The Golden Wind, the Glossary
The Golden Wind is a historical novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published in 1969, and telling the story of the Egyptian Greek seafarers Eudoxus of Cyzicus and Hippalus, who were the first in the Graeco-Roman world to travel by sea from Egypt to India in around 118 BCE.[1]
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19 relations: Africa, Common Era, Curtis Publishing Company, Doubleday (publisher), Egypt, English language, Eudoxus of Cyzicus, Greco-Roman world, Hardcover, Harry Turtledove, Hippalus, Historical fiction, India, L. Sprague de Camp, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, The Bronze God of Rhodes, Toshi Seeger, United States.
- Novels by L. Sprague de Camp
- Novels set in the 2nd century BC
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
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Common Era
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.
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Curtis Publishing Company
The Curtis Publishing Company, founded in 1891 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, became one of the largest and most influential publishers in the United States during the early 20th century.
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Doubleday (publisher)
Doubleday is an American publishing company.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Eudoxus of Cyzicus
Eudoxus of Cyzicus (Εὔδοξος ὁ Κυζικηνός, Eúdoxos ho Kyzikēnós; fl.) was a Greek navigator who explored the Arabian Sea for Ptolemy VIII, king of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt.
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Greco-Roman world
The Greco-Roman civilization (also Greco-Roman culture or Greco-Latin culture; spelled Graeco-Roman in the Commonwealth), as understood by modern scholars and writers, includes the geographical regions and countries that culturally—and so historically—were directly and intimately influenced by the language, culture, government and religion of the Greeks and Romans.
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Hardcover
A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound (At p. 247.)) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).
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Harry Turtledove
Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American author who is best known for his work in the genres of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery fiction.
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Hippalus
Hippalus (Ancient Greek: Ἵππαλος) was a Greek navigator and merchant who probably lived in the 1st century BCE.
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Historical fiction
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
L. Sprague de Camp
Lyon Sprague de Camp (November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction literature.
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Library Journal
Library Journal is an American trade publication for librarians.
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Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents.
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The Bronze God of Rhodes
The Bronze God of Rhodes is a historical novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp. The Golden Wind and The Bronze God of Rhodes are Doubleday (publisher) books and novels by L. Sprague de Camp.
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Toshi Seeger
Toshi Seeger (born Toshi Aline Ohta; July 1, 1922 – July 9, 2013) was an American filmmaker, producer and environmental activist.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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See also
Novels by L. Sprague de Camp
- An Elephant for Aristotle
- Conan and the Spider God
- Conan of the Isles
- Conan the Barbarian (1982 novel)
- Conan the Buccaneer
- Conan the Liberator
- Genus Homo (novel)
- Land of Unreason
- Lest Darkness Fall
- Lest Darkness Fall and Related Stories
- Lest Darkness Fall and To Bring the Light
- None but Lucifer
- Rogue Queen
- Solomon's Stone
- The Arrows of Hercules
- The Bones of Zora
- The Bronze God of Rhodes
- The Carnelian Cube
- The Castle of Iron
- The Clocks of Iraz
- The Continent Makers
- The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate
- The Fallible Fiend
- The Flame Knife
- The Glory That Was
- The Goblin Tower
- The Golden Wind
- The Great Fetish
- The Hand of Zei
- The Honorable Barbarian
- The Hostage of Zir
- The Incorporated Knight
- The Pixilated Peeress
- The Prisoner of Zhamanak
- The Queen of Zamba
- The Reluctant King
- The Return of Conan
- The Stones of Nomuru
- The Swords of Zinjaban
- The Tower of Zanid
- The Tritonian Ring
- The Unbeheaded King
- The Undesired Princess
- The Venom Trees of Sunga
- The Virgin of Zesh
Novels set in the 2nd century BC
- My Glorious Brothers
- The First Man in Rome
- The Forgotten Daughter
- The Golden Wind