Ptolemy, Geography: Middle East, Central and North Asia, China. Part 2: Maps in Simplified Reconstruction, Notes and Indexes With a Supplement: Nw and W India: 6 - Hardcover

Humbach, Helmut

 
9783895002359: Ptolemy, Geography: Middle East, Central and North Asia, China. Part 2: Maps in Simplified Reconstruction, Notes and Indexes With a Supplement: Nw and W India: 6

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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.

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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.

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