Cosmas Indicopleustes
Also: Cosmas the Monk, Constantine of Antioch
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.
Merchant of Alexandria who sailed the Red Sea in the 520s and later wrote the Christian Topography.
Wrote in Greek.
Places lived
- 540 to 550Alexandria, Egyptwriteryears probable, place probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- Christian TopographyTwelve books that argue from the Bible that the world has the shape of the tabernacle of Moses, with notes on his own voyages.142,879 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- W. Wolska-Conus, Cosmas Indicopleustès, Topographie chrétienne (Sources chrétiennes 141, 1968), introduction; J. W. McCrindle (1897), introduction, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/cosmas_00_0_eintro.htm
- Place of birth not known
- W. Wolska-Conus, Cosmas Indicopleustès, Topographie chrétienne (Sources chrétiennes 141, 1968), introduction; J. W. McCrindle (1897), introduction, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/cosmas_00_0_eintro.htm
- Died not known
- W. Wolska-Conus, Cosmas Indicopleustès, Topographie chrétienne (Sources chrétiennes 141, 1968), introduction; J. W. McCrindle (1897), introduction, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/cosmas_00_0_eintro.htm
After about 550. - Place of death not known
- W. Wolska-Conus, Cosmas Indicopleustès, Topographie chrétienne (Sources chrétiennes 141, 1968), introduction; J. W. McCrindle (1897), introduction, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/cosmas_00_0_eintro.htm
- Alexandria, years probable
- W. Wolska-Conus, Cosmas Indicopleustès, Topographie chrétienne (Sources chrétiennes 141, 1968), introduction; J. W. McCrindle (1897), introduction, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/cosmas_00_0_eintro.htm
- Alexandria, place probable
- W. Wolska-Conus, Cosmas Indicopleustès, Topographie chrétienne (Sources chrétiennes 141, 1968), introduction; J. W. McCrindle (1897), introduction, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/cosmas_00_0_eintro.htm