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.

According to Strabo, he was born in Naryx in Locris, where Ovid calls him Narycius Heroes.

The rest of fr. 350 was paraphrased in prose by the historian / geographer Strabo.

He was at the head of the Peripatetic school at Rome, about 58 BC, and was the teacher of Boethus of Sidon, with whom Strabo studied.

According to Strabo, this site was first called Sigeia ; around 306 BC Antigonus refounded the city as the much-expanded Antigonia Troas by settling the people of five other towns in Sigeia, including the once influential city of Neandria.

Strabo mentions that a Roman colony was created at the location in the reign of Augustus, named Colonia Alexandria Augusta Troas ( called simply Troas during this period ).

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.

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.

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 ).

Europe's eastern frontier was defined in the 1st century by geographer Strabo at the River Don.

According to Strabo, a water powered mill was built in Kaberia of the kingdom of Mithridates during the 1st century BC.

The language survived as a domestic language in the Iberian peninsula ( modern Spain and Portugal ) as late as the 8th century, and Frankish author Walafrid Strabo wrote that it was still spoken in the lower Danube area and in isolated mountain regions in Crimea in the early 9th century ( see Crimean Gothic ).

According to Strabo their territory was divided in accordance with custom, each tribe was further divided into cantons, each governed by a military aristocratic ruler whose title chief of the tribe gave him the powers of a King-Priest (' tetrarch ').

Diogenes says that he abdicated the kingship ( basileia ) in favor of his brother and Strabo confirms that there was a ruling family in Ephesus descended from the Ionian founder, Androclus, which still kept the title and could sit in the chief seat at the games, as well as a few other privileges.

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

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.

The last link is supplied by Strabo, who says that an emporium on the island of Corbulo in the mouth of the Loire was associated with the Britain of Pytheas by Polybius.

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

Walafrid Strabo, a monk of the Abbey of St. Gall writing in the 9th century, remarked, in discussing the people of Switzerland and the surrounding regions, that only foreigners called them the Alemanni, but that they gave themselves the name of Suevi.

The Greek geographer Strabo, writing ca.

Strabo, writing late in Augustus's reign, claims that taxes on trade brought in more annual revenue than any conquest could.

Strabo, writing some 400 years later, adds that Charaxus was trading with Lesbian wine and that Sappho called Rhodopis Doricha.

On the presumption that " recently " means within a year, Strabo stopped writing that year or the next ( 24 AD ), when he died.

The Greek geographer Strabo, writing in the 1st century AD, identified Homer's Ithaca with modern Ithaca.

Strabo writing during the Roman period, states that the temple had formerly, during the Greek period, hosted more than a thousand sacred slave-prostitutes ( VIII, 6, 20 ).

Herodotus, some five centuries before Strabo, supplied further information about Rhodopis in his Histories, writing that Rhodopis came from Thrace, and was the slave of Iadmon of Samos, and a fellow-slave of Aesop.

Ptolemy XII's personal cult name ( Neos Dionysos ) earned him the ridiculing sobriquet Auletes ( flute player ) — as we learn from Strabo's writing ( Strabo XVII, 1, 11 ):

Dioscorides, in Materia Medica, describes lumps of bitumen in the adjacent river Seman, and the concentrated pitch on the banks of the Vjosë river Strabo, writing in about AD 17 states:

In addition, the Greek geographer Strabo, writing in the first century AD, refers to some Persian women veiling their faces ; and the early third-century Christian writer Tertullian clearly refers in his treatise The Veiling of Virgins to some pagan women of " Arabia " wearing a veil that covers not only their head but also the entire face.

Although the Chinese geographical writing in the time of Herodotus and Strabo were of lesser quality and contained less systematic approach, this would change from the 3rd century onwards, as Chinese methods of documenting geography became more complex than found in Europe ( until the 13th century ).

Strabo, writing in the first century, alludes to some Persian women veiling their faces ( Geography, 11.

Strabo claims that the Getae could raise up to 200, 000 soldiers in wartime, a rather improbable number, but which could represent the total number of able males, not the number of any army.

The first accurate descriptions of ferrets come from Strabo during 200 AD, when ferrets were released onto the Balearic Islands to control rabbit populations.

According to the Greek historian Strabo, the Greeks " extended their empire even as far as the Seres and the Phryni " ( Strabo XI. II. I ), possibly leading to the first known contacts between China and the West around 200 BCE.

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

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

The foundation of Himera is placed subsequent to that of Mylae ( as, from their relative positions, might naturally have been expected ) both by Strabo and Scymnus Chius: its date is not mentioned by Thucydides, but Diodorus tells us that it had existed 240 years at the time of its destruction by the Carthaginians, which would fix its first settlement in 648 BCE.

Although the country where the original Aquitanians lived came to be named Novempopulania ( nine peoples ) in the late years of the Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages ( up to the 6th century ), the number of tribes varied ( about 20 for Strabo ); among them: