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2000
Abstract My third and final example of the all-encompassing ethnographical, geographical, historical works written in the late Hellenistic period in response to Roman imperialism is the Geography of Strabo. Since I shall not turn to the Geography as a complete project until chapter VI, a very brief introduction of Strabo and his ...
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Abstract My third and final example of the all-encompassing ethnographical, geographical, historical works written in the late Hellenistic period in response to Roman imperialism is the Geography of Strabo. Since I shall not turn to the Geography as a complete project until chapter VI, a very brief introduction of Strabo and his ...
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2000
Abstract As I discussed in chapter I, one of the major distinctions proposed between geography and history lies in their temporal focus. Although the logic behind this does not stand up to scrutiny, the notion still remains strong in our minds and, for once, the problem is not one of anachronism.
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Abstract As I discussed in chapter I, one of the major distinctions proposed between geography and history lies in their temporal focus. Although the logic behind this does not stand up to scrutiny, the notion still remains strong in our minds and, for once, the problem is not one of anachronism.
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2017
Scholarship on Strabo’s Geography has long noticed that the procedure adopted by the author in his account of India is inconsistent with the method he follows elsewhere (Puskás 1993). On the one hand, it has been argued that, while describing the subcontinent, the author quotes so extensively from his sources that he allows practically no space for his
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Scholarship on Strabo’s Geography has long noticed that the procedure adopted by the author in his account of India is inconsistent with the method he follows elsewhere (Puskás 1993). On the one hand, it has been argued that, while describing the subcontinent, the author quotes so extensively from his sources that he allows practically no space for his
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2017
To ancient geographers, roads were important not only as arteries of communication, but also as sources of information, since mileages measured along the Roman highways were among the very few precise distances available to the ancient geographer. This chapter explores the place of roads in the Geography, and the world-view, of Strabo.
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To ancient geographers, roads were important not only as arteries of communication, but also as sources of information, since mileages measured along the Roman highways were among the very few precise distances available to the ancient geographer. This chapter explores the place of roads in the Geography, and the world-view, of Strabo.
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The Pliny–Strabo trench region: A large shear zone resulting from slab tearing
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2013Ali Deger Ozbakir +2 more
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