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  STRABO - LoveToKnow Article on STRABO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Probably Strabo was then in Rome; the fact that his work passed unnoticed by Roman writers such as the elder Pliny does not preve the contrary.
Strabo indeed appears to b~Ii the first who conceived a complete geographical treatise as comprising the four divisions of mathematical, physical, political and historical geography, and he endeavoured, however imperfectly, to keep all these objects in view.
Strabo chiefly employed Greek authorities (the Alexandrian geographers Polybius, Posidonius and Theophanes of Mytilene, the companion of Pompey) and made comparatively little use of Roman authorities.
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 Pompeius Strabo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (died 87 BC), whose cognomen means "Squinty", is often referred to in English as Pompey Strabo to distinguish him from Strabo the geographer.
Pompeius Strabo was a Roman from the rural Italian district of Picenum, that lay between the Apennines and the Adriatic.
Strabo left camp on "personal business" while his soldiers killed the replacement Later, when Strabo died of plague, a mob dragged his body through the streets until a tribune interceded.
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 Strabo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Today, Strabo is mostly remembered for his 17-volume work Geographika, which literally means "Geography"; it presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the known world for his era.
Strabo was born in a wealthy family from Amaseia, which is in modern Amasya, Turkey, within Pontus; around which time it had recently become part of the Roman empire.
Although Strabo quotes it himself, and other classical authors mention that it existed, the only surviving document is a fragment of papyrus now in possession of the University of Milan (renumbered P[apyrus] 46).
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 Strabo
Strabo (born 63 BC or 64 BC, died ca.
Nowadays, Strabo is mostly famous for his Geographia, a 17-book work containing history and descriptions of people and places all over the world as known to him.
Strabo was born in a wealthy family from Amaseia (current-day Amasya[?]) in Pontus, which became part of the Roman empire just around his birth.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Strabo.html   (206 words)

  
 Malaspina Great Books - Strabo (63 BCE)
Strabo was born in Amaseia (current-day Amasya) in Pontus,; which became part of the Roman empire just around his birth, from a rich family.
Probably Strabo was then in Rome; the fact that his work passed unnoticed by Roman writers such as the elder Pliny does not prove the contrary.
"Strabo indeed appears to be the first who conceived a complete geographical treatise as comprising the four divisions of mathematical, physical, political and historical geography,; and he endeavoured, however imperfectly, to keep all these objects in view." The incidental historical notices, which are often of great value and interest, are all his own.
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 Slide #115 Monograph
Strabo reasoned that it lay in a northern quadrant of a globe, in a quadrilateral bounded by the frigid zone, the equator, and two meridians on the sides.
Strabo's own view is that there were two groups of Ethiopians, one living in Asia and one in Africa; and that Homer thought likewise, though not to the extent of placing the eastern group in India, of which he had no knowledge.
Strabo has summed up for us the knowledge of the ancient world as it was in the days of the Emperor Cæsar Augustus of the great Roman Empire, as it was when in far-off Syria the Christ was born and the greater part of the known earth was under the sway of Rome.
www.henry-davis.com /MAPS/AncientWebPages/115mono.html   (3490 words)

  
 D&D Excerpt: Enemies and Allies
Strabo is an imposing figure clad entirely in glossy fl armor who makes a good "out-of-nowhere" villain, showing up at just the wrong moment to ruin the player characters' plans.
A cleric of Erythnul, Strabo travels far and wide atop a nightmare, acting as a troubleshooter for a number of evil schemers.
Strabo realizes what an asset the nightmare is, so he tries to retreat if it's in danger.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, often referred to as Strabo or Pompey Strabo in English, was a Roman from the rural province of Picenum.
Strabo's son, the famous Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great), took the legions back to Picenum once again.
Strabo was an important general and the first senator of the family, being elected consul in 89 BC.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gnaeus-Pompeius-Strabo   (353 words)

  
 Strabo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is possible that owing to the strife with Rome, Strabo's family may have sent him to Nyssa in the hope that it would be a safer place for their young son than Amaseia.
Strabo himself was an adherent to the principles of Stoic philosophy.
Strabo was also influenced by Pythodoris, queen of Pontus, who was so great a friend of Rome that she bequeathed her throne to Augustus and this also must have played a role in his partiality towards the empire.
www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/s/strabo/1.html   (501 words)

  
 Ataman Hotel - Ancient World's Geographer: Strabo
A member of a noble family on his mother's side, Strabo was born in 64 or 63 BC in the city of Amaseia (now called Amasya) capital of Pontus, a region in northeastern Anatolia that was an independent kingdom from the 4th century BC until overcome by Pompey in 66 BC.
In his book, Strabo proudly refers to his extensive travels and they were extensive indeed: as far east as Armenia in the east, as far west as the Tyrrhenian shores opposite Sardinia, as far north as the Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea), and as far south as Ethiopia.
Indeed, Strabo appears to have been as much a historian as he was a geographer for among his works is a forty-seven volume work of history of which unfortunately nothing remains.
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 Strabo - Wikipedia
Strabo was ook een cognomen dat zoveel betekende als "scheeloog".
Dit is een doorverwijspagina, bedoeld om onderscheid te maken tussen de verschillende betekenissen en gebruiken van de term Strabo.
Op deze pagina staat een uitleg van de verschillende betekenissen van Strabo en verwijzingen daarnaartoe.
nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/strabo   (108 words)

  
 Caius Julius Caesar Strabo
The first stage of Strabo's career was his membership of a committee that was to supervise the implementation of the Lex frumentaria, an agrarian bill, proposed in 103 by the tribune Lucius Appuleius Saturninus.
In 91, when Strabo's nephew Sextus Julius Caesar was consul, a tribune named Marcus Livius Drusus had proposed several reform bills, and to gain support, he had asked support from the Italian allies of Rome.
Caius Julius Caesar Strabo was an uncle of the Caius Julius Caesar who was father of the famous Julius Caesar.
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Strabo does not have the same stature as Tacitus; and although Asia Minor assumed increasing importance in the eastern Roman empire, these studies are too focused on small points to provide any overall interpretation of political or cultural assimilation.
Syme conceded that Strabo is often the primary, and sometimes the only, source for important information about the middle and later years of Augustus' reign, but that certainly did not stop him from disparaging Strabo and trying to correct his text.
Syme's careful studies on Strabo and Asia Minor are not going to challenge any currently fashionable approaches or topics in ancient history; but in the working out of those approaches or the researching of those topics every generation of scholars must struggle again with the sort of meticulous investigations represented in these chapters.
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 Saudi Aramco World : According To Strabo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Strabo's audience explains his marked difference from Herodotus, the famous Greek historian of the fifth century B.C. Where Herodotus writes for himself primarily, and looks for the anecdotal material that interests him, Strabo invariably has the viewpoint of his aristocratic readers in mind.
Strabo, incidentally, makes it perfectly clear that the famous Roman Prefect retreated, not from Marib, the capital city and site of the legendary dam, but from a lesser place named Marsiaba.
Strabo is obviously regretful not only that his Roman friend failed so catastrophically, but also that so splendid a province was not added to the Roman Empire.
www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/196302/according.to.strabo.htm   (1128 words)

  
 Strabo on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Its value is uneven, in great part because Strabo attributed to Homer an accurate knowledge of places and peoples mentioned in his epics and because he virtually disregarded Herodotus' information, which was often firsthand.
Strabo 10.2.4 and the synoecism of "Newer" Pleuron.
Ptolemy and Strabo and their conversation with Appeles and Protogenes: cosmography and painting in Raphael's 'School of Athens.'
www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Strabo.asp   (418 words)

  
 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.02.11
This interest has led to a number of publications on Strabo, an author who in the lifetime of Augustus set out to write a universal history but today is known mostly for his geography, originally intended, as Engels (E.) argues, only as a complement to his larger work of history, almost completely lost.
Strabo thus followed a trend that had already started with Alexander Polyhistor, Artemidoros and, in Latin literature, Varro, and that led to the decline of late Hellenistic universal history (p.
The large extent to which Strabo iden tified himself with the Roman empire is also stressed in the discussion of the third key text of this chapter, the concluding remarks in Str.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-02-11.html   (1995 words)

  
 Strabo - Britannica Concise
Strabo - Greek geographer and historian whose Geography is the only extant work covering the whole range of peoples and countries known to both Greeks and Romans during the reign of Augustus (27 – 14).
Walafrid Strabo - Benedictine abbot, theologian, and poet whose Latin writings were the principal exemplar of German Carolingian culture.
The work is known only from Strabo's references to it and from fragments preserved by later authors and from the surviving part...
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 Strabo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
"Strabo" was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.
There are two minor figures in Classical literature by this name and one significant author (see below).
The father of Pompey was called "Strabo." A native of Sicily so clear sighted that he could see things at great distance as if they were nearby was also called "Strabo." The most significant figure by this name, however, was Strabo (born 63 BC or 64 BC, died ca.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Strabo.html   (308 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Strabo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mention is given to the death in AD 23 of Juba, king of Maurousia.
Although Strabo quotes it himself, and other classical authors mention that it existed, the only surviving document is a fragment of papyrus now in possession of the University of Milan (renumbered P
Several different dates have been proposed for Strabo's death, but most of them place it shortly after AD 23.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Strabo   (520 words)

  
 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.05.11
In her attempt to prove Strabo's Stoicism, D. even tries to explain his admiration for Alexander the Great on the basis of this Stoic attitude, although it is known that important Stoics were in fact sceptical of Alexander's role (p.
Strabo draws a remarkably sharp distinction between Greeks and barbarians, which is to be blurred only when it comes to an evaluation of the Romans.
Returning to the discussion of oikoumene in Strabo, she stressses the affirmative attitude of Strabo towards an empire that expands the boundaries of the civilized world; only where further expansion would simply not be worthwhile, Rome chooses to leave her barbarian neighbours alone.
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 Strabo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The father of Pompey was called "Strabo." A native of Sicily so clear sighted thathe could see things at great distance as if they were nearby was also called "Strabo."
The most significant figure by this name, however, was Strabo (born 63BC or 64 BC, died ca.
Nowadays, Strabo is mostly famousfor his Geographia, a 17-book work containing history and descriptions of people and places all over the world as knownto him.
www.therfcc.org /strabo-4012.html   (278 words)

  
 Kennislink - 21 mei 2003:Homerus en Strabo kenden hun geografie
De Griekse schrijver Strabo nam Homerus’ beschrijving zelfs als uitgangspunt toen hij in de eerste eeuw na Christus (toen het eerder verwoeste Troje weer was opgebouwd onder de naam Nieuw Ilium) zijn boek ‘Geografie’ schreef.
In Strabo’s tijd had de riviervlakte zich al veel verder noordwaarts uitgebreid, en moet de landtong waarop de Grieken eerder hun kamp hadden opgeslagen, niet of nauwelijks meer als landschappelijk herkenningspunt te vinden zijn geweest.
Strabo’s interpretatie van de situatie ter plaatse tijdens de Trojaanse oorlog was opvallend correct: hij realiseerde zich al dat de kustlijn door aanslibbing veranderd moest zijn ten opzichte van de door Homerus beschreven situatie.
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 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.01.25
Strabo's short remarks, however, are a key source in providing information about the names and origins of these nomad tribes of Central Asia, as well as their ethnic structure and their linguistic interconnections.
Strabo only very rarely criticizes individual Romans for certain actions or for abusing their position as members of the elite of the ruling power.
Gorman, hoi peri tina in Strabo, ZPE 136, 2001, 201-213.
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 FOOTNOTES
The detailed account of Strabo makes the invaders fail before Marsuabae: this cannot be the same place as Mariaba.
Pater ispe colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit, primusque par artem Movit agros; curis acuens mortalia corda, Nec torpere gravi passus sua Regna veterno Ptolemy and Strabo, with the modern geographers, fix the Isthmus of Suez as the boundary of Asia and Africa.
Strabo only says that the grape does not ripen.
www.godrules.net /library/gibbon/82gibbon_a16.htm   (11127 words)

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