Regardless, Seleucus and Chandragupta ultimately reached a settlement and through a treaty sealed in 305 BCE, Seleucus, according to Strabo, ceded a number of territories to Chandragupta, including southern Afghanistan and parts of Persia.

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.

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 ).

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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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.

* Strabo, Geographica, Book XVII: North Africa.

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

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 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 adds the following in Book II, Chapter 5:

This does not necessarily imply that Elisha had sought asylum there from any potential backlash, although the description in the Book of Amos, of the location being a refuge, is dated by textual scholars to be earlier than the accounts of Elisha in the Book of Kings, and according to Strabo it had continued to be a place of refuge until at least the first century.

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, Geographia, Book XV, Chap I ).

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.

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.

The Hellenic city of Olbia was refounded on the Phoenician settlement that dated to the fourth century BCE ; Olbia is mentioned by the geographer Strabo ( IV. 1. 5 ) as a city of the Massiliotes that was fortified " against the tribe of the Salyes and against those Ligures who live in the Alps.

In Chapter XVI of his Geographia, Strabo mentions several " Chaldaen " astronomers.

Chapter 3. 6 quotes Tacitus, Varro, Valerius Maximus, Orosius, Frontinus, Strabo, Caesar, Columella, Plutarch, Josephus, Diodorus Siculus, Photius, Xiphilinus, Zonaras, Seneca, Petronius, Juvenal, Philo, Celsus, the authors of the Acts of the Apostles and of the pseudo-gospels of Nicodemus and St. James, and Claudius himself in his surviving letters and speeches.

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 ).

Hipparchus, through Strabo, adds that Byzantium and the mouth of the Borysthenes, today's Dnepr river, were on the same meridian and were separated by 3700 stadia, 5. 3 ° at Strabo's 700 stadia per a degree of meridian arc.

The Greco-Roman trade with India started by Eudoxus of Cyzicus in 130 BC kept on increasing, and according to Strabo ( II. 5. 12 ), by the time of Augustus, up to 120 ships were setting sail every year from Myos Hormos in Roman Egypt to India.

The remains lay on the ground as described by Strabo ( xiv. 2. 5 ) for over 800 years, and even broken, they were so impressive that many traveled to see them.

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

Strabo ( 5. 2. 2 ) makes Atys father of Lydus, and Tyrrhenus to be one of the descendants of Heracles and Omphale.

* Iastí, " the ionic way " (, Iáones, Ionians ;, Iás, old name of Attica, Strabo IX, 1. 5 )

4, 5, where he is called Theodotus ; Strabo xi.

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 ).

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 ).

Further passing references to Lamia were made by Strabo ( i. II. 8 ) and Aristotle ( Ethics vii. 5 ).

* The Itinerary of Greece, with a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo, and an account of the Monuments of Antiquity at present existing in that country, compiled in the years 1801, 2, 5, 6 etc .. London, 1810. ed.

Strabo ( 16. 1. 5 ) likewise refers to the ziggurat as the " Tomb of Belus " which had been demolished by Xerxes.

Classical sources not mentioned in the text: Strabo 5. 283 ; 6. 316, 323, 327 ; Ptolemy 3. 12 ; Dio Cassius.

5, 31 ( see under " cenabuns ); Strabo Geographia iv. 2-3 ; Ptolemy Geographia, ii. 8.

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 ).

For example, Strabo ( 12. 5. 3 ) writes that the priests were potentates in " ancient times ", but it is unclear whether Pessinus was already a temple state ruled by " dynastai " in the Phrygian period.

The Roman trade with India kept increasing, and according to Strabo ( II. 5. 12.

Concerning the people of Thule Strabo says of Pytheas, but grudgingly:

Moreover, says Strabo, none of the other authors mention Thule, a fact which he uses to discredit Pytheas, but which to moderns indicates Pytheas was the first explorer to arrive there and tell of it.

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

And yet Strabo says: Pytheas of Massalia tells us that Thule ... is farthest north, and that there the circle of the summer tropic is the same as the Arcti c Circle.

The inhabitants or people of Thule are described in most detail by Strabo in his Geographica, having preserved fragments of the account of Pytheas who was an alleged eye-witness in the 4th century BC: