Dionysius Periegetes

Dionysius Periegetes dīənĭsh´ēəs pĕ˝rēəjē´tēz [key], fl. c.300? BC, Greek poet. He wrote the poem Description of the Inhabited Earth, which was popular in antiquity.

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