Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Berbera to Daresalaam, ed. Megalommatis

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Berbera to Daresalaam The present video offers readers the possibility to read part of the Ancient Greek text of the Periplus of the Red (or Erythrean) Sea, and its Modern Greek translation, as published in the modern Greek edition of the text, by Prof. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis; the present excerpt covers the Somali East African coastland, namely the space between Malao (Berbera) and Rhapta (Daresalaam). Reading starts at the middle of the first page of the book that is included in this video (paragraph 8), and ends at the end of the first two paragraphs of the last past (paragraph 18). The video features also photographical documentation from the book, as well as pictures from Malao (Berbera), Mundu (Bandar Heis, near Maydh, not far from Erigavo), Mosyllon (Bossasso or Bender Qassim), Nile Ptolemy river, Tapatege, Cape Elephant, Elephant river (all four locations being near modern Alula (in Somali: Ras Caluula), Cape of Spices (Ras Asir or Cape Guardafui), Tabae promontory, Opone (Ras Hafun), Mikra Apokopa and Megala Apokopa (in the area of Bandar Beyla), Mikros Aigialos and Megalos Aigialos (in the area of Hobyo / Obbia), Serapion pasturelands and Nikon pasturelands (in the area between Mogadishu and Kismayo), Pyralaoi islands (around Lamu, in the Somali province of Kenya), and Menuthias island (Pemba island) and Rhapta (Daresalaam). It is the second of a series of videos that will offer modern visualization to a 2000-year old text written by an anonymous Alexandrian Egyptian merchant and captain. Online edition: Online edition: http://community.webshots.com/user/redseamegalommatis Further readings -- analysis in English: Somalia as Part of the East -- West Trade during the Antiquity http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/61989 Somalia, the Other Berberia, Abyssinia, Yemen and the Periplus of the Red Sea http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/62124 Ancient Harbours of Northern Somalia and Colonial Anti-African Historiography http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/62191 Sailing around the Horn of Africa, before 2000 years http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/62341 Book review: The Periplus of the Red Sea and the Trade between East and West By Prof. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis Continue: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/43817 ..................................... According to the text (as well as to a myriad of other cross-checked sources in all the old scriptures of the area concerned), all these areas have been gradually and complementarily interconnected, and the land routes were an alternative, or a continuation of the sea routes and/or the desert routes. In one word, the text of the Periplus of the Red Sea reveals to our eyes an entire commercial net covering the area between China and the western confines of the Roman Empire. In fact, this is the first time in the History of the Mankind that a single text describes issues covering the immense area between the Atlantic and the Pacific in its entirety (although both oceans are not explicitly mentioned), while referring to data, details, issues and events concerning the three continents of which consisted the then known world. In the Preface, Megalommatis presents first his ideological approach to the phenomenon of History and to the History of the Exchanges between East and the West; he then draws a geographical, cultural, and political map of the world of the author of the Periplus of the Red Sea, describing the peoples and the states that were object of the anonymous author of the Periplus of the Red Sea. Finally, he offers an in-depth understanding of the main characteristics of the text and of its historical preservation until the modern times. The text was thought to be composed by the famous Historian Arrian, but of course this was a misunderstanding of numerous points of the text that testify plainly to the fact that the mother tongue of the author was not Greek. Most probably, he was an Alexandrian Egyptian captain and merchant who crossed personally most of the areas mentioned in the text. Continue: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/43817