Strabo

Also known as Strabo of Amaseia

Strabo (; ; 64 or 63 BC) was an ancient Greek geographer who lived in Asia Minor during the transitional period of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. He is best known for his work Geographica, which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known during his lifetime. Additionally, Strabo authored historical works, but only fragments and quotations of these survive in the writings of other authors.

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Strabo was a male human geographer, historian, philosopher, and writer of the Hellenistic period. Born in 64 BCE, 66 BCE, or 63 BCE, he died in 23, 24, or 21 AD. He was an ethnic Pontic Greek who spoke and wrote in Ancient Greek. His native name was Στράβων. He was a student of Boethus of Sidon, Tyrannion of Amisus, and Aristodemus of Nysa.

His notable work is the Geography. He is associated with the significant place Amasya. His works have been described by the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, and The Nuttall Encyclopædia. He is maintained by WikiProject Mathematics.

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Person · Open Library

Born: ca. 63 B.C.
Died: 24 A.D.
Works: 58

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 459
Total plays: 1,546

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5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“The Aegean sea washes Greece on two sides: first, the side that faces towards the east and stretches from Sunium, towards the north as far as the Thermaean Gulf and Thessaloniceia, a Macedonian city...; and secondly, the side that faces towards the south, I mean the Macedonian country, extending from Thessaloniceia as far as the Strymon.”
“There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the part of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium; secondly, Greece; and thirdly, the Islands that are close by. Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece, yet now, since I am following the nature and shape of the place geographically, I have decided to classify it apart from the rest of Greece and to join it with that part of Thrace...”

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Key facts

Person.name: Strabo
Person.native_name: Στράβων
Person.image: Strabo.jpg
Person.image_size: 220px
Person.caption: 16th-century engraving of Strabo
Person.birth_date: 64 or 63 BC
Person.death_date:  AD 24(aged c. 87)
Person.death_place: Roman Empire
Person.occupation: Geographer

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Works in European collections

34 objects attributed to Strabo, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

[Strabonis Geographicorum Liber X] [Printed Text]

[Strabonos Geographikon Bibloi] = Strabonis Rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII [Texto impreso]

Strabone Della geografia [Texto impreso]:]Tomo I [-Tomo III]

Strabonis rerum geographicarum Libri XVII [Texto impreso]

Libro tercero de la Geografía de Estrabon, que comprehende un tratado sobre España antigua [Texto impreso]

Strabonis illustrissimi scriptoris Geographia decem et septem libros cotinens e greco in latinu[m] a Gregorio Typhernale et Guarino Verone[n]se conversa Cum Indice ... [Texto impreso]

Strabonos Geographikon bibloi epta kai deka [Texto impreso]= Strabonis Rerum Geographicarum libri septem decim

Strabonis Rerum geographicarum libri XVII graecé et latine

The first part of Strabone's Geography, of Greek translated into Italian vernacular by M. Alfonso Buonacciuoli... with two copious tauole names, the other of all names, and notables, which in this book contain

La seconda parte della Geografia di Strabone di greco tradotta in volgare italiano da M. Alfonso Buonacciuoli ... Con due copiosissime tauole l'vna de' nomi antichi & moderni, l'altra di tutti i nomi, & cose notabili, che in questo libro si contengono

Dominici Marii Nigri Veneti Geographiae commentariorum libri 11, nunc primùm in lucem magno studio editi, ... Vna cum Laurentii Coruini Nouoforensis Geographia. Et Strabonis Epitome per D. Hieronymum Gemusaeum translata, quam adiecimus ut quo cum Marium hunc nostrum lector conferat, habeat. Adiecto rerum & uerborum memorabilium indice locupletissimo

Strabonos Geographikon Bibloi 17. Strabonis Rerum geographicarum Str17. Isaacus Casaubonus census, summoque studio & diligentia, ope etiam veterum codicum, Isaauit, ac commentariis illustrauit. Accessit & tabula orbis totius Acctionem complexens. Ethiam East Adiecta Guilielmi Xylandri Augustani Latina versio, cum necessariis indicibus