Dionysius of Byzantium (

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∆ιονύσιος Βυζάντιος, Dionysios Byzantios

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Dionysius Byzantinus) was a Greek

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of the 2nd century CE. He is known for his Ανάπλους Βοσπόρου ''Anaplous Bosporou'' ''Voyage through the Bosporus'' or ''De Bospori navigatione'', which describes the coastline of the

Bosporus The Bosporus Strait (; grc, Βόσπορος ; tr, İstanbul Boğazı 'Istanbul strait', colloquially ''Boğaz'') or Bosphorus Strait is a natural strait and an internationally significant waterway located in Istanbul in northwestern T ...

and the city of

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(later Constantinople and now İstanbul), described by C. Foss as "one of the most remarkable and detailed of ancient geographic texts". (in Talbert, p. 785) The work survives with a large

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, which is only known from a 16th-century Latin paraphrase by

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Bibliography

Dionysios of Byzantium, Anaplous of the Bosporos
English translation by Brady Kiesling * Albrecht Dihle, ''Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire: From Augustus to Justinian'', Routledge, 1994, p. 235. * Rudolf Güngerich, ed., ''Anaplus Bospori/De Bospori navigatione. Latin & Greek'', Weidmann, 1927 (reprinted 1958). * Richard J. A. Talbert, ''Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman world: Map-by-map Directory'', Princeton, 2000. . {{Authority control Ancient Greek geographers Geography of Turkey 2nd-century people from Byzantium 2nd-century writers 2nd-century geographers