Pseudo-Scymnus
Pseudo-Scymnus is the name given by
Pergamum.[2]
Attribution of authorship
The Periodos to Nicomedes was first published at
Augustus Meineke, in republishing the extant fragments, showed clearly that there were no grounds for ascribing them to that writer. The real work of Scymnus of Chios appears to have been in prose and the few statements cited from him are not in accordance with those of Pseudo-Scymnus.[3]
In 1955, Aubrey Diller determined that Pseudo-Scymnus was most likely Pausanias of Damascus. If this is true, he would have lived in Bithynia around 100 BC.[4] In 2004 Konstantin Boshnakov argued for Semos of Delos, and consequently for a somewhat later date than is usually offered.[5]
Content of the Periodos to Nicomedes
The standard text, with a French translation, is now Didier Marcotte, Pseudo-Scymnos, Circuit de la terre (Paris, 2000). The work contains material on the coasts of
Umbrians, Celts, Liburnians
and other peoples.
References
- ISBN 978-9-042-91813-9.
- ^ Prologue, ll 19-21.
- ^ Bunbury, E. H. (1879). A History of ancient geography among the Greeks and Romans from earliest ages till the fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 2. London: John Murray. pp. 69–74.
- ^ Diller, Aubrey (1955). "The Authors Named Pausanias". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 86: 268–279.
- ISBN 978-3-515-08393-5.
Further reading
- Pseudo Scymnus or Pausanias of Damascus, Circuit of the Earth unedited English translation by Brady Kiesling
- Bravo, Benedetto (2009). La Chronique d'Apollodore et le Pseudo-Skymnos: Érudition antiquaire et littérature géographique dans la seconde moitié du IIe siècle av. J.-C. Studia Hellenistica (in French). Vol. 46. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-9-042-92145-0.
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