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To: Fedora
The author shouldn't have said "Somalia." Wrong coast.
77 posted on 02/24/2004 7:55:10 AM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro; Sabertooth
The author shouldn't have said "Somalia." Wrong coast.

If the author means that they reached Somalia from the west coast of Africa, yes, that would be wrong :) I was assuming they meant something different, but as I reread it now I'm not sure what they meant, and I can see where you and Sabertooth are coming from on that. I guess there's quite a bit of debate over what some of the references in the original description of Hanno's voyage mean. I'm looking up some stuff now and here's a link with a good discussion which cites several scholars who identify Cerne as referring to somewhere other than Somalia, contadicting the article's statement that "Most scholars agree that the description fits Somalia":

http://www.livius.org/ha-hd/hanno/hanno02.html

90 posted on 02/24/2004 3:59:51 PM PST by Fedora
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