Strabo geography book iv the odyssey

This book suggests that helen may have gone willingly to troy and then later regretted her decision. I began my description by going over all the western parts of europe comprised between the inner and the outer sea. In this massive new volume, he provides a detailed exegesis of strabo s text. An english translation of strabos geography, based on the translation by h. Geography, volume iv strabo harvard university press. After two introductory books, numbers 3 and 4 deal with spain and gaul, 5 and 6 with italy and sicily, 7 with north and east europe, 8 10 with greek lands, 11 14 with the main regions of asia and with asia minor, 15 with india and iran, 16 with. Never would jason himself have brought back the great fleece from aea, accomplishing his mindracking journey and fulfilling the difficult task for insolent pelias, nor would they have come even to the fair stream of oceanus. It is curious that a classic of so much renown and intrinsic value should have remained a comparatively sealed book to this country for so many centuries. Strabo was born to an affluent family from amaseia in pontus in presentday turkey in around 64 bc. After having commenced with the nations about the alps, and the apennine mountains which are near to these, we proceeded from thence and. Going strong for almost 3,000 years, few works in world literature, and even fewer in the western tradition, have made such a remarkable impact as the odyssey. Document view map view annotation statistics download options log in new to recogito. The geography of the apologoi the tale that odysseus told to the phaeacians, forming books 912 of the odyssey, and the location of the phaeacians own island of scheria, pose quite different problems from those encountered in identifying troy, mycenae, pylos and ithaca.

In his 7 bc geographia, strabo took his cues from polybius, agreeing that the odyssey was not a myth and that homer clearly left clues placing the odyssey s setting near sicily. The ephyri, mentioned in a passage of the iliad xiii. Lately, robert bittlestone, in his book odysseus unbound, has identified the paliki peninsula on cephalonia with homeric. Strabo s historical work is lost, but his most important geography in seventeen books has survived. Strabo, historian and philosopher1, wrote his geography, as a complement to his.

It is clear from strabo s description that he alludes to the canary islands. Plato, politicus 262d the geography of strabo, the most comprehensive ethnographic work to survive from classical antiquity, is one of the main sources for a study of the ancient attitude. Full text of strabo, geography, books 117 in 8 volumes loeb classical library see other formats. The fourth book contains a description of the regions about gaul, spain, and the alps on this side, towards italy. The roman poet virgil wrote the aeneid in the late 1st century bce. In front of this district, on one side lies the desert of the arabians, on the other are the marshes opposite to the chaldeans, formed by the overflowing of the euphrates, and in another direction is the sea of persia. Geographica strabo strabo is mostly famous for his 17volume work geographica, which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known to his era. The isles of theblest are the same as thefortunate isles. Dionysus is called by hesiod goldenhaired theogony 947. In general outline it follows necessarily the work of the lastnamed geographer, who had first laid down a scientific basis for geography. Strabo was born in amaseia currentday amasya in pontus, which became part of the roman empire. Geographika, or geography, is an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, consisting of 17 books, written in greek by strabo, an educated citizen of the roman empire of greek descent.

The project gutenberg ebook of the geography of strabo vol. Note that the english translation by jones is only partially books 614 available through perseus. The aeneid is the story of aeneas, as the odyssey is the story of odysseus. There is no geography of the odyssey for that good reason. The internet classics archive the odyssey by homer. The present translation of strabo, the great geographer of antiquity, is the first which has been laid before the english public. Nowadays, strabo is mostly famous for his geographia, a 17 book work containing history and descriptions of people and places all over the known world. Hence the poet, knowing of similar expeditions to the extremities of iberia, and having heard of its wealth and other excellencies, which the ph. Arabia commences on the side of babylonia with maecene modern kuwait. The author has kindly taken the trouble further to inform me that it includes an introduction on the sources of strabo, a commentary on iv. Aeschylus, fragments 155272 theoi classical texts library. They reached the low lying city of lacedaemon them where they drove straight to the of abode menelaus and found him in his own house, feasting with his many clansmen in honour of the wedding of his son, and also of his daughter, whom he was marrying to the son of that valiant warrior achilles. Several other family members, including his paternal grandfather had served mithridates vi during the mithridatic wars.

Since i have already described the islands of the peloponnesus in detail, not only the others, but also those in the corinthian gulf and those in front of it, i must. Since euboea lies parallel to the whole of the coast from. Glaukos pontios hermann, prometheus lyomenos schultz. Top american libraries canadian libraries universal library community texts project gutenberg biodiversity heritage library childrens library. Next, i must discuss the aquitani, and the tribes which have been included within their boundaries,link to the editors note at the bottom of this page namely, the fourteen galatic tribes which inhabit the country between the garumna and the liger, some of which reach even to the riverland of the rhone and to the plains. Likewise of britain, and of certain islands in the ocean which are habitable, together with the country of the barbarians, and the nations dwelling beyond the danube.

See strabo s remarks on this reading of zeno, book i. At rhegium sicily was broken off aporrhegnym from the mainland by an earthquake. Strabos historical work is lost, but his most important geography in seventeen books has survived. Mythology, paradoxography and teratology in strabos geography. Pallene and phlegra is most commonly called nowadays kassandra, or peninsula of kassandra. How did strabo contribute to the study of geography. While only some volumes of jones loeb translation are to be found as scanned books on the internet archive, the entire translation is available as html files at lacus curtius. Both books tell the legend of the trojan horse, and both the trojan prince aeneas and the greek king odysseus have adventures throughout the eastern mediterranean. Events in the main sequence of the odyssey take place in the peloponnese and in what are. Author of geography, volume i, geography, volume ii, and geographika. Strabo was related to dorylaeus on his mothers side. Roller published his translation, the geography of strabo, in 2014.

The loeb classical library is a series of books, today published by harvard university press, which presents important works of ancient greek and latin literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience, by presenting the original greek or latin text on each lefthand leaf, and a fairly literal translation on the facing page. Temple of artemis at limnai iv 9 the temple of artemis at limnai, at which the messenians are reputed to have outraged hybrisai the maidens who had come there to sacrifice, is on the boundaries between lakonia and messenia. That they who first wrote on the science have omitted much, or given disjointed, defective, false, or inconsistent accounts. Strabo, in his ninth book, gives us the history of salganeus, and the monument erected to him on the shores of negropont. This, of course, is the shortest distance from the pyrenees to the rhenus, since, as i have already said,9 the greatest distance is as much as. Homer is the father of all geographers, and odyssey geography herself, as good questions about a fine story told by a traveller, about climates, people, landscapes, and certainly not about cartesian coordinates of the greenwich meridian. Strabos seeming obsession with homeric geography, particularly in book one of the geography, has long been noted. Virgil says, spelunca alta fuit, vastoque immanis hiatn, scrupea, tuta lacu nigro, nemorumque tenebris. He had given his consent and promised her to him while he was still at troy, and now the gods were. After two introductory books, numbers 3 and 4 deal with spain and gaul, 5 and 6 with italy and sicily, 7 with north and east europe, 810 with greek lands, 1114 with the main regions of asia and with asia minor, 15 with india and iran, 16. The country next in order after the aquitanian division and narbonitis reaches as far as the whole of the rhenus, extending from the liger river and also from the rhodanus at the point where the rhodanus, after it runs down from its source, touches lugdunum.

Strabo s words in book 5 thus came to have a greater compass than he had originally intended. The fifth book contains a description of italy from the roots of the alps to the strait of sicily, the gulf of taranto, and the region about posidonium. These deaths lay in the future when strabo wrote about the relatives of augustus in book 5. Necromancy is a popular plot element in video games, such as diablo 2, diablo 3, the elder scrolls iv. A historical and topographical guide to the geography of. Loebolus is based on edwin donnellys downloebables, aiming to make all the public domain loebs more easily downloadable by rehosting the pdfs directly, without the need to enter captchas. Full text of the geography of strabo internet archive. That geographical investigation is not inconsistent with philosophy. Ad 24 was a greek geographer, philosopher, and historian who lived in asia minor during the transitional period of the roman republic into the roman empire. He presents a fascinating picture of how the world appeared to the greeks and romans of the late 1st century bce and early 1st century ce.

Full text of strabo, geography, books 117 in 8 volumes. This book examines four greek texts of the imperial period that address the topic strabos geography, dio of prusas trojan oration, lucians novella true stories, and philostratus fictional. Jones which accompanied his 191732 edition of the geography. The three books of the older work formed a strictly technical geographical treatise. Literally translated, with notes, in three volumes. Links to files at other site are indicated by at some indication of t. There are many entries in the commentary with references to a wide range of geographical texts, not only strabo and herodotus, but also pseudoscylax and the aforementioned pseudoscymnus. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us.

Geographers of the odyssey often built on the work of their predecessors. Further, they submit so easily to heavy duties, both on the exports from there to celtica and on the imports from celtica these latter are ivorya. The thesprotia kichyrosephyra appears to be the town mentioned in two passages of the odyssey i. Strabo made considerable alterations, but not always for the better. Geography is a vital source for ancient geography and informative about ancient geographers. He changes the topic from her helpfulness towards the greeks in her narrative about odysseus to the related one of the men inside the horse who are tempted by her voice to call out to her. Strabo, geography, book 10, chapter 4 perseus digital library.

Loeb classical library wikisource, the free online library. Geography is a central aspect of the book, and apollonius provides a detailed, if not always realistic, account of exactly how the argonauts got home. Proofs and demonstrations of the correctness of this statement, with general heads containing a summary. In this massive new volume, he provides a detailed exegesis of strabos text. Click on the cover image above to read some pages of this book. The english translation of hamilton and falconer 1850s has been made available by the perseus project, along with meinekes 1877 teubner edition of the greek text. Now that i have given the first general outline of geography, it is proper for me to discuss next the several parts of the inhabited world. Dates of accession of material added since july 1998 can be seen in the new additions page the date of inception was 9221997. Strabo having just previously stated that the axis of the earth was stationary, it does not seem probable that he would immediately after speak of the motion of the pole. His family had been involved in politics since at least the reign of mithridates v. Book iv they reached the low lying city of lacedaemon them where they drove straight to the of abode menelaus and found him in his own house, feasting with his many clansmen in honour of the wedding of his son, and also of his daughter, whom he was marrying to the son of that valiant warrior achilles. The god rhadamanthus, son of zeus and europa, is described as blond in the odyssey, and strabo calls him the blond rhadamanthus in his geographica book iii, 11. The caucones are not to be confused with the cicones also mentioned in the iliad and the odyssey who were a. The english translation of strabos geography by hamilton and falconer 18541857.