# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dionysius-periegetes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:27:50.585Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dionysius-periegetes"
name: "Dionysius Periegetes"
slug: "dionysius-periegetes"
description: "Dionysius Periegetes, also known as Dionysius of Alexandria or Dionysius the African, was the author of a description of the then-known world in Greek hexameter verse. He is believed to have been from Alexandria and to have lived around the time of Hadrian, though some date his lifetime as late as the end of the 3rd century."
tagline: "2nd century AD Greek travel writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karte_Dionysius.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "100"
deathDate: "200"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.88484666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ديونيسيوس بيريجيتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dionisiy Perieqet"
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    title: "Dionisi el Periegeta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dionigi il Periegeta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "დიონისე პერიეგეტე"
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    title: "Dionysios Periegetes"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump