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Genre/Form: | Early works Early works to 1800 Ouvrages avant 1800 |
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Named Person: | Strabo |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Strabo.; Duane W Roller |
ISBN: | 9781107038257 1107038251 9781316625675 1316625672 |
OCLC Number: | 869269538 |
Language Note: | Translated from the Greek. |
Awards: | Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015 |
Description: | xv, 891 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- The translation -- Appendix 1. Glossary of untranslated words -- Appendix 2. The sources of the fragments. |
Other Titles: | Geography. |
Responsibility: | translated by Duane W. Roller. |
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Abstract:
First serviceable English translation in nearly a century of the only surviving work of its type in Greek literature. The major source for studying ancient geography and an important source for the journey of Alexander the Great, Greek cultic history, and early scientific theories about the nature of the world.
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'... students of Strabo have been given a gift indeed, and we should await the second volume of this project with great anticipation.' Lee E. Patterson, The Classical Review
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