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
21 - Menippos of Pergamon
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 relating to Menippos of Pergamon (active c.26/5 BC), comprising part of the surviving portion of the epitome (précis) made by Markianos (Chapter 34 of this volume) together with nine further testimonia and fragments. The chapter introduction reviews Menippos’ known Circumnavigation, which seems to have begun in the Black Sea and proceeded, untypically, anti-clockwise round the Mediterranean; his legacy in the work of Agathemeros (Chapter 29) and possibly Arrian (Chapter 27) and the Stadiasmos (Chapter 31); and our probable debt to him for first assembling the corpus of geographical texts which Markianos expanded.
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- Geographers of the Ancient Greek WorldSelected Texts in Translation, pp. 620 - 629Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024