Periegesis

Quick meaning: Periegesis is a noun meaning A description of an area or territory.

Meaning

A description of an area or territory.

Example Sentences

a periegesis of Greece

Dionysius, a learned geographer, to whom is attributed a Periegeſis, or Survey of the Earth, in Greek verse.

[H]ad we been able to obtain a periegesis of Greece for the year 776 b.c., we should have discovered from one end of the country to the other nothing but legends, preached by the men of genius, received both with earnest emotion and with sincere faith by the hearers.

There is not a single ancient Greek source that depicts someone using maps in a practical situation. […] '[G]eographical knowledge' did not depend on maps, but on other media, such as travel reports, sea journeys and periegeses, descriptions of a particular country. Geography relied on words and discourses, on human memory.

Word Forms

• periegeses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include perigeum, periareon, palaeoscenario, periecian, period, palaeogeography.

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