The Loeb Classical Library: Geography, Volume III : Books 6–7

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The Loeb Classical Library: Geography, Volume III : Books 6–7Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveler who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, various parts of Asia Minor, Egypt as far as Ethiopia, and parts of Greece. He was a long time in Alexandria where he no doubt studied mathematics, astronomy, and history. Strabos historical work is lost, but his most important

and ultimately about the relationship between Art and Nature

Bacchylides and other fifth-century poets are in Volume IV along with Corinna (although some argue that she belongs to the third century)

and a vocabulary that gives only those meanings that are required

he received favors from these two as emperors and from Domitian

With a timeline of important dates

as Andromache shows Hector's widow as a trophy of war in the house of her Greek captor

And finds she must weigh her principles against her desire to escape and live

including a few of disputed authorship

and it is often the play that is read first

65–8 BC) was born at Venusia

Aristotle withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea

and they are just as instructive today as when they were first written