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Dionysius Periegetes: Description of the Known World With Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary Lightfoot, J. L. (Charlton Fellow and Tutor in Classics, New College, Oxford)
Dionysius Periegetes: Description of the Known World With Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary
Lightfoot, J. L. (Charlton Fellow and Tutor in Classics, New College, Oxford)
A detailed study of a geographical poem by Dionysius, a scholar-poet who flourished in Alexandria. The introductory essays discuss the poem's place in the literary context of ancient geography, focusing on its language, style, and metre, and the commentary is supported by a fresh edition and English translation.
608 pages, 6 maps
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 13, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199675586 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 596 |
| Dimensions | 161 × 240 × 37 mm · 1.05 kg |
| Language | English |