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Strabo: from maps to words

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Most specialists of Strabo agree that his Geography did not include maps specially designed by him to illustrate his work. But there is no such consensus as to whether he routinely used existing maps when drawing up his regional descriptions, how he possibly used them and from which authors he obtained them. Rather than attempting to interpret ambiguous expressions in which words semantically related to the idea of “drawing” or “representing” can be understood either literally, referring to real maps, or metaphorically, enhancing the descriptive efficacy of words, I will focus on Strabo’s regional descriptions themselves, in order to unravel their construction process. Two western provinces of the Roman Empire, Iberia and Gaul, which are the subjects of books III and IV of Strabo’s Geography, will be used as the primary material for this analysis.
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hal-01991666 , version 1 (05-01-2021)

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Pierre Moret. Strabo: from maps to words. Daniela Dueck (ed.). The Routledge Companion to Strabo, Routledge, pp.178-191, 2017, 978-1-78570-748-3. ⟨hal-01991666⟩
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