• A periegesis (Ancient Greek περιήγησις 'leading around') is a geographical survey or travelogue, sometimes also called a periodos ' journey around' [sc...
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    Description of Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάδος Περιήγησις, romanized: Helládos Periḗgēsis) is a work by the ancient geographer Pausanias (c. 110 – c. 180). Pausanias'...
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    is famous for his Description of Greece (Ἑλλάδος Περιήγησις, Hēlládos Periḗgēsis), a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from his firsthand observations...
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    information on the genealogy of Iaso, see Panacea. Pausanias (author of Periegesis of Greece) wrote this of Amphiaraus in Oropos, Attica, in the 2nd century...
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    IV. 16; Ps.-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke, II. 5. 9; Pausanias, Hellados Periegesis, V. 10. 9; Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica, VI. 240 sqq; Hyginus, Fabulae...
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    Oxford University Press: 2004, pp. 44–47 "Suda, π, 825". Pausanias, Periegesis vi.25.1; Aphrodite Pandemos was represented in the same temple riding...
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    there was a Syracusian marsh (λίμνη) called Syrako and secondly Marcian's Periegesis wherein Archias gave the city the name of a nearby marsh; hence one gets...
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    Dictionary. Aristotle. Meteorologica, I.XIV. Homer, Iliad, II, 498. Pausanias, Periegesis, book 5, p. 136. Malkin, Irad (1998). The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization...
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    ISBN 978-2-84100-435-5.. Papachatzis, Nikolaos D. Pausaniou Ellados Periegesis – Attika Athens, 1974. Tournikio, Panayotis. Parthenon. Abrams: 1996....
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    author of Genealogies (Γενεαλογίαι) and of Description of the Earth or Periegesis (Περίοδος Γῆς or Περιήγησις), where the Illyrians are described as a barbarian...
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    Hellenica. 5.1.31. Xenophon. Hellenica. 6.3.1-5. Pausanias. Hellados Periegesis [Description of Greece]. 9.13.8. Stylianou, P.J. (1998). A Historical...
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  • of a classical work on geography, the Latin version by Priscian of the Periegesis, that was among the manuscripts in the Cotton library (MS. Tiberius B...
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  • didactic poem Phaenomena. He also took a popular Greek poem in hexameters, Periegesis, briefly delimiting the habitable world from the perspective of Alexandria...
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    and that he had a pillar erected in his name on the edge of the sea (Periegesis, 183). Some have claimed this is a geographical reference to northern...
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    comment, the scholia, Avienius' Descriptio orbis terrarum and Priscian's Periegesis). Müller, Karl, ed. (1861). Geographi Graeci minores e codicibus recognovit...
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    served the same purpose as the later Roman itinerarium of road stops. The periegesis, or "progress around" was an established literary genre during the Hellenistic...
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    geōgraphia, "description of the earth" chōrographia, "description of the land" periēgēsis, "an outline" periodos gēs, "circuit of the earth" periodeia tēs chōrās...
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    Strabo (Geography), Eratosthenes (Geographika) or Dionysius Periegetes (Periegesis Oiceumene) in the Ancient Age. In more modern times, these works include...
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  • 978-2-37425-153-0 Harmonica vitrea Anna Elissa Radke Modern Latin - - 1992 Periegesis Amatoria Geneviève Immè Modern Latin - - 1991 Carmina Traian Lăzărescu...
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    Perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2012-05-06. "Tes palai kai tes nyn oikoumenes periegesis, sive, Dionysii geographia : emendata & locupletata, additione scil. geographiae...
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    hippopotamus, and phoenix from Hecataeus's Circumnavigation of the Known World (Periegesis / Periodos ges), even misrepresenting the source as "Heliopolitans" (Histories 2...
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    Storia e Monumenti". Sassari: Carlo Delfino Editore. Pausanias. Hellados Periegesis [Description of Greece]. IX, 17, 5. Lilliu, Giovanni. "Arte e religione...
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    Routledge. pp. 483–. ISBN 978-1-134-25958-8. (Ἑλλάδος περιήγησις Hellados Periegesis 10.17.5 μετὰ δὲ Ἀρισταῖον Ἴβηρες ἐς τὴν Σαρδὼ διαβαίνουσιν ὑπὸ ἡγεμόνι...
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    near the town of Themiscyra. Starting with Dionysius Periegetes, in his Periegesis of the World, the Thermodon is often confused with the Iris River (modern...
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  • written in Classical Greek. It is an account of the world (περιήγησις, periegesis) in 'comic' iambic trimeters which is dedicated to a King Nicomedes of...
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    Johannes Alexander Gaertner. 1972. Carmina by Traian Lăzărescu 1991. Periegesis Amatoria by Geneviève Immè. [la] 1992. Harmonica vitrea by Anna Elissa...
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    Fowler, p. 316; Fontenrose, p. 352 Pausanias. Ἑλλάδος Περιήγησις [Hellados Periegesis = Description of Greece]. 2.2.1. Hawthorne, John (1958). "The myth of...
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    transmitted by the Greeks: the historian and geographer Hecataeus of Miletus (Periegesis), the seafarer and explorer Pytheas of Massilia (On the Ocean) (both of...
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  • Aurea spectetur tibi pinguibus insula glebis”; Priscianus Caesariensis, Periegesis Prisciani (lines 593-594), in Habes candide lector in hoc opere Prisciani...
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    works written long after the heyday of the sanctuary. Pausanias, whose Periegesis of Greece is our key source for most of the major sites of mainland Greece...
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