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Chargement... Pseudo-Skylax's Periplous: The Circumnavigation of the Inhabited World: Text, Translation and Commentarypar Graham Shipley, Pseudo-Skylax
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The text of the 'Periplous' or 'circumnavigation' is a highly significant geographical text by a 4th century BC author. It describes the coasts of the Mediterranean and Black Sea, and may have been written to demonstrate the size of the inhabited world of the ancient Greeks. This revised edition contains the text and translation, with full commentary. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Sometime already in Antiquity, however, his name became attached to this work, an otherwise anonymous periplous, or description of a (in this case fictitious) coastal voyage. On internal evidence it was probably written in Athens in the 330s.
Our imaginary journey begins in the neighbourhood of Cádiz, enters the Mediterranean, follows its coasts and those of the Black Sea clockwise, and continues down some of way along the Atlantic coast of Morocco. The level of detail varies considerably, apparently due to the account being cobbled together from a variety of different sources. Unsurprisingly, detail is richest and accuracy best along the coasts of Greece and western Asia Minor.
A big chunk of the book is taken up by Shipley's commentary, which largely tries to identify the various places mentioned on a modern map.
I'm interested in ancient geography, but this was decidely dry, with little of the ethnographical detail that enlivens for example the otherwise similar work of Pomponius Mela.