GERMAN

Stephani Byzantii Ethnica, Volumen IV: Pi - Upsilon

By Stephanus von Byzanz , Margarethe Billerbeck , Arlette Neumann-Hartmann

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2016
ISBN
3110219670, 9783110219678
Language
german
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4041820 bytes)
Series
Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae — Series Berolinensis 43.4
Pages
391\417
Time added
2016-03-10 07:25:44
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Description

his comprehensive geographical encyclopaedia, compiled around 530 A.D., catalogues some 3,600 names of places, mountains, lakes, rivers, waters and peoples from the ancient world. Particular attention is paid to the etymology of names and the grammatical derivations of the Ethnika . For cultural historical information – here with the evidence of the attributed quotations – Stephanos is often the sole source. This new critical edition replaces A. Meineke’s long obsolete edition of 1849. The text of the directly recorded epitomes is accompanied by an apparatus of parallel terms which takes account of both the sources of the encyclopaedia and its later users. This first translation of the encyclopaedia in a modern language and the notes (particularly on language, onomastics and topography) open up the work to a wide circle of scholars engaged in studies of antiquity.

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