Strabo’s “Geography,” written as Rome was turning from republic to empire, became an imperial handbook to the lay of the land.

Nature Geoscience - Strabo's GreeceThe sediments reveal a slow and steady progression from isle to mainland. The island stood alone as late as 5,400 years ago. It was still separated from the ...

Strabo’s rather egregious overestimate of the eastern extension of Asia may have reached the ears of the mathematician ...

Chalk up another win for the ancient Greeks. The Greek historian and geographer Strabo wrote nearly 2,000 years ago that Piraeus, a small peninsula near Athens, had once been an island--and a new ...

Strabo—the name means “squinty-eyed,” as in strabismus—was born in 63 B.C. in Anatolia (now Turkey). “Geography” is an eyewitness guide to Greek and Roman society under Emperor ...

If we accept the account of Strabo that Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the earth as 252,000 stadia, the circumference would be 24,662 miles, and the polar diameter 7,850 miles-only 50 ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Strabo's Geographica, an early work of geography.

Strabo, which aims to offer wealth analytics "at your fingertips," has acquired 110% (£193,573) of its £175,003 target via Seedrs.

Indeed, Strabo described the slopes of Vesuvius as being covered by vineyards and forests, but he also mentioned a flat top or a volcanic dome (?) without vegetation - a detail not shown in the ...