Strabo
Greek geographer, philosopher and historian (64/63 BC-c.24 AD) · Academics · Lived 63 BC to AD 23 · aged 85
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Something wrong?He mapped the known world during the reign of Augustus - not for conquest, but to explain it. His Geographica survives as the most complete ancient portrait of the Mediterranean, its peoples, and the edges of Roman knowledge.
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AT 13766 Theophrastus and Strabon - roof figures at the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna 8966-Bearbeitet
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, What is now called Macedonia was in earlier times called Emathia. And it took its present name from Macedon, one of its early chieftains.
About this person
Born around 64 or 63 BC in Asia Minor, Strabo lived through the collapse of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Empire. He wrote histories that are now lost except in fragments quoted by later writers. His Geographica, completed during his lifetime, presented a descriptive account of the geography, peoples, and places across the world as Romans understood it - from Iberia to India, from the northern frontier to Africa. The work wasn't a military manual or a travel log but an attempt to explain human settlement and landscape in a single coherent frame. It's the only ancient geographical text that survives nearly complete, and it remained the standard reference for centuries after his death around 24 AD.
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