Strabo ( 7. 3. 6 ) thinks that the Black Sea was called " inhospitable " before Greek colonization because it was difficult to navigate, and because its shores were inhabited by savage tribes.

The classicist Roger Bagnall estimated that there was one bureaucrat for every 5 – 10, 000 people in Egypt based on 400 or 800 bureaucrats for 4 million inhabitants ( no one knows the population of the province in 300 AD ; Strabo 300 years earlier put it at 7. 5 million, excluding Alexandria ).

Strabo says that Ierne ( Ireland ) is under 5000 stadia ( 7. 1 °) north of this line.

There may be an earlier reference to the Quadi in the Geography of Strabo ( 7. 1. 3 ).

The name " Crimea " is traceable to the Crimean Tatar word qırım ( my steppe, hill ), and the peninsula was known as Taurica, ( Peninsula ) of the Tauri, in antiquity ( Strabo 7. 4. 1 ; Herodotus 4. 99. 3, Amm.

Strabo in his Geography, book 7, 3, 1-11 talks about a certain Deceneus ( Dékainéos ) which calls γόητα, " magician ".

128, 181 ; Pausanias 1. 7. 2, 5. 10. 8 ; Strabo ix. 39 ; Horace Carmine i. 18.

Strabo also reports in Geography, 8. 7. 3 that the Achaean League was gradually dissolved under the Roman possession of the whole of Macedonia, owing to them not dealing with the several states in the same way, but wishing to preserve some and to destroy others.

Plato ( Charmides, 158C ) regarded Abaris as a physician from the far north, while Strabo reported Abaris was Scythian like the early philosopher Anacharsis ( Geographica, 7.

7, § 2 ) quotes Strabo to the effect that Mithridates was sent to Kos to fetch the gold deposited there by the queen Cleopatra of Egypt.

There are only three ancient sources on Burebista: Strabo: Geographica 7. 3. 5, 7. 3. 11 and 16. 2. 39 ( who spells his name Byrebistas and Boirebistas ); Jordanes: Getica 67 ( spells his name Buruista ); and a marble inscription found in Balchik, Bulgaria ( now found at the National Museum in Sofia ) which represents a decree by the citizens of Dionysopolis about Akornion.

This tradition showed local continuity to historic times, as it was at such centers that the Romans found attacking the natives most efficient ( Strabo 5. 2. 7 ).

Approximately 7 centuries after Homer, the Alexandrian geographer Strabo criticized Polybius on the geography of the Odyssey.

When Polybius wrote of the account which was used by Strabo 7. 327, there were near the Mt Candavia sector of the Via Egnatia ' the lakes near Lychnidus with their own self-supporting factories for pickling fish '.

He produced his most ambitious work, a 30-cubit statue of Apollo for Apollonia Pontica ( on modern St. Ivan Island, Bulgaria ; Pliny the Elder 4. 92, 34. 39, Strabo 7. 6. 1, p. 319 ).

Cosa was a Latin colonia founded under Roman influence in southwestern Tuscany in 273 BC, perhaps on land confiscated from the Etruscans ( Velleius Paterculus 1. 14. 7 ; Livy Periochae 14 ; Strabo 5. 2. 8 ).

According to Strabo ( 16. 4. 7 ), Ptolemais was founded as a base to support the hunting of elephants by a certain Eumedes, who had been sent there by Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Ptolemaic Egypt.

" ( Strabo 16. 4. 7 ).

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.

Bebryces, Mariandynes, Koukones, Thyns and Paphlagons are native people of the area in antique era. Strabo ( XII, 4, 7 ) mentions a Hellenistic town, Bithynium, celebrated for its pastures and cheese, which according to Pausanias ( VIII, 9 ) was founded by Arcadians from Mantinea.

Strabo in his Geography ( v. 7, ch.

It probably was a Thracian town, as Strabo has it, but was afterwards colonized by Milesians, with the consent of Gyges, king of Lydia, around 700 BC.

Walafrid Strabo, a monk of the Abbey of St. Gall writing in the 9th century, remarked, in discussing the people of Switzerland and the surrounding regions, that only foreigners called them the Alemanni, but that they gave themselves the name of Suevi.

In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.

According to Strabo, he was born in Naryx in Locris, where Ovid calls him Narycius Heroes.

The rest of fr. 350 was paraphrased in prose by the historian / geographer Strabo.

Three separate sources were combined to form fr. 350, as mentioned above, including a prose paraphrase from Strabo that first needed to be restored to its original meter, a synthesis achieved by the united efforts of Otto Hoffmann, Karl Otfried Muller and Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens.

His Cynaedi, or Ionic poems (), are mentioned by Strabo and Athenaeus.

Strabo makes him the ( probably legendary ) inventor of the anchor with two flukes, and others made him the inventor of the potter's wheel.

He was at the head of the Peripatetic school at Rome, about 58 BC, and was the teacher of Boethus of Sidon, with whom Strabo studied.

At the port city of Jaffa ( today part of Tel Aviv ) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.

Two important geographers, Strabo and Pliny, are silent concerning the Angles.

" However, both Strabo and Pliny describe that shore.

Strabo worked eastward from the Rhine.

For Strabo, the Suebi were to the south of the coast.

Other ancient historians and philosophers believing in the existence of Atlantis were Strabo and Posidonius.

; statements as to the origin of gods, cults and so forth, transmitted to us by Hellenic antiquarians such as Strabo, Pausanias, Diodorus Siculus, etc.

The settlements to which Strabo refers ( viii.

The Pannonian Boii are mentioned again in the late 2nd century BC when they repelled the Cimbri and Teutones ( Strabo VII, 2, 2 ).

* Theodoric Strabo signs a peace treaty with Leo I and according to the terms the Goths are paid with an annual tribute of 2, 000 pounds of gold.

The remains lay on the ground as described by Strabo ( xiv. 2. 5 ) for over 800 years, and even broken, they were so impressive that many traveled to see them.

## Strabo ( first century BC ) Geography I, 2, 39 ( Jones, H. L.

The name of the king erecting the Karatepe inscription, Azatiwad, is probably related to the toponym Aspendos, the name of a city in Pamphylia founded by the Argives according to Strabo ( 14. 4. 2 ).

— Strabo 15. 2. 9

Strabo ( 5. 2. 2 ) makes Atys father of Lydus, and Tyrrhenus to be one of the descendants of Heracles and Omphale.

The Ems was known to several ancient authors: Pliny the Elder in Natural History ( 4. 14 ), Tacitus in the Annals ( Book 1 ), Pomponius Mela ( 3. 3 ), Strabo and Ptolemy, Geography ( 2. 10 ).

Long used as a Hittite port which appears in Hittite sources as " Sinuwa " ( J. Garstang, The Hittite Empire, p. 74 ), the city proper was re-founded as a Greek colony from the city of Miletus in the 7th century BC ( Xenophon, Anabasis 6. 1. 15 ; Diodorus Siculus 14. 31. 2 ; Strabo 12. 545 ).

According to Strabo ( VII. 3. 2 ) and Herodotus, the people of Bithynia in northwest Anatolia originated from two Thracian tribes, the Bithyni and Thyni, which migrated from their original home around the river Strymon in Thrace.

In addition, Strabo ( VII. 3. 2 ) claims that the neighbouring Phrygians were also descended from a Thracian tribe, the Briges, and spoke a language similar to Thracian.

In addition, Strabo ( VII. 3. 2 ) equates the Moesi people of the Danubian basin with the Mysi ( Mysians ), neighbours of the Phrygians in NW Anatolia, stating that the two forms were Greek and Latin variants of the same name.

( Strabo, Geographica 11. 2 )

Rafah is mentioned in Strabo ( 16, 2, 31 ), the Antonine Itinerary, and is depicted on the Map of Madaba.

Strabo mentions Tanais in his Geography ( 11. 2. 2 ).

* The Itinerary of Greece, with a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo, and an account of the Monuments of Antiquity at present existing in that country, compiled in the years 1801, 2, 5, 6 etc .. London, 1810. ed.

" Strabo XI. 11. 2