The Periplus Maris Erythraei

The Periplus Maris Erythraei

by Casson, Lionel

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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 skipper, it is a short manual for the traders who sailed from the Red Sea ports of Roman Egypt to buy and sell in the various ports along the coast of eastern Africa, southern Arabia, and western India. This editio…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The Periplus Maris Erythraei : / text with introduction, translation, and commentary by 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 skipper, it is a short manual for the traders who sailed from the Red Sea ports of Roman Egypt to buy and sell in the various ports along the coast of eastern Africa, southern Arabia, and western India. This edition, in many ways the culmination of a lifetime of study devoted to Rome's merchant marine and her trade with the east, provides an improved text of the Periplus, along with a lucid and reliable translation, a comprehensive general commentary that treats in particular the numerous obscure place-names and technical terms that occur, and a technical commentary that deals with grammatical, lexicographical, and textual matters for readers competent in Greek. An extensive introductionplaces the Periplus in its historical context.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©1989

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"A Princeton University Press e-book."--Couverture.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 ressource en ligne (xvii, 320 pages) : : cartes.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781400843206, 1400843200
  • oclc:on1136541201
  • LC Classification:HF377
  • Dewey Decimal:382/.0937

Table of Contents

List of maps -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes to the reader -- Introduction -- 1. Text and author -- 2. Trade in the Indian Ocean -- 3. 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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Subjects

Commerce Commerce -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 500 Commerce -- History -- To 500 Géographie ancienne History Indian Ocean Indian Ocean -- Commerce Indien, Océan -- Commerce Livres numériques Periplus maris Erythraei Red Sea Red Sea -- Commerce Rome -- Commerce Rouge, Mer -- Commerce To 500

Writers

Casson, Lionel

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