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Hannah Lessiter

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Hannah joined the Shapero team in September 2021, having completed a Master’s in Classical Art and Archaeology, in which she specialised in nineteenth-century photography of Greek archaeological sites. She has an extensive knowledge of both Latin and ancient Greek, and has a particular interest in ancient Greek drama. Outside Shapero, Hannah is a practising archaeobotanist and has been working and teaching on sites in Italy since 2019.

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PERIEGETES, Dionysius; BECCARIA, Antonius (translator).

De situ orbis habitabilis.

Stock Code 107443

Venice, 1478.

Second separate edition of Dionysius' didactic compendium of geographical descriptions of the known world, translated from the original Greek in prose by the Veronese humanist Antonio Beccaria. Dionysius' work first appeared in print in a free verse translation in Priscian's Opera in 1470 before the first Beccaria edition of 1477.

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