The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea is a periplus written during the Roman Empire,probably by a Greek merchant or sailor living in Egypt.As the main material of maritime trade between Eastern and Western civilizations ...The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea is a periplus written during the Roman Empire,probably by a Greek merchant or sailor living in Egypt.As the main material of maritime trade between Eastern and Western civilizations at that time,this text has attracted much attention from the academic community because of its completeness of text circulation and detailed description of logistics conditions.While describing the commodity transactions in different regions,the text contains the value tendency of the author's ethnic memory and the writing memory of the text inheritance.By peeling of the layers of text construction,it presents the combination of traditional historical memory and world geographic cognition at that time.展开更多
文摘The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea is a periplus written during the Roman Empire,probably by a Greek merchant or sailor living in Egypt.As the main material of maritime trade between Eastern and Western civilizations at that time,this text has attracted much attention from the academic community because of its completeness of text circulation and detailed description of logistics conditions.While describing the commodity transactions in different regions,the text contains the value tendency of the author's ethnic memory and the writing memory of the text inheritance.By peeling of the layers of text construction,it presents the combination of traditional historical memory and world geographic cognition at that time.
