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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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one Tower, but also a road to India which goes through Palimbothra. (italic mine) And the road from the metropolis of the Sinae to the part of Cattigara runs towards the southwest…”[25]
Cattigara here is believed to be Hanoi, the present capital city of Vietnam, while the metropolis of Sinae be Lo-yang of the Later Han Dynasty, and the Sinae be Tongking (in north Vietnam) and the south China;[26] equally noteworthily, aware also is of the central silk route through the Central Asia (Stone Tower, Bactria).
These two cases lead us to believe that the ancient Greek-Roman traders, whoever travelled to south India and Ceylon, would notice invariably the region which extend from the Ganges to south China, referring to one part of it or another with the name of Thinae; but they would unfailingly at same time be conscious of the existence of its interior land, whence the well-known silk route took departure and led through central Asia to the West and India. In other words, Cosmas would, as in cases of the two above-mentioned authors, cover far more spacious area than the A << 上一页 [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] ... 下一页 >> |
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