Author: STRABO. Jones, H.L. (transl.)
Title: Geography. Books 1 - 17 & General index. With an English translation by Horace Leonard Jones. Based on the unfinished version of John Robert Sitlington Sterrett. [Complete set in 8 volumes: Strabo Geography I - VIII].
Description: Cambridge (Mass.)., Hardvard University Press, [ca. 1988]. 8 vols. B./w. frontspiece (map). Orig. uniform hardcovers (gilt stamped green cloth), d./j. 18mo. - Dust jackets with very light shelfwear. (Loeb Classical Library 49, 50, 182, 196, 211, 223, 241, 267).Published by Harvard University Press, 1917, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930 1932, Complete set in 8 volumes. Reprints of the edition 1917 - 1932 (last vol. revised 1935 / 1949. Greek text with parallel English translation. - - Strabo (ca. 64 BCE to ca. 25 CE), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BCE at Rome. 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. He was a long time in Alexandria where he no doubt studied mathematics, astronomy, and history. - In his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo discusses geographical method, stresses the value of geography, and draws attention to the physical, political, and historical details of separate countries. Geography is a vital source for ancient geography and informative about ancient geographers.

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