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Mnaseas

Mnaseas was a writer, historian, mythographer and periegetes (300–200). He was born at Patras.

Mnaseas in brief

Born
300
Died
200
Known for
writer, historian, mythographer and periegetes
Place of birth
Patras
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Catalogued works

3 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1748 to 1749.

Periplous. Psaphion , ou la courtisane de Smyrne. Fragment erotique, traduit du grec de Mnaseas, sur un Manuscrit de la Bibliotheque du Lord B., dated 1748, held by Wellcome Collection. Psaphion , ou la courtisane de Smirne. Fragment erotique, traduit du grec de Mnaseas, sur un Manuscrit de la Bibliotbeque du Lord B . . . . Ou l'on a joint Les hommes de Prometh�ee., dated 1749, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

6 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Mnaseas, Der Neue Pauly. Mnaseas, Brill’s New Pauly. Epitaph of Mnaseas (?), Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Mnaseas [1], Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity. Epitaph of Mnaseas, 3rd cent. B.C., Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Online. Compounded loanwords between historical morphophonology and semantics: the ancient Greek (and Latin) names of Candragupta Maurya, Rhesis, 2025.

Naming and authority record

This heading is established in Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) (102399719). Those registers additionally record the form Mnasaeus, Medicus.

Digitised editions and texts

1 digitised item associated with this heading is catalogued by Internet Archive.

Mnaseae Patarensis fragmenta, collegit et comm. instruxit E. Mehler (1847) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 12 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 200Mnaseas died.
  2. 300Mnaseas born at Patras.
  3. 1748Psaphion , ou la courtisane de Smyrne. Fragment erotique, traduit du grec de Mnaseas, sur un Manuscrit de la Bibliotheque du Lord B. (Wellcome Collection).
  4. 1749Psaphion , ou la courtisane de Smirne. Fragment erotique, traduit du grec de Mnaseas, sur un Manuscrit de la Bibliotbeque du Lord B . . . . Ou l'on a joint Les hommes de Prometh�ee. (Wellcome Collection).
  5. 1847Mnaseae Patarensis fragmenta, collegit et comm. instruxit E. Mehler digitised by Internet Archive.

Sources

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  1. 1.

    “Mnaseas”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q1230889: Mnaseas

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