The Routledge Companion to Strabo
1st Edition
Published on 27. March 2017
Book
Hardback
422 pages
978-1-138-90433-0 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Strabo's "colossal work" is one of the most fascinating and puzzling accounts of the Roman world, a richly layered ethnographic and political commentary on the Mediterranean in transition, viewed at close quarters by a polymathic historian-geographer. This companion, written by a well-chosen international team of experts, brings to a wider public the very best of recent scholarship on this extraordinary and under-estimated work."- Greg Woolf, Institute of Classical Studies at the School of Advance Study, UK
"With the current 'spatial turn' in ancient studies, Strabo has been attracting attention on a scale not seen since the Renaissance. This most welcome Companion to his work - the first ever - ranges wide and deep. It will have lasting value."
- Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
"[this book] is a useful tool for Strabo specialists because of the variety of topics covered, but also for those who are passionate about ancient geography."
- Melanie Lozat, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
17 s/w Tabellen
17 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
874 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-90433-0 (9781138904330)
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Daniela Dueck is Associate Professor of Classical Studies and History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Content
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 Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen
12. Patterns of trade and economy in Strabo's Geography Marta Garcia Morcillo
13. Strabo's cis-Tauran Asia: a humanistic geography Maria-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 Marin
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 Goscivit Malinowski
IV RECEPTION
27. 'So says Strabo' - The reception of Strabo's work in antiquity Soren Lund Sorensen
28. Strabo's reception in the West (15th-16th centuries) Patrick Gautier Dalche
Index of references in Strabo
Index of ancient sources
Index of place names
Index of personal names
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 Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen
12. Patterns of trade and economy in Strabo's Geography Marta Garcia Morcillo
13. Strabo's cis-Tauran Asia: a humanistic geography Maria-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 Marin
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 Goscivit Malinowski
IV RECEPTION
27. 'So says Strabo' - The reception of Strabo's work in antiquity Soren Lund Sorensen
28. Strabo's reception in the West (15th-16th centuries) Patrick Gautier Dalche
Index of references in Strabo
Index of ancient sources
Index of place names
Index of personal names