{"id":16061,"date":"2023-05-10T12:45:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T16:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=16061"},"modified":"2024-05-26T11:58:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T15:58:38","slug":"guide-circumnavigation-periplus-periplous-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/05\/guide-circumnavigation-periplus-periplous-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to circumnavigation authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a guide to reading in chronological order examples of &#8220;circumnavigation&#8221; or &#8220;voyage&#8221; (<em>periplous <\/em>\/ <em>periplus<\/em>, or <em>periodos<\/em>) literature with frequent references to peoples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hanno the Carthaginian, <em>Circumnavigation <\/em>[of western Africa], fourth century BCE or earlier (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/06\/libyan-peoples-hanno-the-carthaginian-fourth-century-bce-or-earlier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Anonymous (&#8220;Pseudo-Skylax&#8221;), <em>Circumnavigation <\/em>[of the entire Mediterranean], fourth century BCE (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/06\/mediterranean-peoples-pseudo-skylax-fourth-century-bce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Anonymous (&#8220;Pseudo-Skymnos&#8221;), <i>Circuit around the Earth for Nikomedes<\/i>, mid-second century BCE (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/08\/mediterranean-peoples-pseudo-skymnos-voyage-around-the-earth-for-nikomedes-mid-second-century-bce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Isidoros of Charax Spasinou, <em>Description of Parthia<\/em> (though over land), late first century BCE (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/05\/parthians-and-arabians-isidoros-of-charax-and-the-imperial-purposes-of-geographic-and-ethnographic-information-late-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Anonymous, <em>Circumnavigation of the Erythraian Sea<\/em> [i.e. Red Sea and Indian Ocean all the way to India], mid-first century CE (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/05\/inhabitants-of-barbaria-arabians-and-indians-anonymous-author-on-trade-and-peoples-on-the-erythraian-sea-on-the-erythraean-sea-red-sea-all-the-way-to-eastern-india-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Arrian of Nikomedia, <em>Circumnavigation of the Euxine Sea<\/em> [i.e. the Black Sea], ca. 131-132 CE (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/05\/kolchians-heniochians-and-other-eastern-pontic-peoples-arrian-on-his-journey-along-the-coast-near-the-caucasus-mountains-early-second-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Avienus, <em>Sea Coast<\/em> [of Iberia \/ Spain], mid-fourth century CE (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/05\/iberians-and-others-avienus-on-a-journey-along-the-southern-coast-of-spain-mid-fourth-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a guide to reading in chronological order examples of &#8220;circumnavigation&#8221; or &#8220;voyage&#8221; (periplous \/ periplus, or periodos) literature with frequent references to peoples: Hanno the Carthaginian, Circumnavigation [of western Africa], fourth century BCE or earlier (link) Anonymous (&#8220;Pseudo-Skylax&#8221;), Circumnavigation [of the entire Mediterranean], fourth century BCE (link) Anonymous (&#8220;Pseudo-Skymnos&#8221;), Circuit around the Earth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,264,522,367,675,217,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11-guides-ethnographic-passages-ancient-author","category-arrian-of-nikomedia-greek","category-avienus-from-etruria-in-italy","category-hanno-carthaginian","category-isidoros-of-charax-spasinou-charakenian","category-pseudo-skymnos-greek","category-skylax-pseudo-skylax-carian-greek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16061"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21028,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16061\/revisions\/21028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}