Strabo—the name means “squinty-eyed,” as in strabismus—was born in 63 B.C. in Anatolia (now Turkey). “Geography” is an ...

Strabo may have listened to people's stories, done a bit of etymology, and started writing. Another hypothesis is that Strabo, looking out over the unusually flat landscape with his trained ...

James Romm, in his review of my translation of Strabo’s Geographica, speculates that ‘Strabo’s rather egregious overestimate of the eastern extension of Asia’ may have been transmitted to Christopher ...

Strabo, which aims to offer wealth analytics "at your fingertips," has acquired 110% (£193,573) of its £175,003 target via Seedrs.

In his Geographia, Strabo describes the "burned" rocks of the mountain and compares Vesuvius to the more active Mt. Etna. Additionally, Diodorus and Vitruvius seem to have grasped the volcanic ...

And it's even bigger than expected as the temple is approximately 28 meters in length and nearly 9.5 meters wide. Layout-wise, it's pretty unique as the structure contains two main rooms, a ...

Perhaps Strabo’s original text actually stated that the Artemision lay 60 stades from Eretria, not seven. This would place it exactly in the area of Kato Vathia.

Strabo’s “Geography,” written as Rome was turning from republic to empire, became an imperial handbook to the lay of the land. Sarah Pothecary’s new translation is a colossus of roads ...