Ptolemy, geography, book 6: Maps in simplified reconstruction, notes and indexes with a supplement: NW and W India

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Reichert, 1998 - History - 152 pages
Book 6 of Ptolemy's "Geography" (2nd cent. AD) deals with Assyria, Media, Susiana, Persis, Parthia, the Carmanian Desert, Arabia Felix, Carmania, Hyrcania, Margiana, Bactriana, Sogdiana, Sakaland, Skythia, Serica, Areia, Paropanisadai, Drangiana, Archaosia, and Gedrosia. In the present part of ther work the authors offer the first complete critical edition of this important text. A second part will deal with the respective maps, and a third part will be formed by a commentary with philological, historical, and linguitic analysis of the single geographical ent ethnographical names.

Contents

6
13
6 4 Persis 225
25
6 7 Arabia Eudaimon SE part
31
6 12 Sogdianoi Sogdianē E part
37
6 15 Skythia he ektos Imau orus Skythia Ektos
43
6 21 Gedrōsia
49
6 2
53
6 3
62
7 1 Indikē hē entos Gangu potamu Indikē Entos NW part
120

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