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The Name of China and its Geography in Cosmas Indicopleustes |
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时间：2009-7-24 13:48:43 来源：不详
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r Sinae) of the earlier Greek-Roman authors, and accordingly, it would be helpful to obtain a geographical idea of Thinae in the previous cases. In the late 1st century, an anonymous author who had sailed to south India and Ceylon, in his Periplus Maris Erythaei, gives a narrative about the land of Thinae:
“Behind this region (i.e. Chryse, ‘the Golden Land’) the sea come to a termination somewhere in Thinae, and in the interior of that region, quite to the north, there is a very great city called Thinae, from which raw silk and silk thread and silk stuffs are brought overland through Bactria to Barygaza (italic mine), as they are on the other hand by the Ganges river to Limyrice.[23] It is not easy, however, to get to this Thinae, and few and far between are those who come from it.”
“the Golden Land” (Suvarnahūmi in Sanscrit) is suggested to be identified with some area of the east coast of the Bay of Bengal,[24] and Thinae be placed in somewhere adjoining India, Yunnan province (in southwest China) and Burma, the great city of Thinae, which was situa << 上一页 [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] ... 下一页 >> |
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