Crossings : early Mediterranean contacts with India

Weitere Verfasser: De Romanis, Federico
Tchernia, André, 1938-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New Deli : Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 1997.
Umfang/Format: 283 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Early Mediterranean contacts with India : an overview / Romila Thapar
  • The date of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea in the light of South Arabian evidence / Christian Robin
  • The Periplus and the political history of India / Gerard Fussman
  • On the name of the Hipalus (Hippalus) wind in Pliny / Santo Mazzarino
  • Rome and the Nótia of India : relations between Rome and southern India from 30 BC to the Flavian period / Federico de Romanis
  • Romanukharaṭṭha and Taprobane : relations between Rome and Sri Lanka in the first century AD / Federico de Romanis
  • The dromedary of the peticii and trade with the East /André Tchernia
  • Winds and coins : from the supposed discovery of the monsoon to the denarii of Tiberius / André Tchernia.