Scymnus

Skymnos of Chios (Greek Σκύμνος ) was a Greek geographer, probably identical to the 185/84 BC in Delphi honored as Proxenos son of Apelles. He was the author of a Periegesis ( " geography ", Greek Περιήγησις ) in ( at least ) 16 books, which is lost until fragments today.

A Periegesis in the form of a didactic poem written in blank verse, of which about 1,000 verses have been handed down, was initially attributed Marcianus Heracleotes. 1630 held Lukas Holste the poem for the lost Periegesis of Skymnos of Chios, which is not possible but because the Periegesis of Skymos of Chios was a prose text. The anonymous didactic poem is quoted as Periegesis the pseudo - Skymnos, or, as it is dedicated to a king Nicomedes, who today with Nicomedes III. identified by Bithynia, a lively than Periegesis ad Nicomedem.

Expenditure

• David Höschel: Geographica Marciani Heracleotae, Scylacis Caryandensis, Artemidori Ephesii, Dicaearchi Messenii, Isidori Characeni. Augsburg in 1600.
• Frédéric Morell: Marciani Heracleotae Poema De SiTV Orbis. Paris 1606.
• Erasmus Vindingius: Marciani Heracleotæ " Perihegesis " seu Orbis Descriptio cum Interpretatione latina ad verbum et notis. Copenhagen 1662 ( Latin translation ).
• Karl Müller: geographical Graeci Minores. Firmin Didot -, Paris 1861 ( reprint: Olms, Hildesheim, 1990). Vol I, p 196-237.
• B. Fabricius: Scymni Chii Periegesis quae super sunt. Teubner, Leipzig 1846 full text.
• August Meineke: Scymnii Chii Periegesis et Dionysii Descriptio Graeciae. Nicolai, Berlin 1846 full text.
• Martin Korenjak (ed., Translator and Comm ): The world - tour of an anonymous Greek author ( "pseudo - Skymnos "). Olms, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-487-11847-5.
• Didier Marcotte: Les Géographes grecs. Tome I, Introduction générale. Pseudo - Scymnos: Circuit de la terre. ( Collection of universités de France. Série grecque, 403 ) Paris 2000. ISBN 2-251-00487-4. Pp. 103-307.