"Strabo was born in Amasia of Pontus in 64 BCE. His Geography shows him as a Greek scholar who absorbed, probably as a product of years spent there as an adult, the political and cultural atmosphere of Augustan Rome, His contemporary Roman political consciousness makes Strabo ar…
"Strabo was born in Amasia of Pontus in 64 BCE. His Geography shows him as a Greek scholar who absorbed, probably as a product of years spent there as an adult, the political and cultural atmosphere of Augustan Rome, His contemporary Roman political consciousness makes Strabo ar…
"Strabo was born in Amasia of Pontus in 64 BCE. His Geography shows him as a Greek scholar who absorbed, probably as a product of years spent there as an adult, the political and cultural atmosphere of Augustan Rome, His contemporary Roman political consciousness makes Strabo ar…
Offers a new interpretation of the man and his life and emphasises the place and importance of Strabo's Geography and of geography itself within these intellectual circles.