From jmcdan@umich.edu Tue Oct 1 05:18:30 2002 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g91CIRFD051134 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 05:18:27 -0700 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Tue Oct 01 05:18:26 2002 -0700 Received: from lsa-m2.lsa.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu (lsa-m2.lsa.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu [141.211.43.51]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id g91CIPIr020272 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 05:18:26 -0700 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Subject: RE: engulfed in controversy Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:18:20 -0400 Message-ID: <34BA43960E67CC439A415330CC4E84FE2CDFF7@lsa-m2.lsa.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "McDaniel, Joann" To: For ancient sources you may want to consult the Barrington Atlas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joann McDaniel, Ph.D. Student Advisor, LS&A University of Michigan 1255 Angell Hall Ann Arbor, Mi 48109 Appointments : (734) 764-0332 http://www.lsa.umich.edu/saa -----Original Message----- From: Alfred M Kriman [mailto:akriman@darwin.helios.nd.edu]=20 Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:24 PM To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: engulfed in controversy G.I.C. Robertson wrote > ... Apparently 'Arabian Gulf' was also once used > of what we now call the Red Sea (and, to add to the confusion,=20 > 'Erythraean Sea' of the Persian Gulf ...). ... I assume the latter is for the same reason that the Red Sea is so called. Bodies of water fed by the ocean but largely enclosed can act as evaporation pools. Hence, the Mediterranean and Red Seas, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Eilat (there -- be doubly engulfed) are more saline than surrounding waters. Enough salt kills off most life besides (again!) extremophiles. Among these, halobacteria have a red carotene pigment. If the surrounding coast is barren, then light-colored parts the intertidal region will appear pink from the residue of halobacteria. (If that were the only factor I suppose the Dead Sea might be called red too, if it had tides.) Use of a name like "Erythraean Sea" suggests extended drought in the Mesopotamian water basin. AMK .