Geography
Amaseia · 24
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Strabo
Strabo
c. 64 BCE–c. 24 CE · Amaseia
Greek geographer and historian whose Geographica describes the peoples and places of the Roman world.
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Stop 1 of 664 BCEBorn
AmaseiaPontus (Asia Minor)
What they did here
Born c.64 BCE in Amaseia in Pontus to a prominent family; he names the city as his homeland (Geography 12.3.15) and traces his ancestry there.
About Amaseia
A fortress-city of Pontus in northern Asia Minor, set dramatically in a river gorge beneath the rock-cut tombs of its old kings, and chiefly remembered as the birthplace of Strabo, antiquity's greatest geographer.
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Nepos, Cornelius, Cicero, Quintus Tullius Cicero, Julius Caesar, Tryphon I Grammaticus, Sallust, Philoxenus of Alexandria, Parthenius of Nicaea, Aenesidemus, Vitruvius, Virgil, Didymus Alexandrinus, Horace, Augustus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Tibullus, Seneca the Elder, Propertius, Sextus
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