Work
Geography
Γεωγραφικά
By Strabo.
- Kind of writing
- Geography
- Dialect
- Attic/Koine
- Written
- 1st c. BC – 1st c. AD
- Length
- 320,951 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 68% common words
- In the library
- 1 Greek text, 2 English translations
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
- Greek textStrabo. Strabonis Geographica, Vols. 1-3. Meineke, August, editor. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.
- English translationStrabo. The Geography of Strabo, Vols. 3-6. Jones, Horace Leonard, translator. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1924-1929 (printing).
- English translationStrabo. The Geography of Strabo, Vols. 1-3. Hamilton, Hans Claude, translator; Falconer, William, translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854-1857.
In The Painted Stoa
Entries that quote or point to this work'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.