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Dionysius Periegetes - Description of the Known World With Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
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Dionysius Periegetes - Description of the Known World With Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
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In this volume, Lightfoot offers a detailed study of an ancient
Greek geographical poem by Dionysius, a scholar-poet who flourished
in Alexandria during the reign of Hadrian, which describes the
world as it was then known. In antiquity, it was widely read and
extremely influential, both in the schoolroom and among later
poets. Translated into Latin, the subject of commentaries, and
popular in Byzantium, it offers insights into multiple traditions
of ancient geography, both literary and more scientific, and
displays interesting affiliations to the earlier school of
Alexandrian poets. The introductory essays discuss the poem's place
in the literary context of ancient geography, focusing on its
language, style, and metre, whereby Dionysius shows himself a
particularly painstaking heir of the Hellenistic poets, and
illustrates how intricately he interlaces sources and models to
produce a mosaic of geographical learning. Particular emphasis is
given to Dionysius' place in the ancient tradition of didactic
poetry, and to his artful manipulations of ancient ethnographical
convention to produce a vision of a bounteous, ordered, and
harmonious world in the high days of the Roman Empire. The
commentary, supported by a fresh edition and English translation,
discusses Dionysius as a geographer but, above all, as a literary
artist. This volume contributes to the revival of interest in, and
appreciation of, imperial hexameter poetry, and brings to the fore
a poem that deserves to be every bit as well-known as its
Hellenistic counterpart, the Phaenomena of Aratus.
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