Dionysius Periegetes, Description of the Known World With Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Dionysius Periegetes, Description of the Known World With Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
- ISBN 13:
9780199675586
- ISBN 10:
0199675589
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 05/13/2014
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
The introductory essays discuss the poem's place in the literary context of ancient geography, focusing on its language, style, and metre, whereby Dionysius shows himself a particularly painstaking heir of the Hellenistic poets, and illustrates how intricately he interlaces sources and models to produce a mosaic of geographical learning. Particular emphasis is given to Dionysius' place in the ancient tradition of didactic poetry, and to his artful manipulations of ancient ethnographical convention to produce a vision of a bounteous, ordered, and harmonious world in the high days of the Roman Empire.
The commentary, supported by a fresh edition and English translation, discusses Dionysius as a geographer but, above all, as a literary artist. This volume contributes to the revival of interest in, and appreciation of, imperial hexameter poetry, and brings to the fore a poem that deserves to be every bit as well-known as its Hellenistic counterpart, the Phaenomena of Aratus.