Translation of ON THE ERYTHRAEAN SEA of Agatharchides of Cnidus

FAIN: RL-20944-86

Auxiliary Services Enterprise, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA 90032)
Stanley M. Burstein (Project Director: July 1985 to October 1990)

To support a translation, with extensive notes, of three surviving fragments of ON THE ERYTHRAEAN SEA (i.e. the Red Sea), an ancient Greek source for the ethnography and geography of northeast Africa and the Red Sea basin, written by the Greek historian Agatharchides of Cnidas, second century B.C.