2 апр. 2016 г. · Entry page to a complete English translation of the work. Part of a very large site on Greco-Roman Antiquity.

He is best known for his work Geographica ("Geography"), which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known ...

THE present translation of Strabo, the great Geographer of Antiquity, is the first which has been laid before the English public. It is curious that a classic ...

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The Geography of Strabo, Books 1-5 translated by Hamilton and Falconer, text taken from the Bell Edition of 1903, now in the public domain.

55,00 £ Strabo's Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as it appeared to a contemporary observer in the early Roman empire. Information about ...

From this description it is clear that by geography Strabo means ancient physical geography and by chorography, political geography. The two are combined in ...

9 июн. 2024 г. · Strabo, like other educated people in classical Antiquity, knew that the earth is a sphere, as became known again in western Europe well before ...

Strabo (ca. 64 BCE to ca. 25 CE), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BCE at Rome. He became a keen traveller who saw a large ...

Оценка 4,5 (41) · 168,29 $ The Geography of Strabo is the only surviving work of its type in Greek literature, and the major source for the history of Greek scholarship on geography ...