Etienne de Byzance
Etienne de Byzance (in Greek Byzantine Στέφανος Βυζάντιος / Stéphanos Byzántios ) is a Byzantine writer of the 6th century, author of a geographical lexicon dedicated to the emperor Justinien towards 528 - 535, the Ethnika ( Ἐθνικά ).
This character is very ignored. On the basis of information contained in his work, one must restrict oneself to say that it was a grammairien constantinopolitain.
Constantin VII Porphyrogénète is the last scholar to have had the entirety of the Ethnika (60 books) at its disposal: the Welded and Eustathe de Thessalonique uses only one summary of it, works of certain such a contemporary Hermolaos, him of Justinien.
Etienne uses mainly ancient geographers, of which Ptolémée, Strabon and Pausanias, grammairiens and commentators of Homère. Its knowledge of the geography does not remain less approximate about it and its etymologies are confused. Its work remains invaluable for its anecdotes, accounts of miracles, oracles and proverbs.
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