The Loeb Classical Library: Geography, Volume V : Books 10–12

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The Loeb Classical Library: Geography, Volume V : Books 10–12Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveler who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, various parts of Asia Minor, Egypt as far as Ethiopia, and parts of Greece. He was a long time in Alexandria where he no doubt studied mathematics, astronomy, and history. Strabos historical work is lost, but his most important

Farquharson and features an introduction by John Sellars

while Parts 2 and 3 contain a series of chapters of grammatical introduction and exercises for translation into Latin leading up to A Level and Pre-U

36 Latin and 1 bilingual

was won over to sympathy with the king

it also covers the less-explored periods of the Hellenistic and Roman worlds

or pair of poems

These explanations are linked to a section of the Introduction on Homeric grammar

Μοναδικό κοινό στοιχείο ένα τραγούδι

its setting on the edge of the Greek world (in modern Lebanon)

Πιο σοβαροί

composed ca

takes account of recently discovered papyrus evidence