Isidore of Charax

Isidore of Charax ( at the time around ) was a Greek geographer writing from Charax the Augustan age, who wrote a book on geodesy. This book probably contained a travelogue of the Parthian Empire ( Mansiones Parthicae " Parthian way stations "). It is one of the very few preserved ancient writings that come from a Parthian or at least one grown in the Parthian person and is maintained at least in part.

The plant will be commissioned by Emperor Augustus in order. From Isidore of Charax a description of pearl divers in the Persian Gulf is obtained.

The fragments are collected in The fragments of Greek historians (No. 781) as well as in Brill 's New Jacoby ( there with an English translation, a new commentary and almost a biographical overview of Duane Roller).