Description
The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE – c. CE 24), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost, his major opus of the Geography includes an encyclopaedic look at the entire world known at the time: numerous ethnographic, topographic, historical, mythological, botanical, and zoological details, and much more.
This volume offers various insights to the literary and historical context of the man and his world. The Companion, in twenty-eight chapters written by an international group of scholars, examines several aspects of Strabo’s personality, the political and scholarly environment in which he was active, his choices as an author, and his ideas of history and geography. This selection of ongoing Strabonian studies is an invaluable resource not just for students and scholars of Strabo himself, but also for anyone interested in ancient geography and in the world of the early Roman Empire.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction Daniela Dueck
I STRABO’S POINT OF VIEW
1. Strabo’s philosophy and Stoicism Myrto Hatzimichali
2. ‘Such is Rome...’ - Strabo on the ‘Imperial metropolis’ Nicholas Purcell
3. Looking in from the outside: Strabo’s attitude towards the Roman people Jesper Majbom Madsen
II THE GEOGRAPHY
The inhabited world and its parts
4. Strabo’s Mediterranean Katherine Clarke
5. Strabo’s description of the North and Roman geo-political ideas Ekaterina Ilyushechkina
6. Strabo and Iberia Benedict J. Lowe
7. Strabo, Italy and the Italian peoples Elvira Migliario
8. Strabo and the history of Armenia Giusto Traina
9. Strabo’s Libya Jehan Desanges
Human geography
10. Ethnography and identity in Strabo’s Geography Edward Dandrow
11. Strabo’s roads Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen
12. Patterns of trade and economy in Strabo’s Geography Marta García Morcillo
13. Strabo's cis-Tauran Asia: a humanistic geography María-Paz de Hoz
Mathematical geography
14. Measurement data in Strabo´s Geography Klaus Geus and Kurt Guckelsberger
15. Strabo: from maps to words Pierre Moret
The art of writing geography
16. Signposts and sub-divisions: hidden pointers in Strabo’s narrative Sarah Pothecary
17. A river runs through it: waterways and narrative in Strabo Catherine Connors
18. Spicing up geography: Strabo’s use of tales and anecdotes Daniela Dueck
19. Strabo’s expendables: the function and aesthetics of minor authority Johannes Wietzke
Traditions and sources
20. Man of many voices and of much knowledge; or, In search of Strabo’s Homer Jane L. Lightfoot
21. Strabo and the Homeric commentators Alexandra Trachsel
22. Myth as evidence in Strabo Lee E. Patterson
23. Under the shadow of Eratosthenes: Strabo and the Alexander historians Antonio Ignacio Molina Marín
The text
24. Textual traditions and textual problems Roberto Nicolai
25. On Translating Strabo into English Duane W. Roller
III THE HISTORIOGRAPHIC WORK(S)
26. Strabo the historian Gościvit Malinowski
IV RECEPTION
27. ‘So says Strabo’ - The reception of Strabo’s work in antiquity Søren Lund Sørensen
28. Strabo’s reception in the West (15th-16th centuries) Patrick Gautier Dalché
Index of references in Strabo
Index of ancient sources
Index of place names
Index of personal names
