Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Greek Geography and Geographers
- Time-line
- Prologue: The Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, 2. 484–760)
- Part I Archaic Period
- Part II Classical Period
- Part III Hellenistic Period
- 9 Dikaiarchos of Messana
- 10 Timosthenes of Rhodes
- 11 Herakleides Kritikos
- 12 Eratosthenes of Kyrene
- 13 Mnaseas of Patara
- 14 Skymnos of Chios
- 15 Agatharchides of Knidos, On the Erythraian Sea
- 16 Hipparchos of Nikaia
- 17 The Nikomedean Periodos [‘Pseudo-Skymnos’]
- 18 Artemidoros of Ephesos
- 19 Poseidonios of Apameia
- 20 Dionysios son of Kalliphon
14 - Skymnos of Chios
from Part III - Hellenistic Period
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Greek Geography and Geographers
- Time-line
- Prologue: The Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, 2. 484–760)
- Part I Archaic Period
- Part II Classical Period
- Part III Hellenistic Period
- 9 Dikaiarchos of Messana
- 10 Timosthenes of Rhodes
- 11 Herakleides Kritikos
- 12 Eratosthenes of Kyrene
- 13 Mnaseas of Patara
- 14 Skymnos of Chios
- 15 Agatharchides of Knidos, On the Erythraian Sea
- 16 Hipparchos of Nikaia
- 17 The Nikomedean Periodos [‘Pseudo-Skymnos’]
- 18 Artemidoros of Ephesos
- 19 Poseidonios of Apameia
- 20 Dionysios son of Kalliphon
Summary
This chapter presents new, annotated translations of the scanty testimonia and fragments of Skymnos of Chios (early 2nd century BC), arranged as eight extracts. The introduction reviews his outputs: works on Europe and Asia totalling at least 16 books, perhaps following an anti-clockwise sequence; possibly also on Libye (Africa). His work extends to Britain and the Black Sea, and evinces an interest in colonial origins, mythical geography, and botany. He has plausibly been identified with a known Skymnos of Chios alive in the 180s. His inclusion is justified because in the 17th century he was proposed as the poet of the Nikomedean Periodos (Chapter 17 of this volume), for which association there is, however, no manuscript evidence and which is impossible on chronological grounds.
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- Geographers of the Ancient Greek WorldSelected Texts in Translation, pp. 370 - 372Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024