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SCYLAX OF CARYANDA (in Caria)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 519 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCYLAX OF CARYANDA (in See also:

Caria)  , See also:Greek historian, lived in the See also: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, 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 in Geographici Graeci minores, i., where the subject is fully discussed; see also G . F . Unger, Philologus, xxxiii . (1874); B . G . See also:Niebuhr, Kleine Schriften, i . (1828); and E . H .

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