Dionysius of Byzantium

Dionysius of Byzantium (Greek Διονύσιος Βυζάντιος ) was a Greek geographer of the 2nd century AD

From him his work Ανάπλους Βοσπόρου ( ANAPLOUS Bosporou, travel through the Bosporus ) is only obtained, which belongs to the genus Periplous. There is only patchy handed down from the 10th century in Codex Palatinus gr 398; missing parts must be accompanied by a Latin paraphrase of the French scholar Peter Gyllius from the 16th century, since the discover of Gyllius complete manuscript 1555 is untraceable since death in Rome. Stylistically shows Dionysius in his Periplous echoes of Herodotus and Thucydides, his language is attizistisch. The Suda mentioned in the 10th century this work and also calls him " Ependichter " and writes him a work " Περί θρήνων " too, but this is doubted in modern research.