Die Umsegelung Afrikas durch phönizische Schiffer ums Jahr 600 v. Chr. Geb.

The author scrutinizes Herodotus's brief report of a Phoenician circumnavigation of Africa ordered by an Egyptian king around 600 BC, assembling prior scholarship for and against the claim. He evaluates source reliability, the characters and motives of alleged sponsors, and the seafaring competence, ships, provisioning, navigation techniques, winds, currents, and coastal stopovers that would shape such a voyage. The study reconstructs probable routes, timing, and practical measures like sowing and harvesting at landfalls, considers reasons for limited historical consequences, and concludes that careful consideration of geographic and nautical factors renders the expedition at least highly plausible.