Pseudo-Skylax's Periplous: the circumnavigation of the inhabited world

Skylax of Karyanda; Graham Shipley, translator and commentary

Verlag: Bristol Phoenix, 2011

Beschreibung

Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. True first edition thus, published in 2011 by Bristol Phoenix but then also published the following year by Liverpool University Press. According to the blurb of that publisher, "The treatise known as the Periplous of Pseudo-Skylax (hereinafter Ps.-Skylax or PS) ? of which this is the first English edition ? survives on 44 pages of a 700-year-old codex (a manuscript bound in book form) in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The manuscript as a whole comprises a set of geographical texts assembled by Markianos of Herakleia, probably in the sixth century A D [references omitted] and is cited as D in recent scholarship on the ancient Greek geographers." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xii, 1-244 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 357531

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Pseudo-Skylax's Periplous: the ...

Verlag: Bristol Phoenix

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: First Edition.