scholar and writer who served in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. ''Senato ...

. The importance of the ''Cosmographia'' is that it is one of very few geographical works of this period in which any reliance can be placed. A number of variant manuscripts exist, which have been studied by Nicolet & Gautier Dalché. The only (relatively) modern print version was as one of a collection of fragmentary texts published by Riese. Nothing else is known of his life, and even the date of the ''Cosmographia'' is not known with certainty. The reference by

puts it prior to the mid 6th century. The most recent study, by Modéran, suggests a late 4th century date. An attempt to reconstruct the ''sphaera'' was made by Kubitschek and by Konrad Miller.Konrad Miller
"Sphaera Julii Honorii"
/ref>

References

Bibliography

*Nicolet, C. & Gautier Dalché, P. "Les quatre sages de Jules César et la mesure du monde selon Julius Honorius", ''Journal des Savants'' Oct.-Dec. 1986, 157–218. *Riese, A. 1878. ''Geographi latini minores collegit, recensuit, prolegomenis instruxit''. Henninger Bros, Heilbronn. *Monda, S., "La Cosmographia di Giulio Onorio. Un exceptum scolastico tardo-antico", Roma 2008. {{DEFAULTSORT:Julius Honorius Latin-language writers of late antiquity Ancient Roman writers Ancient geographers Classical geography