Citation with stable link: Philip A. Harland, 'Guide to Strabo,' Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World, last modified September 6, 2024, https://philipharland.com/Blog/?p=11854.

This post is a guide for reading sequentally through ethnographic passages in Strabo of Amaseia’s Geography (early first century CE):

• • Celts, Ethiopians and peoples in the middle – 2.2-2.3 (link)
  • Indians, Ethiopians, and Iberians via Eudoxos of Kyzikos’ supposed expeditions and encounters with peoples – 2.3.4-5 (link)
  • Travelers, soldiers and merchants as sources of orally transmitted ethnographic information – 2.5.11-13 (link)
  • Iberians in Spain – 3.1-4 (link)
  • Celts northwest of the Italian Alps in Switzerland – 4.1-4 (link)
  • Britons in England and Ireland – 4.5 (link)
  • Ligurians in northwestern Italy – 4.6 (link)
  • Italic peoples, including Latins, Sabines, Samnites, Umbrians, and Lucanians in Italy – 5.1-6.3 (link)
  • Pelasgians and their migrations – 5.2.4 (link)
  • Tyrrhenians / Etruscans in north-central Italy – 5.1.10; 5.2.2; 5.4.3 (link)
  • Romans as a superior people for universal hegemony – 6.4.1-2 (link)
  • Celts and Germans in Germany, Austria, and Belgium – 7.1-2 (link)
  • Getians or Dacians and Scythians in Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine – 7.3-4 (link)
  • Pannonians and Illyrians in Slavic countries – 7.5 (link)
  • Barbarian peoples, including Pelasgians and Lelegians, in Greece and Turkey  – 7.7 (link)
  • Pontic peoples in southern Russia – 11.1-2 (link)
  • Kolchians and others around the Caucasus mountains in southern Russia and Georgia – 11.5 (link)
  • Peoples around the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan, Iraq, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan – 11.6-9 (link)
  • Parthians in Iran and Afghanistan – 11.9 (link)
  • Baktrians and Sogdianians in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan – 11.10-11 (link)
  • “Bandit peoples” of the Zagros mountains and Medes in Iran – 11.13 (link)
  • Armenians in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia – 11.14 (link)
  • Cappadocians in Turkey – 12.1-2 (link)
  • Bithynians, Paphlagonians, and others in Turkey – 12.3 (link)
  • Mysians, Galatians, Pisidians, Pamphylians, and northern Phrygians in Turkey – 12.4-8 (link)
  • Trojans, Lelegians, and Kilikians and migrations related to Troy and the Troad in Turkey – 13.1, 3 (link)
  • Pelasgians and their migrations again – 13.3 (link)
  • Aiolians in western Turkey – 13.3 (link)
  • Lydians, southern Phrygians, and Pisidians in Turkey – 13.4 (link)
  • Carians in southwestern Turkey and Greece – 14.2 (link)
  • Lycians, Pamphylians and Cilicians in southern Turkey – 14.3-14.5 (link)
  • Pelasgians, Trojans, Lelegians, and Kilikians and their migrations in Turkey (again) – 14.5.22-29 (link).
  • Indians and oral transmission of information about them by sailors, merchants, and soldiers – 15.1.1-6 (link)
  • Nysaians and Sibians (legendary) in India – 15.1.7-12 (link)
  • Indians, Brahmans, and other sages in India – 15.1.28, 34, 39-66, 68-73 (link)
  • Fish-eaters near Ariana and Gedrosia in Pakistan and Afghantistan – 15.2.2-3 (link)
  • Arianians, Gedrosians, and Karmanians in Pakistan, Afghanistan and southeastern Iran – 15.2.8-9, 14 (link)
  • Persians and “bandit” peoples in Iran and surrounding areas – 15.3.13-24 (link)
  • Assyrians or Babylonians and surrounding peoples in Syria, Iraq, and Iran – 16.1.1-2, 6, 8, 16-18, 20, 24-27 and 16.3.1 (link)
  • Itureans in Syria and Jordan – 16.2.18, 20 (link)
  • Phoenicians, Tyrians and Sidonians in Lebanon – 16.2.22-24 (link)
  • Judeans in Israel / Palestine – 16.2.28, 34-40, 42-46 (link)
  • Arabians, Trogodytes, and other peoples between the Nile and the Red Sea in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen – 16.4.2-5, 8-14, 17-21 (link)
    • Fish-eaters and Turtle-eaters in Egypt and Ethiopia, drawing on Agatharchides – 16.4.13-14 (link)
  • Arabians and Aelius Gallus’ imperial expedition for ethnographic information in Saudi Arabia and Yemen – 16.4.22-24 (link)
  • Arabians and Nabateans in Saudi Arabia and Yemen – 16.4.25-26 (link)
  • Arabians and Homer’s Erembians – 16.4.27 (link)
  • Egyptians in Egypt – 17.1.1-54 (with some omissions) and 17.2.5 (link)
  • Eastern Ethiopians in Ethiopia and surrounding areas – 17.2.1-3 (link)
  • Libyans in northwestern Africa – 17.3.1-23 (with some omisssions) (link)
  • Romans’ dominance and supposed superiority – 17.3.24 (link)