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Geography

Name: Geography
Author: Strabo

Geographical treatise by Strabo

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Also known as Geographica · Strabo's Geography

Author: Strabo
Language: Ancient Greek
Genre: treatise

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The Geographica or Geography, is an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, consisting of 17 books, written in Greek in the late first century BC, or early first century AD, and attributed to Strabo, an educated citizen of the Roman Empire of Greek descent. There is a fragmentary palimpsest dating to the fifth century. The earliest manuscripts of books 1–9 date to the tenth century, with a thirteenth-century manuscript containing the entire text.

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Title: Γεωγραφικά
Narrative location: Ancient Rome
Entry in abbreviations table: Strab. used by: Perseus Digital Library
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