Artemidorus and Menippus both likely wrote around the 1st century AD.[6] Only little survives of the epitomes, through citations in the work of
Stephanus of Byzantium,[7] but in the case of Menippus there is also some manuscript material. From it, it seems Marcian had not improved much upon Menippus.[6] Early in its publication history, the work of
Pseudo-Scymnus had been attributed to Marcian. Apart from his writings, philologists believe that an annotated collection Marcian made of his sources in geography formed the basis of today's extant
manuscripts of these earlier works.[7][8]
References
Citations
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abKazhdan, A. P (1991). The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium. Vol. 2. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 1302.
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^Periplus maris exteri, ed. Müller (1855),515-562.
Schoff, Wilfred Harvey, ed. (1927), Periplus of the Outer Sea, East and West, and of the Great Islands Therein, Philadelphia: Commercial Museum,
OCLC5303996.