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By Daniela Dueck

ISBN-10: 1138904333

ISBN-13: 9781138904330

The Routledge better half to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. sixty four BCE – c. CE 24), a Greek writer writing on the major of Roman growth and political empowerment. whereas his previous historiographical composition is nearly totally misplaced, his significant opus of the Geography comprises an encyclopaedic examine the full global recognized on the time: a number of ethnographic, topographic, ancient, mythological, botanical, and zoological information, and lots more and plenty extra.



This quantity deals a variety of insights to the literary and old context of the guy and his global. The Companion, in twenty-eight chapters written by means of a global crew of students, examines a number of features of Strabo’s character, the political and scholarly atmosphere within which he was once energetic, his offerings as an writer, and his rules of heritage and geography. this option of ongoing Strabonian stories is a useful source not only for college kids and students of Strabo himself, but in addition for a person attracted to old geography and on this planet of the early Roman Empire.

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