Pseudo-Scylax

PSEUDO-SCYLAX

Skulax (Σκυλαξ).
4th century BCE, probably in Athens, Attica.
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WORKS

Periplus.
(Περιπλους | Periplous).
Greek: manuscript (13th century); — David Hoeschel (editio princeps, 1600); — Isaac Voss (1639); — Jacob Gronow (1697; see also 1700); — Jean-François Gail (1826); — Rudolf Heinrich Klausen (1831); — Heinrich Theodor Dittrich (1848; see also 1878); — Karl Müller (1855, with maps; see also 1882, with maps); — Patrick Counillon (2004; chapters 67–92); — Graham Shipley (2011).
English: Periplous: The circumnavigation of the inhabited world (Graham Shipley, 2011).
French: Voyage en Europe, en Asie et en Libye (Jean-Charles Poncelin, 1797); — Le périple du Pont-Euxin (Patrick Counillon, 2004; chapters 67–92).

REFERENCES

 Jean-François Gail:
Dissertation sur le Périple de Scylax et sur l’époque présumée de sa rédaction (1825).
French: 1825.

 Antoine-Jean Letronne:
“Périple de Scylax”
in Fragments des poèmes géographiques de Scymnus de Chio et du faux Dicéarque (1840).
French: 1840.

Created on 15 April 2026. Updated on 30 April 2026.