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Amaseia · 24
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Strabo
Strabo
64 BCE–24 CE · Philae
Greek geographer and historian whose Geographica describes the peoples and places of the Roman world.
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Stop 1 of 664 BCEBorn
AmaseiaPontus (Asia Minor)
What they did here
Born c.64 BCE in Amaseia in Pontus to a prominent family; he names the city as his homeland (Geography 12.3.15) and traces his ancestry there.
About Amaseia
A fortress-city of Pontus in northern Asia Minor, set dramatically in a river gorge beneath the rock-cut tombs of its old kings, and chiefly remembered as the birthplace of Strabo, antiquity's greatest geographer.