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Notes on Dionysius Periegetes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

M. L. West
M. L. West
Affiliation:
All Souls College, Oxford
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Extract

The recent publication of a new edition of Dionysius Periegetes, the first since 1861, and the first ever to provide adequate information about the MS. tradition, has no doubt stimulated many of us to re-read this author, a rotten geographer but a competent versifier and recycler of Alexandrian flosculi. The new recension is a distinct improvement on Müller's, and the collection of citations and parallels is a valuable complement to the critical apparatus. Here are half a dozen suggestions for further amelioration of the text.

Type
Shorter Notes
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , December 1992 , pp. 568 - 569
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1992

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References

1 Tsavari, Isabella O., Διονυσ⋯ου Ἀλεξανδρ⋯ως Oἰκουμ⋯ης Περι⋯γησις. Kριτικ⋯ ἒκδοση (Ioannina, 1990)Google Scholar. See reviews by Reeve, M. D., CR 41 (1991), 306–9Google Scholar, and Degani, E., Eikasmos. Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica, ii (1991), pp. 413–15.Google Scholar

2 One or two citations have been overlooked: 310 Suda v 269 (noted by Degani); 537 Et. Gen. s.v. ἱ⋯ερτ⋯ς; 912 Et. Gen. s.v. Β⋯βλος; 947 Et. Gen. s.v. ἒθειρα (= ‘Callim. fr. an. 120 Schn.’ cited by Tsavari as a model for Dionysius).

3 Word-end following contracted second biceps (and moreover with a short vowel in the biceps); cf. my Greek Metre, pp. 155 and 178. Dionysius has δέ τοι καί in the same position in the verse at 372, 541 v.1., 935, 961.

4 Hesych. ι 1135, St. Byz. s.v. Ίχανα, Choerob. in An. Ox. ii.222.6, Et. M. 478.47.

5 Philol. 110 (1966), 165.Google Scholar