• Pseudo-Scymnus is the name given by Augustus Meineke to the unknown author of a work on geography written in Classical Greek, the Periodos to Nicomedes...
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  • clearly that there were no grounds for ascribing them to that Scymnus. The real work of Scymnus of Chios appears to have been in prose and the few statements...
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    (c. 276–194 BC) Scymnus (fl. 180s BC) Hipparchus (c. 190–120 BC) Agatharchides (2nd century BC) Posidonius (c. 135–51 BC) Pseudo-Scymnus (c. 90 BC) Diodorus...
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    from Thessalonica, may be identified with the promontory Aeneium of Pseudo-Scymnus. Aeneia must therefore have been further north than Pydna. It was colonised...
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  • his predecessor to the throne. Pseudo-Scymnus, Circuit of the Earth 587 ff. Eustathius on Homer, p. 277 Pseudo-Scymnus, Circuit of the Earth 587 ff.;...
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    Turkey. According to the geographer Scymnus, Elaeus was founded by settlers from Ionian Teos, while the Pseudo-Scymnus writes that it was a colony of Athens...
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    21–23) makes no mention of the Hyperboreans or their spherical temple. Pseudo-Scymnus, around 90 BC, wrote that Boreas dwelled at the extremity of Gaulish...
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     189, 12.9.2. Stanley & Bernasconi 2009, p. 76, 82. Varro 1934, 1.44. Pseudo-Scymnus, Periodos to Nicomedes 360 Strabo 1924, 6.1.13. Aristotle 1932, 5.1303a...
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  • developed by Assyrians: an ancient catalog of constellations. Strabo, Geographica 3.5.5 Pseudo Scymnus or Pausanias of Damascus, Circuit of the Earth, 160-164...
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    Maron, a son of Dionysus, or even a companion of Osiris. According to Pseudo-Scymnus it was founded by Chios in the fourth year of the fifty-ninth Olympiad...
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    Athenaeus, Deipnosophists Pseudo Scymnus or Pausanias of Damascus, Circuit of the Earth, 170-171 GREEK IMAGE OF THE INDIAN SOCIETY Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis...
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    (Ἠμαθία) after its occupation by Philip II of Macedon. According to Pseudo-Scymnus, it was named Emathia after the daughter of Makesse. It was considered...
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    before the coming of the Greeks on the west seashore of the Black Sea. Pseudo-Scymnus writes: "...Around the city [Odessos] lives the Thracian tribe named...
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  • Latin translation of Dionysius Periegesis Prisciani, in hexameter Pseudo-Scymnus's Scymni Chii Periegesis, correctly called Περίοδος του Νικομήδη Mnaseas...
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    around the mouth of the river Tyras (Dniester) recorded in a fragment of Pseudo-Scymnus (composed c. 90 BC) the Harpii, located near the Danube Delta, mentioned...
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    modern İskenderun, is only recorded as a foundation of Alexander by Pseudo-Scymnus, and some recensions of the Alexander Romance; a seal found nearby bears...
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    Consolation to Helvia 7 Strabo 14.1.6 Pliny the Elder, Natural History 5.112 Pseudo-Scymnus, 941‑952 Eusebius, 2.81 Alexandru Avram, "The Territories of Istros...
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    See Strabo XII.iii.1 1; Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 14.31.2; Pseudo-Scymnus 995-96; Eusebius, Chronographia 631/30 BCE; See also Doonan, Sinop Landscapes...
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    Circumnavigation of the World, whose anonymous author is called the "Pseudo-Scymnus," places two tin islands in the upper part of the Adriatic Sea and mentioned...
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    rose to power "by no other means than by superiority in fighting". Pseudo-Scymnus (2nd century BC) in reference to the social organisation of Illyrian...
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    AL4. Aulon AL5. Chimara AL6. Bouthroton AL7. Oricum AL8. Thronion * Pseudo-Scymnus writes that some say that the city of Bizone belongs to the barbarians...
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    Formation of the Greek People. Routledge. p. 217. ISBN 978-1-136-19586-0. Pseudo-Scymnus, Periodos to Nicomedes 318–319 Wonder, John W. (2012). "The Italiote...
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    the oecist, or founder, as Typhon of Aegium. Others sources such as Pseudo-Scymnus claim that it was founded by Croton. A. J. Graham does not consider...
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    the promontory of Aeneium described in the Periodos to Nicomedes of Pseudo-Scymnus, and was probably the site of the ancient city of Aenea. The smaller...
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    Also according to Pseudo-Scymnus in the 2nd century BC the end of the Illyrian land was around Oricum in the Bay of Vlorë. Pseudo-Scymnus as well as Lucian...
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    2013. Monfort 1999, p. 11. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, §A11.1 Pseudo Scymnus or Pausanias of Damascus, Circuit of the Earth, § 208 "Une histoire...
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  • Athena in the temple of Ares, at Athens, is mentioned by Pausanias. Pseudo-Scymnus, Circuit of the Earth 587 ff. Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 15 Eustathius...
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  • companions of Diomedes into birds. Strabo, 2.5.20 Antoninus Liberalis, 37 Pseudo Scymnus or Pausanias of Damascus, Circuit of the Earth, 425 Pliny the Elder...
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  • Lycaon). Strabo just called him archaios hegemon (old chieftain), and Pseudo-Scymnus, gêgenês basileus (earth-born king). Isidore of Seville, "rege Deucalionis...
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    broader 2014 Crimean crisis. Cape Mykolaia Pseudo Scymnus or Pausanias of Damascus, Circuit of the Earth, 953 Pseudo Scylax, Periplous, 68 Strabo, Geography...
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