Geography in Couplets?

What is it about?

All that remains to us of the Hellenistic poet, Zenothemis, is one elegiac couplet (two lines of Greek) and a handful of disconnected references to him as an authority on a range of subjects (the Amazons, the Hyperboreans, precious stones, and Paeonian fish). This brief note takes a careful look at the fragment with a view to commenting on Zenothemis' verse style, and tries to make some speculative sense of the shape and content of his larger oeuvre.

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