Skymnos
Skymnos of Chios (Greek Σκύμνος ) was a Greek geographer , probably identical to 185/84 BC. In Delphi as Proxenus honored son of Apelles. He was the author of a Periegesis ("description of the earth", Greek Περιήγησις ) in (at least) 16 books, which is lost today except for fragments.
A Periegesis in the form of a didactic poem written in iambs , of which about 1000 verses have survived, was initially attributed to Marcianus Heracleotes. In 1630 Lukas Holste held the poem for the lost Periegesis of Skymnos of Chios, but this is not possible because the Periegesis of Skymos of Chios was a prose text . The anonymous didactic poem is cited as the Periegesis of the pseudo-Skymnos , or, since it is dedicated to a king Nicomedes, who today with Nicomedes III. of Bithynia is identified as Periegesis ad Nicomedem regem .
expenditure
- David Höschel : Geographica Marciani Heracleotae, Scylacis Caryandensis, Artemidori Ephesii, Dicaearchi Messenii, Isidori Characeni. Augsburg 1600.
- Frédéric Morell: Marciani Heracleotae Poema De Sitv Orbis. Paris 1606.
- Erasmus Vindingius: Marciani Heracleotæ "Perihegesis" seu Orbis Descriptio cum Interpretatione latina ad verbum et notis. Copenhagen 1662 (Latin translation).
- Karl Müller : Geographi Græci Minores. Volume 1. Firmin Didot, Paris 1855, pp. 196-237 .
- B. Fabricius: Scymni Chii Periegesis quae supersunt. Teubner, Leipzig 1846 full text .
- August Meineke : Scymnii Chii Periegesis et Dionysii Descriptio Graeciae. Nicolai, Berlin 1846 full text .
- Martin Korenjak (ed., Transl. And comm.): The world tour of an anonymous Greek author ("Pseudo-Skymnos") . Olms, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-487-11847-5 .
- Didier Marcotte: Les Géographes grecs. Tome I, Introduction générale. Pseudo-Scymnos: Circuit de la terre. ( Collection des universités de France. Série grecque , 403.) Paris 2000. ISBN 2-251-00487-4 . Pp. 103-307.
literature
- Friedrich Gisinger : Skymnos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III A, 1, Stuttgart 1927, Col. 664-672.
- Aubrey Diller : The Tradition of the Minor Greek Geographers. ( Philological Monographs published by the American Philological Association. 14.) Oxford 1952.
Web links
- Literature by and about Skymnos in the catalog of the German National Library
swell
- ^ Wilhelm Dittenberger : Sylloge inscriptionum Graecorum. 3rd edition, Leipzig 1915-1924. No. 585, lines 197-198 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Skymnos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Σκύμνος (Greek); Skymnos of Chios; Scymnos of Chios; Scymnus of Chios |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | ancient greek geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr. |