A mosaic from Dion - Dion Museum, Macedonia, Greece
Showing posts with label map of ancient India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label map of ancient India. Show all posts
Sunday, November 6, 2016
Monday, October 17, 2016
Friday, August 19, 2016
Monday, April 18, 2011
Dionysos
Dionysos on a panther - mosaic from Pella
Athanasios G. Angelopoulos, "Prehistoric colonies of the Greeks" (1999 - Vol. 2, p. 13).
The new color map was posted on 15 June 2012 - see also "Argonautica".
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Ancient Greek cities in Asia
Taprobane is the ancient Greek name for Sri Lanka.
There is a river Phasis in prehistoric Colchis (near Caucasus) and a river Phasis in Taprobane. According to Nonnos (Dionysiaka 13, 223), the Cretans had built a colony in Colchis. Diodorus (5, 42 and 46) writes that in the island Pachaea near India there were Cretan priests from the time of Zeus. Ptolemy (Geography 7, 2, 25) mentions a city Tharra in Thailand. But this is a Cretan name.
The last three maps are based on Ptolemy's coordinates.
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