Chalk up another win for the ancient Greeks. The Greek historian and geographer Strabo wrote nearly 2,000 years ago that Piraeus, a small peninsula near Athens, had once been an island--and a new ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Strabo's Geographica, the only surviving work from the ancient world that describes the entire world known to the Greeks and Romans. Show more Melvyn Bragg and his ...

In Geographica, the ancient Greek historian describes the sanctuary to the sea god as a critical center of religious and ethnic identity for the neighboring states. A team of Austrian and Greek ...

Geography is destiny for nations, and history the proof. The Greeks saw the physical world as an encircling environment (a word we take from the Old French viron, circuit). The Romans applied Greek ...

The compound word kolossourgia, ‘monumental composition’, is found only once in extant ancient Greek, in a ringing sentence composed by Strabo of Amaseia. He uses it to convey the scope and technique ...

Brief introduction -- A Translation for the modern world -- Special features -- Strabo's Geography. Detailed table of contents; Chapter one : geography and geographers; Chapter two : The 'lived-in ...

The 1st-century luxury vessel matches the description given by the Greek historian Strabo, who visited the city of Alexandria between 29 and 25 BC. People had plenty of fun in the past too: an ancient ...