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The most easily available translation of Strabo’s Geography
is by H.L. Jones (1917-32). It is
part of the Loeb Classical Library
series, published by Harvard University Press, and is often referred to
simply as the ‘Loeb edition.’ As is the case with all books in
the Loeb series, the Greek text is printed on the left-hand page, with the
English translation on the right-hand page.
- The H.L. Jones
translation is available in most university libraries. If you are
searching in the library catalogue, try entering ‘Jones,
H.L.’ as the author, rather than ‘Strabo.’
- The H.L. Jones
translation is available for purchase online through, for example, Amazon.com. To get the best
results with Amazon, enter ‘Strabo’ in your search, and
ignore entries for ‘Wahlafrid Strabo.’ (Wahlafrid Strabo is a
different individual, although the two are sometimes confused in
catalogue entries!)
- The H.L. Jones
translation is printed in eight separate volumes, while the narrative of
the Geography is divided into seventeen ‘books.’ Make
sure that you get the appropriate volume of the Loeb edition. For
example, ‘book seven’ of the Geography is found in
volume three of the Loeb edition.
Do you want to access an online translation of Strabo’s Geography?
- You can access an
online translation FREE OF CHARGE through the Perseus website maintained by Tufts University, Massachusetts. Click here for H.L.
Jones’ translation online. Note that only books six to fourteen have
been made available through Perseus.
- You can access online
through Perseus, again free of charge, an older translation,
originally published 1903-06.
The advantage of this translation is that all seventeen books are
online: the disadvantage is that the language is much more
old-fashioned.
- An alternative way to
access the H.L. Jones’ translation, still FREE OF CHARGE, is through
the LacusCurtius website
maintained by Bill Thayer. Click here for Bill
Thayer’s online version of H.L. Jones’ translation. Note
that books one to five, and fifteen to seventeen (i.e., the ones not
online through Perseus) were initially made available; books six to
fourteen are in the process of being added.
Have you been given a reference to Strabo’s Geography?
- You may have been
given a reference such as 4.6.9, which means book four, chapter six, and
section nine. The relevant numbers are printed at the head of each page
of the printed version of H.L. Jones’ translation. To locate the
passage referred to, flick through book four (which is in volume two)
until you see 4.6.8-9 printed at the head of the page. If you look down
the page, you will see the number 9 inset from the left hand margin at
the beginning of a new paragraph: this marks the beginning of 4.6.9.
- It is easy to look up
‘4.6.9’-type references in online translations. Simply click
on the appropriate reference number.
- You may have been
given a reference such as 207 C, or C 207. This is a reference by page
number to one of the earliest printed editions of the Geography. (The specific edition to
which the page numbers refer was printed in the year 1620 and edited by
Isaac Casaubon -- hence ‘C.’) The beginning of each C page
is marked in the print version of H.L. Jones’ translation, and can
be seen in the margin to the left-hand side of the Greek text. You will
see that C 207 is marked sixteen lines from the beginning of 4.6.9.
- You cannot look up
‘207 C’-type references in online translations.
- You may have been
given a ‘207 C’-type reference that includes a specific line
number, for example 207 C, 4. To look up such a reference, you need the
new edition of Strabo’s Geography
by S.L. Radt, which has the
line numbers marked in the left-hand margin.
Do you want to access the Greek
text of Strabo’s Geography?
·
You can access the Greek text FREE OF CHARGE through
the Perseus website. Click here for the online
version of the Greek text. As
in the case of the online translation, only books six to fourteen are
available.
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You can access the Greek text in its entirety
(books one to seventeen) through the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae website maintained by the University of Southern
California, Irvine.
Access is LIMITED TO SUBSCRIBERS. If you are at a subscribing institution,
click here.
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You can access the Greek text the
old-fashioned way, by using one of the print editions listed in Editions of Strabo’s Geography on this website. The recent edition by S.L. Radt is far more
up-to-date than the nineteenth century edition used both by Perseus and TLG.
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