Nearchus

From this it would seem that a Greek merchant vessel could manage on an average 50 miles a day.

Besides this, one of Alexander's admirals, named Nearchus, learned to carry his ships from the mouth of the Indus to the Arabian Gulf.

later on a greek sailor hippalus found that by using the monsoons at the appropriate times he could sail direct from arabia to india without laboriously coasting along the shores of persia and beluchistan and in consequence the greeks gave his name to the monsoon for information about india itself the greeks were for a long time dependent upon the account of megisthenes an ambassador sent by seleucus one of alexander's generals to the indian king of the punjab while knowledge was thus gained of the east additional information was obtained about the north of europe by the travels of one pythius a native of marseilles who flourished about the time of alexander the great three thirty three b c and he is especially interesting to us as having been the first civilized person who can be identified as having visited britain he seems to have coasted along the bay of biscay to have spent some time in england which he reckoned as forty thousand stadia or four thousand miles in circumference and he appears also to have coasted along belgium and holland as far as the mouth of the elba Pythias is, however, chiefly known in the history of geography as having referred to the island of Thule, which he described as the most northerly point of the inhabited earth, beyond which the sea became thickened and of a jelly-like consistency.

He does not profess to have visited Thule, and his account probably refers to the existence of drift ice near the Shetlands.

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For more information, or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Hanno 505 Herodotus 484 Pythias 340 Nearchus 326 Eudoxus 146 Caesar 100 Strabo 50 Hanno the Carthaginian Herodotus visits Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Phoenicia, Arabia, Babylon, Persia, India, Media, Colchis, the Caspian Sea, Scythia, Thrace, and Greece.

Pythias explores the coasts of Iberia and Gaul, the English Channel, the Isle of Albion, the Orkney Islands, and the Land of Thule.

Nearchus visits the Asiatic coast from the Indus to the Persian Gulf.

Eudoxus reconnoitres the west coast of Africa.

Caesar conquers Gaul and Great Britain.

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Some years after the time of Pytheas, about BC 326, a Greek traveler made his name famous.

From this it would seem that a Greek merchant vessel could manage on an average 50 miles a day.

Besides this, one of Alexander's admirals, named Nearchus, learned to carry his ships from the mouth of the Indus to the Arabian Gulf.

later on a greek sailor hippalus found that by using the monsoons at the appropriate times he could sail direct from arabia to india without laboriously coasting along the shores of persia and beluchistan and in consequence the greeks gave his name to the monsoon for information about india itself the greeks were for a long time dependent upon the account of megisthenes an ambassador sent by seleucus one of alexander's generals to the indian king of the punjab knowledge was thus gained of the east additional information was obtained about the north of europe by the travels of one pythius a native of marseilles who flourished about the time of alexander the great three thirty three b c and he is especially interesting to us as having been the first civilized person who can be identified as having visited britain he seems to have coasted along the bay of biscay to have spent some time in england which he reckoned as forty thousand stadia or four thousand miles in circumference and he appears also to have coasted along belgium and holland as far as the mouth of the elba bithius is however chiefly known in the history of geography as having referred to the island of thule which he described as the most northerly point of the inhabited earth beyond which the sea became thickened and of a jelly-like consistency he does not profess to have visited thule and his account probably refers to the existence of drift-ice near the shetlands all this new information was gathered together and made accessible to the greek reading world by eratosthenes librarian of alexandria two forty to one ninety six b c who was practically the founder of scientific geography he was the first to attempt any accurate measurement of the size of the earth and of its inhabited portion

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