Dueck - The Routledge Companion to Strabo

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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO STRABO

Strabos colossal work is one of the most fascinating and puzzling accounts of the Roman world, a richly layered ethnographic and political commentary on the Mediterranean in transition, viewed at close quarters by a polymathic historian-geographer. This Companion , written by a well-chosen international team of experts, brings to a wider public the very best of recent scholarship on this extraordinary and under-estimated work.

Professor Greg Woolf, Director, Institute of Classical Studies at the School of Advanced Study, UK

With the current spatial turn in ancient studies, Strabo has been attracting attention on a scale not seen since the Renaissance. This most welcome Companion to his work the first ever ranges wide and deep. It will have lasting value.

Professor Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia ( c . 64 BCE c . CE 24), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost, his major opus of the Geography includes an encyclopaedic look at the entire world known at the time: numerous ethnographic, topographic, historical, mythological, botanical and zoological details, and much more.

This volume offers various insights to the literary and historical context of the man and his world. The Companion , in twenty-eight chapters written by an international group of scholars, examines several aspects of Strabos personality, the political and scholarly environment in which he was active, his choices as an author and his ideas of history and geography. This selection of ongoing Strabonian studies is an invaluable resource not just for students and scholars of Strabo himself, but also for anyone interested in ancient geography and in the world of the early Roman Empire.

Daniela Dueck is Associate Professor of Classical Studies and History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

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THE ROUTLEDGE
COMPANION TO STRABO

Edited by Daniela Dueck

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Names: Dueck, Daniela, 1965- editor.

Title: The Routledge companion to Strabo / edited by Daniela Dueck.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016037513| ISBN 9781138904330 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315696416 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Strabo. Geography. | Strabo. | Geography, AncientEarly works to 1800.

Classification: LCC G87.S95 R68 2017 | DDC 913dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016037513

ISBN: 978-1-138-90433-0 (hbk)
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This volume is the product of the joint work of all its contributors. Without their fine chapters, it would not have come into being. I thank each and all of them for their good work and for their cooperation. If we are to follow one of Strabos metaphors (2.1.30), the ideas of the contributors and their various chapters are all limbs of this entire body of knowledge.

Several peoples have helped me, mainly in advice, at various stages of the preparation of this volume. I deeply thank them all. First and foremost, Sarah Pothecary who has been for almost two decades my personal companion to Strabo. Her enthusiasm for the text and her comprehensive knowledge of Strabo are always illuminating. Tnnes Bekker-Nielsen and Joseph Geiger have offered valuable suggestions whenever I needed them. And finally, according to the chronology of the production Amy Davis-Poytner and Lizzi Thomasson at the Routledge team, Rachel Finnegan, Megan Symons at Swales & Willis and my diligent assistant Roee Dror.

Daniela Dueck

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Tnnes Bekker-Nielsen is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense and director of the research project Where East meets West. His main research interests are historical geography, Roman historiography and the Second Sophistic. His publications include: The Geography of Power (Oxford, 1989); The Roads of Ancient Cyprus (Copenhagen, 2004); Urban Life and Local Politics in Roman Bithynia: The Small World of Dion Chrysostomos (Aarhus, 2008); and The Inland Seas: Towards an Ecohistory of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea (Stuttgart, 2016).

Katherine Clarke has been Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at St Hildas College, Oxford since 1998. She has published widely on the ancient geographical tradition, as well as on ancient historiography more generally, ranging from Polybius to Tacitus, and particularly focusing on conceptual issues such as the configuration of time and space. She has published two major monographs: Between Geography and History: Hellenistic Constructions of the Roman World (Oxford, 1999) and Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis (Oxford, 2008). She is currently completing a third book, on the presentation of the natural world in Herodotus.

Catherine Connors is Professor of Classics at the University of Washington, Seattle and is the author of Petronius the Poet: Verse and Literary Tradition in the Satyricon (Cambridge University Press, 1998). Her current research focuses especially on representations of nature and geography in Roman and Greek literature and on the reception of classical literature. Mapping Tartaros: Observation, Inference, and Belief in Ancient Greek and Roman Accounts of Karst Terrain, an article co-authored with geologist Cindy Clendenon, is forthcoming in Classical Antiquity .

Edward Dandrow is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Central Florida. His research addresses issues of cultural and ethnic identities, Greek and Roman historiography, cultural exchange in eastern Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia, and numismatics.

Mara-Paz de Hoz is Associate Professor at the Department of Classical Philology in the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her research fields are Greek literacy and education; Anatolia in Hellenistic and Roman times, mainly Greek epigraphy and Strabo; Greek epigraphy from the Iberian Peninsula; and Greek religion. She directs the research project Hellenization and Local Cultures in the Greco-Roman Orient (University of Salamanca). Among her publications are: Estrabn. Geografa, libros XI-XIV (introduccin, traduccin y notas) (Madrid, 2003); Las inscripciones griegas de Espaa y Portugal (IGEP) (Madrid, 2014); an edited book, with J.P. Snchez and C. Molina, Between Tarhuntas and Zeus Polieus: Culture Crossroads in the Temples and Cults of Graeco-Roman Anatolia (Leuven, 2016).