Strabo and Augustan Egypt

• Published in: Symbolae Osloenses Vol. 97; no. 1; pp. 129 - 153
• Main Author: Lindsay, Hugh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 31.12.2023
• Subjects: Alexandria; Augustus; C. Cornelius Gallus; Ptolemaic Egypt; Strabo; the Nile

After residence in Alexandria in the 20s BC, Strabo describes early imperial Egypt in Book 17 of his Geography. This paper explains Strabo's contemporary focus, and his reactions to earlier accounts, including Herodotus Book 2. As a Hellenistic Greek writing after Actium, Strabo describes Ptole...