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An Asiatic Greek in the time of Augustus, Strabo was a keen voyager that explored the four corners of the ancient world and compiled an important Geography in seventeen books on his travels. Offering a window into the lost world of classical Rome and Greece, Strabos Geography is a major source for the study of ancient geography, while providing important information on Greek cultic history and early theories of the nature of the world. Delphis Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents Strabos complete extant Geography, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Strabos life and Geography * Features the complete extant works of Strabo, in both English translation and the original Greek * Concise introduction to the Geography * Includes H. C. Hamilton and W. Falconers translation previously appearing in Bohn Classical Library edition of Strabo * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the sections you want to read with individual contents tables * Provides a special dual English and Greek text, allowing readers to compare the sections paragraph by paragraph ideal for students * Features a bonus biography discover Strabos ancient world * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to explore our range of Ancient Classics titles or buy the entire series as a Super Set CONTENTS: The Translation THE GEOGRAPHY The Greek Text CONTENTS OF THE GREEK TEXT The Dual Text DUAL GREEK AND ENGLISH TEXT The Biography INTRODUCTION TO STRABO by Horace Leonard Jones Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
The Translation
THE GEOGRAPHY
Volume I
Book I Introduction
Book II Eratosthenes, Hipparchus
Book III Spain
Book IV Gaul
Book V Italy
Book VI Italy
BOOK VII Europe
Footnotes
Volume II
Book VIII Europe Greece
Book IX Athens, Boeotia, Thessaly
Book X Greece
Book XI Asia
Book XII Cappadocia
Book XIII Asia
Footnotes
Volume III
Preface
Book XIV Ionia Cyclades
Book XV India & Persia
BOOK XVI
BOOK XVII Egypt & Africa
Footnotes
The Greek Text
CONTENTS OF THE GREEK TEXT
The Dual Text
DUAL GREEK AND ENGLISH TEXT
The Biography
INTRODUCTION TO STRABO by Horace Leonard Jones
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The Complete Works of

STRABO

(c. 63 BCc. AD 24)

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Contents

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Delphi Classics 2016

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The Complete Works of

STRABO OF AMASEIA

By Delphi Classics 2016 COPYRIGHT Complete Works of Strabo First - photo 4

By Delphi Classics, 2016

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Complete Works of Strabo

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Amasya a city in northern Turkey and the capital of Amasya Province in the - photo 5

Amasya, a city in northern Turkey and the capital of Amasya Province, in the Black Sea Region Strabos birthplace

Statue of Strabo in Amasya THE GEOGRAPHY Translated by H C Hamilton - photo 6

Statue of Strabo in Amasya

THE GEOGRAPHY

Translated by H C Hamilton and W Falconer Strabo was an Asiatic Greek of - photo 7

Translated by H. C. Hamilton and W. Falconer

Strabo was an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus and an educated citizen of the Roman empire, who visited Rome in 44 BC at age 19 or 20, apparently for purposes of education. He studied under various teachers, including Tyrannion, a captive educated Greek and private tutor, who also instructed Ciceros two sons. Strabos sole surviving work is (Geography), an encyclopaedia of geographical knowledge, consisting of seventeen books written in Greek. It is believed Strabo began work on the text no earlier than 20 BC and he travelled extensively, gathering notes and making extended visits to Rome and Alexandria, where he most likely spent time in the famous library gathering information from their sources. Geography was first published in 7 BC, followed by a gap, resumption of work and a final edition no later than AD 23, the last year of the authors life. Strabo probably worked on Geography and his now lost work on History at the same time, as the Geography contains a considerable amount of historical information.

Strabo explains geography as being the sea more than anything else that defines the contours of the land (gegraphei) and gives it its shape, by forming gulfs, deep seas, straits and likewise isthmuses, peninsulas, and promontories; but both the rivers and the mountains assist the seas herein. It is through such natural features that we gain a clear conception of continents, nations, favourable positions of cities and all the other diversified details with which our geographical map is filled. Strabo regards his subject as ancient physical geography, rather than the more modern understanding of the term, while chorography is viewed as political geography. The two concepts are combined in the book, making a broad survey of the earth, detailing both its physical and political features.

The text begins with two introductory books, before books III and IV concern Spain and Gaul; V and VI deal with Italy and Sicily; VII with north and east Europe; VIII to X with Greek lands; XIXIV with the main regions of Asia and with Asia Minor; XV with India and Iran; XVI with Assyria, Babylonia, Syria, and Arabia; and XVII with Egypt and Africa. The subjects of the seventeen books can be defined as:

  • Book I definition and history of geography
  • Book II mathematics of geography
  • Book III Iberian peninsula
  • Book IV Gaul, Britain, Alps
  • Book V Italy to Campania
  • Book VI south Italy, Sicily
  • Book VII north, east and central Europe
  • Book VIII Greece
  • Book IX More on Greece
  • Book X Yet more on Greece, Greek islands
  • Book XI Russia east of the Don, the Transcaucasus, northwest Iran, Central Asia
  • Book XII Anatolia
  • Book XIII northern Aegean
  • Book XIV eastern Aegean
  • Book XV Persia, Ariana, the Indian subcontinent
  • Book XVI the Middle East
  • Book XVII North Africa

Although the work was rarely used in contemporary antiquity, a multitude of copies survived throughout the Byzantine Empire. It first appeared in Western Europe in Rome as a Latin translation issued c. 1469. The first Greek edition was published in 1516 in Venice. Isaac Casaubon, a classical scholar and editor of Greek texts, provided the first critical edition in 1587. Some thirty manuscripts of Geography or parts of it have survived, almost all of them from medieval copies of copies, though there are fragments from papyrus rolls which were probably copied out c. 100300 AD. Scholars have struggled for a century and a half to produce an accurate edition close to what Strabo originally wrote.

Though Strabo cites the antique Greek astronomers Eratosthenes and Hipparchus, acknowledging their astronomical and mathematical efforts towards geography, he claims that a descriptive approach to his task is more practical, as his works are designed for statesmen that were more anthropologically than numerically concerned with the character of countries and regions. As such, Geography provides a valuable source of information on the ancient world, especially as much of this information is corroborated by other sources.

Map of the world according to Strabo taken from the Loeb Classical Library - photo 8

Map of the world according to Strabo, taken from the Loeb Classical Library edition of Strabo

Map of Europe according to Strabo Strabo as depicted in a sixteenth - photo 9

Map of Europe according to Strabo

Strabo as depicted in a sixteenth century engraving CONTENTS At Mero - photo 10

Strabo as depicted in a sixteenth century engraving

CONTENTS

At Mero pyramids of the Kushite rulers near Shendi Sudan in Book II Strabo - photo 11

At Mero, pyramids of the Kushite rulers, near Shendi, Sudan in Book II Strabo states that one of the known limits of the Earth is Meroe, near the Nile.

Sagres Portugal in Book II Strabo records that the Sacred Cape is the - photo 12

Sagres, Portugal in Book II Strabo records that the Sacred Cape is the westernmost point of the inhabited world.

The ruins of Richborough castle a Roman fort built in AD 275 Strabo surveys - photo 13

The ruins of Richborough castle, a Roman fort built in AD 275 Strabo surveys Britain in Book IV of his work.

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