Strabo's Cultural Geography

Strabo of Amasia, a Greek geographer of the Augusto-Tiberian period, observed the Roman world of his time. He collected his observations in his magnum opus, the Geography, which he described as a ''Kolossourgia'', a colossal statue of a work. This term reflects not only the work''s size in seventeen books, but also its multi-faceted nature, composed of many different elements like the detailing on...