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- Erythraean_Sea abstract "The Erythraean Sea (Greek: Ἐρυθρὰ Θάλασσα, Erythra Thalassa, \"Red Sea\") is the name in ancient cartography for a body of water located between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula. This appellation may have derived from the seasonal blooms of the red-coloured Trichodesmium erythraeum near the water's surface.In the third century, Flavius Philostratus made this comment: \"And they say that the sea called Erythra or \"red\" is of a deep blue colour, but that it was so named, as I said before, from a King Erythras, who gave his own name to the sea in question.\"".