Strabo also mentions British kings who sent embassies to Augustus and Augustus ' own Res Gestae refers to two British kings he received as refugees.

According to the " travels of Hercules " theme, also documented by Diodorus Siculus and Strabo, both Greeks and native Ligurian people asserted that Hercules passed through the area.

At 2500 stadia, approximately 283 miles, or 3. 6 °, north of Celtica, are a people Hipparchus called Celtic, but whom Strabo thinks are the British, a discrepancy he might not have noted if he had known that the British were also Celtic.

Strabo also wrote that Sesostris started to build a canal, and Pliny the Elder wrote:

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.

In his Geographica, Strabo refers to νεκρομαντία ( necyomanteis ), or " diviners by the dead ", as the foremost practitioners of divination amongst the people of Persia, and it is believed to have also been widespread amongst the peoples of Chaldea ( particularly the Sabians, or star-worshipers ), Etruria, and Babylonia.

Lodi was a Celtic village ; in Roman times it was called in Latin Laus Pompeia ( probably in honor of the consul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo ) and was known also because its position allowed many Gauls of Gallia Cisalpina to obtain Roman citizenship.

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

It has already been mentioned that in the time of Strabo it is called the metropolis of Bithynia, an honour which is also assigned to it on some coins, though in later times it was enjoyed by Nicomedia.

The conspirators caused riots in the capital against the Isaurian emperor ; Basiliscus succeeded also in convincing Illus, Trocundes and the Ostrogothic general Theodoric Strabo to join the plot.

Zeno succeeded in bribing Armatus too, promising to confirm his rank of magister militum praesentalis for life and promoting his son ( also called Basiliscus ) to the rank of Caesar ; Armatus ' army did not intercept Zeno's troops marching on Constantinople, and the lack of Theodoric Strabo and his army decided the fate of Basiliscus, who fled with his family in the church of Hagia Sophia.

She was also invoked at the beginning of a lost poem, Rhadine (), that was referred to and briefly quoted by Strabo.

Plutarch mentions a legend that Deucalion and Pyrrha had settled in Dodona, Epirus ; while Strabo asserts that they lived at Cynus, and that her grave is still to be found there, while his may be seen at Athens ; he also mentions a pair of Aegean islands named after the couple.

Strabo also mentions Thermessa as sacred place of Hephaestus ( ἱερὰ Ἡφαίστου ), but it's not clear if it was a third name for the island, or just an adjective.

Strabo also registers stray comments on Myron, especially a large group at Samos ; several surviving heads were identified as copies of Myron's Samian Athena by C. K.

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

The Carolingian Renaissance in retrospect also has some of the character of a false dawn, in that its cultural gains were largely dissipated within a couple of generations, a perception voiced by Walahfrid Strabo ( died 849 ), in his introduction to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, summing up the generation of renewal:

Strabo also portrays the peoples of the region as being nomadic, or Hamaksoikoi, " wagon-dwellers " and Galaktophagoi, " milk-eaters " referring, no doubt, to the universal koumiss eaten in historical times.

Basiliscus had in fact raised his own nephew Armatus, who was rumoured to be also the lover of Basiliscus ' wife, to the rank of magister militum, the same that Strabo held.

" Mimnermus apparently was also capable of playing all by himself — Strabo described him as " both a pipe-player and an elegiac poet ".

The claim in Suda's second entry that Tyrtaeus was a Spartan general is made also by Athenaeus and Strabo.

Strabo also suggests that these Greek conquests went as far as the capital Pataliputra in northeastern India ( today Patna ):

He defines the western coast-line of Spain and Gaul and its indentation by the Bay of Biscay more accurately than Eratosthenes or Strabo, his ideas of the British Isles and their position are also clearer than his predecessors.

The " Phrygian rites " Strabo mentioned referred to the cult of Cybele that was also welcomed to Athens in the 5th century.

Strabo reports that Pytheas says he " travelled over the whole of Britain that was accessible.

Strabo reports that Eratosthenes places Thule at a parallel 11500 stadia ( 1305 miles, or 16. 4 °) north of the mouth of the Borysthenes.

Strabo ( c. 63 BC –- 24 AD ) reports that King Ateas united under his power the Scythian tribes living between the Maeotian marshes and the Danube.

Ken Dowden observes that once the idea is dismissed that myth is directly narrating the movements of historical persons, that the loci of Danaian institutions at Lindos in Rhodes as well as at Argos suggests a Mycenaean colony sent to Rhodes from the Argolid, a tradition, in fact, that Strabo reports.

Xanthos ( Kınık ) River in 2007 Strabo reports the original name of the river as Sibros or Sirbis.

Strabo reports Rome's lucrative trade with Britain: the island's exports included grain, gold, silver, iron, hides, slaves and hunting dogs.

This would comport with the account by Strabo, who reports Ptolemy XII to have had only three daughters ; we can reliably identify Berenice IV, Cleopatra VII, and Arsinoe IV as the king's daughters, so that there would not be left any room for a Cleopatra VI.

Strabo also says that Artemidorus reports there were no temples on the sacred promontory, but only stones.

Strabo reports Rome's lucrative trade with Britain: the island's exports included grain, gold, silver, iron, hides, slaves and hunting dogs.

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

Strabo reports that King Artaxias I of Armenia ( 189 BC-159 BC ) expanded his state in all directions at the expense of his neighbors.

Strabo reports that it read:

Strabo reports a story told in his time of this semi-legendary treasure, the aurum Tolosanum, supposed to have been the " cursed gold " looted during the sack of Delphi during the Gallic invasion of the Balkans in 279 BC.

Strabo does not mention a town of Corycus, but reports a promontory so called at the location, but a town Corycus is mentioned by Livy ( xxxiii.

* Strabo, Geography

In his work, " Geography ", the classical geographer Strabo suggests a change had occurred in the use of the name " Lusitanian ".

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.

Several works among the best known during this long period could be cited as an example, from Strabo ( Geography ), Eratosthenes ( Geography ) or Dionisio Periegetes ( Periegesis Oiceumene ) in the Ancient Age to the Alexander von Humboldt ( Cosmos ) in the century XIX, in which geography is regarded as a physical and natural science, of course, through the work Summa de Geografía of Martín Fernández de Enciso from the early sixteenth century, which is indicated for the first time the New World.

* 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.

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

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

Strabo in his Geography, Book VII 3, 12, tells about the Daci-Getae division " Getae, those who incline towards the Pontus and the east, and Daci, those who incline in the opposite direction towards Germany and the sources of the Ister ".

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

) ( 1969 ) The Geography of Strabo ( in eight volumes ) London

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

Strabo, in his Geography, writes:

* Strabo, Geography, translated by Horace Leonard Jones ; Vol.

Strabo dedicates a section of his Geography to the Pelasgians, relating both his own opinions and those of prior writers.

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

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 ).

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 Geography ( 1st Century CE ), 10. 3. 18.

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.

Strabo, whose Geography is the main surviving source of the story, was skeptical about its truth.