SCYLAX OF CARYANDA (in See also:Caria)
, See also:Greek historian, lived in the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:Darius Hystaspis (521–485 B.c.), who commissioned him to explore the course of the See also:Indus
.
He started from Caspatyrus (Caspapyrus in Hecataeus; the site cannot be identified: see V
.
A
.
See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, See also:Early Hist. of See also:India, 2nd ed., 1908, 34 See also:note), and is said by See also:Herodotus (iv
.
44) to have reached the See also:sea. whence he sailed See also:west through the See also:Indian Ocean to the Red Sea
.
Scylax wrote an See also:account of his explorations, referred to by See also:Aristotle (Politics, vii
.
14), and probably also a See also:history of the Cariaa See also:hero Heracleides,' See also:prince of Mylasae, who distinguished himself in the revolt against Darius (Herodotus v
.
121)
.
This See also:work is the earliest known Greek history which centred See also:round the achievements of a single individual
.
Suldas (s.v.), who mentions the second work, confounds the older Scylax with a much later author, who wrote a refutation of the history of See also:Polybius, and is presumably identical with Scylax of See also:Halicarnassus, a statesman and astrologer, the friend of See also:Panaetius spoken of by See also:Cicero (De div. ii
.
42)
.
Neither of these, however, can be the author of the Periplus of the Mediterranean, which has come down to us under the name of Scylax of Caryanda
.
This work is little more than a sailor's handbook of places and distances all round the See also:coast of the Mediterranean and its branches, and then along the See also:outer Libyan coast as far as the Carthaginians traded
.
See also:Internal See also:evidence shows that it must have been written See also:long after the time of Herodotus, about
350 B.C
.
See also:Editions by B
.
See also:Fabricius (1878) and C
.
See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller in Geographici Graeci minores, i., where the subject is fully discussed; see also G
.
F
.
Unger, Philologus, xxxiii
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(1874); B
.
G
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See also:Niebuhr, Kleine Schriften, i
.
(1828); and E
.
H
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