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

He is referred to in the works of Aristotle, Stobaeus, Strabo, Hesychius, Photius, and Theano.

Posidonius wrote a geographic treatise on the lands of the Celts which has since been lost, but which is referred to extensively ( both directly and otherwise ) in the works of Diodorus of Sicily, Strabo, Caesar and Tacitus ' Germania.

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

While ancient Greek historians, including Herodotus, Strabo, and Pliny the Elder, referred to Legoi people who inhabited Caucasian Albania, Arab historians of 9-10th centuries mention the kingdom of Lakz in present-day southern Dagestan.

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.

Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo ( died 87 BC ), whose cognomen means " cross eyed ", is often referred to in English as Pompey Strabo to distinguish him from Strabo, the geographer.

Later, in the 6th to 5th centuries BC, the name referred specifically to the Etruscans, for whom the Tyrrhenian Sea is named, according to Strabo.

Some local writers have referred to Histonium the strange passage of Strabo in which he speaks of a place called Ortonium ( as the name stands in the manuscripts ) as the resort of pirates of a very wild and uncivilised character.

Other writers, such as Strabo, a prominent Roman-era geographer ( although he wrote in Greek ), referred to the region as Coele-Syria around 10 – 20 CE.

The people mentioned by Strabo as Οΰγρου / Ugroi / might also be identified with the ancient Hungarians, although it is more plausible that he referred to one of the tribes of the Sarmatians.

The Younger Futhark became known in Europe as the " alphabet of the Norsemen ", and was studied in the interest of trade and diplomatic contacts, referred to as Abecedarium Nordmannicum in Frankish Fulda ( possibly by Walahfrid Strabo ) and ogam lochlannach " Ogham of the Scandinavians " in the Book of Ballymote.

Strabo referred to the Abazins ( Abaza ) and other related tribes under the collective ехоnym Zygii.

Strabo records that the Thesprotians, Molossians, and Macedonians referred to old men as πελιοί pelioi and old women as πελιαί peliai (< PIE * pel -, ' grey ').

Strabo also records that the Thesprotians, Molossians, and Macedonians referred to old men as pelioi and old women as peliai ( PIE: * pel-means grey ; Ancient Greek: pelitnós – " grey ", peleia – " pigeon ", so-called because of its dusky grey color, poliós – grey, and pollós – " dark ").

A view has been held that the clan names like Osii, Asioi, and Aseni of Indika of Megasthenes equate to Asii referred to by Strabo and Asiani as referred to in Historiae Philippicae by Trogue Pompey and further, they also equate to the Aspasioi ( Aspasii, Hipasii ) and Assakenoi ( Assacenii / Assacani ) clans of upper Indus referred to as Aśvayana and Aśvakayana in Pāṇini's Ashtadhyayi.

He wrote a History of Sicily from the earliest times to 424 BC, which was used by Thucydides, and the Colonizing of Italy, frequently referred to by Strabo and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.

The origins of the city are obscure, but its name apparently reflects the Iaccetani, mentioned by Strabo as one of the most celebrated of the numerous small tribes inhabiting the basin of the Ebro.

Strabo ( 13. 1. 48 ) records, but discounts, the claim by " some more recent writers " that Teucer came from the deme of Xypeteones in Attica, supposedly called Troes ( meaning Trojans ) in mythical times.

The Mushaka family has found mention in surviving mythical Indian texts like the Vishnu Purana and also in Greek accounts like that of Strabo.

Strabo ascribes its foundation to a body of Pylians, a part of those who had followed Nestor to Troy ; while Justin tells us it was founded by Epeius, the hero who constructed the wooden horse at Troy ; in proof of which the inhabitants showed, in a temple of Minerva, the tools used by him on that occasion.

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.

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.

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 ).

Following Strabo, king Burebista ( 82 BC-44 BC ) recruited this man, who had been in Egypt, to render his people more docile.

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 .).

According to Strabo, the Albanians were a group of 26 tribes which lived to the north of the Kura river and each of them had its own king and language.

This presumed second wife of the Egyptian king could have been the mother of Cleopatra VII and this daughter's younger siblings, while Berenice IV was the daughter of Cleopatra V because Strabo only calls the oldest daughter of Ptolemy XII a legitimate child.

In Greek legend, the city was first called Thoana because Thoas, a Thracian king, was its founder ( Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, vi ); it was in Cappadocia, at the foot of the Taurus Mountains and near the Cilician Gates ( Strabo, XII, 537 ; XIII, 587 ).

In the west the Parthian king Mithradates I began to enlarge his kingdom and attacked Eucratides ; the city of Herat fell in 167 BCE and the Parthians succeeded in conquering two provinces between Bactria and Parthia, called by Strabo the country of Aspiones and Turiua.

The Indo-Greek king Menander may have campaigned as far as the capital Pataliputra in eastern India ( today Patna ): " Those who came after Alexander went to the Ganges and Pataliputra " ( Strabo, XV. 698 ).

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 ).

The Indo-Greek king Menander I ( reigned 160-135 BCE ) had his capital in Sagala, in today ’ s northern Punjab, and is described by Strabo as one of the most powerful Greek kings of the period, even greater than Alexander the Great.

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 cites Sophene being taken over by a " general " of king Antiochus III by 200 BC, called Zariadres.

Cius (; ), later renamed Prusias on the Sea (; ) after king Prusias I of Bithynia, was an ancient Greek city bordering the Propontis ( now known as the Sea of Marmara ), in Bithynia ( in modern northwestern Turkey ), and had a long history, being mentioned by Aristotle, Strabo and Apollonius Rhodius.

Strabo just called him archaios hegemon, old chieftain, and Pseudo-Scymnus, gêgenês basileus, earth-born king.

A quote recorded by the geographer Strabo represents the earliest surviving account of the Ionian migration, celebrating the settlement of Colophon and Smyrna from Pylos,

According to Strabo, writing two centuries after the events, rather than being destroyed by the Romans like their Celtic neighbours, " the Boii were merely driven out of the regions they occupied ; and after migrating to the regions round about the Ister, lived with the Taurisci, and carried on war against the Daci until they perished, tribe and all — and thus they left their country, which was a part of Illyria, to their neighbours as a pasture-ground for sheep.

Historian Strabo writes that the Seleucids later gave the area south of the Hindu Kush to the Mauryas after a treaty was made.

From the combined testimony of Strabo ( AD 20 ) and Tacitus ( AD 117 ), the Lombards dwelt near the mouth of the Elbe shortly after the beginning of the Christian era, next to the Chauci.

* The Goths, led by Theodoric Strabo, revolt in Thrace after the assassination of Aspar.

The first ancient writer to do so is Strabo, some time after 16 AD, who includes the Chatti in a listing of " poorer Germanic tribes " that had previously fought the Romans.

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.

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.

Calchas died of shame at Colophon in Asia Minor shortly after the Trojan War ( told in the Cyclic Nostoi and Melampodia ): the prophet Mopsus beat him in a contest of soothsaying, although Strabo placed an oracle of Calchas on Monte Gargano in Magna Graecia.

He was born in Euboea ( Herodotus, Strabo ) or, according to others, in Egypt, on the river Nile, after the long wanderings of his mother.

The legend related by Herodotus and Strabo, which ascribed the origin of the Pamphylians to a colony led into their country by Amphilochus and Calchas after the Trojan War, is merely a characteristic myth.

In antiquity, the town was known as Arsinoe (), after Arsinoe II of Egypt, and was mentioned by that name by Strabo.

It was at Kyrenia, according to Strabo, that Teucer came first ashore, to found the ancient Kingdom of Salamis after the Trojan war.

Writing at about 100 years after the end of the Social War ( 91 – 88 BC ), a failed last attempt of the italic tribes to form a union, Italy, that would compete with Rome in power and influence, the Roman geographer, Strabo, placed the location of the Vestini as he knew it to be as follows.

According to Strabo, Smyrna was named after an Amazon and, according to a manuscript on proverbs, Mimnermus once composed on the theme of the proverb " A lame man makes the best lover ", illustrating the Amazonian practice of maiming their men.

:" Those who came after Alexander went to the Ganges and Pataliputra " ( Strabo, XV. 698 )

Parama Kambojas ) and Pasinoi of Strabo occupied its western parts after being displaced from their original home in the Fergana valley by the Yuezhi.

: " Those who came after Alexander went to the Ganges and Pataliputra " ( Strabo, 15. 698 ).

The Greek geographer Strabo claimed that Greek colonists named the river Sybaris after a fountain of the same name at Bura in Achaia: According to some sources it had the property of making the horses that drank its water shy.

According to Strabo, Demetrius inspired the creation of the Mouseion, better known as the Library of Alexandria, which was modeled after the arrangement of Aristotle's school.

* Strabo ( other consul ) left in sole command – decisive engagement defeated Italian Army of 60, 000 men – after success forces Asculum to surrender

Approximately eight centuries after Homer, Strabo, the geographer criticized Polybius on the Geography of the Odyssey.

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

The term Celtiberi appears in accounts by Diodorus Siculus, Appian and Martial who recognized intermarriage between Celts and Iberians after a period of continuous warfare, though Barry Cunliffe says ' this has the ring of guesswork about it '; Strabo just saw the Celtiberians as Celts and recognised them as a branch of the Celti.