The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Volume 2, Part 4, Issue 151The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea is a short work of uncertain date and unknown authorship, written in very difficult Greek. It is concerned with the coasts of the Red Sea and -Indian Ocean and may be described as a combined trade directory and Admiralty Handbook, giving sailing directions and information about navigational hazards, harbours, imports and exports. It is of great value for the study of the commerce of the Roman Empire and the early history of East Africa, South Arabia and India. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1980. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
NOTE ON SOME FEATURES OF | 16 |
Notes on the text of the Periplus | 58 |
APPENDICES | 77 |
The products of the Erythraean area | 122 |
The ethnology and history of the arca covered by | 143 |
Shipping | 158 |
s Elephanthunting | 166 |
The mountain of the moon | 173 |
Notes on Agatharkhidēs | 194 |
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Adouli Africa Agatharkhidēs Aksum ancient Arabs Arōmata Arrian Arsinoe Aualitēs Azania Bandar Barbarikon Barbaroi Barugaza Berbers Bernike Cambay canal Cape Gardafui century A.D. chapter cinnamon cloth Egypt Egyptian elephant-hunting elephants Erythraean Sea Eudaimōn Arabia exported Frisk Ganges Greck Greek Gulf of Cambay harbour Hist Hobson-Jobson Huntingford Ikhthuophagoi incense Indian Ocean Indus island called ivory Kalliena Kanē kasia king kingdom Kolkhoi Kōmē land Limurikē live mainland Malaō Malikhas Mapharitis Marinos of Tyre mart McCrindle Menouthias mentioned miles modern monsoon Moskha Mosullon Moundou mountain mouth Mouza Mouziris Müller Muos Hormos myrrh Narbada Nelkunda Nile Okēlis Omana Opōnē Periplus Persian Gulf Pliny port Ptolemaïs Ptolemy Ptolemy II Philadelphos Red Sea Rhapta river sail says sewn boats ships Skuthia spices stades Strabō Suagros Tamil tortoise tortoiseshell town trade trees Troglodytes Tundis Ujjain Vijayadurg voyage word Zōskalēs καὶ τῆς τὸ