* 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.

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 ).

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.

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.

* Strabo publishes his book on the shape of the Earth.

A fragment from Strabo, book vii, gives a sense of the roughly analogous character of these male confraternities, and the confusion rampant among those not initiated:

According to the Sicilian Greek poet Stesichorus, in his poem the " Song of Geryon ", and the Greek geographer Strabo, in his book Geographika ( volume III ), the Hesperides are in Tartessos, a location placed in the south of the Iberian peninsula.

Material from this book is quoted directly or indirectly by Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Aelian ( Claudius Aelianus ) and other authors.

The fragmentary oldest Life was recast in the 9th century by two monks of Reichenau, enlarged in 816 – 824 by the celebrated Wettinus, and about 833 – 884 by Walafrid Strabo, who also revised a book of the miracles of the saint.

Returning to Fulda two years later, he was entrusted with the principal charge of the school, which under his direction became one of the most preeminent centers of scholarship and book production in Europe, and sent forth such pupils as Walafrid Strabo, Servatus Lupus of Ferrières, and Otfrid of Weissenburg.

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 ( 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.

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.

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

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.