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14 - Skymnos of Chios

from Part III - Hellenistic Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2024

D. Graham J. Shipley
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University of Leicester
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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 World
Selected Texts in Translation
, pp. 370 - 372
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Skymnos of Chios
  • D. Graham J. Shipley, University of Leicester
  • Book: Geographers of the Ancient Greek World
  • Online publication: 25 March 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009194211.019
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  • Skymnos of Chios
  • D. Graham J. Shipley, University of Leicester
  • Book: Geographers of the Ancient Greek World
  • Online publication: 25 March 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009194211.019
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  • Skymnos of Chios
  • D. Graham J. Shipley, University of Leicester
  • Book: Geographers of the Ancient Greek World
  • Online publication: 25 March 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009194211.019
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