Erythraean

Which ocean was known in ancient times as the Erythraean Sea?

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference 2009

Interestingly, the author of Periplus of the Erythraean Sea might have noticed or might have taken the same route in the mid-first century, just a little earlier than the time of these tributes.

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, written by a Greek of the mid-first century, says, "After the region (Chryse) under the very north, the sea outside ending in a land called This, there is a great inland city called Thinae, from which raw silk and silk yarn and silk cloth are brought on foot through Bactria to Barygaza."

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

Pteleum, which were forts held by them in the Erythraean territory, and at Lesbos itself, and carried on the war by sea against the

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

But that night there came a despatch from Pedaritus informing Astyochus that certain Erythraean prisoners had been released by the Athenians from Samos on condition of betraying

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Erythraean prisoners had come from Samos to betray Erythrae,

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

Erythraean prisoners plot to gain freedom from Samos, 8.33.3-4

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

Erythraean prisoners plot to gain freedom from Samos, 8.33.3-4

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

Egyptians, together with all those who inhabit the Erythraean confines, and dwell along the shores and coasts of the Red Sea, some sour prickings and smart stingings in his arms and legs of those little speckled dragons which the Arabians call meden.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Egyptians, together with all those who inhabit the Erythraean confines, and dwell along the shores and coasts of the Red Sea, some sour prickings and smart stingings in his arms and legs of those little speckled dragons which the Arabians call meden.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002