Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE
Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE

Author: Matthew A. Cobb

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 9004376577

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In Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE Matthew Adam Cobb explores the development of commercial exchanges between the Mediterranean world and civilisations in East Africa, Southern Arabia and the India from the Augustan period to the early third century CE.

Rome and India
Rome and India

Author: Vimala Begley

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13:

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In the first century AD, a flourising trade route via the Red Sea connected Imperial Rome with the Indian subcontinent. Joining literary evidence from antiquity with recent archaeological finds from both the Mediterranean and India, 13 eminent scholars reassess when and how the Rome-India sea made developed.

The Commerce Between the Roman Empire and India
The Commerce Between the Roman Empire and India

Author: E. H. Warmington

Publisher: South Asia Books

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 9788121506700

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Illustrations: 1 B/w Illustration and 1 Map Description: The first two centuries of the Roman Empire witnessed the establishment and development of a profitable commerce between two great regions of the earth: the Mediterranean countries and India. This was the era of new discoveries and enterprises in form rule of Rome, and the welding of races of the West and the Near East into one well-governed whole. The account of the growth of this important commerce and of the establishment of trade routes during this formative era, novel developments for both Indians and Romans, us infolded in this authoritative work which has long been out of print but which now appears in a second edition newly revised and enlarged by the author in the light of recent knowledge and discoveries.

The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean
The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean

Author: Raoul McLaughlin

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2014-09-11

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 1473840953

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This study of ancient Roman shipping and trade across continents reveals the Roman Empire’s far-reaching impact in the ancient world. In ancient times, large fleets of Roman merchant ships set sail from Egypt on voyages across the Indian Ocean. They sailed from Roman ports on the Red Sea to distant kingdoms on the east coast of Africa and southern Arabia. Many continued their voyages across the ocean to trade with the rich kingdoms of ancient India. Along these routes, the Roman Empire traded bullion for valuable goods, including exotic African products, Arabian incense, and eastern spices. This book examines Roman commerce with Indian kingdoms from the Indus region to the Tamil lands. It investigates contacts between the Roman Empire and powerful African kingdoms, including the Nilotic regime that ruled Meroe and the rising Axumite Realm. Further chapters explore Roman dealings with the Arab kingdoms of southern Arabia, including the Saba-Himyarites and the Hadramaut Regime, which sent caravans along the incense trail to the ancient rock-carved city of Petra. The first book to bring these subjects together in a single comprehensive study, The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean reveals Rome’s impact on the ancient world and explains how international trade funded the legions that maintained imperial rule.

The Making of Roman India
The Making of Roman India

Author: Grant Parker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-03-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780521175364

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Latin and especially Greek texts of the imperial period contain a wealth of references to 'India'. Professor Parker offers a survey of such texts, read against a wide range of other sources, both archaeological and documentary. He emphasises the social processes whereby the notion of India gained its exotic features, including the role of the Persian empire and of Alexander's expedition. Three kinds of social context receive special attention: the trade in luxury commodities; the political discourse of empire and its limits; and India's status as a place of special knowledge, embodied in 'naked philosophers'. Roman ideas about India ranged from the specific and concrete to the wildly fantastic and the book attempts to account for such variety. It ends by considering the afterlife of such ideas into late antiquity and beyond.