Strabo

Popular History of America 1881

Popular History of America 1881

Plato, four hundred years before our Saviour’s time, gives a particular account of the great island of Atlantis, "an island that was larger than Libya (Africa) and Asia." Strabo and Pliny both mention a like mysterious island.

The island of Erytheia

Some ancient writers, including Strabo, located Erytheia in the region of Gadeira (modern-day Cádiz), and it has been speculated that the island represents early Greek contact with the western Mediterranean and beyond.

Strabo was a Greek geographer who identified Erytheia with the region of Gadeira (modern Cádiz).

Ignatius Donnelly

The Gods of the Phœnician also Kings of Atlantis

There was an ancient tradition among the Persians that the Phœnicians migrated from the shores of the Erythræan Sea, and this has been supposed to mean the Persian Gulf; but there was a very old city of Erythia, in utter ruin in the time of Strabo, which was built in some ancient age, long before the founding of Gades, near the site of that town, on the Atlantic coast of Spain.

Strabo estimated that they had three hundred cities along the west coast of Africa.

Ignatius Donnelly

Artificial Deformation of the Skull

iv., and a passage of Strabo, which speaks of the practice among the Scythians.

Ignatius Donnelly

The Bronze Age in Europe

They are probably the Tochari of Strabo.

Ignatius Donnelly

The Origin of Our Alphabet

355.) Pliny says, "Letters were always in use." Strabo says, "The inhabitants of Spain possessed records written before the Deluge." (Jackson's "Chronicles of Antiquity," vol.

Wiliam R. Sandbach

The Oera Linda Book

The Geertmen were known by only one of the Greek writers, Strabo, who mentions them as Γερμᾶνες, differing totally and entirely from the Βραχμᾶνες in manners, language, and religion.

In Strabo, book i.

2), for he encamped at Pi-ha-chiroht, the “mouth of the strait.” Moreover, Strabo mentions that Sesostris made an attempt to cut through the isthmus, but that he was not able to accomplish it.

Another statement, which occurs only in Strabo, finds also here a confirmation.

Strabo alone of all the Greek writers relates that Nearchus, after he had landed his troops in the Persian Gulf, at the mouth of the Pasitigris, sailed out of the Persian Gulf by Alexander’s command, and steered round Arabia through the Arabian Gulf.

If, as Strabo seems to think, it was only for geographical discovery, he need not have taken the whole fleet.

Post Flood

The Phoenicians

Strabo, the Greek geographer writing in the 1st century BC, echoed Herodotus' view.

Diodorus

Was there a tower in Babylon?

Strabo, a Greek geographer and historian from the 1st century BCE, also refers to Babylon in his Geography.

Strabo, writing in the 1st century BCE, mentions Babylon's decline in his Geography.

Egypt

7 Rivers of the Nile

These texts and sources include works by classical authors such as Herodotus, Strabo, and Pliny the Elder, who provide descriptions of the Nile Delta's extensive network of waterways.

Strabo, a Greek geographer, provided an extensive description of Egypt, including the Nile Delta, in his work, Geographica (Book XVII).

Strabo's account highlights the geographical and economic importance of the delta's distributaries in ancient times.

Strabo's Geographica: Available at Perseus Digital Library

Ignatius Donnelly

The Colonies of Atlantis

Strabo notes that the Turduli and Turdetani (Iberian tribes) were highly cultured, employed writing, and claimed an ancient history of 6000 years through written books, poems, and laws.

Traditions

Couvade

Couvade has been documented by travelers throughout history, including the Greek geographer Strabo.

Aessir Anunnaki

Similar figures are also provided by Herodotus, Diodorus of Sicily, and Strabo. Manetho’s writings tell us that the gods originally created various monsters and hybrid beings of all types.