E-Book, Englisch, 422 Seiten
Dueck The Routledge Companion to Strabo
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-44586-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, 422 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-317-44586-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE – c. CE 24), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost, his major opus of the Geography includes an encyclopaedic look at the entire world known at the time: numerous ethnographic, topographic, historical, mythological, botanical, and zoological details, and much more.
This volume offers various insights to the literary and historical context of the man and his world. The Companion, in twenty-eight chapters written by an international group of scholars, examines several aspects of Strabo’s personality, the political and scholarly environment in which he was active, his choices as an author, and his ideas of history and geography. This selection of ongoing Strabonian studies is an invaluable resource not just for students and scholars of Strabo himself, but also for anyone interested in ancient geography and in the world of the early Roman Empire.
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Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Daniela Dueck // Introduction
STRABO’S POINT OF VIEW
Chapter 1 - Myrto Hatzimichali // Strabo’s philosophy and Stoicism
Chapter 2 - Nicholas Purcell // ‘Such is Rome.’ - Strabo on the ‘Imperial metropolis’
Chapter 3 - Jesper Majbom Madsen // Looking in from the outside: Strabo’s attitude towards the Roman people
THE GEOGRAPHYThe inhabited world and its parts
Chapter 4 - Katherine Clarke // Strabo’s Mediterranean
Chapter 5 - Ekaterina Ilyushechkina // Strabo’s description of the North and Roman geo-political ideas
Chapter 6 - Benedict J. Lowe // Strabo and Iberia
Chapter 7 - Elvira Migliario // Strabo, Italy and the Italian peoples
Chapter 8 - Giusto Traina // Strabo and the history of Armenia
Chapter 9 - Jehan Desanges // Strabo’s Libya
Human geography
Chapter 10 - Edward Dandrow // Ethnography and identity in Strabo’s Geography
Chapter 11 - Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen // Strabo’s roads
Chapter 12 - Marta García Morcillo // Patterns of trade and economy in Strabo’s Geography
Chapter 13 - María-Paz de Hoz // Strabo's cis-Tauran Asia: a humanistic geography
Mathematical geography
Chapter 14 - Klaus Geus and Kurt Guckelsberger // Measurement data in Strabo´s Geography
Chapter 15 - Pierre Moret // Strabo: from maps to words
The art of writing geography
Chapter 16 - Sarah Pothecary // Signposts and sub-divisions: hidden pointers in Strabo’s narrative
Chapter 17 - Catherine Connors // A river runs through it: waterways and narrative in Strabo
Chapter 18 - Daniela Dueck // Spicing up geography: Strabo’s use of tales and anecdotes
Chapter 19 - Johannes Wietzke // Strabo’s expendables: the function and aesthetics of minor authority
Traditions and sources
Chapter 20 - Jane L. Lightfoot // Man of many voices and of much knowledge; or, In search of Strabo’s Homer
Chapter 21 - Alexandra Trachsel // Strabo and the Homeric commentators
Chapter 22 - Lee E. Patterson // Myth as evidence in Strabo
Chapter 23 - Antonio Ignacio Molina Marín // Under the shadow of Eratosthenes: Strabo and the Alexander historians
The text
Chapter 24 - Roberto Nicolai // Textual traditions and textual problems
Chapter 25 - Duane W. Roller // On Translating Strabo into English
THE HISTORIOGRAPHIC WORK(S)
Chapter 26 - Goscivit Malinowski // Strabo the historian
RECEPTION
Chapter 27 - Søren Lund Sørensen // ‘So says Strabo’ - The reception of Strabo’s work in antiquity
Chapter 28 - Patrick Gautier Dalché // Strabo’s reception in the West (15th-16th centuries)
Index of references in Strabo
Index of ancient sources
Index of place names
Index of personal names
