Strabo

Strabo (c. 63 BC —died after AD 21) was an ancient Greek geographer and historian, born at Amasia, in Pontus. He flourished in the reign of Augustus, and the early part of that of Tiberius. He was a learned man, lived some years in Rome, and travelled much in various countries; wrote a history of 43 books, all lost, and a work on geography, in 17 books, which has come down to us entire all to the 7th. The work is in general not descriptive. It comprehends principally important political events in connection with the countries visited, with a notice of their illustrious men, or whatever seemed to him characteristic in them or was of interest to himself.

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