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A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo
Duane W. Roller
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hardcover. The first English commentary on Strabo's seventeen-book Geography, the single most important source for the history of Greek geography. Num Pages: 1000 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1182
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107180659
SKU
V9781107180659
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About Duane W. Roller
Duane W. Roller is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Ohio State University. He has published numerous books and articles, including Cleopatra: A Biography (2010) and Ancient Geography (2015). His publications also include The Geography of Strabo (Cambridge, 2014), the first full English translation of Strabo's only complete work in many years.
Reviews for A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo
The publication of this guide concludes one of the major achievements of contemporary classical scholarship: the first complete English translation in almost a century of Strabo's Geography that reflects current scholarship on its text and content. Strabo's Geography is one of the most important surviving works of ancient Greek scholarship. It is the principal source for the history of ancient ... Read more