This work was first edited under the title ''Περι πολεον'' (''Peri poleon'', "On Cities") ( Aldus , Venice, 1502); the best modern editions are by W Dindorf and others (4 vols., Leipzig, 1825), A. Westermann (Leipzig, 1839), and A Meineke (vol. i., Berlin, 1849). Hermolaus dedicates his epitome to Justinian; whether the first or second emperor of that name is meant is disputed, but it seems probable that Stephanus flourished in the earlier part of the 6th Century , under Justinian I .
The chief fragments remaining of the original work (which certainly contained lengthy quotations from classical authors and many interesting topographical and historical details) are preserved by Constantine Porphyrogennetos , '' De Administrando Imperio '', ch. 23 and ''De thematibus'', ii. Io (an account of Sicily); the latter includes a passage from the comic poet Alexis on the ''Seven Largest Islands''. Another respectable fragment, from the article z~un to the end of Io, exists in a manuscript of the Seguerian library.
- Editions of Westermann, Dindorf and Meineke, above noticed
- the article "Stephanus Byzant.," in Smith's ''Dictionary of Ancient Biography'', vol. iii.
- E. H. Bunbury , ''History of Ancient Geography,'' i. 102, 135, 169; ii. 669?671 (London, 1883)
- Riese , ''De Stephani Byzant. auctoribus'' (Kiel, 1873)
- Johannes Geffcken , ''De Stephano Byzantio'' (Göttingen, 1886)
- Paul Sakolowski , ''Fragmenta d. S. von B.''.
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