The Periplus Maris Erythraei : : Text with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary /

The Periplus Maris Erythraei : : Text with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary / / Lionel Casson.

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The Periplus Maris Erythraei, "Circumnavigation of the Red Sea," is the single most important source of information for ancient Rome's maritime trade in these waters (i.e., the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and western Indian Ocean). Written in the first century A.D. by a Greek merchant or s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Casson, Lionel,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©1989
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF MAPS
  • PREFACE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTES TO THE READER
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I. TEXT AND AUTHOR
  • II. TRADE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
  • III. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
  • TEXT AND TRANSLATION
  • GENERAL COMMENTARY
  • COMMENTARY B (TEXTUAL, LEXICOGRAPHICAL, GRAMMATICAL)
  • APPENDIX 1. HARBORS AND PORTS
  • APPENDIX 2. DISTANCES
  • APPENDIX 3. THE VOYAGES TO AFRICA, ARABIA, AND INDIA
  • APPENDIX 4. THE TERMS FOR CLOTH AND CLOTHING
  • APPENDIX 5. INDIA'S WEST COAST, FROM BOMBAY TO CAPE COMORIN
  • INDEX
  • INDEX OF CITATIONS

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