
Also known as Geographica, Strabo's Geography
thumb|200px|Title page of the 1620 edition of Isaac Casaubon's Geographica, whose 840 page numbers prefixed by "C" are now used as a standard text reference. The Geographica (, Geōgraphiká; or , "Strabo's 17 Books on Geographical Topics") or Geography, is an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, consisting of 17 'books', written in Greek in the late first century BC, or early first century AD, and attributed to Strabo, an educated citizen of the Roman Empire of Greek descent. There is a fragmentary palimpsest dating to the fifth century. The earliest manuscripts of books 1–9 date to the tent
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- Author
- Tim Marshall
- First published
- 2015
- Editions
- 14
- Subjects
- Geopolitics, World politics, nyt:travel=2015-12-13, New York Times bestseller, Politics and Government, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, Geopolítica
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- Author
- Strabo
- Genre
- treatise
- Narrative location
- Ancient Rome
- Image
- Allegorie op geschiedenis en geografie Titelpagina voor Strabo, Rerum geographicarum libri XVII, Amsterdam, 1707 Strabonis geographia cum notis Casauboni (titel op object), RP-P-1964-3404.jpg
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- Γεωγραφικά
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- Geographica
- language of work or name
- Ancient Greek
- entry in abbreviations table
- Strab.
- inception
- 0020-00-00
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Article · 中文
地理志(Geographica、古希臘語:Γεωγραφικά,也譯地理學)是羅馬帝國治下的古希臘學者史特拉波所著的地理百科全書。以古希臘語寫成,全書共17卷。記載歐洲、北非、西亞、印度的歷史、自然等。 成书時期不詳,但西元7年應已有第一版,最後的部分應不會晚於西元23年。
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