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Entry page to a complete English translation of the work, in progress.
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Strabo probably wrote 1200; Groskurd thinks that he wrote 1400, but in § 5 (below) the figures for the intervals of the same voyage total 1220 stadia. ...
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The ancient world's peripatetic geographer from Amasya: Strabo ... A member of a noble family on his mother's side, Strabo was born in 64 or 63 BC in the city of Amaseia (now called Amasya) capital of Pontus, a region in northeastern Anatolia that was an independent kingdom from the 4th century BC until overcome by Pompey...
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A biography of Strabo, the greatest geographer of antiquity. ... STRABO was a native of Amasia, in Pontus, probably a Greek by birth, of a family on the mother's side, which held high office under the royal house of Mithridates. He travelled young and had the best education of his time, visited Greece in 29 B.C.,
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A Description of Egypt Under the Principate ... Roman rule was established in Egypt after Octavian (Augustus) displaced the last ruler of the Ptolemaic line, the famous Cleopatra VII. It proved to be a great and rich province for Augustus, who organized the country ... At present [in Augustus's time] Egypt is a Roman province,
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Addressing a Greek audience, Strabo gives us this impression of the physical aspect of the mighty city that had mastered the Greek World.. He wrote in the age of Augustus.
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(Late 1st Century BCE-Early 1st Century ... The Wealth of Corinth ... [8.6.20] Corinth is called "wealthy" because of its commerce, since it is situated on the Isthmus and is master of two harbors, of which the one leads straight to Asia, and the other to Italy; and it makes easy the exchange of merchandise from both...
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Strabo biography, including 2 pages of information on the life of Strabo. ... Study Pack on Strabo ... Order our Strabo Study Pack...
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The Roman writer Strabo wrote what is often considered as the first attempt to synthesise a universal geography. He began "Geography" in 30-25 BC and probably revised it in his old age around 15-18 AD. The first two books deal with the principals of Geography.
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