The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo, Duane W. Roller

A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo

Duane W. Roller

Strabo's Geography, completed in the early first century AD, is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English analysis of and commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the author's The Geography of Strabo, the first English translation of the work in many years. It thoroughly analyzes each of the seventeen books and provides perhaps the most thorough bibliography as yet created for Strabo's work. Careful attention is paid to the historical and cultural data, the thousands of toponyms, and the many lost historical sources that are preserved only in the Geography. This volume guides readers through the challenges and complexities of the text, allowing an enhanced understanding of the numerous topics that Strabo covers, from the travels of Alexander and the history of the Mediterranean to science, religion, and cult.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: Feb 8th, 2024
  • Pages: 1185
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 2.32in - 3.41lb
  • EAN: 9781316632291
  • Categories: Ancient - GeneralEarth Sciences - GeographyHistory

More books to explore

Book Cover for: Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History, Lewis Dartnell
Book Cover for: The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time, Hugh Raffles
Book Cover for: Collapse of Complex Societies 1ed, Joseph Tainter
Book Cover for: Classical Art: From Greece to Rome, John Henderson
Book Cover for: Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, Annalee Newitz
Book Cover for: Shackleton, Ranulph Fiennes
Book Cover for: What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner, Dan Levitt
Book Cover for: The World of Late Antiquity, Peter Brown
Book Cover for: The New Complete Works of Josephus, Flavius Josephus
Book Cover for: The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, David W. Anthony
Book Cover for: Augustine of Hippo: A Biography, Peter Brown
Book Cover for: Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World, Simon Winchester
Book Cover for: The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World, James Crawford
Book Cover for: Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age, Robert D. Kaplan
Book Cover for: Origin Story: A Big History of Everything, David Christian

About the Author

Roller, Duane W.: - Duane W. Roller is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Ohio State University. He has published numerous books and articles, including Cleopatra: A Biography (2010) and Ancient Geography (2015). His publications also include The Geography of Strabo (Cambridge, 2014), the first full English translation of Strabo's only complete work in many years.

More books by Duane W. Roller

Book Cover for: The Empire of the Black Sea, Duane W. Roller
Book Cover for: Cleopatra: A Biography, Duane W. Roller
Book Cover for: Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World, Duane W. Roller
Book Cover for: Cleopatra's Daughter: And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era, Duane W. Roller
Book Cover for: Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation: Hanno, the King Nikomedes Periodos, and Avienus, Duane W. Roller
Book Cover for: The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene: Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier, Duane W. Roller
Book Cover for: Through the Pillars of Herakles: Greco-Roman Exploration of the Atlantic, Duane W. Roller
Book Cover for: Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome, Duane W. Roller
Book Cover for: The Building Program of Herod the Great, Duane W. Roller
Book Cover for: The Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria: An Analysis, Duane W. Roller
Book Cover for: Early Travellers in Eastern Boiotia, Duane W. Roller
Book Cover for: Tanagran Studies I: Sources and Documents on Tanagra in Boiotia, Duane W. Roller
Book Cover for: Tanagran Studies II: The Prosopography of Tanagra in Boiotia, Duane W. Roller

Praise for this book

The publication of this guide concludes one of the major achievements of contemporary classical scholarship: the first complete English translation in almost a century of Strabo's Geography that reflects current scholarship on its text and content. Strabo's Geography is one of the most important surviving works of ancient Greek scholarship. It is the principal source for the history of ancient geography and Greek knowledge of the cultural and historical geography of the inhabited world from India to Britain. Roller published his translation, The Geography of Strabo, in 2014. In this massive new volume, he provides a detailed exegesis of Strabo's text; each of the 17 chapters is devoted to one book of the Geography, explicating paragraph by paragraph Strabo's geographical, zoological, botanical, historical, and mythical allusions. Three maps, a comprehensive bibliography, and indexes of ancient sources cited in the text and proper names complete the work. Additional maps would have been desirable, but their absence does not detract from the value of this outstanding work. All university and college libraries. Choice