TY - JOUR
T1 - The voyage of leucippe and clitophon
T2 - A new interpretation
AU - Cvikel, Deborah
AU - Kabanov, Yaacov
AU - Rosen, Baruch
AU - Saaroni, Hadas
AU - Galili, Ehud
PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - As told in a novel of the second century ad, the couple Leucippe and Clitophon boarded a ship sailing from Beirut to Alexandria. The ship, apparently a 2O-metre-long coaster, set out on a SW course, driven by an easterly wind. On the third day the wind shifted abruptly to the southwest, and the sea rose. Despite the efforts to tack, balance the ship and make way to windward, she was wrecked near Pelusium in Egypt. The weather phenomenon described is explained by a change of synoptic conditions, typical to the region, most probably in a transitional season, spring or autumn. The suggested course and distances made by the ship differ from a previous analysis of this voyage by Jean Rouge in 1978.
AB - As told in a novel of the second century ad, the couple Leucippe and Clitophon boarded a ship sailing from Beirut to Alexandria. The ship, apparently a 2O-metre-long coaster, set out on a SW course, driven by an easterly wind. On the third day the wind shifted abruptly to the southwest, and the sea rose. Despite the efforts to tack, balance the ship and make way to windward, she was wrecked near Pelusium in Egypt. The weather phenomenon described is explained by a change of synoptic conditions, typical to the region, most probably in a transitional season, spring or autumn. The suggested course and distances made by the ship differ from a previous analysis of this voyage by Jean Rouge in 1978.
KW - Achilles tatius
KW - Cyprus low
KW - Eastern mediterranean
KW - Leucippe and clitophon
KW - North african (sharav) low
KW - Pelusium
KW - Red sea trough
KW - Shipwreck
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84923324343&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00253359.2014.962265
DO - 10.1080/00253359.2014.962265
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AN - SCOPUS:84923324343
SN - 0025-3359
VL - 100
SP - 388
EP - 404
JO - Mariner's Mirror
JF - Mariner's Mirror
IS - 4
ER -