{"id":11854,"date":"2024-09-06T11:55:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=11854"},"modified":"2024-09-06T11:59:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:59:44","slug":"guide-to-strabo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/09\/guide-to-strabo\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Strabo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is a guide for reading sequentally through ethnographic passages in Strabo of Amaseia&#8217;s <em>Geography<\/em> (early first century CE):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Celts, Ethiopians and peoples in the middle \u2013 2.2-2.3 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/02\/celts-ethiopians-and-peoples-in-the-middle-polybios-poseidonios-and-strabo-on-climate-zones-mid-second-century-on\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Indians, Ethiopians, and Iberians via Eudoxos of Kyzikos&#8217; supposed expeditions and encounters with peoples \u2013 2.3.4-5 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/08\/indians-ethiopians-and-iberians-poseidonios-and-strabo-on-eudoxos-of-kyzikos-expeditions-first-centuries-bce-and-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Travelers, soldiers and merchants as sources of orally transmitted ethnographic information \u2013 2.5.11-13 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/08\/germans-britons-and-indians-strabo-on-travelers-soldiers-and-merchants-as-sources-of-information-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Iberians in<em> Spain<\/em> &#8211; 3.1-4 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=6939\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Celts northwest of the Italian Alps in <em>Switzerland<\/em> &#8211; 4.1-4 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=8046\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Britons in <em>England and Ireland<\/em> &#8211; 4.5 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=8263\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Ligurians in northwestern <em>Italy<\/em> &#8211; 4.6 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=8265\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Italic peoples, including Latins, Sabines, Samnites, Umbrians, and Lucanians in <em>Italy <\/em>\u2013 5.1-6.3 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=20148&amp;preview=true\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Pelasgians and their migrations \u2013 5.2.4 (link)<\/li>\n<li>Tyrrhenians \/ Etruscans in north-central <em>Italy<\/em> \u2013 5.1.10; 5.2.2; 5.4.3 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/05\/tyrrhenians-strabo-on-etruscans-as-a-powerful-bandit-people-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Romans as a superior people for universal hegemony \u2013 6.4.1-2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/05\/romans-strabo-on-roman-superiority-and-conquest-of-peoples-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Celts and Germans in <em>Germany, Austria, and Belgium<\/em> &#8211; 7.1-2 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=7325\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Getians or Dacians and Scythians in<em> Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine<\/em> &#8211; 7.3-4 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=8670\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Pannonians and Illyrians in<em> Slavic countries<\/em> &#8211; 7.5 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=8755\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Barbarian peoples, including Pelasgians and Lelegians, in<em> Greece and Turkey<\/em>\u00a0 \u2013 7.7 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/05\/pelasgians-lelegians-and-others-hekataios-of-miletos-and-strabo-on-barbarians-of-greece-fifth-century-bce-on\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Pontic peoples in <em>southern Russia<\/em> &#8211; 11.1-2 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=9970\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Kolchians and others around the Caucasus mountains in <em>southern Russia and Georgia <\/em>&#8211; 11.5 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=10184\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Peoples around the Caspian Sea in <em>Azerbaijan, Iraq, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan <\/em>&#8211; 11.6-9 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=10538\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Parthians in <em>Iran and Afghanistan<\/em> &#8211; 11.9 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=10650\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Baktrians and Sogdianians in <em>Afghanistan<\/em>, <em>Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan <\/em>&#8211; 11.10-11 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=10540\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Bandit peoples&#8221; of the Zagros mountains and Medes in <em>Iran<\/em> \u2013 11.13 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/05\/medes-nearchos-and-strabo-on-neighbouring-bandit-peoples-and-on-median-customs-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Armenians in <em>Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia<\/em> \u2013 11.14 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/05\/armenians-kyrsilos-and-strabo-on-a-thessalian-origin-story-on-worship-of-anahita-and-on-supposed-sacred-prostitution-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Cappadocians in <em>Turkey<\/em> &#8211; 12.1-2 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=11662\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Bithynians, Paphlagonians, and others in <em>Turkey<\/em> &#8211; 12.3 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=11704\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Mysians, Galatians, Pisidians, Pamphylians, and northern Phrygians in <em>Turkey<\/em> &#8211; 12.4-8 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=11809\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Trojans, Lelegians, and Kilikians and migrations related to Troy and the Troad in <em>Turkey<\/em> &#8211; 13.1, 3 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=12313\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Pelasgians and their migrations again \u2013 13.3 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/05\/pelasgians-strabo-on-a-legendary-migrating-people-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Aiolians in western <em>Turkey<\/em> &#8211; 13.3 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=12803\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Lydians, southern Phrygians, and Pisidians in <em>Turkey<\/em> &#8211; 13.4 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=12794\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Carians in southwestern <em>Turkey\u00a0<\/em><em>and Greece<\/em> &#8211; 14.2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/10\/carians-strabo-on-long-term-carian-interactions-with-greeks-and-on-barbarizing-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Lycians, Pamphylians and Cilicians in southern <em>Turkey<\/em> &#8211; 14.3-14.5 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/05\/lycians-pamphylians-and-rugged-cilicians-strabo-contrasts-civilized-and-uncivilized-peoples-in-southeastern-anatolia-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Pelasgians, Trojans, Lelegians, and Kilikians and their migrations in <em>Turkey<\/em> (again) &#8211; 14.5.22-29 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/01\/trojans-lelegians-and-kilikians-strabo-on-legendary-peoples-and-migrations-in-the-troad-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Indians and oral transmission of information about them by sailors, merchants, and soldiers \u2013 15.1.1-6 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/08\/germans-britons-and-indians-strabo-on-travelers-soldiers-and-merchants-as-sources-of-information-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Nysaians and Sibians (legendary) in\u00a0<em>India<\/em> \u2013 15.1.7-12 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/08\/indians-eratosthenes-and-strabo-on-legendary-nysaians-and-sibians-third-century-bce-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Indians, Brahmans, and other sages in <em>India<\/em> \u2013 15.1.28, 34, 39-66, 68-73 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/08\/indians-aristoboulos-onesikritos-and-strabo-on-naked-sages-or-brahmans-at-taxila-third-century-bce-on\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Fish-eaters near Ariana and Gedrosia in <em>Pakistan and Afghantistan <\/em>\u2013 15.2.2-3 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/11\/ichthyophagians-nearchos-agatharchides-and-diodoros-on-fish-eaters-east-of-the-persian-gulf-second-first-centuries-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Arianians, Gedrosians, and Karmanians in\u00a0<em>Pakistan, Afghanistan and southeastern Iran<\/em> \u2013 15.2.8-9, 14 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/08\/arianians-gedrosians-and-karmanians-strabo-on-their-locations-and-some-customs-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Persians and &#8220;bandit&#8221; peoples in\u00a0<em>Iran<\/em> and surrounding areas \u2013 15.3.13-24 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/08\/persians-and-peoples-in-their-territory-strabo-on-their-customs-and-on-bandit-peoplesearly-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Assyrians or Babylonians and surrounding peoples in <em>Syria, Iraq, and Iran<\/em> \u2013 16.1.1-2, 6, 8, 16-18, 20, 24-27 and 16.3.1 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/08\/assyrians-babylonians-and-surrounding-peoples-strabo-on-their-customs-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Itureans in <em>Syria and Jordan <\/em>&#8211; 16.2.18, 20 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=10584\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Phoenicians, Tyrians and Sidonians in <em>Lebanon \u2013<\/em> 16.2.22-24 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/08\/phoenicians-strabo-on-the-achievements-of-tyrians-and-sidonians-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Judeans in <em>Israel \/ Palestine<\/em> &#8211; 16.2.28, 34-40, 42-46 (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=6459\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Arabians, Trogodytes, and other peoples between the Nile and the Red Sea in <em>Egypt,<\/em> <em>Saudi Arabia, and Yemen \u2013 <\/em>16.4.2-5, 8-14, 17-21 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/08\/arabians-trogodytes-and-peoples-around-the-red-sea-eratosthenes-artemidoros-and-strabo-on-their-locations-and-customs-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)\n<ul>\n<li>Fish-eaters and Turtle-eaters in <em>Egypt and Ethiopia<\/em>, drawing on Agatharchides \u2013 16.4.13-14 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/11\/ichthyophagians-nearchos-agatharchides-and-diodoros-on-fish-eaters-east-of-the-persian-gulf-second-first-centuries-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Arabians and Aelius Gallus&#8217; imperial expedition for ethnographic information in <em>Saudi Arabia and Yemen <\/em>\u2013 16.4.22-24 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/05\/arabians-strabo-on-aelius-gallus-imperial-expedition-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Arabians and Nabateans in <em>Saudi Arabia and Yemen <\/em>\u2013 16.4.25-26 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/09\/arabians-and-nabateans-strabo-on-their-supposedly-uncivilized-sexual-and-burial-customs-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Arabians and Homer&#8217;s Erembians \u2013 16.4.27 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/09\/arabians-and-erembians-poseidonios-strabo-and-others-on-obscure-peoples-mentioned-in-homer-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Egyptians in <em>Egypt <\/em>\u2013 17.1.1-54 (with some omissions) and 17.2.5 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/09\/egyptians-strabo-on-animal-gods-and-accompanying-rites-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Ethiopians in <em>Ethiopia <\/em>and surrounding areas \u2013 17.2.1-3 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/09\/ethiopians-strabo-on-a-hard-lifestyle-in-a-harsh-environment-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Libyans in <em>northwestern Africa<\/em> \u2013 17.3.1-23 (with some omisssions) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/09\/libyans-eratosthenes-artemidoros-and-strabo-on-peoples-and-customs-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Romans&#8217; 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