The Commerce and Navigation of the Erythraean Sea
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Classical geography
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Author :
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Classical geography
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Author : Flavius Arrianus
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 2015-02-08
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ISBN : 9781295937721
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Author : Duane W. Roller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1316853152
Strabo's Geography, completed in the early first century AD, is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English analysis of and commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the author's The Geography of Strabo, the first English translation of the work in many years. It thoroughly analyzes each of the seventeen books and provides perhaps the most thorough bibliography as yet created for Strabo's work. Careful attention is paid to the historical and cultural data, the thousands of toponyms, and the many lost historical sources that are preserved only in the Geography. This volume guides readers through the challenges and complexities of the text, allowing an enhanced understanding of the numerous topics that Strabo covers, from the travels of Alexander and the history of the Mediterranean to science, religion, and cult.
Author : Gwyn Campbell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 3319338226
This volume comprises a selection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines that discuss the exchange relationship between Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world (IOW), a macro-region running from East Africa to China, from early times to about 1300 CE. The rationale for regarding this macro-region as a “world” is the central significance of the monsoon system which facilitated the early emergence of long-distance trans-IOW maritime exchange of commodities, peoples, plants, animals, technologies and ideas.
Author : Roberta Tomber
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0715636960
A compelling new account of Indian Ocean commerce from key sites throughout the region between the first century BC and the seventh century AD.
Author : Georgia L. Irby-Massie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 113455639X
We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought and writings laid the essential foundations for the revivals of science in medieval Baghdad and renaissance Europe. Now their work is accessible to all, with this invaluable introduction to c.100 scientific authors active from 320 BCE to 230 CE. The book begins with an outline of a new socio-political model for the development and decline of Greek science, followed by eleven chapters that cover the main disciplines: * the science which the Greeks saw as fundamental - mathematics * astronomy * astrology and geography * mechanics * optics and pneumatics * the non-mathematical sciences of alchemy, biology, medicine and 'psychology'. Each chapter contains an accessible introduction on the origins and development of the topic in question, and all the authors are set in context with brief biographies.
Author : Lucy Katherine Blue
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Archaeology and history
ISBN : 9781407306315
Society for Arabian Studies Monographs No.8 Series editors D. Kennett & St J. Simpson
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9004289534
Across the Ocean contains nine essays, each dedicated to a key question in the history of the trade relations between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean from Antiquity to the Early Modern period: the role of the state in the Red Sea trade, Roman policy in the Red Sea, the function of Trajan’s Canal, the pepper trade, the pearl trade, the Nabataean middlemen, the use of gold in ancient India, the constant renewal of the Indian Ocean ports of trade, and the rise and demise of the VOC.
Author : Megasthenes
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 1877
Category : India
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Author : L. Potter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0230618456
Exploring the history of the Persian Gulf from ancient times until the present day, leading authorities treat the internal history of the region and describe the role outsiders have played there. The book focuses on the unity and identity of Gulf society and how the Gulf historically has been part of a cosmopolitan Indian Ocean world.