Selections from Strabo: With an Introduction on Strabo's Life and Works

Clarendon Press, 1893 - Classical geography - 376 pages

No CONTENTS	1

Venetia Ravenna Source of the Timavus	21

Pisa	22

The Appian Way and the Pomptine Marshes	23

Rome disadvantages and advantages of its position	24

Rome Public Works and Buildings	25

Tibur Praeneste and the Alban Hills	26

The Lake Avernus and the Lucrine Lake	27

Germany	188

The Triumphal Procession of Germanicus	190

80	193

Ice of the Palus Maeotis	194

The Thracian Bosporus Tunnyfishing in the Golden Horn	197

Actium and Nicopolis	200

THE PELOPONNESE	204

Elis Sources of the Alpheins and Eurotas Olympia 41 Messenia and Laconia	209

Puteoli and Neapolis	28

Herculaneum Pompeii and Vesuvius	29

Aetna BOOK VI SOUTHERN ITALY AND SICILY	30

Syracuse the Fountain of Arethusa	31

Tarentum and Brundisium	32

PROLEGOMENA	55

Comprehensiveness of the Study of Geography 2 Subdivisions of the Subject	59

The Augustan Age especially suitable for Geographical Research	62

Changes of the Face of the Earth arising from the Retirement of the Sea 5555 56	64

Inundations of the Euphrates and precautions against them	75

Shape of the Inhabited World	80

Seas and Continents of the Inhabited World	85

Superiority of Europe over the other Continents	87

SPAIN 9 The Basin of the Baetis its products and exports	90

Gold Silver and Tin Mines in Spain	99

Habits of the Northern Mountaineers	101

Character of the Iberians	106

Gades	109

GAUL 14 Massilia its site constitution and influence	112

The Campus Lapideus	119

Completeness of the Riversystem of Gaul	120

Character and Customs of the Gauls	121

Britain	121

140	121

The Ligurian Coastland	124

Alpine Roads Precipices and Avalanches	139

173	177

EGYPT	183

How the conformation of Italy contributed to the development of Rome	185

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE	187

Corinth	214

Outlets of the Lakes of Pheneus and Stymphalus	222

Attica Book IX NORTHERN GREECE	225

Boeotia the Euripus drainage of the Copaic Lake	232

Delphi the Amphictyonic Council	238

Thermopylae	243

NORTHERN AND CENTRAL Asia	253

85	260

The Albani and their Customs	263

NORTHERN AND CENTRAL	270

Religious Sanctuaries in Cappadocia and Pontus	276

The Galatians	282

NORTHWESTERN PORTION	289

87	292

Ephesus	295

The City of Rhodes	302

190	307

INDIA	309

193	330

Alexandria	347

The Papyrus and the Egyptian Bean	355

The Bull Apis and the Sacred Crocodile	361

INDEX	369

90	370

222	371

238	372

109	373

117	375

138	376

Title	Selections from Strabo: With an Introduction on Strabo's Life and Works Online access with subscription: JISC Historical Texts
Authors	Strabo, Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Editor	Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher	Clarendon Press, 1893
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	21 Jun 2006
Length	376 pages

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