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.

Both terms, vasco and basque, are inherited from Latin ethnonym Vascones which in turn goes back to the Greek term οὐασκώνους ( ouaskōnous ), an ethnonym used by Strabo in his Geographica ( 23 CE, Book III ).

The Greek geographer Strabo, writing ca.

The contemporary Greek geographer Strabo testifies that the Cimbri still existed as a Germanic tribe, presumably in the " Cimbric peninsula " ( since they are said to live by the North Sea and to have paid tribute to Augustus ):

Strabo, the Greek geographer, reported the practice's existence in Egypt when he visited in 25 BCE.

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.

" Besides its mention of Cicero, Moses is the only non-Greek writer quoted in the work, and he is described " with far more admiration than even Greek writers who treated Moses with respect, such as Hecataeus and Strabo.

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.

What is known about the easternmost satraps and borderlands of the Achaemenid Empire are alluded to in the Darius inscriptions and from Greek sources such as the Histories of Herodotus and the later Alexander Chronicles ( Arrian, Strabo et al .).

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

* Greek geographer Strabo publishes Geography, a work covering the world known to the Romans and Greeks at the time of Emperor Augustus – it is the only such book to survive from the ancient world.

* Strabo, Greek geographer

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.

* The Greek geographer Strabo of Amaseia, in Geography 16. 1 –. 6, writes: " In Babylon a settlement is set apart for the local philosophers, the Chaldaeans, as they are called, who are concerned mostly with astronomy ; but some of these, who are not approved of by the others, profess to be writers of horoscopes.

* The Greek geographer Strabo of Amaseia, in Geography 16. 1 –. 6, writes: " In Babylon a settlement is set apart for the local philosophers, the Chaldaeans, as they are called, who are concerned mostly with astronomy ; but some of these, who are not approved of by the others, profess to be writers of horoscopes.

The Ancient Greece | Greek geographer Strabo in a 16th-century engraving

Although Strabo cited the antique Greek astronomers Eratosthenes and Hipparchus, acknowledging their astronomical and mathematical efforts towards geography, he claimed that a descriptive approach was more practical, such that his works were designed for statesmen who were more anthropologically than numerically concerned with the character of countries and regions.

On the other hand, vates was used in Latin to denote a poet with clairvoyance powers and according to the Ancient Greek writers Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, and Poseidonius, the vates ( ουατεις ) were also one of three classes of Celtic priesthood, the other two being the druids and the bards.

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

The Greek historian Strabo writes " they extended their empire even as far as the Seres ( China ) and the Phryni.

During Roman times, Tergeste was defined an " Illyrian city " by Artemidorus of Ephesus, a Greek geographer, and " Carnic " by Strabo.

The Greek geographer Strabo, writing in the 1st century AD, identified Homer's Ithaca with modern Ithaca.

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

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.

According to the accounts of historian Diodorus Siculus and geographer Strabo, the area's first permanent settlers were the mountain-dwelling Ligures, who emigrated from their native city of Genoa, Italy.

Egyptologist Jan Assmann concludes that Strabo was the historian " who came closest to a construction of Moses ' religion as monotheism and as a pronounced counter-religion.

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

According to the Roman historian Strabo, the river named Aesontius which in Roman times flowed past Aquileia to the Adriatic Sea was essentially the Natisone and Torre river system.

The Ancient Greek historian Strabo ( Geographica Book 17, 1. 33 ) recorded in the 1st century BC the tale of the Greco-Egyptian girl Rhodopis, " rosy-cheeked ", who lived in the Greek colony of Naucratis in Ancient Egypt.

The Greek historian Strabo visited the site with the conquering Roman troops, following the victory against Cleopatra at Actium.

The Greco-Roman historian Strabo ( late 1st century BC-early 1st century AD ) described them as " wagon-dwellers " ( i. e. nomads ) ( Geographika, Book VII ).

Taharqa was described by the Ancient Greek historian Strabo as having " Advanced as far as Europe ", and ( citing Megasthenes ), even as far as the Pillars of Hercules in Spain.

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.

Of the Greco-Bactrians, the Greek historian Strabo too writes that:

One of the nilometers is mentioned by Strabo, a Greek historian, though it is not certain which one.

The earliest report in literature is that of the Greek historian and geographer Strabo, who claimed to have personally heard the sound during a visit in 20 BC, by which time it apparently was already well-known.

Often historians assume, as a general rule, that autochthonous inhabitants survive an invasion as an under-class where they do not retreat to mountain districts, so it is interesting to hear in Deipnosophistae that Philippus of Theangela ( a 4th century BCE historian ) referred to Leleges still surviving as serfs of the " true Carians ", and even later Strabo attributes to the Leleges a distinctive group of deserted forts and tombs in Caria that were still known in his day as " Lelegean forts "; the Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 identified these as ruins that could still be traced ranging from the neighborhood of Theangela and Halicarnassus as far north as Miletus, the southern limit of the " true Carians " of Pherecydes.

" In speaking about Armenia in his Geography, the classical historian Strabo refers to an Armenian region which he calls " Orchistene.

The difficulty encountered by the Romans in this area, resulted in the Greek historian Strabo identifying the Lusitanian region and its peoples are the most powerful groups in the Iberian peninsula.

The Greek historian Strabo too writes that:

Its provincial capital is Amasya, the antique Amaseia mentioned in documents from the era of Alexander the Great and the birthplace of the geographer and historian Strabo.

Strabo, who died about AD 23, was a geographer and historian.

The 1st century Greek historian Nicolaus of Damascus met, at Damascus, the ambassador sent by a king from Dramira " named Pandyan or, according to others, Porus " to Caesar Augustus around 13 AD ( Strabo XV. 1 – 4, and Strabo XV. 1 – 73 ).