Although Sons of Anarchy ended over a decade ago, viewers can get close to reliving its gritty aesthetic and action with ...

Later Greek geographers like Strabo (1st century BCE-1st century CE) consistently used the name "Persian Gulf." Roman historians and geographers, including Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century CE) and ...

Greco plays Strabo Plinth, the ruthless sponsor of the Games and father to Sejanus Plinth, one of the film’s central characters. Content cannot be displayed without consent In recent years ...

William Dalrymple's how India was a major trading partner of the Roman Empire Trade was primarily conducted through sea routes rather than the Silk Road Hundreds of vessels arrived in India each ...

The compound word kolossourgia, ‘monumental composition’, is found only once in extant ancient Greek, in a ringing sentence composed by Strabo of Amaseia. He uses it to convey the scope and technique ...

The ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers of the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, and traveling. He left behind a substantial body of work. Strabo (or ...

The observation corresponded with the ancient writings of the Greek geographer Strabo, who lived between approximately 63 BCE and 24 CE. Strabo described the site, saying, "This space is full ...

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It’s not exactly an appealing descriptor. On top of that, the Roman geographer Strabo wrote that the Irish were “more savage than the Britons, being cannibals as well as gluttons. Furthermore ...

By this means he found that the circumference of the earth was 250,000 stadia, according to Cleomedes, but Strabo says that it was 252,000 stadia. A discrepancy arises when we come to consider the ...

They also attempted to locate the Artemision. Although several ancient writers mention the sanctuary, Strabo provided the best clue to its whereabouts, noting that it was located in a village ...