The Routledge companion to Strabo / edited by Daniela Dueck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dueck, Daniela, 1965- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strabo. Geography.

Strabo.

Geography (Strabo).

Geography, Ancient--Early works to 1800.

Geography, Ancient.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE - c. CE 24), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost, his major opus of the Geography includes an encyclopaedic look at the entire world known at the time: numerous ethnographic, topographic, historical, mythological, botanical, and zoological details, and much more. This volume offers various insights to the literary and historical context of the man and his world. The Companion, in twenty-eight chapters written by an international group of scholars, examines several aspects of Strabo's personality, the political and scholarly environment in which he was active, his choices as an author, and his ideas of history and geography. This selection of ongoing Strabonian studies is an invaluable resource not just for students and scholars of Strabo himself, but also for anyone interested in ancient geography and in the world of the early Roman Empire. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Daniela Dueck

Strabo's point of view. Strabo's philosophy and Stoicism / Myrto Hatzimichali

"Such is Rome ... ": Strabo on the imperial metropolis / Nicholas Purcell

Looking in from the outside: Strabo's attitude towards the Roman people / Jesper Majbom Madsen

The Geography. The inhabited world and its parts. Strabo's Mediterranean / Katherine Clarke

Strabo's description of the North and Roman geo-political ideas / Ekaterina ilyushechkina

Strabo and Iberia / Benedict J. Lowe

Strabo, Italy and the Italian peoples / Elvira Migliario

Strabo and the history of Armenia / Giusto Traina

Strabo's Libya / Jehan Desanges

Human geography. Ethnography and Identity in Strabo's Geography / Edward Dandrow

Strabo's roads / Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen

Patterns of trade and economy in Strabo' s Geography / Marta García Morcillo

Strabo's Cis-Tauran Asia: A humanistic geography / María-Paz de Hoz

Mathematical geography. Measurement data in Strabo's Geography / Klaus Geus and Kurt Guckelsberger

Strabo: from maps to words / Pierre Moret

The art of writing geography. Signposts and sub-divisions: hidden pointers in Strabo's narrative / Sarah Pothecary

A river runs through it: waterways and narrative in Strabo / Catherine Connors

Spicing up geography: Strabo's use of tales and anecdotes / Daniela Dueck

Strabo's expendable authorities / Hans Wietzke

Traditions and sources. Man of many voices and of much knowledge, or, In search of Strabo's Homer / Jane l. Lightfoot

Strabo and the Homeric commentators / Alexandra Trachsel

Myth as evidence in Strabo / Lee E. Patterson

Under the shadow of Eratosthenes: Strabo and the Alexander historians / Antonio Ignacio Molina Marin

The text. Textual traditions and textual problems / Roberto Nicolai

On Translating Strabo into English / Duane W. Roller

The historiographic work(s). Strabo the historian / Goscivit Malinowski

Reception. "So says Strabo": the reception of Strabo's work in antiquity / Søren Lund Sørensen

Strabo's reception in the Latin West (15th-16th centuries) / Patrick Gautier Dalché.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Other Format:

Print version: Routledge companion to Strabo.

ISBN:

9781317445869

1317445864

OCLC:

976434550

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