a periegesis of Greece
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Periegesis
//ˌpɛ.ɹɪ.əˈd͡ʒiː.sɪs//
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Ancient Greek
1 entries- περιήγησις noun (description of an area or territory)
French
1 entries- périégèse noun (description of an area or territory)
German
2 entries- Periegese noun (description of an area or territory)
- Periegesis noun (description of an area or territory)
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Dionysius, a learned geographer, to whom is attributed a Periegeſis, or Survey of the Earth, in Greek verse.
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[H]ad we been able to obtain a periegesis of Greece for the year 776 b.c., we should have discovered from one end of the country to the other nothing but legends, preached by the men of genius, received both with earnest emotion and with sincere faith by the hearers.
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Where did Cassiodorus read that the Huns were the neighbors of the Seres, supposedly the Chinese? There is little doubt that his source was one of the popular compendia which, directly or indirectly, went back to Dionysius [Periegetes]' Periegesis. Cassiodorus recommended "the map of Dionysius" to his monks. It is not particularly significant that in both the Getica and the Periegesis the Caspian Sea is a gulf of the ocean; this was a belief held and combatted since the time of the Ionian geographers.
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