Lightfoot, Jessica
Strabo (Understanding Classics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9781350160941
- author:
- Lightfoot, Jessica
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2025
- Pages:
- 176
- Dimensions:
- 21.6 x 13.8 x 2.5 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- History, Ancient, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Strabo: A Geographer's Legacy This book provides an accessible introduction to Strabo's life and work, exploring his significance in ancient culture, literature, and science. Strabo is known for his monumental survey of the known world, the Geography, which remains one of the earliest major works of ancient geography. By examining Strabo's engagement with Homer and other prominent Greek literary figures, Jessica Lightfoot sheds light on the philosophical origins of geography and its development in antiquity. This insight offers a unique perspective on myth, fiction, literature, and their relation to geographical and historical prose. Strabo's work has had a lasting impact on conceptions of the world and the development of geographical and travel writing, particularly during the 15th and 16th centuries.
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