* Walafrid Strabo ( c 808 – 49 )

There is reference on a Greek papyrus from 163 BCE to the procedure being conducted on girls in Memphis, the ancient Egyptian capital, and Strabo ( c. 64 BCE – c. 23 CE ), the Greek geographer, reported it when he visited Egypt in 25 BCE.

Strabo, a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher, in his Geography ( c. AD 24 ), wrote in detail about Moses, whom he considered to be an Egyptian who deplored the situation in his homeland, and thereby attracted many followers who respected the deity.

And yet Strabo says: Pytheas of Massalia tells us that Thule ... is farthest north, and that there the circle of the summer tropic is the same as the Arcti c Circle.

* Strabo, Greek historian, geographer and philosopher ( d. c. AD 24 )

One Catalonian legend holds it was named for Tarraho, eldest son of Tubal in c. 2407 BC ; another ( derived from Strabo and Megasthenes ) attributes the name to ' Tearcon the Ethiopian ', a 7th century BC pharaoh who supposedly campaigned in Spain.

Euthydemus was allegedly a native of Magnesia ( though the exact site is unknown ), son of the Greek General Apollodotus, born c. 295 BC, who might have been son of Sophytes, and by his marriage to a sister of Diodotus II and daughter of Diodotus I, born c. 250 BC, was the father of Demetrius I according to Strabo and Polybius ; he could possibly have had other royal descendants, such as sons Antimachus I, Apollodotus I and Pantaleon.

Arsaces, the chieftain of the nomadic ( Dahae ) tribe of the Parni, fled before him into Parthia and there defeated and killed Andragoras, the former satrap and self-proclaimed king of Parthia, and became the founder of the Parthian Empire ( Strabo l. c .).

Strabo in his Geography ( c. 30 ), Book I, Chapter 4, mentions Thule in describing Eratosthenes ' calculation of " the breadth of the inhabited world " and notes that Pytheas says it " is a six days ' sail north of Britain, and is near the frozen sea.

The Greek historian Strabo ( c. 64 BC – 24 AD ) also mentions " tombs of those who fell in the battle " erected at public expense in Chaeronea.

However, the chronicle of Hippolytus of Rome ( c. 234 AD ) identifies Lud's descendants with the Lazones or Alazonii ( names usually taken as variants of the " Halizones " said by Strabo to have once lived along the Halys ) while it derives the Lydians from the aforementioned Ludim, son of Mizraim.

In the northern Sahara nomadic tribes called Pharusii and Nigrites used scythed chariots c. 22 AD, as Strabo reports:

* Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus ( c. 130 – 87 BC ), son of Lucius Julius Caesar II and Poppilia

Walafrid, alternatively spelt Walahfrid, surnamed Strabo ( or Strabus, i. e. " squint-eyed ") ( c. 808 – August 18, 849 ), was a Frankish monk and theological writer.

* Strabo ( 64 / 63 BCE – c.

Lucius Julius Caesar III ( c. 135 BC – 87 BC ) was a son of Lucius Julius Caesar II, and elder brother to Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus.

The decastyle temple of Apollo Didymaeus near Miletus was, according to Strabo ( c. 50 nc.

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 ( 7. 2. 1, 4 and 7. 3. 1 ) states that the Cimbri still live on the peninsula ( Jutland ) where they always did, even though some of them liked to wander.

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 Geography ( XXIII, 11 ) of Strabo ( 64 / 63 BC – ca.

Strabo (; Strabōn ; 64 / 63 BCE – ca.

CE 168 ), those of the Greek geographer Strabo ( 64 / 63 BCE – ca.

63 ) and Strabo ( 13.

According to Strabo, this site was first called Sigeia ; around 306 BC Antigonus refounded the city as the much-expanded Antigonia Troas by settling the people of five other towns in Sigeia, including the once influential city of Neandria.

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.

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

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 ).

According to Strabo, a water powered mill was built in Kaberia of the kingdom of Mithridates during the 1st century BC.

Greek sources including Strabo say that Midas committed suicide by drinking bulls ' blood during an attack by the Cimmerians, which Eusebius dated to around 695 BC and Julius Africanus to around 676 BC.

Strabo says that Dicaearchus ( died about 285 BC ) did not trust the stories of Pytheas.

He, along with Philo of Byzantium, Strabo, Herodotus and Diodoros of Sicily, is attributed with the list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which he described in a poem composed about 140 BC:

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

However, the first mention of the Tókharoi appear much earlier, in the 1st century BC, when Strabo mentions that " the Tókharoi, together with the Assianis, Passianis and Sakaraulis, took part in the destruction of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom " in the second half of the 2nd century BC.

He served in the Social War with Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and Cicero, under Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo in 89 BC.

There is no substantiated written reference for Myra before it was listed as a member of the Lycian alliance ( 168 BC – AD 43 ); according to Strabo ( 14: 665 ) it was one of the largest towns of the alliance.

Cyprus became a Roman province in 58 BC, according to Strabo because Publius Clodius Pulcher held a grudge against Ptolemy and sent Marcus Cato to conquer the island after he had become tribune.

The final noteworthy mentor to Strabo is Athenodorus Cananites, a philosopher who had spent his life since 44 BC in Rome forging relationships with the Roman elite.

The Greco-Roman trade with India started by Eudoxus of Cyzicus in 130 BC kept on increasing, and according to Strabo ( II. 5. 12 ), by the time of Augustus, up to 120 ships were setting sail every year from Myos Hormos in Roman Egypt to India.

In the 1st century BC, the Greek-Roman geographer Strabo gave an extensive description of the eastern Scythians, whom he located in north-eastern Asia beyond Bactria and Sogdiana:

" It seems that if Zeus were to stand up ," the geographer Strabo noted early in the 1st century BC, " he would unroof the temple.