Strabo, the Greek geographer of the first century BC, is the classical voice I lean on when a question about Atlantis turns into a question of coasts, rivers and old cities.
On Ancient sources on Atlantis I note that Strabo wrote in full agreement with Plato that the story of Atlantis was true and not a fiction, and Strabo is one of my favourite witnesses there, with Plutarch and Aelianus.
That page also covers how Delambre in 1816 probably misread Casaubon's 1587 commentary on Strabo, which led to the wide acceptance of Aristotle's supposed scepticism.
The line I keep from his geographical writings in my table on Ancient Greek Sources is one where Strabo praises another writer for citing Plato:
Where Was Atlantis lists Strabo with Proclus, Diodorus, Plutarch, Posidonius and Pliny among those who referred to Atlantis, and Popular History of America 1881 says that Strabo and Pliny both mention a similar mysterious island.
Ignatius Donnelly uses Strabo several times.
On The Origin of Our Alphabet he cites Strabo, through Jackson, for records in Spain written before the Deluge.
On The Gods of the Phœnician also Kings of Atlantis he mentions that the old city of Erythia near Gades was already in ruin in Strabo's time, and that Strabo estimated the Phoenicians had three hundred cities on the west coast of Africa.
In The Phoenicians, Strabo is said to have echoed Herodotus' view that the Phoenicians came from the region of the Arabian Sea.
On 7 Rivers of the Nile I use Strabo's Geography, Book XVII, for the seven streams of the Nile Delta.
For every page I tagged with Strabo, see the Strabo tag archive.
Strabo describes pitch from the rocks, asphalt and sulphur, and a native tradition that Sodom was destroyed by earthquake and flames (Geography 16.2.44).
Genesis’ slime pits, Josephus’ asphalt lake, Pliny’s Asphaltites, and Strabo’s pitch all point at the same physical strangeness Suddi names when he speaks of tar, resin, or pitch toward the south.
Older texts (Genesis, Josephus, Pliny, Strabo) also tie this shore to slime pits, bitumen, and Sodom’s destruction.
(4) - Strabo, the famous Greek geographer and historian, wrote in full agreement with Plato's claims that the story of Atlantis was true and not a fiction.
My favorites are definitely Strabo, Plutarch and Aelianus.
Delambre's disinformation: In 1816, the French mathematician and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre probably misinterpreted a 1587 commentary on Strabo by Isaac Casaubon, leading to widespread acceptance of Aristotle's skepticism of Atlantis.
Apparently, they failed to notice that many authors of classical literature, such as Proclus, Diodorus, Plutarch, Posidonius, Strabo, and Pliny, all made references to Atlantis.
Strabo says, speaking of the Turduli and Turdetani, "they are the most cultivated of all the Iberians; they employ the art of writing, and have written books containing memorials of ancient times, and also poems and laws set in verse, for which they claim an antiquity of six thousand years." (Strabo, lib.
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.
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).
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.
iv., and a passage of Strabo, which speaks of the practice among the Scythians.
They are probably the Tochari of Strabo.
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.
272.) Strabo (vol.
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.
Strabo, the Greek geographer writing in the 1st century BC, echoed Herodotus' view.
Classical authors such as Herodotus, Strabo and Pliny the Elder describe the delta's network of waterways.
The Greek geographer Strabo describes Egypt and the Nile Delta at length in Book XVII of his Geography.
Strabo counts the Pelusiac and Canobic mouths as the outer two, with five more between them.
Strabo, Geography: LacusCurtius and Perseus Digital Library
Couvade has been documented by travelers throughout history, including the Greek geographer Strabo.
The classical framing around that quote also keeps Manetho / Herodotus / Diodorus / Strabo neighbors on long god and demigod rule spans (gods about 13,900 years; demigods about 11,000).