Academic literature on the topic 'Strabo's Geography'

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Classical Studies, 2009.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 15, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4663. Adviser: Timothy Long. Includes supplementary digital materials.

Mon travail de thèse est une édition traduite et commentée du livre XV de la Géographie de Strabon.L'introduction replace l'Inde et la Perse de Strabon dans la tradition géographique grecque. Un commentaire philologique, historique et géographique illustre de façon linéaire les principaux intérêts du texte<br>My PhD is an edition, translation and commentary of Book XV of Strabo's Geography. The introduction deals with the place of Strabo's India and Persia within Greek geographical tradition. A philological, historical and geographical commentary is following the text

Strabone, storiografo e geografo vissuto tra il I e il I secolo d.C., dedica i primi tre capitoli del libro XII della sua Geografia alla descrizione della Cappadocia e del Ponto. In questo lavoro proponiamo la traduzione corredata da un'introduzione e da un commento storico al testo di Strabone (XII, 1-3). Il commento è dedicato agli aspetti storici e metodologici della descrizione fornita da Strabone, al fine di colmare una lacuna che ancora affligge gli studi scientifici, ma soprattutto di suggerire nuove proposte di analisi sulla storia della regione anatolica. Si cerca quindi di chiarire il testo di Strabone attraverso l'uso di documentazione archeologica, epigrafica e numismatica, per affrontare le questioni relative agli approcci adottati dall'autore nella descrizione della regione. Questo studio si propone di analizzare i materiali selezionati da Strabone, le ragioni per cui alcune informazioni sono state mantenute a scapito di altre e il ruolo svolto dalla storia recente in questo processo selettivo. Pertanto, questo lavoro si concentra sulle informazioni relative al contesto storico delle regioni descritte nel XII e sulle ragioni che hanno portato il geografo a trattare un certo popolo e certi eventi.<br>Strabo, historiographer and geographer, who lived between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, devotes the first three chapters of Book XII of his Geography to the description of Cappadocia and Pontus, or Pontic Cappadocia. In this work we propose the translation and composition of a commentary on Strabo's text. The commentary is devoted particularly to the historical and methodological aspects of the description given by Strabo. By making a historical commentary on Book XII, we propose to fill a gap that still affects scientific studies, but above all to reorient the axes of research on the Anatolian region and to suggest new perspectives of analysis. Thus, an attempt is made to clarify Strabo's text through the use of archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic documentation, in order to address the issues related to the approaches adopted by the author in describing the region. This study aims to analyse the materials selected by Strabo, the reasons for retaining some information at the expense of others, and the role played by recent history in this process. Therefore, this work focuses on the information about the historical context of the regions described in XII and the reasons that led the geographer to deal with a certain people and events.

La thèse consiste en une édition critique, à partir des manuscrits médiévaux, du livre XVII de la Géographie de Strabon, une description des pays traversés par le Nil (Égypte et Éthiopie) et de la Libye rédigée au tournant de notre ère. Elle est accompagnée d’une traduction en français et d’un commentaire. L’introduction revient d’abord sur la tradition textuelle du livre pour asseoir le choix des manuscrits retenus. Puis, l’auteur replace le livre XVII en général, et l’Égypte en particulier, dans le cadre de la vie et de l’œuvre de Strabon, et tente d’en dégager les aspects méthodologiques, stylistiques et rhétoriques, en particulier la rhétorique de l’éloge de Rome et d’Auguste, principe structurant de l’ensemble de la Géographie. Le commentaire explicite les choix éditoriaux pour l’établissement du texte grec, et met en lumière le texte de Strabon en le confrontant aux autres données dont nous disposons sur les espaces et la période considérés (géographiques, historiques, littéraires, papyrologiques, épigraphiques, archéologiques, botaniques, zoologiques)<br>The dissertation consists in a critical edition, from the medieval manuscripts, of Strabo’s Geography book XVII, a description of the countries crossed by the Nile (Egypt and Ethiopia) and Libya written at the turn of our era. It comes with a French translation and a commentary. The introduction reconsiders first the textual tradition of the book to establish the choice of the manuscripts. Then, the author replaces the book XVII in general, and Egypt in particular, within the framework of Strabo’s life and work, and attempts to identify the methodological, stylistic and rhetorical issues of the text, in particular the rhetoric of the praise of Rome and August, structuring principle of the whole Geography. The commentary explains the editorial decisions for establishing the Greek text, and highlights Strabo’s text by confronting it with our other data about the considered spaces and time (geographical, historical, literary, papyrological, epigraphical, archaeological, botanical, zoological)

Dans le monde grec antique, l’étude des phénomènes géologiques et de la configuration de la croûte terrestre prend place au sein de la géographie physique et de la météorologie, et connaît un fort développement au cours de l’époque hellénistique. Les historiens de la géologie admettent généralement que les études anciennes dans ce domaine étaient lacunaires, voire dépourvues de toute méthode scientifique. Nous verrons au contraire que se forment d’Aristote à Plutarque, dans une littérature abondante et souvent fragmentaire, des systèmes explicatifs destinés à rendre compte des spécificités du monde terrestre. Notre corpus s’étend du IVe s. avant notre ère au IIe s. de notre ère, de l’élaboration par les savants du Lycée d’un programme scientifique systématique, imité par le stoïcien Poseidonios, jusqu’à la doxographie des Opinions des philosophes, forme extrême d’une tendance à établir un bilan des connaissances grecques prise en charge par les auteurs d’époque impériale (Strabon, Sénèque, Pline). Nous nous focalisons sur l’examen de traités scientifiques, philosophiques, historiques et géographiques, et accordons une importance particulière au lexique grec et latin des sciences de la Terre. Une première partie pose les conditions de possibilité d’une pensée géologique, globe érigé en objet d’étude scientifique par l’astronomie, la physique et la géographie ; nous en venons ensuite à l’étude des phénomènes géodynamiques et à la conception ancienne d’un temps géologique et de rythmes spécifiquement terrestres ; enfin, nous présentons en guise d’ouverture des réflexions techniques sur les manières d’exploiter la Terre par le prisme de la géologie minière et de l’édaphologie<br>In the ancient Greek world, the study of geological phenomena and of the configuration of the Earth’s crust is a part of physical geography and meteorology, and underwent considerable development throughout the Hellenistic period. Historians of geology generally accept that such studies were lacking and devoid of scientific method. On the contrary, we will see that from Aristotle to Plutarch, in an abundant and often fragmentary literature, explanatory systems were developed to account for the specific features of the terrestrial world. Our corpus extends from the fourth century BC to the second century AD, i.e. from the development of a systematic scientific program by the scholars of the Lyceum, mostly followed by the Stoic Posidonius, to the doxography of the Opinions of the Philosophers, the extreme form of a tendency to give an overview of Greek knowledge taken over by the authors of the imperial period (Strabo, Seneca, Pliny). We focus on scientific, philosophical, historical and geographical works, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Latin lexicon of the Earth sciences. The first part sets out the conditions that enabled to think about the Earth, a globe that astronomy, physics and geography built as an object of scientific study ; we then move on to the study of geodynamic phenomena and the ancient concept of geological time and specifically terrestrial rhythms ; finally, we shortly present technical reflections on ways of exploiting the Earth through the prism of mining geology and edaphology

Esta dissertação propõe analisar os Livros III e IV da Geografia de Estrabão com o objetivo de identificar como um grego das regiões do Oriente Próximo formulara um quadro de encontro de povos nas regiões Ocidentais do mar Mediterrâneo nos tempos da expansão do Império Romano, e entender qual o papel ele atribui a esta cidade neste processo. Com esta abordagem, pretendemos discutir o importante conceito de Romanização, caro aos trabalhos que abordam a relação entre Roma e suas províncias, além de procurar entender como os o passado dos espaços por nós estudados Península Ibérica e a Europa entre o Reno e os Pirineus foi fruto de uma série de leituras e interpretações distintas, que, em alguns casos, prejudicou o próprio uso da fonte escrita como documento para pensar as transformações pelas quais passaram. A Geografia de Estrabão é vista, dessa forma, como um documento importante e valioso para se pensar as mudanças ocorridas nessas regiões, não somente por conta da chegada dos romanos, mas também como testemunho da importância de outros povos na sua integração a uma nova forma de viver.<br>This dissertation proposes to examine the Books III and IV of the Geography of Strabo with the aim of identifying how a greek man from the Near Eastern regions formulated a framework for meeting people in the western regions of the Mediterranean Sea, at the time of the Roman Empire expansion, and to understand what role does de assigns to this city in this process. With this approach, we intend to discuss the important concept of Romanization, due to works that deal with the relationship between Rome and its provinces, and we seek to understand how the past of the spaces we studied - Iberian Peninsula and Europe between the Rhine and the Pyrenees - was the result of a number of different readings and interpretations, which, in some cases, damaged the very use of writing documents as a source for thinking the transformations in. The Geography of Strabo is seen, therefore, as an important and valuable document to think about the changes occurring in these regions, not only because of the arrival of the Romans, but also as a witness of the importance other people in their integration to a new form to live.