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Strabo (ca. 64 BCE to ca. 25 CE), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BCE at Rome. 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. He was a long time in Alexandria where he no doubt studied mathematics, astronomy, and history. Strabo's historical work is lost, but his most important Geography in seventeen books has survived. 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. In outline he follows the great mathematical geographer Eratosthenes, but adds general descriptions of separate countries including physical, political, and historical details. A sequel to his historical memoirs, Geography is planned apparently for public servants rather than students—hence the accounts of physical features and of natural products. On the mathematical side it is an invaluable source of information about Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, and Posidonius. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Strabo is in eight volumes.
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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB, LL.D. EDITED BY fT. E. PAGE, tE. CAPPS, L. A. POST, L.H.D. E. H. C.H., LITT.D. fW. H. PH.D., LL.D. D. WARMINGTON, ROUSE, litt.d. m.a., f.r.hist.soo. THE GEOGRAPHY OF STRABO V THE GEOGRAPHY OF STRABO WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY HORACE LEONARD JONES, Ph.D., LL.D. CORNELL UNIVKRRITT IN EIGHT VOLUMES V LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS MCMLXI 1 G SI First primed 1928 Reprinud 1944, 19-54, 1961 Orp.5' 1 .9 5 27 Printed in Great Britain CONTENTS PAGE BOOK X 3 BOOK XI 183 BOOK XII 345 APPENDIX, ON THE ITHACA-LEUCAS PROBLEM . . 523 . PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAl'HY OF THE ITHACA-LEUCAS PROBLEM 529 .... 531 A PARTIAL DICTIONARY OF PROPER NAMES MAPS ASIA MINOR AND SYRIA SUPERIOR ARMENIA AND ADJACENT REGIONS at end at end THE GEOGRAPHY OF STRABO BOOK X 2TPAB12N02 TEOrPA^IKON V 77 Yjv^oia irapa irdaav rrjv irapdkiav irapa^e/SXrjTai rrjv utto ^ovvlov /J^^XP'' ©exTaXta?, irXrjv t(i)v ctKpcov e/caTepcoOev, OLKetov 1.^ ^ETreiBi) ravrrfv av €17} avvuyjrai, TOt? €ipr}/jL€VOt
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