Strabo’s “Geography,” written as Rome was turning from republic to empire, became an imperial handbook to the lay of the land. Sarah Pothecary’s new translation is a colossus of roads ...

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 ...

Nature Geoscience - Strabo's Greece. Thousands of years later, in the first century AD, the Greek geographer Strabo, who also wrote of the channel separating Paliki from Kefalonia, identified ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Strabo's Geographica, the only surviving work from the ancient world that describes the entire world known to the Greeks and Romans. Show more Melvyn Bragg and ...

Strabo may have listened to people's stories, done a bit of etymology, and started writing. Another hypothesis is that Strabo, looking out over the unusually flat landscape with his trained ...

James Romm, in his review of my translation of Strabo’s Geographica, speculates that ‘Strabo’s rather egregious overestimate of the eastern extension of Asia’ may have been transmitted to Christopher ...

By this means he found that the circumference of the earth was 250,000 stadia, according to Cleomedes, but Strabo says that it was 252,000 stadia. A discrepancy arises when we come to consider the ...

In his Geographia, Strabo describes the "burned" rocks of the mountain and compares Vesuvius to the more active Mt. Etna. Additionally, Diodorus and Vitruvius seem to have grasped the volcanic ...