10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERIEGESIS»
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periegesis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Describing Greece: Landscape and Literature in the ...
Examines the most important work of non-fiction travel literature in antiquity, Pausanias' Description of Greece.
2
A Source Book in Geography
It is an excellent example of the Greek periegesis or maritime survey. Dionysius
worked during the first century A.D.; his translator, Priscian, during the fifth, (fl.
468- 475 A.D.). The vast abyss of the ocean, however, surrounds the earth on
every ...
3
The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture
There is little doubt that his source was one of the popular compendia which,
directly or indirectly, went back to Dionysius' Periegesis. Cassiodorus
recommended "the map of Dionysius" to his monks.13 It is not particularly
significant that in ...
Otto Maenchen-Helfen, 1973
4
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece
The Periegesis provides information about the places and peoples to be
encountered on a clockwise coastal voyage round the Mediterranean and the
Black Sea, starting at the Straits of Gibraltar and ending on the Atlantic-coast of
Morocco, ...
5
The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to ...
Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander Phiroze Vasunia. 305. Stephanus
of Byzantium, s.v. "Khemmis" (Xeuuis): city in Egypt . . . there is also the island
Khembis (XeuPis), with the letter p, in Boutoi, as Hecateus says in his Periegesis
...
6
Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity
6. Pausanias. Periegesis. Pausanias' Greece is a storied place. At every turn, on
every page, myths detail the sights of Greece; they describe, explain, uncover,
and flesh out the traveller's world. They convey the distinctive qualities of each ...
7
Space in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek ...
Space is central to the Periegesis in a way that sets the work apart from the other
texts treated in this volume. It has also been of great interest to students of the text
, particularly to travellers and archaeologists.4 e Periegesis continuously ...
8
From Athens to Chartres: Neoplatonism and Medieval Thought : ...
PAUL EDWARD DUTTON EVIDENCE THAT DUBTHACH'S PRISCIAN CODEX
ONCE BELONGED TO ERIUGENA Leiden B.P.L. 67 is a celebrated and much
described codex containing three works of Priscian: the Periegesis (fols. 1-7) ...
Édouard Jeauneau, Haijo Jan Westra, 1992
9
Yet More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis
HEKATAIOS' USE OF THE WORD POLIS IN HIS PERIEGESIS by MOGENS
HERMAN HANSEN One of the oldest literary works in which a large number of
Greek settlements are listed as being poleis is also one of the oldest treatises
written in ...
Thomas Heine Nielsen, 1997
10
Pausanias : Travel and Memory in Roman Greece: Travel and ...
the key items subjected in Greco-Roman education to the ancient rhetorical
techniques of ekphrasis or periegesis. Pausanias's Periegesis is precisely such “
a long journey” (or set of journeys), with the sites and monuments along the paths
he ...
Pausanias, and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Susan E. Alcock Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics, University of Michigan, John F. Cherry Professor of Classical Archaeology and Greek University of Michigan, 2001
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERIEGESIS»
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Desert Sun letters to the editor for June 6, 2015
I stand amazed and disturbed at Colin Atagi and Bill Theobald's story: “Periegesis,” May 29. The “class act teenager,” Jenna-May Ingal, should ... «The Desert Sun, Jun 15»
'Periegesis' foils Cathedral City teen at spelling bee
In the end, Jenna-May Ingal was done in by the word "periegesis." The Cathedral City middle school student knew the Greek root "peri" of the ... «The Desert Sun, May 15»
S-u-c-c-e-s-s: Southern Californians Advance to Spelling Bee …
On Thursday, she spelled "vinaceous" correctly in the semifinal round, but was knocked out when she incorrectly spelled "periegesis." ... «NBC Southern California, May 15»
