Author
Strabo
Greek geographer, philosopher and historian (64/63 BC–c.24 AD), born at Amasia. From Wikidata; Wikipedia.
- Lived
- 1st c. BC – 1st c. AD
- Kinds of writing
- Geography
- Dialect
- Attic/Koine
- In the library
- 2 works, 1 with an English translation; 320,951 words analysed
What Strabo wrote
In The Painted Stoa
Entries that quote or point to Strabo's Greek.
Where kings asked Apollo, and the answers could ruin themDelphi and the oracleOn a ledge of Mount Parnassus, for a thousand years and more, a woman sat on a tripod in the innermost room of Apollo's temple and spoke for the god.Homer's city of Agamemnon, and the graves Schliemann opened in 1876Mycenae, rich in goldHomer called Mycenae "rich in gold".Homer's sacred Ilios, the Greek town that claimed to be it, and the mound of many citiesTroy at HisarlikFor Homer, Troy was "sacred Ilios", the city whose fall everyone in the Iliad knows is coming.
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- The most mentioned words in Strabo (the Census)
- Your own notes on Strabo (the Treasury)