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Pseudo-Skylax's Periplous - The Circumnavigation of the Inhabited World: Text, Translation and Commentary (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Pseudo-Skylax's Periplous - The Circumnavigation of the Inhabited World: Text, Translation and Commentary (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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The text of the Periplous or 'circumnavigation' that survives under
the name of Skylax of Karyanda is in fact by an unknown author of
the 4th century BC. It describes the coasts of the Mediterranean
and Black Sea, naming hundreds of towns with geographical features
such as rivers, harbours and mountains. But, argues Graham Shipley,
it is not the record of a voyage or a navigational handbook for
sailors. It is, rather, the first work of Greek theoretical
geography, written in Athens at a time of intellectual ferment and
intense speculation about the nature and dimensions of the
inhabited world. While other scientists were gathering data about
natural science and political systems or making rapid advances in
philosophy, rhetorical theory, and cosmology, the unknown author
collected data about the structure of the lands bordering the seas
known to the Greeks, and compiled sailing distances and times along
well-frequented routes. His aim was probably nothing less ambitious
than to demonstrate the size of the inhabited world of the Greeks.
This is the first full edition of the Periplous for over 150 years,
and includes a newly revised Greek text and specially produced maps
along with the first complete English translation. Interest in
ancient geographical writings has never been so strong, yet many of
the key texts are inaccessible to those who do not read Greek. With
its relatively limited vocabulary and simple, yet varied, syntax,
it will provide a useful text for those moving beyond the
elementary study of ancient Greek language. In this fully reset
second edition, the introduction is expanded to include a section
on the late-antique geographer Markianos, and updates incorporated
into both the Introduction and Commentary.
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