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Even as an epitome, the Ethnica is of enormous value for geographical, mythological, and religious information about ancient Greece.

Nearly every article in the epitome contains a reference to some ancient writer, as an authority for the name of the place.

From the surviving fragments, we see that the original contained considerable quotations from ancient authors, besides many interesting particulars, topographical, historical, mythological, and others.

Stephanus cites Artemidorus, Polybius, Aelius Herodianus, Herodotus, Thucidides, Xenophon, Strabo and other writers.