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Maës, Qui et Titianus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

M. Gary
M. Gary
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Clifton College, Bristol
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The farthest east on the transcontinental road to China which ancient travellers from the Mediterranean borderlands are known to have attained was reached by a party that made its way as far as the Stone Tower, a station in the region of the Pamirs, not far from the watershed between the Mediterranean and the Yellow Seas. This expedition was organized by a member of an old business family, named and described as The only reference to Maes in ancient literature is in a brief notice by Ptolemy (i. II. 7), which he derived from his main source, the geographer Marinus of Tyre. Can we find out anything more about this great entrepreneur?

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 3-4 , December 1956 , pp. 130 - 134
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1956

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page 132 note 3 The problem here involved has been hinted at by Thomson (pp. 291–2) and openly expressed by Hudson (p. 85).

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