The Loeb Classical Library: Geography, Volume IV : Books 8–9

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The Loeb Classical Library: Geography, Volume IV : Books 8–9Strabo (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

this second edition benefits from updates throughout that incorporate the latest research and recent archaeological findings in Athens

and how do our interpretations of these aspects of the Classics differ from their original reception

unabridged but not otherwise adapted

"Οι κηδείες είναι θάνατος για κάποιον της ηλικίας σου

θα αναστατώσει τον κόσμο των μεγάλων με τις σκανταλιές και τις αταξίες του

in a verse translation which attempts to simulate the discipline and constraints of the hexameter-pentameter alternation in the elegiac couplets of the original poems

Opportunistic rebellions in the army are described with dramatic brilliance

On Obligations is still the foremost guide to good conduct

An appendix contains a text with commentary of Cicero's famous correspondence with Matius about political and personal loyalty after the assassination of Caesar

ο Ποσειδώνας

flourishing involves becoming a good person through practice

There is also an examination of the way in which the Peloponnesian War was constructed

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