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born 64/63 BC, Amaseia, Pontus
 
died AD 23, ?
Greek geographer, historian, and philosopher. Its numerous quotations from technical literature, moreover, provide a remarkable account of the state of Greek geographical science, as well as of the history of the countries it surveys.
Strabo belonged on his mother’s side to a famous family, whose members had held important [...]