Stephanus of Byzantium

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Stephanus of Byzantium was a 6th-century Byzantine grammarian and scholar best known for his geographical dictionary "Ethnica," which compiled place names and ethnographic information from classical sources.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Byzantine grammarian
Byzantine scholar
geographer
lexicographer
scholar
citationsInclude Apollodorus of Athens NERFINISHED
Diodorus Siculus NERFINISHED
Eratosthenes NERFINISHED
Hecataeus of Miletus NERFINISHED
Herodotus NERFINISHED
Homer NERFINISHED
Pausanias NERFINISHED
Polybius NERFINISHED
Strabo NERFINISHED
Thucydides NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Byzantine Empire NERFINISHED
culture Byzantine
era Late Antiquity
EthnicaCompiledFrom classical sources
EthnicaLanguage Ancient Greek
EthnicaSubject ethnographic information
place names
EthnicaType geographical dictionary
topographical lexicon
fieldOfWork geography
grammar
lexicography
philology
floruit 6th century
genre encyclopedic lexicon
geographical dictionary
influenced Byzantine geographical literature
Renaissance humanist scholarship
influencedBy classical historians
earlier Greek geographers
knownFor Ethnica NERFINISHED
compilation of ethnographic information
geographical dictionary of place names
languageOfWorkOrName Ancient Greek
nameInGreek Στέφανος Βυζάντιος NERFINISHED
nameInLatin Stephanus Byzantinus NERFINISHED
notableWork Ethnica NERFINISHED
occupation geographer
grammarian
lexicographer
scholar
religion Christianity
workStatusOfEthnica survives in epitomized form

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Stagira mentionedBy Stephanus of Byzantium
Henri Estienne I latinizedName Stephanus of Byzantium
this entity surface form: Stephanus
Batea mentionedIn Stephanus of Byzantium
this entity surface form: Stephanus of Byzantium's Ethnica
Scotussa mentionedIn Stephanus of Byzantium
this entity surface form: Stephanus of Byzantium’s Ethnica
Hyampolis mentionedBy Stephanus of Byzantium