{"title":"Books by Strabo","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780691243139","title":"Strabo′s Geography – A Translation for the Modern World","description":"A lively new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography—an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE—connecting it with the world of the twenty-first centuryStrabo’s Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as it appeared to a contemporary observer in the early Roman empire. Information about taming elephants, collecting saffron, producing asphalt, and practicing yoga is found alongside accounts of prostitution, volcanic activity, religious festivals, and obscure eastern dynasties—all set against the shifting backdrop of political power in the first century CE. Traveling around the Mediterranean, Strabo gathered knowledge of places and people, supplementing his firsthand experiences with an immense amount of reading to create a sweeping chronicle that attempts to answer the implicit questions “Who are we?” and “Where do we come from?” Sarah Pothecary’s new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography makes this important work more accessible, relevant, and enjoyable than ever before.   Conveying the informal, lively, and almost journalistic style of Strabo’s Greek, this translation connects the ancient and modern worlds by providing modern names and maps for places mentioned in the text, a generous page layout, and marginal notes, allowing readers to appreciate Strabo’s work directly and immediately. The result mimics what Strabo was doing two thousand years ago—relating the rapidly changing present of his original readers to their own ancient past.   A remarkably modern translation of a revealing window on the ancient world, this is essential reading for anyone interested in how we look at both antiquity and the world today.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295131382133,"sku":"9780691243139","price":58.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691243139_87b613f3-4fb4-4550-af4f-b037e28e005e.jpg?v=1786014904"},{"product_id":"geography-volume-i","title":"Geography, Volume I – Books 1–2 (Greek)","description":"The ecumene in prose.   Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveler who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, various parts of Asia Minor, Egypt as far as Ethiopia, and parts of Greece. He was a long time in Alexandria where he no doubt studied mathematics, astronomy, and history.    Strabo’s historical work is lost, but his most important Geography in seventeen books has survived. After two introductory books, numbers 3 and 4 deal with Spain and Gaul, 5 and 6 with Italy and Sicily, 7 with north and east Europe, 8–10 with Greek lands, 11–14 with the main regions of Asia and with Asia Minor, 15 with India and Iran, 16 with Assyria, Babylonia, Syria, and Arabia, 17 with Egypt and Africa. In outline he follows the great mathematical geographer Eratosthenes, but adds general descriptions of separate countries including physical, political, and historical details. A sequel to his historical memoirs, Geography is planned apparently for public servants rather than students—hence the accounts of physical features and of natural products. On the mathematical side it is an invaluable source of information about Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, and Posidonius.    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After two introductory books, numbers 3  and 4 deal with Spain and Gaul, 5 and 6 with Italy and Sicily, 7 with  north and east Europe, 8–10 with Greek lands, 11–14 with the main  regions of Asia and with Asia Minor, 15 with India and Iran, 16 with  Assyria, Babylonia, Syria, and Arabia, 17 with Egypt and Africa. In  outline he follows the great mathematical geographer Eratosthenes, but  adds general descriptions of separate countries including physical,  political, and historical details. A sequel to his historical memoirs, Geography  is planned apparently for public servants rather than students—hence  the accounts of physical features and of natural products. On the  mathematical side it is an invaluable source of information about  Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, and Posidonius.    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