Egeria
Also: Etheria, Aetheria, Silvia of Aquitaine (an old wrong name)
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.
A woman from the far west of the Roman world who travelled to Sinai, Jerusalem and Mesopotamia and wrote it all down for her sisters at home.
Wrote in Latin.
Places lived
- 381 to 384Hierosolyma (now Jerusalem)pilgrimyears probable
- 384Constantinopolis (now Istanbul, Turkey)pilgrimyears not sure, place probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- Itinerary (The Pilgrimage of Egeria)A pilgrim's letter to her sisters on the holy places she saw and on how the church of Jerusalem kept its feasts.28,954 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egeria_(pilgrim): not known
- Place of birth not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egeria_(pilgrim): not known; Gallaecia in Spain (Férotin) or southern Gaul have been proposed
- Died not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egeria_(pilgrim): not known
- Place of death not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egeria_(pilgrim): not known
- Hierosolyma, years probable
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egeria_(pilgrim): the usual dating of her three years at Jerusalem (P. Devos 1967); a few scholars put her later
- Hierosolyma, place sure
- Her own text, the second half of which describes the services at Jerusalem; site: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/687928
- Constantinopolis, years not sure
- Her own text, chapter 23: she arrives at Constantinople and writes from there
- Constantinopolis, place probable
- Her own text, chapter 23; site: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/520998