The northern part of asia or this side taurus is divided into four parts. The project gutenberg ebook of the geography of strabo vol. Geology corresponds with homers description of ancient troy. Strabo, geography, volume vi loeb classical library. Agamemnon, seeing blood, thinks that his brother has been mortally wounded and begins a long speech of lament and revenge. Humor in the iliad is most often associated with the gods but does occasionally show up among the humans, most often in connection with nestor. 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.
In this 2005 volume an international team of strabo scholars explores those details, discussing the cultural, political, historical and geographical questions addressed in the geography. Its numerous quotations from technical literature, moreover, provide a remarkable account of the state of greek geographical science. In books iii to vi, strabo successively described iberia, gaul, and italy. That on the east is the country beyond the rhine, as far as the don1 and the mouth of the sea of azof. This is a complete bibliography of the classical text translations quoted on the biography pages of the passages quoted have been modified slightly for this website with the conversion of names to their transliterated greek formssourced from the original greek textand the addition of bracketed contextual notes. The ghost of patroklos is one of only a few instances of supernatural occurrences in the iliad, along with the constant references to the. 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. Strabo, geography, book 10, chapter 4 perseus digital library. Strabo s historical work is lost, but his most important geography in seventeen books has survived. Aeschylus, fragments 155272 theoi classical texts library. Strabos historical work is lost, but his most important geography in seventeen books has survived. Loeb classical library founded by james loeb 1911 edited by jeffrey henderson.
Tiras was, according to genesis 10 and chronicles 1, the lastnamed son of japheth who is otherwise unmentioned in the hebrew bible. Strabo, historian and philosopher1, wrote his geography, as a complement to. It is these veneti the gallic tribe of the belgae, i think, who settled the colony that is on the adriatic for about all the celti that are in italy migrated from the transalpine land, just as did the boii and senones, although, on account of the likeness of name, people call them paphlagonians. In book iv, however, agamemnons reaction to menelaos flesh wound is humorous. Richard janko ancient greek scholarship on homers iliad is known largely through scholia. This guide provides the first english analysis of and commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the authors the geography of strabo, the first english translation of the work in many years. And one comes also to a plain called leuke, then to a city called cyparissia, which is situated on a peninsula and has a harbor. The earliest such documentation is the edicts of ashoka, dated to 250 bc, within 10 or 20 years. Strabo, geography, volume iv loeb classical library. The geography of the iliad in ancient scholarship by. Document view map view annotation statistics download options log in new to recogito. Greek mythology link contents the greek mythology link is a collection of myths retold by carlos parada, author of genealogical guide to greek mythology, published in 1993 available at amazon. Homer transferred the odyssey, just as he had already transferred the iliad. Strabo contrasts his own readings with other ancient authors, operating by certain criteria text antiquity, lack of data by homer, etc.
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. Book 12, chapter 8 no veneti mentioned but some interesting ethnographic. Books 1 and 2 are an introduction to the whole worka history of geography before strabo with long passages in defense of homers knowledge and in criticism of particular theories. Achilles anger is interrupted and tempered by two events in book xxiii. Strabo, greek geographer and historian whose geography is the only extant work covering. Cappadocia,1 also, is a country of many parts and has undergone numerous changes. At the foot of the alps commences the region now known as italy. Pallene and phlegra is most commonly called nowadays kassandra, or peninsula of kassandra. Strabos geography, completed in the early first century ad, is the primary source for the history of greek geography. In documents, these names refer to the indogreek kingdoms. It is currently part of the academic discipline of classical studies. A historical and topographical guide to the geography of. We neither know of a river named the isar nor yet the atax. 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.
Full text of the geography of strabo internet archive. Full text of strabo, geography, books 117 in 8 volumes. Strabo therefore must have written his fourth book in the 44th year. 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. Ionians appear in indic literature and documents as yavana and yona. Although the actual nature and size of the historical settlement remain matters of scholarly. Zeus is the child of cronus and rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from cronuss stomach. Literally translated, with notes, in three volumes.
A first edition was published in 7 bc followed by a gap, resumption of work and a final edition no later. It is said to have been founded by helios, a son of perseus. Adriatic veneti kosova wiki fandom powered by wikia. The project gutenberg ebook of the geography of strabo, vol. The present translation of strabo, the great geographer of antiquity, is the first which has been laid before the english public.
The legend of the trojan war is the most notable theme from ancient greek literature and forms the basis of homers iliad. Full text of strabo, geography, books 117 in 8 volumes loeb classical library see other formats. Address to young men on greek literature l275 philo volume v. For the purpose of the present article, homeric scholarship is divided into three main phases. Project gutenbergs the geography of strabo, volume iii of 3, by strabo this. It was here that dionysius, the tyrant of sicily, kept his stud of racehorses. In most traditions, he is married to hera, by whom he is usually said to have fathered ares, hebe, and hephaestus.
That the greeks were hopelessly confused as to the meaning of the name is clear from the lengthy discussion in strabo, geography x. Homeric scholarship is the study of any homeric topic, especially the two large surviving epics, the iliad and odyssey. Below is a list of true references to paphlagonian veneti. They who first ventured to handle the matter were distinguished men. The collection offers a number of different approaches to the study of strabo, from traditional literary and historical perspectives to newer material and. In the fourth book of his work strabo mentions the tribes in the alps, the. The name is sometimes associated by scholars with the teresh or tursha, one of the groups which made up the sea peoples, a naval confederacy which terrorized egypt and other mediterranean around 1200 bce. At the oracle of dodona, his consort was said to be dione, by whom the iliad states that he fathered aphrodite. In both cases, the reader is allowed to see a more humane aspect of achilles. In the seventh book strabo describes the remaining portions of europe. Strabo has 125 books on goodreads with 798 ratings. Homers illiad book 2, lines 851860 we provide three different translations strabos geography book 1, chapter 3.
Strabo evidently gives a forced meaning to the words of the poet, when he attempts to prove his acquaintance with the scythians and sarmatians. For a detailed analysis and study of this chapter, see a. The mythical accounts are based exclusively on ancient sources. It is curious that a classic of so much renown and intrinsic value should have remained a. Troy, greek troia, also called ilios or ilion, latin troia, troja, or ilium, ancient city in northwestern anatolia that holds an enduring place in both literature and archaeology.
Using borings to determine the geomorphic environment, the researchers were able to develop maps of the changing coastline and found that the landscape at the time of the homeric account of the trojan war, about 1250 b. 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. Its numerous quotations from technical literature, moreover, provide a remarkable account of the state of greek geographical. Mythology, paradoxography and teratology in strabos geography. The geography of strabo, books 15 translated by hamilton and falconer, text taken from the bell edition of 1903, now in the public domain, and books 614 translated by horace leonard jones, the geography of strabo harvardheinemann 1924 digitized by the perseus project, licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 3. The geography of the iliad in ancient scholarship by cassandra j. That this passage from the iliad is a reference to the olympic games was understood already in antiquity, as we gather from a discussion of it by the geographer strabo. 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. Among the interpretive issues the scholia cover is geography, particularly where.
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