Pseudo-Scylax

Name: Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax
Author: Pseudo-Scylax

Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax

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“Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax”, is a work by Pseudo-Scylax. It explores elements such as stadia, city and voyage.

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Pseudo-Scylax, Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax

“ A direct voyage from the Istros to Ram's Forehead is three days and three nights' sail, but a voyage along the coast takes twice this time, because it is a bay. In this bay there is an island, an uninhabited island, called White, sacred to Achilles. [224] From Ram's Forehead, the voyage to Pantikapaion is a day and a night's sail. From Pantikapaion to the mouth of Lake Maiotis is 20 stadia. Lake Maiotis is said to be the halfway point [as one sails around] Pontos. ”

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“ After the Iberians, there are Ligurians and Iberians mixed together until the River Rhodanos. [5] The voyage past Ligurian from Emporion to the Rhodanos river is two days and one night's sail.
4. Ligurians. After the Rhodanos river, there are Ligurians until Antion. [6] In this land there is a Greek city, Massalia, [4] and a harbour * * *. [7] These are colonies of Massalia. The voyage from the Rhodanos river to Antion is 4 days and four nights' voyage. From the pillars of Herakles to Antion, all the land is well-equipped with harbours. ”

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“ Molottia. After Kassopia, are the Molottian people. They also live in villages. They extend along the sea for only a short distance, but extend a long way inland. The voyage past the land of Molottia is 40 stadia.
33. Ambrakia. After Molottia, is Ambrakia, a Greek city. [77] It is 80 stadia from the sea. There is also a wall along the sea and a closed harbour. Greece begins there and continues until the Peneios river and the Magnesian city of Omolios, which is next to the river. [78] The voyage past Ambrakia is 120 stadia. ”

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“ The entire voyage along the Thracian coast from the river Strymon to the river Istros is seven days and seven nights' voyage.
69. Skythia. Taurians. After Thrace are the Skythian people [219] and these are the Greek cities among them: Tyras river, Nikonion city, Ophiousa city. [220] Next to Skythia, the Taurian people inhabit a peninsula of the mainland. [221] This peninsula projects into the sea. Greeks live on the Tauric peninsula and these are their cities: Chersonesos trading post, Ram's Forehead, Tauric Cape. ”

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“ Assuming that the person sails around the bays, sticking to the coast and, wherever we have written "nights", calculating as days instead, and where we have written stadia, treating 500 stadia as equivalent to a day's voyage, then the voyage past Europe including half the voyage around Pontios (that is to say, to Lake Maiotis) comes to 153 days. And the largest rivers in Europe are the Tanais, the Istros, the Rhodanos. [228]
Asia 72. Sauromatai. [229] Then Asia begins from the Tanais, and the first people in it are the Sauromatai on the Pontos. And the Sauromatan people are ruled by women. ”

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Pseudo-Scylax, Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax

“ Torone (Greek city) with harbour, Dion (Greek) , Thyssos (Greek) , Kleonai (Greek) , Mount Athos, Akrothooi (Greek) , Charadrous (Greek) , Olophyxos (Greek) , Akanthos (Greek) , Alapta (Greek) , Arethousa (Greek) , Lake Bolbe, Apollonia (Greek) . [202] There are also many others in the interior of Makedonia. The coast is full of bays. The voyage around the bays is two days' sail. After Makedonia is the Strymon river. [203] This forms the border between Makedonia and Thrace.
68. Thrace. Thrace extends from the Strymon river to the Istros River on the Euxine Pontos. ”

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Pseudo-Scylax, Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax

“ Kydonia and its enclosed harbour on the north coast, [128] and Elyros city in the interior, [129] with Lissa city and harbour near the Ram's Forehead [on the southern coast] ; [130] to the north the land of Apteraia, then Lampaia, which extends to both coasts, and the river Mesapios is in its territory. Then Osmida. After Osmida is Eleuthernai on the north coast [131] and Sybrita on the south. [132] Then to the north is Panormos city and harbour, [133] with Phaistos to the south. ”

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Pseudo-Scylax, Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax

“ The Trojans are usually identifed with the Elymians in ancient sources↑ w:Messina, w:Taormina, w:Naxos (Sicily) , w:Catania, w:Lentini↑ w:Megara Hyblaea↑ w:Syracuse, Sicily↑ w:Helorus and w:Capo Passero↑ w:Kamarina, Sicily, w:Gela, w:Agrigento, w:Selinunte, w:Marsala↑ w:Himera, w:Lipari, w:Milazzo. ”

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