The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax is an ancient Greek periplus that ranks among the minor Greek geographers, dating from 4th or 3rd century BC. The name of Scylax applied to the text is thought to be a pseudepigraphical appeal to authority: Herodotus mentions a Scylax of Caryanda, a Greek navigator who explored the coast of the Indian Ocean on behalf of the Persians.[1]
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Pseudo-Scylax takes a clockwise circumnavigation of the Mediterranean and Black Sea, starting in Iberia and ending in West Africa, beyond the Pillars of Hercules. The African section is clearly sourced from the Periplus of Hanno the Navigator. There remains one manuscript, that of Pithou, which is the original of those according to which the first edition was published.
"The Periplus of Scylax" was first published in Augsburg in 1600 by Hoeschel along with other minor Greek geographers. In Amsterdam, the periplus was published by Vossius in 1639 and then by Hudson in his " Geographi Graeci Minores". In Paris, the periplus was published in 1826 by Gail and in Berlin it was published in 1831 by R.H. Klausen.