Rollers commentary on strabo has not yet appeared, and because the geography is so large, i do not expect much space to be spent talking about triangulation and distance calculations. Geography, volume viii strabo harvard university press. Asia is adjacent to europe, bordering thereon along the tanais river. As we pass from europe to asia in our geography, the northern division is the first of the two divisions to which we come. Geography of the odyssey project gutenberg selfpublishing. For an overview of all advanced features, see the instructions page. Not very far from castalo is also the mountain in which the baetis is said to rise. For every man of us marries ten or eleven women, and some. The geography of strabo, books 15 translated by hamilton and falconer, text taken from the bell edition of 1903, now in the public domain, and books 614 translated by horace leonard jones, the geography of strabo harvardheinemann 1924 digitized by the perseus project, licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 3. At another instance he polybius suppresses statements. I refer not just to geographers like eratosthenes and strabo4.
The greeks who caused bactria to revolt grew so powerful on account of the fertility of the country that they became masters, not only of ariana. Cappadocia,1 also, is a country of many parts and has undergone numerous changes. Poseidon gave periclymenus the ability to transform into any animal. The first two books of strabo s geography are the most important of the 17 books for cosmology and physical geography book i and mathematical geography book ii.
Its numerous quotations from technical literature, moreover, provide a remarkable account of. Strabo, geography, books 117 in 8 volumes loeb classical. A historical and topographical guide to the geography of. Copy and paste one of these options to share this book elsewhere. Strabos historical work is lost, but his most important geography in seventeen books has survived. Geography of the odyssey wikimili, the free encyclopedia. The mortal tendency to succumb to temptation manifests itself throughout book 10. Events in the main sequence of the odyssey take place in the peloponnese and in what are. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost, his major opus of the.
After two introductory books, numbers 3 and 4 deal with spain and gaul, 5 and 6 with italy and sicily, 7 with north and east europe, 8 10 with greek lands, 11 14 with the main regions of asia and with asia minor, 15 with india and iran, 16 with. After two introductory books, numbers 3 and 4 deal with spain and gaul, 5 and 6 with italy and sicily, 7 with north and east europe, 810 with greek lands, 11 14 with the main regions of asia and with asia minor, 15 with india and iran, 16. Dec 14, 2019 the book, translated into several languages, submits a revolutionary idea about the geographical setting of the iliad and odyssey. While the works of almost all earlier geographers have been lost, many of them are partially known through quotations found in strabo 6463 bc ca. The project gutenberg ebook of the geography of strabo vol.
The soil of the country is well suited to the vine. Strabos seventeen volume work of geography is almost completely extant, and is one of the most important sources of information on classical geography. Among the most noteworthy elements of the text are its nonlinear plot, and the influence on events of choices made by women and slaves, besides the actions. This river empties into another river which is called. As far as strabo s geography goes, the following is available online through perseus. West in the mythical geography of archaic greek epic, tapha 4 2004, p. Ce 24, a greek author writing at the prime of roman expansion and political empowerment. This is a complete bibliography of the classical text translations quoted on the biography pages of the passages quoted have been modified slightly for this website with the conversion of names to their transliterated greek formssourced from the original greek textand the addition of bracketed contextual notes. Just as odysseus taunts the blinded polyphemus in book 9 by boasting about his defeat of the cyclops, the members of his crew prove unable to resist looking into aeoluss bag, and their greed ends up complicating their nostos, or homeward voyage. Book ii reports on a commentary of hipparchus on the geography of eratosthenes. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Several passages in earlier books seem to be setting up the events of book 24, so if it were indeed a later addition, the offending editor would seem to have changed earlier text as well. The geography of strabo, volume 1 of 3 by strabo free. Dec 24, 2018 the original name of the settlement is unknown, but ancient legends claim that the city received the name smyrna either from a myth about an amazon named smyrna who gave her name to the city and to a neighborhood of ephesus, or perhaps less likely, but possibly related to the greek word for myrrh strabo, geography.
Homer is the father of all geographers, and odyssey geography herself, as good questions about a fine story told by a traveller, about climates, people, landscapes, and certainly not about cartesian coordinates of the greenwich meridian. It is curious that a classic of so much renown and intrinsic value should have remained a comparatively sealed book to this country for so many centuries. Strabo, greek geographer and historian whose geography is the only extant work covering the whole range of peoples and countries known to both greeks and romans during the reign of augustus 27 bce14 ce. Lake of constance the length of the lake is now 46 12 miles from bregenz to stein. I must therefore describe this country next, first dividing it, for the sake of clearness. Texts of individual books of strabo s geography and commentaries on specific regions. The famed geographer and astronomer claudius ptolemy included longitude and latitude for some of the places in the odyssey in his own geographia, an atlas, gazetteer. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Localization of the odysseys underworld openedition journals.
The greek text of strabo s geography, based on an 1877 reprint of meineke 185253. Strabo was related to dorylaeus on his mothers side. Strabo s geography, completed in the early first century ad, is the primary source for the history of greek geography. There is no geography of the odyssey for that good reason. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Purchase a copy of this text not necessarily the same edition from. For the habitable earth is bounded to the west by two continents, namely, the extremities of europe and libya,10 which are inhabited respectively by the iberians and the maurusians. Strabo was born to an affluent family from amaseia in pontus in presentday turkey in around 64 bc. Lately, robert bittlestone, in his book odysseus unbound, has identified the paliki peninsula on cephalonia with homeric ithaca. Strabo proposed that scheria and ogygia were located in the middle of the atlantic ocean. He became a keen traveller who saw a large part of italy, various near eastern regions including the black sea, various parts of asia minor, egypt as far as ethiopia, and parts of greece.
The geography of strabo, volume 1 of 3 by strabo free ebook. The office of priest is held by the man who, after the king, is held in highest honor. Approximately eight centuries after homer, the geographer strabo criticized polybius on the geography of the odyssey. As for bactria, a part of it lies alongside aria towards the north, though most of.
Each entry starts with the number of books of the geography translated, as translators sometimes stall out before completing all seventeen books. Its numerous quotations from technical literature, moreover, provide a remarkable. The annenberg cpbproject provided support for entering this text. Ad 24 was a greek geographer, philosopher, and historian who lived in asia minor during the transitional period of the roman republic into the roman empire.
The present translation of strabo, the great geographer of antiquity, is the first which has been laid before the english public. The telegony aside, the last 548 lines of the odyssey, corresponding to book 24, are believed by many scholars to have been added by a slightly later poet. He censures also those who speak of the homeric wanderings of odysseus as. Geography in perspective going strong for almost 3,000 years, few works in world literature, and even fewer in the western tradition, have made such a remarkable impact as the odyssey. In his 7 bc geographia, strabo took his cues from polybius, agreeing that the odyssey was not a myth and that homer clearly left clues placing the odyssey s setting near sicily. They had twelve sons including nestor, alastor and chromius named in book 11 of the odyssey a daughter pero. Note that the greek text provided through perseus is restricted to books 614 of the geography, rather than being the full complement of seventeen books.
Now that i have given the first general outline of geography, it is proper for me to discuss next the several parts of the inhabited world. Geography is a vital source for ancient geography and informative about ancient geographers. Chloris also gave birth to periclymenus while married to neleus, though by some accounts periclymenuss father was poseidon who was himself neleuss father as well. Several other family members, including his paternal grandfather had served mithridates vi during the mithridatic wars.
This guide provides the first english analysis of and commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the authors the geography of strabo, the first english translation of the work in many years. At all events, it is above the coast this side the anas that turdetania lies, and through it flows the baetis river. Title page from isaac casaubon s 1620 edition of geographica. As for bactria, a part of it lies alongside aria towards the north, though most of it lies above aria and to the east of it. Personally, i would be just as happy with fictional geography of the odyssey but i fear that would offend all the people who dedicate their lives to showing that the places are real.
The odyssey was written in a poetic dialect of greeka literary amalgam of aeolic greek, ionic greek, and other ancient greek dialects and comprises 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter. Feb, 2014 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Ancient origins articles related to strabo in the sections of history, archaeology, human origins, unexplained, artifacts, ancient places and myths and legends. After two introductory books, numbers 3 and 4 deal with spain and gaul, 5 and 6 with italy and sicily, 7 with north and east europe, 810 with greek lands, 11 14 with the main regions of asia and with asia minor, 15 with india and iran, 16 with.
His family had been involved in politics since at least the reign of mithridates v. It has been thought that from these people the russians derived their name. This is a selective summary of translations of strabos work from ancient greek into modern languages. Book 1 book 2 book 3 book 4 book 5 book 6 book 7 book 8 book 9 book 10 book 11 book 12 book book 14 book 15 book 16 book 17 book 18 book 19 book 20 book 21 book 22 book 23 book 24 themes all themes fate, the gods, and free will piety, customs, and justice cunning, disguise, and selfrestraint memory and grief glory and honor. Full text of the geography of strabo internet archive. Strabo s historical work is lost, but his most important geography in seventeen books has survived.
The sixth book contains the remainder of italy, and the regions within the adriatic, as far as macedonia. It would be hugely useful for a detailed commentary to be written about book ii, perhaps as an expository article in the periodical literature. Document view map view annotation statistics download options log in new to recogito. A first edition was published in 7 bc followed by a gap, resumption of work and a final edition no later.
The geography of strabo is the only surviving work of its type in greek literature, and the major source for the history of greek scholarship on geography and the formative processes of the earth. Passage across in strabo means the usual boatpassage, but the terminal points of this passage are now unknown. Geographika, or geography, is an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, consisting of 17 books, written in greek by strabo, an educated citizen of the roman empire of greek descent. As with most ancient authors, not that much is known of strabo, and the loeb editions introductory material, by the translator horace leonard jones, is about as good as one can get. The geography of the apologoi the tale that odysseus told to the phaeacians, forming books 912 of the odyssey, and the location of the phaeacians own island of scheria, pose quite different problems from those encountered in identifying troy, mycenae, pylos and ithaca.
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