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The Geography of Strabo - Volume 2

Strabo

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. . .S. 391] two seas, becomes the Isthmus of the third peninsula, which we have mentioned before, and this Isthmus includes within it the Peloponnesus, Megaris, and Attica. For this reason therefore the present Attica was called by a play upon the words Acta and Actica, because the greatest part of it lies under the mountains, and borders on the sea; it is narrow, and stretches forwards a considerable length as far as Sunium. We shall therefore resume the description of these sides, beginning from the sea-coast, at the point where we left off.

4. After Crommyon, rising above Attica, are the rocks called Scironides, which afford no passage along the sea-side. Over them, however, is a road which leads to Megara and Attica from the Isthmus. The road approaches so near the rocks that in many places it runs along the edge of precipices, for the overhanging mountain is of great height, and impassable.

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Community Reviews

Strabo was the geographer of the Ancient World. He not only traveled, but he relied on the recorded geographies of other writers to fill the gaps in his knowledge (which was pretty extensive). It is interesting to read of those places we are familiar with but as they were two thousand years ago. Not

İlk coğrafyacılardan olan Strabon, Antik Çağ coğrafyasını ele alırken kendinden önce gözlem yoluyla coğrafya disiplinine katkı yapmış düşüncelere de eserinde yer vermektedir.

This book is only for the specialist in ancient history. Common readers beware.

This volume of Strabo is mostly about how previous writers got geography all wrong. He spends a good bit of time on Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Posidonius and Polybius, pointing out their errors and how they contradicted each other. It's only in the last chapter of Book 2 that he starts detailing his