Strabo geography book iv platonica

I have already indicated roughly both the shape and the size of this country. 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. Ancient history encyclopedia receives a small commission for each book sold through. An english translation, with introduction and notes. The majuscule script in the margins of the paris plato group is very similar to that in cod. After two introductory books, numbers 3 and 4 deal with. Strabo geography strabo, born in amasia in the kingdom of pontus on the coast of the black sea, modern northern turkey, 63 b. Although strabo quotes it himself, and other classical authors mention that it existed, the only surviving document is a fragment of papyrus now in. It is not known when his geography was written, though comments within the work itself place the finished version within the reign of emperor tiberius. Strabo probably worked on his geography and now missing history concurrently, as the geography contains a considerable amount of historical data. Some, as we know, have divided it into three parts, calling its inhabitants aquitani, belgae, and celtae. His 17volume geography is one of the most important descriptions of the classical world. Of their number are the veneti, 175 who fought a naval battle with c. How did strabo contribute to the study of geography.

The geography of strabo, volume ii of 3 ebook by strabo. The geography of strabo is the only surviving work of its type in greek literature, and the major source for the history of greek scholarship on geography and the formative processes of the earth. Print and online editions of the greek text of strabos geography. Ptolemy and strabo and their conversation with appeles and. This work is only provided via the perseus project at tufts university. The primary mss of strabos geography are as follows. Falconers translation previously appearing in bohn classical library edition of. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Strabos historical work is lost, but his most important geography in seventeen books has survived. Dec, 2010 extract from the geography of strabo strabo 64 bc 25 ad was an asiatic greek, and a keen traveller, who spent a substantial part of his life studying in alexandria. Strabo simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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, 810 with greek lands, 1114 with the main regions of asia and with asia minor, 15 with india and iran, 16 with assyria.

A first edition was published in 7 bc followed by a gap, resumption of work and a final edition no later than 23 ad in the last year of strabo s life. Throughout the later middle ages strabo s geography was known in greek codices in the form of complete editions as well as in excerpts. Geographica strabo strabo is mostly famous for his 17volume work geographica, which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known to his era. Full text of the geography of strabo internet archive. For a detailed analysis and study of this chapter, see a. Strabo having just previously stated that the axis of the earth was stationary, it does not seem probable that he would immediately after speak of the motion of the pole. Any one such volume of a modern edition may contain more than one of the seventeen books into which the geography has been divided since antiquity. Ptolemy and strabo and their conversation with appelles and. Homer is mentioned in the geographys opening paragraph, and nearly the entire. Since the geography is an exceptionally long work, each modern edition occupies several volumes.

So great indeed is italy, and much as we have described it. In this 2005 volume an international team of strabo scholars explores those details, discussing the cultural, political, historical and geographical questions addressed in the geography. Geographika, or geography, is an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, consisting of 17 books, written in greek by strabo, an educated citizen of the. Ad 24 was a greek geographer who was born in pontus modern turkey and travelled in the eastern mediterranean. For ebooks, where available, click on the volume number. Mar 31, 2014 buy the geography of strabo by translated by duane w. The geography of strabo, volume 1 of 3 by strabo free ebook. 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.

Bithynia is bounded on the east by the paphlagonians, mariandyni, and by some tribes of the epicteti. 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, 810 with greek lands, 1114 with the main regions of asia and with asia minor, 15 with india and iran, 16. Read the geography of strabo, volume ii of 3 by strabo available from rakuten kobo. This is a selective summary of translations of strabos work from ancient greek into modern languages. His text about gaul draws heavily upon posidonius, although he also uses polybius and pythaes as sources.

Strabo has 125 books on goodreads with 798 ratings. After the aforesaid tribes, the rest are tribes of those belgae who live on the oceancoast. They had prepared to resist his passage into britain, being possessed of the commerce of that island themselves. The belg after the nations mentioned come those of the belg. Strabo s historical work is lost, but his most important geography in seventeen books has survived. You may begin reading the english translation as well as the greek version and a greek version. The country next in order after the aquitanian division and narbonitis reaches as far as the whole of the rhenus, extending from the liger river and also from the rhodanus at the point where the rhodanus, after it runs down from its source, touches lugdunum. Gossellin suggests that strabo omitted the coast of istria in his calculations, when he made this observation on the length of the illyrian shore, and refers to what strabo will himself state in book vii. Putnam, 19171932, also by horace leonard jones and j. 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 assyria, babylonia, syria, and arabia, 17 with egypt and africa. Geographika, or geography, is an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, consisting of 17 books, written in greek by strabo, an educated citizen of the roman empire of greek descent. The tradition of the minor greek geographers 1952 104 with plate b. The present translation of strabo, the great geographer of antiquity, is the first.