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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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highly accessible to the Persian traders, who, in Cosmas’ time, monopolized unshakably the silk trade on both the central silk road and the silk market in India and Ceylon;[12] and in the second place, Cosmas was a Nestorian,[13] the common belief facilated him to contact with the numerous Nestorians who, speaking chiefly in Syriac, were occupied with the silk trade in the Persia territory and the central Asia even further beyond, and thus it is highly possible for him to hear the name for China through the Persian linguistic system (to which the Sogdian dialect belong) or Syriac dialect. In each of the two circumstances, China would have been known to Cosmas with the name of Tzinista.
It is suggested by some scholars that Cosmas, with Tzinitza, refers to Malaya or Cochin-china, the northern bend is that of the Gulf of Siam.[14] However, it would be hardly intelligible to identified Tzinitza with such a region. For, Cosmas’ acceptance of the statement of the Indian philosophers (Brahmans) that the middle of the earth would be quite traced if a corn was stretched from T上一页 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] ... 下一页 >> |
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