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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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zinitza to Persia and onward onto the Roman Empire (certainly with Byzantium as its center), shows that Cosmas located Tzinitza in the same parallel with Persia and the Roman Empire; and the fact that Tzinitza was regarded as “the country of silk” and it “deflects considerably to the left” make it impossible to connect Tzinitza with Malaya and the Cochin-china, which has in neither Chinese nor western sources been lined up with “the country of silk”.
In his recent studies on Cosmas’s geography, Prof. M. Kordosis suggests that Tzinitza be identified with Assam. He believes that “the distance, from Taprobanê, equal to the length of the Persian Gulf or a little longer, and the direction (‘on the left’) exclude the maritime route, through Malacca, even if we consider that the Persian Gulf extends to the river Indus”; and the fact that Assam had been a land known from an early time to the western authors would reinforce this argument;[15] he also supposes that “it must be considered as certain that Cosmas does not deal with the well known central silk route which passed thro上一页 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] ... 下一页 >> |
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