Site contains many greek and latin texts, translations and related material. His kingdom consisted of the country bounded by the halys, 27 extending to the tibareni, 28 to armenia, to the territory within the halys, extending as far as amastris, 29 and to some parts of paphlagonia. The statements made by eratosthenes in the first book of his geography. The present translation of strabo, the great geographer of antiquity, is the first which. The project gutenberg ebook of the geography of strabo, vol. The geography of strabo, volume ii of 3 ebook by strabo. The geography of strabo, volume 1 of 3 by strabo free. Geography, volume iii, books 67 loeb classical library no. The fourteenth book contains an account of the cyclades islands and the region opposite to them, pamphylia, isauria, lycia, pisidia, cilicia as far as.
After two introductory books, numbers 3 and 4 deal with spain and gaul, 5 and 6 with italy and sicily, 7 with north and east europe, 8 10 with greek lands, 11 14 with the main regions of asia and with asia minor, 15 with india and iran, 16 with. Several other family members, including his paternal grandfather had served mithridates vi during the mithridatic wars. Strabo was related to dorylaeus on his mothers side. His family had been involved in politics since at least the reign of mithridates v. He became a keen traveller who saw a large part of italy, various near eastern regions including the black sea, various parts of asia minor, egypt as far as ethiopia, and parts of greece. Strabos historical work is lost, but his most important geography in seventeen books has survived. Full text of the geography of strabo internet archive. After two introductory books, numbers 3 and 4 deal with. Each entry starts with the number of books of the geography translated. The geography of strabo, volume i of 3 by strabo hellenica world. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us.
This work is only provided via the perseus project at tufts university. Strabo was born to an affluent family from amaseia in pontus in presentday turkey in around 64 bc. There is no ground for considering the geography of strabo an improved edition of that of eratosthenes. Questia read the fulltext online edition of the geography of strabo vol. Now that i have described iberia and the celtic and italian tribes, along with the islands near by, it will be next in order to speak of the remaining parts of europe, dividing them in the approved manner.
The first two books of strabos geography are the most important of the 17 books for cosmology and physical geography book i and mathematical geography. Buy the geography of strabo by translated by duane w. He annexed to the kingdom of pontus the seacoast towards the west as far as heracleia, 30 the birthplace of heracleides the. You may begin reading the english translation as well as the greek version and a greek version.
Geographika, or geography, is an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, consisting of 17 books, written in greek by strabo, an educated citizen of the. Read the geography of strabo, volume ii of 3 by strabo available from rakuten kobo. Strabo s historical work is lost, but his most important geography in seventeen books has survived. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
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