Daniel R Hanigan

• Geography in Couplets: A Note on the Fragment(s) of Zenothemis’ Periplous

  Open Access•Daniel R Hanigan•ARTICLE•Mnemosyne•2022•References: 3

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  Greek periplography appears to have been an almost exclusively prosaic phenomenon. The single exception to this is Zenothemis (4th/3rd cent. BC ) whom John Tzetzes credits with the production of an elegiac distich ( SH 855 = Tz. H . 7.765f.) apparently sourced from a Periplous . This brief note contributes to the discussion about the shape of Zenothemis’ Periplous by offering a series of stylistic observations about the single surviving fragment …

• Autopsy and Didactic Authority: Rethinking the Prologue of the Periodos to Nicomedes

  Open Access•Daniel R Hanigan, Grant R Kynaston et al.•ARTICLE•The Classical Quarterly•2022•References: 14

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  All modern critics have read verses 128–36 of Pseudo-Scymnus’ iambic Periodos to Nicomedes ( c. 133–110/109 b.c.e. ) as a description of the personal autopsies of the author. However, close analysis of both the literary dynamics of the poem and the syntax of the lacunose text that precedes this passage shows that this cannot be the case. This article proposes that Timaeus of Tauromenium ( c. 350–260 b.c.e. ) is a superior candidate for the refere…

• Geography in Couplets: A Note on the Fragment(s) of Zenothemis’ Periplous

  Open Access•Daniel R Hanigan•ARTICLE•Mnemosyne•2022•References: 3

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  Greek periplography appears to have been an almost exclusively prosaic phenomenon. The single exception to this is Zenothemis (4th/3rd cent. BC ) whom John Tzetzes credits with the production of an elegiac distich ( SH 855 = Tz. H . 7.765f.) apparently sourced from a Periplous . This brief note contributes to the discussion about the shape of Zenothemis’ Periplous by offering a series of stylistic observations about the single surviving fragment …

• Autopsy and Didactic Authority: Rethinking the Prologue of the Periodos to Nicomedes

  Open Access•Daniel R Hanigan, Grant R Kynaston et al.•ARTICLE•The Classical Quarterly•2022•References: 14

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  All modern critics have read verses 128–36 of Pseudo-Scymnus’ iambic Periodos to Nicomedes ( c. 133–110/109 b.c.e. ) as a description of the personal autopsies of the author. However, close analysis of both the literary dynamics of the poem and the syntax of the lacunose text that precedes this passage shows that this cannot be the case. This article proposes that Timaeus of Tauromenium ( c. 350–260 b.c.e. ) is a superior candidate for the refere…

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