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- Examples are in the Hellados periegesis of Photius in his " Bibliotheca ".
- He is famous for his " Description of Greece " ( " Hellados Periegesis " ), a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from his first-hand observations.
- He also wrote many epigrams, and a verse on the Dubrovnik coast ( " Periegesis orae Rhacusanae ", 1803 ) in 3379 hexameters, describing natural beauty, customs and historical events.
- Only on Wednesdays in the mornings we read Dionysius's Periegesis, on which we have notes mostly geographical, but with some criticisms intermixed; and in the afternoon we have no lecture at all.
- Because this was clearly a mistake Lucas Holstenius and Isaac Vossius were the first to attribute it to Scymnus of Chios because he was cited more than once by late grammarians as the author of a " Periegesis ".
- Pseudo-Scymnus, around 90 BC, wrote that Boreas dwelled at the extremity of Gaulish territory, and that he had a pillar erected in his name on the edge of the sea ( " Periegesis ", 183 ).
- Pausanias "'Periegesis ", unlike a Baedeker guide, stops for a brief excursus on a point of ancient ritual or to tell an apposite myth, in a genre that would not become popular again until the early 19th century.