Γεωγραφικά (Strabonis Rerum Geographicarum)

Geographica

Author

Strabo

Language

Koine Greek

Year

late 1st century BC - early 1st century AD

Country

Roman Empire

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

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The Geographica or Geography, is an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, consisting of 17 'books', written in Greek in the late first century BC, or early first century AD, and attributed to Strabo, an educated citizen of the Roman Empire of Greek descent. There is a fragmentary palimpsest dating to the fifth century. The earliest manuscripts of books 1–9 date to the tenth century, with a thirteenth-century manuscript containing the entire text.