Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax
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The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax is an
The author's name is written Pseudo-Scylax or Pseudo-Skylax, often abbreviated as Ps.-Scylax or Ps.-Skylax.
Author
The only extant, medieval manuscript names the author as "Scylax"' (or "Skylax"), but scholars have proven that this attribution is to be treated as a so-called "
Text
Manuscript
There remains one primary manuscript, Parisinus suppl. gr. (Supplément grec) 443 (also known as the Pithou MS after its 16th-century owner,
Content
The narrative attributed to this "Pseudo-Scylax" simulates a clockwise circumnavigation of the
The NW African section is sometimes claimed to have been derived from the earlier Periplus of
Early printing history
The Periplus of Scylax, along with other minor ancient Greek geographers, was first published in Augsburg in 1600 by David Hoeschel. In Amsterdam, the Periplus was published by Gerardus Vossius in 1639 and then by John Hudson in his Geographi Graeci Minores. In Paris, the Periplus was published in 1826 by Jean François Gail and in Berlin it was published in 1831 by Rudolf Heinrich Klausen.
Modern editions
The Greek texts of Karl Müller (1855) and B. Fabricius (pseudonym of Heinrich Theodor Dittrich, 2nd edition 1878) have been superseded by P. Counillon Pseudo-Skylax: le périple du Pont-Euxin: texte, traduction, commentaire philologique et historique. (Bordeaux, 2004) and G. Shipley, Pseudo-Scylax's Periplus: Text, Translation, and Commentary (Exeter, 2011).
References
- ^ Herodotus. Histories, 4.44.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- The manuscript
- Wikisource - The original Greek text, based on Müller, Paris 1855–61 – Περίπλους τῆς θαλάσσης τῆς οἰκουμένης Εὐρώπης καὶ Ἀσίας καὶ Λιβύης
- English translation by Brady Kiesling from the 1878 Greek edition of B. Fabricius.
- Geographica antiqua, Johann Friedrich Gronovius (ed.), Lugduni Batavorum, apud Jordanum Luchtmans, 1697, pp. 1–132.
- Geographi graeci minores, Karl Müller, Paris, editoribus Firmin-Didot et sociis, 1882, vol. 1 pp. 15–96.
- Hecataei Milesii fragmenta. Scylacis caryandensis periplus, Rudolf Heinrich Klausen (ed.), Berolini, impensis G. Reimeri, 1831, pp. 1–132.
- Fragments des poemes géographiques de Scymnus de Chio et du faux Dicéarque, M. Letronne (ed.), Paris, Librairie de Gide, 1840
- Anonymi vulgo Scylacis Caryandensis periplum maris interni, B. Fabricius (pseudonym of H. T. Dittrich), Lipsiae, typis et sumtibus B. G. Teubneri, 1878.
Secondary sources
- Patrick Counillon, Pseudo-Skylax, Le Périple du Pont-Euxin (Bordeaux, 2004).
- Graham Shipley, Pseudo-Skylax's Periplous: The Circumnavigation of the Inhabited World. Text, Translation and Commentary (Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press/The Exeter Press), 2011. ISBN 978-1-904675-82-2 hardback, 978-1-904675-83-9 paperback. For details see http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=11&AS1=shipley
- D. Graham J. Shipley, ‘Pseudo-Skylax and the natural philosophers’, Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 132 (2012). Pre-print published in FirstView by Cambridge University Press on 6 Sept. 2012.
- Galling, Kurt (1938). "Die syrisch-palästinische Küste nach der Beschreibung bei Pseudo-Skylax". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 61 (1/2). Deutscher Verein zur Erforschung Palästinas: 66–96. JSTOR 27930190.
- Elayi, Josette (1982). "Studies in Phoenician Geography during the Persian Period". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 41 (2). University of Chicago Press: 83–110. JSTOR 544660.
- Lipiński, E. (2004). Itineraria Phoenicia. Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies. p. 273. ISBN 978-90-429-1344-8.
- Shipley, G. (2011). Pseudo-Skylax's Periplous: The Circumnavigation of the Inhabited World : Text, Translation and Commentary. Liverpool University Press Series. Bristol Phoenix Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-904675-82-2.
