A historical and topographical guide to the geography of Strabo
- ISBN: 9781316632291
- Editorial: Cambridge University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge . Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 1185
- Idiomas: Inglés
Strabo's Geography, completed in the early first century AD, is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English analysis of and commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the author's The Geography of Strabo, the first English translation of the work in many years. It thoroughly analyzes each of the seventeen books and provides perhaps the most thorough bibliography as yet created for Strabo's work. Careful attention is paid to the historical and cultural data, the thousands of toponyms, and the many lost historical sources that are preserved only in the Geography. This volume guides readers through the challenges and complexities of the text, allowing an enhanced understanding of the numerous topics that Strabo covers, from the travels of Alexander and the history of the Mediterranean to science, religion, and cult.
List of abbreviations
The guide to the geography
Introduction and predecessors
Further discussion of predecessors
Iberia
Transalpine Keltike
Northern and Central Italia
Southern Italia and Sikelia
Northern and Eastern Europe
The Peloponnesos
East Central Hellas
West Central Hellas and the Hellenic Islands
The northeastern part of the inhabited world
Central and Northern Anatolia
Northwestern and West Central Anatolia
Southern Anatolia and Cyprus
Indike and the Persian Plateau
Assyria, Syria, Phoenicia, and Arabia
Egypt, Libya, and conclusion
Bibliography
Index of passages cited
