| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 320 pages) : maps |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
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| Contents |
LIST OF MAPS ; PREFACE ; ABBREVIATIONS ; NOTES TO THE READER ; INTRODUCTION ; I . TEXT AND AUTHOR ; THE TEXT ; THE DATE ; THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORK ; II . TRADE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN ; THE SETTING ; BETWEEN ALEXANDRIA AND THE RED SEA ; THE LINES AND OBJECTS OF TRADE ; THE TRADE WITH INDIA ; THE TRADE IN METALS; BARTER AND PURCHASE; THE TRADERS ; THE TRADERS: AFRICA VERSUS INDIA ; A ROMAN ECONOMIC POLICY? ; NATURE OF THE OBJECTS OF TRADE ; III . POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY ; TEXT AND TRANSLATION ; GENERAL COMMENTARY ; COMMENTARY B (TEXTUAL , LEXICOGRAPHICA L,GRAMMATICAL) |
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APPENDIX 1. HARBORSANDPORTS APPENDIX 2. DISTANCES ; APPENDIX 3. THE VOYAGES TOAFRICA, 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 |
| Summary |
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 introduction places the Periplus in its historical context |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Greek text, parallel English translation; introduction and commentary in English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Periplus maris Erythraei gnd |
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Commerce -- History -- To 500.
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Classical geography.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs.
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Classical geography
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Commerce
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Kommentar
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Commerce -- Antiquité.
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Navigation -- Oman, Mer d' -- Antiquité.
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Navigation -- Mer Rouge -- Antiquité.
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Routes commerciales -- Moyen-Orient -- Antiquité.
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- Commerce -- History
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Red Sea -- Commerce -- History
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Indian Ocean -- Commerce -- History
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Indian Ocean
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Red Sea
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Rome (Empire)
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Rome -- Commerce extérieur -- Moyen-Orient -- Antiquité.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Casson, Lionel, 1914-2009.
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| LC no. |
88015178 |
| ISBN |
9781400843206 |
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1400843200 |
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1280494263 |
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9781280494260 |
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9786613589491 |
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6613589497 |
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