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Scylax of Caryanda: Carian sailor in Persian service, made a reconnaissance expedition along the shores of the Indian Ocean (c.515 BCE). He wanted to know where this river runs out into the sea, and sent with his ships [...] Scylax, a man of Caryanda.
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Scylax of Caryanda was an ancient Greek explorer from Caria. He lived during the 6th century BC. In about 515 BC Scylax was sent by the Persian king Darius I of Persia to explore the course of the In...
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SCYLAX OF CARYANDA (in Caria), Greek historian, lived in the time of Darius Hystaspis (521-485 B.C.), who commissioned him to explore the course of the Indus. ii. 42). Neither of these, however, can be the author of the Periplus of the Mediterranean, which has come down to us under the name of Scylax of Caryanda.
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Sep 22, 2008 Scylax of Caryanda was an ancient Greek explorer from Caria. He lived during the 6th century BC. In about 515 BC Scylax was sent by the...
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;pre-Hellenistic Classical Greece Scylax of Caryanda Anaximander Hecataeus of Miletus Massaliote Periplus (?) ;Hellenistic period Pytheas (d. ca. 310 BC) Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax (4th or 3rd c. BC) Megasthenes (d. ca. 290 BC) Autolycus of Pitane (d. ca. 290 BC) Dicaearchus (d. ca. 285 BC) Deimakos...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Scylax Of Caryanda: ancient Greek explorer who was a pioneer in geography and the first Western observer to give an account of India. Now readers of your website, blog-post, or any other web content can enjoy full access to this article on Scylax Of Caryanda ,
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The Encyclopedia Britannica is free at the JCSM Study Center! This page has information about SCYLAX OF CARYANDA (in Caria) - Encyclopedia Britannica - SCYLAX OF CARYANDA (in Caria) , Kleine Schriften, i. (1828); and E. H. Bunbury, History of Ancient Geography i End of Article: SCYLAX OF CARYANDA (in Caria)
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The Historiai Herodotou (c. 424 b.c.e.; The History, 1709) of the Greek historian Herodotus is the main source for the story of a fabulous expedition down the Indus River undertaken by Scylax of Caryanda.
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George Rawlinson) wrote, "Wishing to know where the Indus emptied itself into the sea, he sent a number of men...among them Scylax of Caryanda, to sail down the river...and, after a voyage of thirty (?) months, reached the place from which the Egyptian king [Necos]...sent the Phoenicians to sail round Libya (Africa)."
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Scylax of Caryanda was an ancient Greek explorer from Caria. He lived during the 6th century BC. In about 515 BC Scylax was sent by the Persian king Darius I of Persia to explore the course of the Indus River.[1] Scylax and his companions sailed down the river to the east and the rising of the sun, till they reached the...
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