The Basis According To Strabo

The championship 'Father of Geography' could hold upwards given to the Greek philosopher, historian in addition to geographer Strabo. Strabo lived during the transitional menstruation when the Roman Republic developed into the Roman Empire. He is close good known for his 'Geographica', an historical in addition to descriptive draw of piece of occupation organisation human relationship of the people in addition to places living inwards the unlike regions of the western world, during his era.

Strabo himself had traveled extensively. He boasted that "Westward I accept journeyed to the parts of Etruria contrary Sardinia; towards the S from the Euxine to the borders of Ethiopia; in addition to mayhap non i of those who accept written geographies has visited to a greater extent than places than I accept betwixt those limits." He used his ain extensive geographical noesis in addition to his broad Greek in addition to Roman educational studies to inform his encyclopedia of geographical noesis - the Geographica.

I've added a globe map based on Strabo's Geographica to my Mappae Mundi collection of globe maps. If y'all click on the appointment '0' inwards the map bill of fare y'all tin persuasion an 1814 globe map which attempted to map the globe based on its description inwards the Geographica. While it is close definitely non a map of the globe dating from the Roman Republic it is a map which attempts to visualize the globe equally it was known inwards the due west during the fourth dimension of Christ.

You tin too persuasion a to a greater extent than geographical accurate map of the locations mentioned inwards the Geographica inwards the Strabo Map. The University of Cambridge Press' interactive map of all the locations mentioned inwards Strabo's Geographica, the Strabo Map, uses Mapbox to add together place-names mentioned inwards the Geographica to an interactive map.

The map tiles used inwards the Strabo Map are the same AWMC map tiles, equally used inwards the Pleides gazette of ancient places.