Author : Claudius Ptolemaeus
Publisher : Dr Ludwig Reichert
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Ptolemy, geography, book 6: Maps in simplified reconstruction, notes and indexes with a supplement: NW and W India by : Claudius Ptolemaeus
Download or read book Ptolemy, geography, book 6: Maps in simplified reconstruction, notes and indexes with a supplement: NW and W India written by Claudius Ptolemaeus and published by Dr Ludwig Reichert. This book was released on 1998 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.