1. STRABO
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2. Life and Death
Greek Historian, Geographer, and Philosopher
Born in 64 or 63 BC. He belonged to a wealthy and affluent family. .
Born in the city of Amaseia (now called Amasya) capital of Pontus.
Dead in 23CE(or after that time)
Very popular profession with the powerful and the public
Essential for the Roman expansion and economy
Surveying, taxes, army, logistics, politics
Writer/historian
Detail-oriented, accuracy mattered, cited sources, critical
Practical, well-traveled, experienced
Personally knew subjects
Philosopher
Coming as he did from a wealthy family, Strabo was able to undergo a good education and he also had an opportunity to travel as the spirit filled him.
A member of a noble family on his mother's side, Strabo was born in 64 or 63 BC in the city of Amaseia (now called Amasya) capital of Pontus, a region in northeastern Anatolia that was an independent kingdom from the 4th century BC until overcomed by Pompey the great (The Roman politician Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, better known as Pompey, was one of the greatest generals of his age. He invaded and annexed Pontus in 62 BC). Pompey the Great, was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic.
Pontus became a province of the Roman empire in 62 BC, shortly after Strabo's birth.
 The latest event mentioned is the death of Juba at no later than 23 AD, when Strabo was in his 80's. These events can be interpreted as a second edition unless he saved all his notes and wrote the book entirely after the age of 80.

3. His first teacher was Aristodemus, a former tutor of the sons of Pompey in Nysa.
At around the age of 21, Strabo moved to Rome (44 and 29 bce, and possibly other times) where he studied with the Peripatetic Xenarchus.
He learned grammar under the rich and famous scholar Tyrannion of Amisus.
Another noteworthy mentor to Strabo was Athenodorus Cananites.
Education
His first teacher was the master of rhetoric Aristodemus, a former tutor of the sons of Pompey (106–48 bce) in Nysa (now Sultanhisar in Turkey) on the Maeander (now Menderes) Rivethe very same Roman general who had taken over Pontus.
Strabo was an admirer of Homer's poetry, perhaps a consequence of his time spent in Nysa with Aristodemus.
philosophy with the Peripatetic Xenarchus, a highly respected tutor in Augustus's court.
as more relevantly a respected authority on geography, a fact obviously significant, considering Strabo's future contributions to the field.
Strabōn traveled to Rome (44 and 29 bce, and possibly other times) where he established social relationships with Roman notables and Greek intellectuals.
The final noteworthy mentor to Strabo was Athenodorus Cananites, a philosopher who had spent his life since 44 BC studying about roman elite. Unlike the Aristotelian Xenarchus and Tyrannion, Athenodorus was Stoic in mindset, the source of Strabo's diversion from the philosophy of his former mentors. Moreover, from his own first-hand experience, Athenodorus provided Strabo with information about regions of the empire w

4. Travel
Strabo travelled extensively, eastward as far as the border between Pontos and Armenia; westward, Turrhenia; northward, Sinōpē and Kuzikos; and southward to Suēnē on the border of Ethiopia. 
All these red stars are places strabo had spend time in or lived in
Strabo travelled for most of his life and in his final few years he stayed in on place and wrote his books

5. Strabo’s Travel According to Strabo’s own words, he was extremely proud of his own travel.
Strabo’s extensive travel can also seen from this map
He travelled North to black sea, south to red sea, west to Italian and east to some part of turky

6. Major works and Accomplishments
Historical Sketches
Published 20 BCE
47 books, mostly lost
Meant to continue Polybius’s Histories
The history of the known world from 145 BCE (conquest of Greece by Rome)
Geographical Sketches
Major works and Accomplishments

7. Geographica Γεωγραφικά Geōgraphiká
Italy, Sicily and the islands between Sicily and Libya (books 5-6);
German tribes, Pannonia, Illyria, Macedon and Thrakē (book 7);
Greece (books 8-10);
Asia Minor (books 11-14);
India and Persia (book 15);
Mesopotamia, Syria, Phoenicia, Judaea, the Persian Gulf and Arabia (book 16);
Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya (book 17). 
Written 2 BCE – 14 CE – 21 CE (Tiberius)
A 17-book geographical work describing the entire oikoumenē:
introductory remarks on geographical theory and Strabōn’s predecessors from Homer to Poseidōnios of Apameia (books 1-2);
Iberia and the surrounding islands (book 3);
Gaul, the British Isle, Ireland, Thule (= the Shetlands) and the Alps (book 4);
Extensive, 17 books
First known compilation of geographic knowledge
Advanced geographic theories
The place of its real publication must have been far from Rome, since the work was not known thereSo interested it was not generally known until the fifth century. he particularly recommended it to statesmen, rulers, and soldiers, as well as to those who wanted an account of known lands (especially those prominent in the history of civilization).
Strabo’s whole work is not orderly, perhaps because he was not able to give it a final form. He was fond of historical and mythological digressions, and on some subjects argumentative and obsessive. He’s
The Geographica is nonetheless highly valuable in its exposition of the development of geography. It marked the first attempt to assemble all available geographical knowledge into a single treatise.

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9. If Strabo relives in 21century and travels to Williamsburg.
How would he describes Williamsburg in his book Geographica?
Strabo never only talked about terrain or landform of a place. He also seriously described about the people in that place, their lifestyle their

10. Reference
1.Strabo". Encyclopædia Britannica (15th ed.) pp. 296– 297.
2. Lindberg, David C. (2008). The Beginnings of Western Science The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory A.D. 1450 (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
3. Strabo (1852–53). A. Meineke, ed. "Strabo, Geography". The Perseus Digital Library (in Greek). Tufts University. Retrieved   Books 6–14