Strabo's Cultural Geography: The Making of a Kolossourgia

by Daniela Dueck, Hugh Lindsay, Sarah Pothecary

Book Overview

Strabo of Amasia, a Greek geographer of the Augusto-Tiberian period, collected his observations of the Roman world of his time in his magnum opus, the Geography, which he described as a 'Kolossourgia', a colossal statue of a work. This term reflects not only the work's size in seventeen books, but also its multi-faceted nature. An international team of Strabo scholars explores its details, and the cultural, political, historical and geographical questions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521853060
• ISBN13: 9780521853064
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"