<i>Continuum</i>: Ps.-Escílax, <i>Périplo do mundo habitado </i>– tradução

A periplographic account attributed to an unknown author, the present Greek-language treatise brings together toponymic and ethnographic entries covering the three designated continental surfaces: Europe, Libya, and Asia. It appears to be, in essence, nothing more than a reconstruction of the periplus, derived from an original record that is no longer extant. Even if it does not convey a genuine firsthand experience and amounts merely to an empirical exercise with limited literary sophistication, it nonetheless enables critical reflection beyond the realm of Hellenic geographical and ethnographic knowledge in classical antiquity. These considerations extend to domains such as religion and festival nomenclature, political structures, architectural works, geodesy, and ethnolinguistics. The following sections present a critical analysis of this Hellenic text, now, for the first time, accompanied by a translation into Portuguese.