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- the world]. It is the name of several books: Periegesis of Greece, Ἑλλάδος περιήγησις, or ****ados Periegesis, in prose, usually translated as Description...
- is famous for his Description of Greece (Ἑλλάδος Περιήγησις, Hēlládos Periḗgēsis), a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from his firsthand observations...
- IV. 16; Ps.-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke, II. 5. 9; Pausanias, ****ados Periegesis, V. 10. 9; Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica, VI. 240 sqq; Hyginus, Fabulae...
- written in classical Gr****. It is an account of the world (περιήγησις, periegesis) in 'comic' iambic trimeters which is dedicated to a King Nicomedes of...
- comment, the scholia, Avienius' Descriptio orbis terrarum and Priscian's Periegesis). Müller, Karl, ed. (1861). Geographi Graeci minores e codicibus recognovit...
- Description of Greece (Ancient Gr****: Ἑλλάδος Περιήγησις, romanized: ****ádos Periḗgēsis) is the only surviving work by the ancient "geographer" or tourist Pausanias...
- didactic poem Phaenomena. He also took a po****r Gr**** poem in hexameters, Periegesis, briefly delimiting the habitable world from the perspective of Alexandria...
- served the same purpose as the later Roman itinerarium of road stops. The periegesis, or "progress around" was an established literary genre during the ****enistic...
- 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...
- ****enica. 5.1.31. Xenophon. ****enica. 6.3.1-5. Pausanias. ****ados Periegesis [Description of Greece]. 9.13.8. Stylianou, P.J. (1998). A Historical...