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Strabo of Amasia: A Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome

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Full title: strabo-of-amasia
ISBN: 9780415620178
ISBN 10: 0415620171
Authors: Daniela Dueck
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition: 1
Num. pages: 238
Binding: Paperback
Language: en
Published on: 2011

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Synopsis

Strabo of Amasia offers an intellectual biography of Strabo, a Greek man of letters, set against the political and cultural background of Augustan Rome. It offers the first full-scale interpretation of the man and his life in English. It emphasises the place and importance of Strabo's Geography and of geography itself within these intellectual circles. It argues for a deeper understanding of the fusion of Greek and Roman elements in the culture of the Roman Empire. Though he wrote in Greek, Strabo must be regarded as an 'Augustan' writer like Virgil or Livy.