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also known as
The Periplus of the Euxine Sea
Aperiplusor guidebook to the cities, harbors, and geographic features on the shores of the Black Sea taking the form of a letter in the Koine Greek language to the Roman Emperor
Hadrianfrom
Arrian of Nicomedia, historian and governor of the Roman province of Cappadocia in the 2nd century CE.
This translation was made by the British historian William Falconer in 1805 and despite its archaic language and typography was identified as the best translation of this work by Frank Seymour Smith in his 1968
The Classics in Translation: An Annotated Guide to the Best Translations of the Greek and Latin Classics Into English,
ISBN 0833732951.
The name of this text is
Periplus Ponti Euxiniin Latin andΠερίπλους του Ευξείνου Πόντουin Greek.
A GEOGRAPHICAL DISSERTATION,
AND MAPS.
SOLD BY J. COOKE; AND BY MESSRS. CADELL AND DAVIES,
STRAND, LONDON.
S. Collingwood, Printer, Oxford.
Chapters(not listed in original)
This work was published before January 1, 1931, and is in thepublic domainworldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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