Article ID: CBB018647695

Zur Quellenfrage der "Erdbeschreibung" des Dionysios Periegetes: Die "Geographika" Strabons als eine der Quellen? (2012)

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Dionysius of Alexandria, also known as Periegetes, was a contemporary of the famous geographers Marinus of Tyre and Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century AD). In about twelve hundred hexameters, his work reproduces the picture of the whole world known at that time (the "Oekumene"), of the ocean around it, and of various countries and seas, as well as peoples and tribes. The extensive knowledge of Dionysius goes back to the geographic and poetic sources he uses: he himself has admittedly never embarked on a real journey. Thus, Dionysius is more a "desk scholar" than a practitioner. This article focuses on the source question of the Dionysian work: did Dionysius use the "Geographica" of Strabo (64/3 BC-circa 25 AD) as the source of his geographical poem?

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Authors & Contributors
Prontera, Francesco
Seubert, Philippe
Panichi, Silvia
Janni, Pietro
Migliario, Elvira
Sideri, Eleonora
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