Knowra Strabo Strabo Strabo was a Greek geographer and historian of the late Hellenistic and early Roman periods. His surviving Geography describes the regions, peoples, and histories of the known world.
Geography (Strabo) : A 17-book Greek work describing the inhabited world’s regions, peoples, and histories. This is Strabo’s principal surviving work and the basis for his reputation.
Geography : The study of Earth’s places, environments, and spatial relationships. Strabo presents geography as a discipline grounded in both physical description and human affairs.
Amasya : A city in northern Anatolia, known in antiquity as Amaseia. Strabo was born in Amaseia, in the region he later described.
Ancient Anatolia : The western Asian peninsula that formed the heart of modern Turkey and hosted many ancient civilizations. Strabo’s descriptions of Anatolia draw on his regional knowledge and local connections.
Ptolemy : A Greek scholar of the second century CE whose works systematized astronomy, geography, and astrology. Ptolemy’s coordinate-based Geography offers a later, contrasting form of ancient geographical scholarship.
Hellenistic period : The era from Alexander the Great’s death in 323 BCE to the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BCE. Strabo inherited geographical scholarship developed during this era.
Geodesy : The science of measuring Earth’s shape, size, and gravitational field. Strabo discusses Earth’s form and dimensions as foundations for mapping the inhabited world.
Pontus (region) : A historical region on the southern coast of the Black Sea in northern Anatolia. Strabo’s homeland gave him direct familiarity with northeastern Asia Minor.
Ancient Iberia : The ancient name for the Iberian Peninsula, including territories now in Spain and Portugal. His account is a major literary source for the peninsula’s peoples and resources.
Pomponius Mela : A Roman geographer of the first century CE and author of the Latin work De situ orbis. Mela’s concise regional survey shows how geographical writing continued after Strabo.
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