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DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 286 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES , author of a Ilepu',' ais Tfis oiKov dv ls, a description of the habitable See also:world in See also:Greek See also:hexameter See also:verse, written in a terse and elegant See also:style. Nothing certain is known of the date or See also:nationality of the writer, but there is some See also:reason for believing that he was an Alexandrian, who wrote in the See also:time of See also:Hadrian (some put him as See also:late as the end of the 3rd See also:century). The See also:work enjoyed a high degree of popularity in See also:ancient times as a school-See also:book; it was translated into Latin by RufusFestus See also:Avienus, and by the grammarian See also:Priscian. The commentary of See also:Eustathius is valuable. The best See also:editions are by G. See also:Bernhardy (1828) and C. See also:Muller (1861) in their Geographici Greeci minores; see also E. H. See also:Bunbury, Ancient See also:Geography (ii. p. 48o), who regards the author as flourishing from the reign of See also:Nero to that of See also:Trajan, and U. See also:Bernays, Studien zu See also:Dion. Perieg.

(1905). There are two old See also:

English See also:translations: T. Twine (1572, See also:black See also:letter), J. See also:Free (1789, See also:blank verse).

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