Monday 14 August 2017

On Obscure Points of Ethiopian History


An old friend from Addis days, S. PIERRE PETRIDES, once presented me with an offprint from one of his articles, which was published in 1966,


In the article, he quotes from the book by E.O.Winstedt:

Eric Otto Winstedt, The Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes, Cambridge, 1909

Here is the quotation, which I find rather eloquent and witty (click to enlarge):





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