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

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

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

Back in the day, ancient historian Strabo described how the Temple of Poseidon was located within a "grove of wild olive trees," and experts found this matched up with where they found the ancient ...

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 ...

The statue of Zeus sitting on a magnificent throne rose about 40 feet inside his temple in the sanctuary of Olympia. It was so large that, according to the geographer Strabo, if Zeus stood up, his ...

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 ...