Day's journey

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A day's journey in pre-modern literature, including the Bible[1][2] and ancient geographers and ethnographers such as Herodotus, is a measurement of distance.

In the Bible, it is not as precisely defined as other Biblical measurements of distance; the distance has been estimated from 32 to 40 kilometers (20 to 25 miles). Judges 19 records a party of three people and two mules who traveled from Bethlehem to Gibeah, a distance of about 10 miles, in an afternoon. Porter[3] notes that a mule can travel about 3 miles per hour, covering 24 miles in an eight-hour day.

Another citation comes from Priscus (fr. 8 in Müller's Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum) and is translated thus by J. B. Bury: We set out with the barbarians, and arrived at Sardica, which is thirteen days for a fast traveller from Constantinople. From Constantinople (Istanbul) to Sofia is 550–720 km (311–447 mi.) distance; the passage, then, implies a pace between 42 and 55 km /day (26–34 mi./day).

Based on a comprehensive review of references in Herodotus, Geus[4] concludes that "Herodotus has a very well-defined notion of what distance a traveller can cover under normal circumstances in a day (between 150 and 200 stades or roughly, between 27 and 40 kilometres )," though he cites some exceptional examples of over 100 km (62 mi.) per day.

Notes

  1. ^ Numbers 11:31
  2. ^ 1 Kings 19:4
  3. ^ International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, article "Day's Journey"
  4. ^ Klaus Geus, "A Day's Journey in Herodotus' Histories", in: Klaus Geus and Martin Thiering (Eds.), Common Sense Geography and Mental Modelling, Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2012, 110–118


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