The 'Circumnavigation' (Periplous) of Pseudo-Skylax: student and scholarly editions (with revised Greek text, translation, and historical commentary)

《环游世界》（Periplous）是一部约9,000字的希腊散文作品，被认为是Karyanda的Skylax所作，现存于一份腐败的13世纪手稿中。它描述了地中海、黑海和非洲西北部的海岸，以及关于人民、城市、河流、岛屿、航行距离和时间的简洁信息，以及一些民族志描述。虽然Skylax是从希罗多德那里得知的，他是一位生活在公元前500年左右的探险家，但《环球航行》不可能是他写的，因为它反复提到的事情只发生在5世纪后期和4世纪。虽然它以前被看作是一本航海手册，但现在大多数学者认为它是一本基于图书馆的书面资料的作品。基于对希腊地理学的最新研究，我认为这是一部在4世纪雅典知识分子活跃时期所作的研究论文。《环航》是现存最古老的希腊地理学著作，也是我们所拥有的为数不多的古典时期的技术论文之一。是的，自卡尔·穆勒（Karl Müller）（1855年）以来一直没有完整的版本。我的研究将重新审视这部作品最初的目的。它将特别关注重建手稿的方法（在这个问题上，早期的编辑有时过于干涉），并将利用早期编辑无法获得的地理和考古证据，以确定文本中提到的地方，并提供新的腐败段落。尽管其简洁的性质，有统一的，甚至是文学的文本，值得强调的特点。它并不像人们有时认为的那样是一个天真的汇编。它与古希腊地理学的发展密切相关。另一个重要的背景是希腊的殖民化，它为伪斯凯拉克斯的文本提供了大部分框架;我们对这一过程的理解的最新变化将为这部作品提供信息。我在2006- 2007年开始了深入的研究。“学生版”的研究工作已接近完成，将于2010年1月机构休假结束前交付出版。这一版本包括一个简短的介绍，修订后的希腊文本，翻译（第一次以英语出版），和简短的历史评论。在AHRC休假期间，工作将扩大和提交的一部分，'碎片之griechischen Historiker' V，一个国际项目领导的汉斯-约阿希姆格尔克（柏林）。FGrHist V是古希腊历史文本（1923-58）的不朽语料库的地理延续，并将成为我们对希腊地理学家的理解的最新进展的主要研究工具。这个扩展版本将包含testimonia和片段，环航的主要文本，翻译，完整的文本设备，介绍评注，以及历史评注本身。比BPP版本更长的介绍和评论将允许空间来讨论文本问题和文本的文学和叙事特征，并在其他希腊地理学家的背景下更充分地设置环航。

The Circumnavigation (Periplous) attributed to Skylax of Karyanda, a Greek prose work of c.9,000 words, survives in a corrupt 13th-century manuscript. It describes the coasts of the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and NW Africa together with laconic information about peoples, cities, rivers, islands, sailing distances and times, and some ethnographic description. Though Skylax is known from Herodotos as an explorer who lived c.500 BC, the Circumnavigation cannot be by him as it repeatedly refers to things that were the case only in the later 5th and 4th centuries. Though it was formerly seen as a navigational manual, it is now regarded by most scholars as a library-based work drawing on written sources. Building on recent scholarship on Greek geography, I argue that it is a research treatise made at a time of intense intellectual activity in 4th-century Athens.The Circumnavigation is the oldest surviving Greek work devoted entirely to geography, and one of few technical treatises we have from the Classical period. Yes there has been no full edition since that of Karl Müller (1855). A new commentary is urgently needed.My research will re-examine the issue of the work's original purposes. It will specifically focus on the methodology of reconstructing the manuscript (in this matter, earlier editors have sometimes been too interventionist), and will exploit geographical and archaeological evidence not available to earlier editors in order to identify places named in the text and offer new restorations of corrupt passages. Despite its terse nature, there are unifying, even literary features of the text that deserve to be highlighted. It is not a naive compilation as is sometimes thought. It relates closely to the development of Classical Greek geography. Another important context is that of Greek colonization, which provides much of the frame in which Pseudo-Skylax's text is set; recent changes in how we understand of this process will inform the work.I began intensive research in 2006-7. Research for a 'student edition' is almost complete, and this will be delivered for publication by the end of institutional leave in January 2010. This edition comprises a short introduction, the revised Greek text, translation (the first to be published in English), and short historical commentary.During AHRC leave, the work will be expanded and submitted as part of 'Fragmente der griechischen Historiker' V, an international project led by Hans-Joachim Gehrke (Berlin). FGrHist V is the geographical continuation of Jacoby's monumental corpus of fragmentary Greek historical texts (1923-58), and will be a major research tool building on recent advances in our understanding of Greek geographers. This expanded version will contain testimonia and fragments, the main text of the Circumnavigation, translations, full textual apparatus, introduction to the Commentary, and the historical commentary itself. The much longer introduction and commentary than in the BPP edition will allow room to discuss textual problems and literary and narrative features of the text, and to set the Circumnavigation more fully in the context of other Greek geographers.