Strabo was a Greek geographer who lived in Asia Minor during the transitional period of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. He is best known for his work Geographica, which presented a descripti
16th-century engraving of Strabo
Title page from Isaac Casaubon's 1620 edition of Geographica
Statue of Strabo in his hometown (modern-day Amasya, Turkey)
Underside of a female indian flying lizard showing the "wing" or patagium that is usually supported by six elongated ribs.
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,
Strabo
…a Greek geographer who lived in Asia Minor during the transitional period of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. He is best known for his work Geographica, which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known during his lifetime. Additionally, Strabo authored…