Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: The development of Ancient Greek consciousness of Arabia and Arabian PeninsulaThe Greeks did not limit the name "Arabia" to the Arabian Peninsula alone, but rather they called it on different parts of the East.Arabia at Hecataeus extends to the eastern banks of the Nile.While Herodotus in turn called Arabia on the same region, as well as the eastern desert of Egypt, the Syrian desert (Bādyat al-Shām), and the region between Assyria and the Arabian Peninsula.The use of the term "Arabia" by the Greeks developed in the late 4th century BC after Alexander the Great expansions in the East; with the beginning of the Hellenistic period, it came to refer to different parts of the East.The Greeks recognized the west coast of Arabia in the first quarter of the third century B.C. through Ariston's expedition, and determined the exact location of incense in the south of Arabia.They also find out that all the lands of the Arabs (with the exception of the tents dwellers living in Mesopotamia), are located in the south of the Judaea, Coelë Syria and Babylonia; also they discovered that the tents dwellers of lived in the land located near the Euphrates River between Babylonia and the Coele Syria (as well as Mesopotamia).While the places beyond it to the south owned by Arabs living in Arabia Felix.Therefore, they came to know the borders of the peninsula from its four sides.In the latter half of the third century B.C., they referred to three groups by the name of the Arabs: The inhabitants of tents in the desert parts of the Arabia Felix, the Arabs living between the Nile Delta and the Nabataeans, and the Arabs in Al-Ahsaa.The Greeks, during the time of the Seleucid and later the Romans, identified a number of different groups as "tents dwellers", Syria and Mesopotamia became better known to them.
Source: أوراق کلاسيکية
Author: علی حسن عبد الجید محمد حنون
Institution: Ain Shams University
Language: Arabic
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3027590665