Definition: The Augustan Age writer Strabo of Amaseia (a Greek city on the south coast of the Black Sea) (c. 64 B.C. - c. A.D. 21) wrote a Geography in 17 books. It contains information that would otherwise be lost. Strabo was an Asian Greek who came to Rome in his twenties to study, and probably had Roman citizenship. His geography covers the Mediterranean world from Spain to Egypt, Asia Minor, and Europe, including Gaul and Britain.
Examples:
Russell Meiggs says Strabo was obsessed with Homer, which shows up in his description of Greece, but not Italy. "Sea-Borne Timber Supplies to Rome," by
Russell Meiggs;
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome,
Vol. 36, The Seaborne Commerce of Ancient Rome: Studies in Archaeology and History (1980), pp. 185-196.
