" Strabo ’ s " positive and unequivocal appreciation of Moses ’ personality is among the most sympathetic in all ancient literature.

The first major battle of the conflict occurred at the Janiculum, where Octavius ’ forces prevailed, but with heavy losses, including the general Pompeius Strabo.

The earliest written accounts of forest destruction in Southern Europe begin around 1000 BC in the histories of Homer, Thucydides and Plato and in Strabo ’ s Geography.

Strabo ’ s paternal grandfather was Gnaeus Pompeius, while his father was Sextus Pompeius.

This caused Pompeius Rufus to be murdered by Strabo ’ s soldiers.

The Indo-Greek king Menander I ( reigned 160-135 BCE ) had his capital in Sagala, in today ’ s northern Punjab, and is described by Strabo as one of the most powerful Greek kings of the period, even greater than Alexander the Great.

Due to the fear of famine in Rome, Octavius joined his men to Strabo ’ s units, positioned outside the gates, after which he fled from Rome.

In this respect, Strabo mentions that the peoples of the north-west sacrificed horses to an unnamed God of War, and both Horace and Silius Italicus added that the Concani had the custom of drinking the horse ’ s blood at the ceremony.

Strabo ’ s comment on the Autariatae as " the once greatest and most powerful Illyrian people " most likely refers to this period.

B. s. v. ) The Oxeiae () are sometimes spoken of as a separate group of islands to the west or south of the Echinades, but are included by Strabo under the general name of Echinades ( x. p. 458 ).

B. s. v. or, Strabo xvii.

* Labyrinth of Egypt Archaeological site reconstruction and 3D diagrams based on the writings of Herodotus and Strabo.

Subsequent Greek historians — such as Ctesias, Diodorus, Strabo, Polybius and Plutarch — held up Thucydides ' writings as a model of truthful history.

The major source of materials on the Celts of Gaul was Poseidonios of Apamea, whose writings were quoted by Timagenes, Julius Caesar, the Sicilian Greek Diodorus Siculus, and the Greek geographer Strabo.

Other writings by Pausanias, Strabo, and Vitruvius also help us to gather more information about the Mausoleum.

Posidonius ' writings on the Jews were probably the source of Diodorus Siculus ' account of the siege and possibly also for Strabo.

In his own era, his writings on almost all the principal divisions of philosophy made Posidonius a renowned international figure throughout the Graeco-Roman world and he was widely cited by writers of his era, including Cicero, Livy, Plutarch, Strabo ( who called Posidonius " the most learned of all philosophers of my time "), Cleomedes, Seneca the Younger, Diodorus Siculus ( who used Posidonius as a source for his Bibliotheca historia Library "), and others.

His principal works are translations of Strabo and of some of the Lives of Plutarch, a compendium of the Greek grammar of Chrysoloras, and a series of commentaries on Persius, Martial, the Satires of Juvenal, and on some of the writings of Aristotle and Cicero.

It is possibly derived from the name of the Celtic tribe which was known to the Romans as Volcae ( in the writings of Julius Caesar ) and to the Greeks as Ouólkai ( Strabo and Ptolemy ).

While Rhinocolura ( a variant of Rhinocorura ) in the writings of Pliny and Josephus apparently refers to El-Arish, archaeologists have found no evidence of occupation at the site prior to the Hellenistic period suggesting that this was not identical to the locality Rhinocorura mentioned by Strabo and Diodorus Siculus which had been settled by Ethiopians.

Seleucus is known from the writings of Plutarch, Aetius, and Strabo, all of whom were Greeks, and the Persian Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi.

The Isle of Antiparos was identified with ancient Prepesintho, according to the extant writings of Strabo and Pliny.

The concept of the three roles of bards, ovates and druids originates from the writings of the ancient Greek historian and geographer Strabo, who in his Geographica, written in the 20s CE, stated that amongst the Gauls, there were three types of honoured figures: the poets and singers known as bardoi, the diviners and specialists in the natural world known as o ' vateis, and those who studied " moral philosophy ", the druidai.

The Bulgarian historian and thracologist Alexander Fol considers that the Getae became known as " Dacians " in Greek and Latin in the writings of Caesar, Strabo and Pliny the Elder, as Roman observers adopted the name of the Dacian tribe to refer to all the unconquered inhabitants north of the Danube.

Walh is almost certainly derived from the name of the tribe which was known to the Romans as Volcae ( in the writings of Julius Caesar ) and to the Greeks as Ouólkai ( Strabo and Ptolemy ).

In 1439, the Greek philosopher Gemistos Plethon, attending the Council of Florence, acquainted Toscanelli with the extensive travels, writings and mapping of the 1st century BC / AD Greek geographer Strabo, hitherto unknown in Italy.

Meant to cover the history of the known world from the conquest of Greece by the Romans, Strabo quotes it himself and other classical authors mention that it existed, although the only surviving document is a fragment of papyrus now in possession of the University of Milan ( renumbered 46 ).

Strabo is most famous for his 17-volume work Geographica, which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known to his era.

It has a long history as provincial capital, a wealthy city producing kings and princes, artists, scientists, poets and thinkers, from the kings of Pontus, through Strabo the geographer, to many generations of the Ottoman imperial dynasty, and up to being the location of an important moment in the life of Ataturk.

Couvade has been reported by travelers throughout history, including the Greek geographer Strabo ( 3. 3. 7 and 4. 17 ) and the Venetian traveler Marco Polo.

) This is the last occasion on which we find their name in history ; all trace of the distinction between them and the other Samnites seems to have been subsequently lost, and their name is not even mentioned by Strabo or Pliny.

Cius (; ), later renamed Prusias on the Sea (; ) after king Prusias I of Bithynia, was an ancient Greek city bordering the Propontis ( now known as the Sea of Marmara ), in Bithynia ( in modern northwestern Turkey ), and had a long history, being mentioned by Aristotle, Strabo and Apollonius Rhodius.

Richard Pankhurst and others have argued that the name should be understood as " River of the Boras people ", where asta can be related to Proto-Nubian asti " water "., while-boras can be linked to a number of Roman allusions to a tribe named the Bora, who lived near Meroe, and another tribe named the Megabares ( in Eratosthenes and Strabo, in Pliny the Elder ).

The 4th century BC writer Theopompus, quoted by Strabo, describes how heating earth from Andeira in Turkey produced " droplets of false silver ", probably metallic zinc, which could be used to turn copper into oreichalkos.

180 BC, he describes them then as " similar in language and customs " to the Scordisci, a tribe of Illyria described as Celtic by Strabo ( although he adds that they had mingled with Illyrians and Thracians ).

Strabo describes the Bastarnae territory vaguely as " between the Ister ( river Danube ) and the Borysthenes ( river Dnieper )".

The 5th century BC Athenian historian Thucydides describes them as " barbarians " in his History of the Peloponnesian War, as does Strabo in his Geography.

Strabo abundantly describes its foundation:

Ghee is mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea as a typical trade article around the first century CE Arabian Sea, and Roman geographer Strabo describes it as a commodity of Arabia and Sudan.

Near the eastern shore of the island of Gades / Gadeira ( modern Cádiz, just beyond the strait ) Strabo describes the westernmost temple of Tyrian Heracles, the god with whom Greeks associated the Phoenician and Punic Melqart, by interpretatio graeca.

Thus Strabo describes the way in which gold could be washed:

Dioscorides, in Materia Medica, describes lumps of bitumen in the adjacent river Seman, and the concentrated pitch on the banks of the Vjosë river Strabo, writing in about AD 17 states:

Strabo ( XI ) also describes the occupation of Patalene ( Indus Delta country ).

Strabo, who uses the word crocuttas, describes the beast as the mixed progeny of a wolf and a dog ( Geographica, XVI. 4. 16 ).