Amaseia
Pontus (Asia Minor)
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.
12 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Amaseia. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.
- Periēgēsis (Guided Description of Places)42 passages
- Temple and Sanctuary Cult23 passages
- Divination15 passages
- Thōmata (Marvels & Wonders)14 passages
- Measuring the Earth (Geodesy)10 passages
- The Delphic Oracle9 passages
- Nomoi (Customs of Peoples)8 passages
- Priesthoods8 passages
- Votive Offering8 passages
- Environmental Determinism (Climate Shapes Peoples)8 passages
- Dionysiac / Bacchic Rites7 passages
- Klimata (Latitudinal Zones)6 passages