biography
| name: |
Strabo
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(Gr ‘squint-eyed’)
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pronunciation:
[strayboh]
| sex:
| male
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| born:
| 64 BC
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| died:
| 23 AD |
| biography:
| Geographer and historian, born in Amaseia, Pontus. He spent his life in travel and study, was at Corinth in 29 BC, explored the Nile in 24 BC, and seems to have settled at Rome after AD 14. Of his great historical work in 47 books, Historical Studies, only a few fragments survive; but his Geographica in 17 books has come down almost complete, and is of great value for the results of his own extensive observation. He makes copious use of his predecessors, Eratosthenes, Polybius, Aristotle, Thucydides, and many writers now lost. |
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