title: Periegesis
text: # Periegesis
  
  A periegesis (Ancient Greek περιήγησις 'leading around') is a geographical survey or travelogue, sometimes also called a periodos ' journey around' [sc. the world].
  
  It is the name of several books:
  
  * Periegesis of Greece, Ἑλλάδος περιήγησις, or Hellados Periegesis, in prose, usually translated as Description of Greece, by Pausanias
  * Dionysius Periegetes of Alexandria's Οικουμένης περιήγησης Periegesis of the World, in hexameter, usually translated Survey of the World
     * Avienius's Latin translation of Dionysius Periegetes
     * Priscian's Latin translation of Dionysius Periegesis Prisciani, in hexameter
  * Pseudo-Scymnus's Scymni Chii Periegesis, correctly called Περίοδος του Νικομήδη
  * Mnaseas of Patras's Periegesis or Periplus
  