Editing Strabo (section)

==Career==
[[File:Nuremberg chronicles f 094r 1.png|thumb|upright=1.15|Strabo as depicted in the [[Nuremberg Chronicle]]]]
Strabo's life was characterized by extensive travels. He journeyed to [[Egypt]] and [[Kingdom of Kush|Kush]], as far west as coastal [[Tuscany]] and as far south as [[Ethiopia]] in addition to his travels in [[Asia Minor]] and the time he spent in [[Rome]]. Travel throughout the Mediterranean and Near East, especially for scholarly purposes, was popular during this era and was facilitated by the [[Pax Romana|relative peace]] enjoyed throughout the reign of [[Augustus]] (27&nbsp;BC – AD&nbsp;14).  In 29&nbsp;BC, on his way to [[Corinth]] (where Augustus was at the time), he visited the island of [[Gyaros]] in the Aegean Sea. Around 25&nbsp;BC, he sailed up the [[Nile]] until he reached [[Philae]],<ref group="n">Accompanied by prefect of Egypt Aelius Gallus, who had been sent on a military mission to Arabia.</ref> after which point there is little record of his travels until AD 17.

[[File:Statue of Strabo in Amasia.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Statue of Strabo in his hometown (modern-day [[Amasya]], Turkey)]]

It is not known precisely when Strabo's ''Geography'' was written, though comments within the work itself place the finished version within the reign of Emperor [[Tiberius]]. Some place its first drafts around 7&nbsp;BC,<ref name="StraboGeogI">{{cite book|author=Strabo|translator=Horace Leonard Jones|url=https://archive.org/stream/L049StraboGeographyI/L049-Strabo%20Geography%20I#page/n23 |title=Geography|publisher= William Heinemann|location= London|date= 1917|page= xxv–xxvi|volume=I}}</ref> others around AD&nbsp;17<ref>Sarah Pothecary, ''[http://www.strabo.ca/when.html When was the Geography written?]''</ref> or AD&nbsp;18.<ref name="StraboGeogI"/> The latest passage to which a date can be assigned is his reference to the death in AD&nbsp;23 of [[Juba&nbsp;II]], king of Maurousia ([[Mauretania]]), who is said to have died "just recently".<ref name="StraboGeogVIII">{{cite book|author=Strabo|url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.57232/2015.57232.Geography-Of-Strabo-Vol-8#page/n99/search/Menelaus|title=Geography|date=1949|publisher=William Heinemann|volume=VIII Book XVII|location=London|page=95|translator=Horace Leonard Jones|section=34}}</ref> He probably worked on the ''Geography'' for many years and revised it steadily, but not always consistently. It is an encyclopaedic chronicle and consists of political, economic, social, cultural, and geographic descriptions covering almost all of Europe and the Mediterranean: Britain and Ireland, the Iberian Peninsula, Gaul, Germania, the Alps, Italy, Greece, Northern Black Sea region, Anatolia, Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. The ''Geography'' is the only extant work providing information about both Greek and Roman peoples and countries during the reign of Augustus.<ref name="LCL">{{Cite book |title=Strabo, Geography, Volume I: Books 1–2 |date=n.d. |isbn=9780674990555 |access-date=8 September 2018 |url= https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL049/1917/volume.xml }}</ref>

On the presumption that "recently" means within a year, Strabo stopped writing that year or the next (AD&nbsp;24), at which time he is thought to have died.