Author:Dionysius Periegetes

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Dionysius Periegetes
(c. 100 – 2nd century/140)

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literally Dionysius the Voyager or Traveller, also knonw as Dionysius of Alexandria, ancient author of a description of the then-known world in Greek.

Works

Περιήγησις τῆς οἰκουμένης

English translations:

Thomas Twine, The surueye of the vvorld, or situation of the earth, &c. (1572), in Middle English Google Books ;
John Free, Dyonisius, translated into blank verse, from the Greek of Dr. Wells's edition, in Tyrocinium geographicum Londinense (1790) IA;
Jane L. Lightfoot, Description of the Known World (Oxford, 2014).

Works about Dionysius

"Dionysius Periegetes," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1931, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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