…In the 10th century BC, the Yemeni kingdom of Saba prospered along the Red Sea coast by acting as an intermediary in the Indian spice trade, and then the Phoenicians and, after Alexander the Great's expedition, the Greeks, who made Egypt their base, also advanced along the coast. It is believed that the Indians, Arabs, and Phoenicians already knew how to utilize the monsoons (southwest winds in summer, northeast winds in winter), but the Peregrinus of the Erythraean Sea, written in the mid-1st century, claims that it was the Greek helmsman Hippalos who discovered this. In any case, with the emergence of the Roman Empire, trade with India and other countries via the Red Sea developed dramatically. … From "The Winds of Hippalus"…In the middle of the 1st century BCE, Arab merchants engaged in maritime trade discovered that using these seasonal winds was faster than sailing along the Indian Ocean coast. It is called this name because of the legend that it was discovered by the Greek Hippalos in the 1st century BCE, but it is thought that the Phoenicians and Indians had actually used it before the Greeks. Pliny the Elder, who lived in the 1st century, accurately described sailing by these winds, and in his Natural History, he wrote: “There is a route that uses the winds of Hippalos from Ochelis in southern Arabia to Muziris on the southwestern coast of India. … *Some of the terminology that mentions "Hippalos" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…紅海沿岸では,前10世紀にイエメンのサバ王国がインドの香料貿易の仲介で繁栄し,さらにフェニキア人,そしてアレクサンドロス大王の遠征以後エジプトを基地としたギリシア人の進出もみた。インド人,アラブ,フェニキア人は季節風(夏の南西風,冬の北東風)の利用法をすでに知っていたと思われるが,1世紀中ごろの《エリュトラ海案内記》は,これを発見したのはギリシア人舵手ヒッパロスHippalosだとする。ともかく,ローマ帝国の出現ともあいまって紅海経由のインドなどとの貿易は飛躍的に発展した。… 【ヒッパロスの風】より…海上交易を行っていたアラブ商人たちは前1世紀の中葉に,この季節風を利用すればインド洋沿岸ルートよりも航海が早いことを知った。前1世紀のギリシア人ヒッパロスHippalosが発見したという伝承によってこの名で呼ばれるが,実際にはギリシア人以前にフェニキア人,インド人などが利用していたと考えられる。この風による航海について正確に記述しているのは1世紀の大プリニウスであり,彼の《博物誌》には〈アラビア南部のオケリスからヒッパロスの風を利用してインド南西部海岸のムジリスに至る航路がある。… ※「Hippalos」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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