Live briefing
Everything about Strabo
Greek geographer, philosopher and historian (64/63 BC–c.24 AD)
Strabo was a Greek geographer who was born in Asia Minor. He is best known for his work Geographica, which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known during his lifetime. Additionally, Strabo authored historical works, but only fragments and quotations of these survive in the writings of other authors. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: StraboA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The Pramnai Ascetics of Strabo 15.1.70Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Routledge Companion to StraboThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Discovery of an anoxic basin within the Strabo Trench, eastern MediterraneanCited 102 times
- Go sideways: GeographicaA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Archelaus of CappadociaA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Discovery of an anoxic basin within the Strabo Trench, eastern Mediterranean
The Pliny–Strabo trench region: A large shear zone resulting from slab tearing
Bathymetry and shallow structure of the Pliny and Strabo Trenches, south of the Hellenic Arc
The Pliny and Strabo trenches (eastern Mediterranean): Integration of seismic reflection data and SeaBeam bathymetric maps
Strabo On Homer 1)
STRABO, THE TIBERIAN AUTHOR: PAST, PRESENT AND SILENCE IN STRABO'S GEOGRAPHY
Stratigraphy and sedimentation in the western Strabo Trench, Eastern Mediterranean
Active tectonics and kinematics of Fethiye-Göcek Bay, SW Turkey: Insight about the eastern edge of Pliny-Strabo Trenches
🆕 Influential since 2022
The Pramnai Ascetics of Strabo 15.1.70
WHAT DIDN’T STRABO SAY ABOUT OLBIA? AN EXAMPLE OF (UN)CONSCIOUS DEFAULT IN “THE GEOGRAPHY”
THE ROUND TABLE: DISCOVERING THE ANCIENT WORLD (ON THE 2000TH ANNIVERSARY OF T HE DEATH OF STRABO, THE GREEK HISTORIAN AND GEOGRAPHER, 24) THE THIRD ST. PETERSBURG HISTORICAL FORUM, OCTOBER 07–13, 2024
An Aristotelian Account of Religious Music in Strabo, 10.3
MILESIAN COLONIZATION THROUGH THE EYES OF STRABO
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Routledge Companion to StraboDaniela Dueck · 2017
The Geography of StraboDuane W. Roller · 2014- 📕The Strabo of Vindelinus de Spira and Mr. Herbert HooverDavid Kuhner · 1979
Strabons GeographikaStrabo · 2003
Walahfrid Strabo's libellus de exordiis et incrementis quarundam in observationibus ecclesiasticis rerumWalahfrid Strabo, Alice L. Harting-Correa · 1995- 📕Żveli Sakʻartʻvelo (Kolxetʻi da Iberia) Strabonis GeograpʻiašiOtar Lordkipanidze · 2010
- 📕Die Quellen von Strabons drittem BuchJosef Morr · 1926
Strabone e l'Italia anticaGianfranco Maddoli · 1988
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Geographica The Geographica (Ancient Greek: Γεωγραφικά, Geōgraphiká; Latin: Geographica or Strabonis Rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII, "Strabo's 17 Books on Geographical…
- Archelaus of Cappadocia Archelaus (Greek: Ἀρχέλαος; fl. 1st century BC and 1st century, died 17 AD) was a Roman client prince and the last king of Cappadocia. He was also husband…
- Aristodemus of Nysa the Elder Aristodemus (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστόδημος) of Nysa in Caria, was a son of Menecrates (though it is unclear which Menecrates), and a pupil of the celebrated…
- Aristodemus of Nysa the Younger Aristodemus (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστόδημος) of Nysa in Caria distinguished himself as a grammarian and rhetorician, and is mentioned among the instructors…
- Archelaus of Cilicia Archelaus (Greek: Ἀρχέλαος; born before 8 BC; died 38 AD) was a Cappadocian prince and a Roman client king of Cilicia Trachea and Eastern Lycaonia. He…
- Nysa on the Maeander Nysa on the Maeander (Greek: Νύσα or Νύσσα) was an ancient city and bishopric of Asia Minor, whose remains are in the Sultanhisar district of Aydın Province…
- Athenodorus Cananites Athenodorus Cananites (Greek: Ἀθηνόδωρος Κανανίτης, Athenodoros Kananites; ca. 74 BC – 7 AD) was a Stoic philosopher. Athenodorus was born in Canana, near…
- Neoptolemus (Pontic army officer) Neoptolemus (Greek: Νεοπτόλεμος, flourished second half of 2nd century BC and first half of 1st century BC, died by 63 BC) was a distinguished general…