TY - BOOK ID - 5012461 TI - The Periplus Maris Erythraei : text with introduction, translation, and commentary AU - Casson, Lionel, AU - Casson, Lionel PY - 1989 SN - 0691040605 9786613589491 1400843200 1280494263 9781400843206 9780691040608 9781280494260 6613589497 PB - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Commerce KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Rome KW - -Trade KW - Economics KW - Business KW - Transportation KW - -Rome KW - -History. KW - History. KW - -History KW - Rim KW - Roman Empire KW - Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) KW - Romi (Empire) KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Rome (Italy) KW - Classical geography KW - Red Sea KW - Indian Ocean KW - E-books KW - Commerce. KW - Classical atlases KW - Geography, Classical KW - Geography, Ancient KW - Erythraean Sea KW - Sinus Arabicus KW - Yam Suf KW - Yam Sup KW - Commerce - History - To 500 KW - Rome - Commerce - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5012461 AB - 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. ER -