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James Romm: The World according to Strabo, 20 February 2025
Strabo’s ‘Geography’: A Translation for the Modern World
translated by Sarah Pothecary.
Princeton, 1062 pp., £55, August 2024,978 0 691 24313 9 Show More
translated by Sarah Pothecary.
Princeton, 1062 pp., £55, August 2024,
“... on the general question of whether the work as a whole is well executed,’ Strabo writes (in Sarah Pothecary’s translation), ‘so one should exercise similar judgment in the case of this work. It, too, is a colossus [kolossourgia], dealing with mega-issues and general matters.’ He concludes by making an even grander claim for what his work will ... ”
