AELIUS GALLUS' CAMPAIGN AND THE ARAB TRADE IN THE AUGUSTAN AGE

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" AELIUS GALLUS' CAMPAIGN AND THE ARAB TRADE IN THE AUGUSTAN AGE "
Róbert Simon

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	811453
Doc. No	:	LA99127
Main Entry	:	Róbert Simon
Title & Author	:	AELIUS GALLUS' CAMPAIGN AND THE ARAB TRADE IN THE AUGUSTAN AGE [Article]\ Róbert Simon
Title of Periodical	:	Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Date	:	2002
Volume/ Issue Number	:	55-4
Page No	:	309--318
Abstract	:	The paper throws fresh light on an important aspect of Augustus' Oriental policy. It is a reassessment of his attitude towards the role the South-Arabian States played in the East—West trade circuit on the one hand, and of his attempts to develop an independent Roman seaborne trade with India on the other. In order to understand the perspective of this undertaking, one has to analyse the farreaching changes which took place in South Arabia just at that time. The earlier "caravan-kingdoms" had been in a state of decline and have gradually been replaced by the rule of tribal confederations and States of the Highlands. Aelius Gallus' campaign was a total failure showing that the Roman Oriental trade should not be based on military conquest and on a rather expensive direct control of the middlemen.