Getting started with Strabo Strabo: Recent scholarship Editions of Strabo’s Geography Electronic texts of Strabo’s Geography Texts of individual books of Strabo’s Geography and commentaries on specific regions Translations of Strabo’s Geography Strabo’s lost History Papyri of Strabo’s Geography (and History?) When was the Geography written? Comments? Contact spothecary@strabo.ca Author’s website: sarahpothecary.com © 2005 Sarah Pothecary Web design by forbiddencolour
	Strabo was writing some two thousand years ago in the early days of the Roman empire. Strabo’s work, referred to by modern scholars as the Geography, is a description of the cultural and geo-political world of that time, as well as an account of how the physical world was perceived. With his focus on how the world arrived at its current condition, and how the present emerged from the past, Strabo is an author whose temporal perspective foreshadows our own. The map (on left) representing Strabo’s conceptualisation of the northern hemisphere, was drawn by P.F.J. Gossellin in 1805-19 to accompany the French translation of Strabo’s Geography by Laporte du Theil, Korais and Letronne, undertaken at the request of the French emperor, Napoleon.
You are two clicks away from being able to read the Geography in English translation! Accessing Strabo has never been simpler. Go to Translations of Strabo’s Geography, with links to online translations though digital libraries, e-books and websites.	Strabonists everywhere should be breaking open the champagne! Thanks to the monumental labours of Stefan Radt, they now have a complete and up-to-date edition of Strabo’s Greek text. Go to Editions of Strabo’s Geography.
‘Globalisation and empire: lessons from the ancient world.’ A paper on Strabo’s relevance to contemporary studies, delivered at the conference on Transformational Public Diplomacy 2008, at the Diplomatic Academy of London, University of Westminster, London, U.K.	Ironically, Radt’s new edition appears just as old editions of Strabo’s Geography start to become available as e-books! Click on Kramer (1844-52) and (1852), Meineke (1852-53), and Jones (1917-32), for e-books available as of March 2013.