Strabo
historical figure · 4 works · 12 mentions · 18 anchored passages · author page
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Greek geographer listed among sources on nations practicing circumcision.
Wherefore there is reason to believe that the numerous nations, who, besides the Israelites, practiced circumcision, and who are mentioned by Herodotus, Strabo, Philo, Justin, Origen, Clemens, Alexandrinus, Epiphanius, and Jerom, were descended from Ishmael, Esau, or the posterity of Keturah.
Nice in Italy, according to Strabo, was adjudged to the people of Marseilles;
Strabo speaks of Scepsis in Troas, that having incorporated the Milesians into the state, it formed itself into a Democracy, leaving the descendants of the ancient kings the title, and something of the dignity of kings.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Greek geographer cited for testimony on Alexandrian merchant voyages to India.
Iam suo tempore Strabo Alexandrinorum mercatorum classem ex Arabico sinu, ut Aethiopiae ultima, ita et Indiae, petiisse testatur, cum olim paucis navibus id auderetur.
Strabo says that in his own time a fleet of Alexandrian merchantmen set sail from the Arabian gulf for the distant lands of Ethiopia and India, although few ships had ever before attempted that voyage.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Classical geographer cited as another credible ancient source on the Celts.
Let me add that in Cæsar’s account of the Druids there is not a word which does not appear to me perfectly credible.
De Anima
Geographer and historian cited as the source of the Mithridates dream report.
Mithridates too, from a dream, I learn from Strabo, took possession of Pontus;