Veracidad documental y deuda literaria en el Periplo de Hanón, 1-8

Abstract

Tradicionalmente se admite que la primera parte del Periplo (pars. 1-8) refleja con mayor claridad la deuda con respecto al documento original púnico que sirve de base a la obra. Dicha hipótesis, sin embargo, admite varias objeciones (debate sobre el trayecto recorrido, desacuerdo en la identificación de los lugares, rastreo indudable de una amplia deuda literaria, etc.). Un estudio de la toponimia citada en el pasaje en cuestión parece arrojar luz en este sentido

It is traditionally accepted that the first part of the Periplus (pars. 1-8) reflects quite clearly a strong debt to a Punic original document that is the basis for the whole work. This hypothesis, however, is subject to a series of objections (about the distance the fleet covers, about the identification of the sites and about the originality of the work, since it belongs to an evidently long literary tradition). A study of the place names cited in the passage should shed some light on this matter