Download or read book Strabo s Geography written by Strabo and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 1105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography—an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE—connecting it with the world of the twenty-first century Strabo’s Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as it appeared to a contemporary observer in the early Roman empire. Information about taming elephants, collecting saffron, producing asphalt, and practicing yoga is found alongside accounts of prostitution, volcanic activity, religious festivals, and obscure eastern dynasties—all set against the shifting backdrop of political power in the first century CE. Traveling around the Mediterranean, Strabo gathered knowledge of places and people, supplementing his firsthand experiences with an immense amount of reading to create a sweeping chronicle that attempts to answer the implicit questions “Who are we?” and “Where do we come from?” Sarah Pothecary’s new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography makes this important work more accessible, relevant, and enjoyable than ever before. Conveying the informal, lively, and almost journalistic style of Strabo’s Greek, this translation connects the ancient and modern worlds by providing modern names and maps for places mentioned in the text, a generous page layout, and marginal notes, allowing readers to appreciate Strabo’s work directly and immediately. The result mimics what Strabo was doing two thousand years ago—relating the rapidly changing present of his original readers to their own ancient past. A remarkably modern translation of a revealing window on the ancient world, this is essential reading for anyone interested in how we look at both antiquity and the world today.

Download or read book The Works of Vergil written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of Virgil written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sesiidae of Europe written by Zdeněk Laštůvka and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a strongly revised edition of the authors’ An illustrated Key to European Sesiidae published in 1995. This book was printed in a very limited edition and was soon out of print. The Sesiidae of Europe contains comprehensive information on all European species of this Lepidoptera family of day flying moths. All the many taxonomical, biological and distributional changes in the last years are included. Introductory chapters comprise a short historical outline, brief information on the morphology, biology, phylogeny and distribution as well as collecting and rearing methods, and lists of European Sesiidae and their hostplants. Keys to all European genera and species are provided. The main part of the book presents a systematic survey of all European species. Diagnostic morphological characters, bionomics and distribution of each species are shortly described. For each species line drawings of male and female genitalia are given, for some species also of other diagnostic characters. The distribution is illustrated on maps. The book is concluded with 9 excellent colour plates with all European species illustrated. The following new species are included in this book: Synanthedon geranii Kallies, 1997, Bembecia volgensis Gorbunov, 1994, Synansphecia hispanica Kallies, 1997, Tinthia hoplisiformis (Mann, 1864), Bembecia flavida (Oberthür, 1890) and Chamaesphecia maurusia Püngeler, 1912. The Sesiidae of Europe will be an important manual for anyone working with this highly interesting and well defined Lepidoptera family. It will serve as a tool not only for identification, but also for future research in biology, distribution and taxonomy as well as conservation of the European Sesiidae.

Download or read book The Geography of Strabo written by Strabo and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book War Rebellion and Epic in Byzantine North Africa written by Andy Merrills and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In around 550 CE, a Latin poet in North Africa chose to celebrate the forgotten wars of a Byzantine general against the region's Berber peoples. This book explores the epic that he wrote and a neglected political, social and religious world on the southern fringes of the dying Roman Empire.

Download or read book The Works of Virgil Translated Into English Prose by Davidson with the Latin Text and Order of Construction on the Same Page and Notes in English New Edition Lat and Eng written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Strabo written by Daniela Dueck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE – c. CE 24), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost, his major opus of the Geography includes an encyclopaedic look at the entire world known at the time: numerous ethnographic, topographic, historical, mythological, botanical, and zoological details, and much more. This volume offers various insights to the literary and historical context of the man and his world. The Companion, in twenty-eight chapters written by an international group of scholars, examines several aspects of Strabo’s personality, the political and scholarly environment in which he was active, his choices as an author, and his ideas of history and geography. This selection of ongoing Strabonian studies is an invaluable resource not just for students and scholars of Strabo himself, but also for anyone interested in ancient geography and in the world of the early Roman Empire.

Download or read book Remarks on Synonyms of European Spiders written by Tord Thorell and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Classical Tradition and the Americas European images of the Americas and the classical tradition 2 pts written by Wolfgang Haase and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1994 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The neid with English Notes by C Anthon Adapted for Use in English Schools by F Metcalfe Lat written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The ne d of Virgil with English Notes By Charles Anthon Adapted for Use in English Schools by the Rev F Metcalfe New Edition written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Geography written by Strabo and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In his 17 books, divided into three volumes, Strabo deals with ancient physical geography and chorography, by which he means political geography. The two are combined in this work, which makes a "circuit of the earth" detailing the physical and political features. Strabo's Geography contains a considerable amount of historical data, as he worked on his Geography and now missing History (his other work) at the same time.