Androetas

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Androetas (Ancient Greek : Ἀνδροίτας) of Tenedos was a geographer of ancient Greece of uncertain date. He was the author of a work The Circumnavigation of Marmara (Περίπλους τῆς Προποντίδος), which was referenced by the scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes. [1] [2] This work is now lost, and nothing more is known of him.

Notes

  1. Scholiast On Apollonius of Rhodes ii. 159
  2. Dewing, Henry B. (1924). "Argonautic Associations of the Bosporus". The Classical Journal . Classical Association of the Middle West and South. 19 (8): 479–483. ISSN   0009-8353. JSTOR   3288773. OCLC   1554844 . Retrieved 2015-12-03.

PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Smith, William (1870). "Androetas". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 172.


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