Strabo was born in 63 BCE in Amasia. A Greek geographer, philosopher and historian, Strabo was born in Amaseia in Asia Minor, in the Roman province of Pontus. He traveled widely, to Rome, Egypt and parts of Asia Minor, and wrote a lost historical work followed by his Geography, in seventeen books, which survives and describes the world known to Greeks and Romans in the time of Augustus. It combines physical description with history, customs and politics of each region. A follower of Stoic philosophy, he is a major source of information on ancient geography, and later European scholars drew on him heavily.
Before and after
- 15 October 70 BCEBirth of Virgil
- 13 January 69 BCEBirth of Cleopatra
- from 66 BCE to 217 CERoman–Parthian Wars
- 8 December 65 BCEBirth of Horace
- 63 BCEBirth of Strabo
- 23 September 63 BCEBirth of Augustus
- from 60 BCE to 106 CEDacia
- from 59 BCE to 51 BCECaesar begins the conquest of Gaul
- 58 BCEPublication of Commentarii de Bello Gallico
More in Science & technology
- 460 BCEBirth of Hippocrates
- c. 285 BCEDeath of Euclid
- 276 BCEBirth of Eratosthenes
- 212 BCEDeath of Archimedes
- 100 CEBirth of Ptolemy
- September 129 CEBirth of Galen
The era
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