"This volume is a translation and commentary of three geographers from Greco-Roman antiquity: Hanno of Carthage, from around 500 BC; the Periplous Dedicated to King Nikomedes, from the last half of the second century BC, and Avienus, from the fourth century AD. The modern transl…
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 merchan…
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 merchan…
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 merchan…
by Marcotte, Didier, Pseudo-Scymnus
fromCollection des universites de France
