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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The early part of Pytheas ' voyage is outlined by statements of Eratosthenes that Strabo says are false because taken from Pytheas.

A statement of Eratosthenes attributed by Strabo to Pytheas, that the north of the Iberian Peninsula was an easier passage to Celtica than across the Ocean, is somewhat ambiguous: apparently he knew or knew of both routes, but he does not say which he took.

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.

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Livy mentions a portus Tarraconis ; and according to Eratosthenes it had a naval station or roads (); but Artemidorus says with more probability that it had none, and scarcely even an anchoring place ; and Strabo himself calls it.

Herodotus, Strabo, and other classical authors repeatedly mention the Caspians but do not seem to know much about them ; they are grouped with other inhabitants of the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, like the Amardi, Anariacae, Cadusii, Albani ( see below ), and Vitii ( Eratosthenes apud Strabo, 11. 8. 8 ), and their land ( Caspiane ) is said to be part of Albania ( Theophanes Mytilenaeus apud Strabo, 11. 4. 5 ).

The general views of the De situ orbis mainly agree with those current among Greek writers from Eratosthenes to Strabo ; the latter was probably unknown to Mela.

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.

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.

Richard Pankhurst and others have argued that the name should be understood as " River of the Boras people ", where asta can be related to Proto-Nubian asti " water "., while-boras can be linked to a number of Roman allusions to a tribe named the Bora, who lived near Meroe, and another tribe named the Megabares ( in Eratosthenes and Strabo, in Pliny the Elder ).

In addition to these dozen sentences, the geographer Strabo mentions India a few times in the course of his long dispute with Eratosthenes about the shape of Eurasia.

Most of these are purely geographical claims, but he does mention that Eratosthenes ' sources say that some of the Greek kings conquered further than Alexander ; Strabo does not believe them on this, but modern historians do ; nor does he believe that Menander and Demetrius son of Euthydemus conquered more tribes than Alexander There is half a story about Menander in one of the books of Polybius which has not come down to us intact.

Strabo mentions him as a contemporary of Eratosthenes, who was born 275 BC.

Hipparchus, relying on Pytheas, according to Strabo, places this area south of Britain, but he, Strabo, calculates that it is north of Ierne.

Classical sources like Strabo mention different " schools " and " doctrines " followed in different places ( Babylon, Borsippa, Sippar, Uruk ).

Strabo speaks of it as one of the places on the north coast of Sicily which, in his time, still deserved the name of cities ; and Pliny gives it the title of a Colonia.

Strabo is most famous for his 17-volume work Geographica, which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known to his era.

Strabo mentions the Sarmatians in a number of places, never saying very much about them.

51 ) it rose in a large lake, whilst Ptolemy places its sources in Mount Carpates ( the modern Carpathian Mountains ), and Strabo ( ii.

Strabo says that Artemidorus mentions three islands protecting places of anchorage at the point.

" By the time of Strabo the name had not persisted: " now they are nowhere to be found, although in earlier times they were settled in several places.

Strabo places the start of the migration sixty years after the Trojan war, initiated by Orestes's son, Penthilos, with the colonization continuing onto Penthilos's grandson.

Strabo mentioned that the Curetes were assigned multiple identities and places of origin ( i. e. either Acarnanians, Aetolians, from Crete, or from Euboea ).

Strabo locates the Moschoi in two places.

Strabo in his Geography, places Chaonia between the Ceraunian mountains in the north and the River Thyamis in the south.

:" Accordingly, if the distance from Hyrcania to Artemita in Babylonia is eight thousand stadia, as is stated by Apollodorus of Artemita, and the distance from there to the mouth of the Persian Sea another eight thousand, and again eight thousand, or a little less, to the places that lie on the same parallel as the extremities of Ethiopia, there would remain of the above-mentioned breadth of the inhabited world the distance which I have already given, 14 from the recess of the Hyrcanian Sea to the mouth of that sea " ( Strabo, Geographia, 11. 11. 1 )

The city appears to have subsequently declined, and had sunk in the time of Augustus to the condition of an ordinary municipal town: but was still one of the few places on the north coast of Sicily which Strabo deemed worthy of mention.