The Sea route to India:Periplus Maris Erythraei57
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Classical Quarterly
- Vol. 34 (2) , 473-479
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800031098
Abstract
Chapter 57 of thePeriplus Marts Erythraeiis our sole source for a nugget of vital information: how westerners learned to sail over the open sea to India. Unfortunately, emendations distort the Greek in all editions1 and misconceptions the rendering in all translations.Keywords
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- Some Notes On the Periplus Maris ErythraeiThe Classical Quarterly, 1928