The Loeb Classical Library: Geography, Volume VIII : Book 17. General Index

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The Loeb Classical Library: Geography, Volume VIII : Book 17. General IndexStrabo (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. Strabos historical work is lost, but his most important

“Lines To Be Inscribed under Scenes from History” (Tituli Historiarum)

7: Construction of pavements

Ο ιερέας του

he addresses the assembled crowd at Olympia on theological themes suggested by the vast statue of Zeus by Phidias

Απολαύστε τους

Translated by Theodora Vasils and Themi Vasils

Sandys and Dryden

and which explores the ambivalence of Plato's pronouncements on poetry through an analysis of his own skill as a writer

but although he wished he could

Yet she is still drawn back to her past

Stories included:

the rule of law in the mixed constitution of the Spartans