INDIAN HISTORY

HISTORY

MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
According to the periplus, sea, voyages to India were undertaken in the month of Epiphi or
A
October
B
June
C
July
D
December
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -They make the voyage to this place in a favorable season who set out from Egypt about the month of July, that is Epiphi.

Detailed explanation-2: -Authorship & Dating Known from a single manuscript now in Heidelberg and held from the early 10th century and a much later copy in the British Museum, the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea was written in a mixture of classical and common Greek sometime between 40-55 CE.

Detailed explanation-3: -The best account of Indo-Roman trade during the Sangam period is provided in the book called the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea. It was written in the first century CE by an anonymous author.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ethiopia. …the anonymous Greek travel book Periplus Maris Erythraei, written in the 1st century ce, Adulis is described as an “open harbour” containing a settlement of Greco-Roman merchants.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea is a Roman period guide to trade and navigation in the Indian Ocean. Justly famous for offering a contemporary and descriptive account of early Indian Ocean trade, the work has been sub-ject to and a point of departure for numerous studies.

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