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SCYLAX OF CARYANDA (in Caria)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 519 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY
SCYLAX OF CARYANDA (in Caria) , Greek historian, lived in the time of Darius Hystaspis (521485 B.c.), who commissioned him to explore the course of the Indus. He started from Caspatyrus (Caspapyrus in Hecataeus; the site cannot be identified: see V. A.
Smith
 , Early Hist. of India, 2nd ed., 1908, 34 note), and is said by Herodotus (iv. 44) to have reached the sea. whence he sailed west through the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea. Scylax wrote an account of his explorations, referred to by Aristotle (Politics, vii. 14), and probably also a history of the Cariaa hero Heracleides,' prince of Mylasae, who distinguished himself in the revolt against Darius (Herodotus v. 121). This
work
  is the earliest known Greek history which centred 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
Polybius
 , and is presumably identical with Scylax of
Halicarnassus
 , a statesman and astrologer, the friend of Panaetius spoken of by 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 coast of the Mediterranean and its branches, and then along the outer Libyan coast as far as the Carthaginians traded. Internal evidence shows that it must have been written long after the time of Herodotus, about
350 B.C.
Editions by B. Fabricius (1878) and C. Muller in Geographici Graeci minores, i., where the subject is fully discussed; see also G. F. Unger, Philologus, xxxiii. (1874); B. G.
Niebuhr
 , Kleine Schriften, i. (1828); and E. H. Bunbury, History of Ancient Geography i


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