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? For other publications by the author of this website, click here.
	Strabo was writing some two thousand years ago in the early days of the Roman empire. Strabo’s work, usually referred to by modern scholars as the Geography, is a description of the cultural and geo-political world of Strabo’s day, as well as an account of how the physical world was perceived at that time. With his focus on how the world (the Roman world) arrived at its current (1^st century CE) condition, and how the present emerged from the past, Strabo is an author whose temporal perspective foreshadows our own. The map shown 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 emperor Napoleon.
‘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.	Comments? E-mail me at spothecary@strabo.ca.
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