Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. Strabo and the identities of the barbarians from illyricum. Strabo, who was born at amaseia now amasya in turkey, traveled to rome in. Convenient and wellprinted pocket volumes feature uptodate text and accurate and literate english translations on each facing page. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books.
The two initial books include a theoretical introduction to the next fifteen books. Strabo, greek geographer and historian whose geography is the only extant work covering the whole range of peoples and countries known to both greeks and romans during the reign of augustus 27 bce14 ce. Strabo was at work some two thousand years ago, in the early days of the roman empire. Strabo focuses on how the world of the political present emerged from the world of the political past. He also noticed the superiority of the roman empire in comparison to the. Strabo in a history of ancient geography among the greeks and romans from the earliest ages till the fall of the roman empire, j. You can now access a digital version of the textbook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The loeb classical library is the only series of books which, through original text and english translation, gives access to our entire greek and latin heritage. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes. Its numerous quotations from technical literature, moreover, provide a remarkable account of.
The project gutenberg ebook of the geography of strabo, vol. For the ancient history of the mysians and phrygians, he is indebted to the celebrated lydian historian xanthus, and menecrates. Strabo, in his ninth book, gives us the history of salganeus, and the monument. The twelve caesars by suetonius gives the inside story on some of romes greatest emperors i thought that if i was going to choose five books on roman history i really had to choose a roman historian because, for modern historians, roman historians have always been the great model. Meant to cover the history of the known world from the conquest of greece by the romans, strabo quotes it himself and other classical authors mention that it existed, although the only surviving document is a fragment of papyrus now in possession of the university of milan renumbered papyrus 46. Pdf strabo of amasia is recognized to be one of the greatest ancient geographers. As with most ancient authors, not that much is known of strabo, and the. The last years of the roman republic by tom holland, the twelve c.
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