The Periplus of Hanno, Preface by Prof. Megalommatis
This video features the preface of the Modern Greek edition of Hanno's Periplus, by Prof. Megalommatis;
Preface. On Ancient Travelers and Mariners
Πρόλογος, Περί αρχαίων οδοιπόρων και θαλασσοπόρων
The Periplus of Hanno, King of the Carthaginians, edited by Prof. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Άννωνος Βασιλέως Καρχηδονίων Περίπλους, έκδοση Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτη
The Periplus of Hanno, King of the Carthaginians, and explorations of West Africa before 2450 years
Online edition:
https://periplusofhanno.wordpress.com/
Published in Greek, in 1991 (STOHASTIS Publishing House, Athens - Greece), 112 p., the book consists in a historical presentation of the brief Carthaginian text that has not been saved in its original, but in an Ancient Greek translation. The text is very small, 656 words altogether, but the author made of it an entire book.
It is noteworthy that with this text starts the History of Morocco and the Western Coast of Africa down to Sierra Leone, which was the furthermost point reached by the maritime expedition of King Hanno, and described by the Carthaginian royal scribes. Through further epigraphical evidence, we have been able to date King Hanno at the middle of the 5th century BCE.
Consequently, the Periplus (circumnavigation) of Hanno consists in the oldest historical reference to Western Africa in the World Literature.
The book starts with a Preface about the ancient travelers and navigators; in that part the author describes how people perceived the World in the Antiquity, how they conceived the Earth as flat surface, usually mythologized at its confines, and what meant for the Mediterranean navigators the eventuality of a faraway trip.
Continue here:
https://www.academia.edu/23363041/The_Periplus_of_Hanno_King_of_the_Carthaginians_and_explorations_of_West_Africa_before_2450_years