Strabo
Sign in to saveStrabo (; ; 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 an ancient Greek geographer who lived in Asia Minor during the transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire, and he is best known for his work *Geographica*, which described the peoples and places of the world as it was known in his time. His historical writings are now lost except for fragments quoted by later authors, making *Geographica* his primary surviving contribution to our understanding of the ancient world.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- ca. 63 B.C.
- Died
- 24 A.D.
- Works
- 58
Top works
- Geography
- Geographie
- Cografya
- Géographie
- Géographie de Strabon
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16 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Education
- Career
- Work
- ''Geographica''
- Geology
- Fossil formation
- Volcanism
- Editions
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
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.
==Early life== thumb|upright=1.05|Title page from Isaac Casaubon's 1620 edition of [[Geographica]]