Conquered, the Greeks profited as translators, tutors and imperial sidekicks. Strabo’s “Geography,” written as Rome was turning from republic to empire, became an imperial handbook to the ...

The compound word kolossourgia, ‘monumental composition’, is found only once in extant ancient Greek, in a ringing sentence composed by Strabo of Amaseia. He uses it to convey the scope and technique ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Strabo's Geographica, the only surviving work from the ancient world that describes the entire world known to the Greeks and Romans. Show more Melvyn Bragg and ...

By this means he found that the circumference of the earth was 250,000 stadia, according to Cleomedes, but Strabo says that it was 252,000 stadia. A discrepancy arises when we come to consider the ...

A team of Austrian and Greek archaeologists working in Southern Greece discover the temple of Poseidon recorded by Strabo. This unrelated ancient statue of the god is outside Athens. Photo by ...

Roman authors who cite Vesuvius in their works include Strabo, Vitruvius and Diodorus Siculus. In his Geographia, Strabo describes the "burned" rocks of the mountain and compares Vesuvius to the ...

They also attempted to locate the Artemision. Although several ancient writers mention the sanctuary, Strabo provided the best clue to its whereabouts, noting that it was located in a village ...

The observation corresponded with the ancient writings of the Greek geographer Strabo, who lived between approximately 63 BCE and 24 CE. Strabo described the site, saying, "This space is full ...