Strabo (Στράβων, Amasia, Pontus, 64 or 63 BC -.. 19 and 24 AD) was a Greek geographer and historian best known for his work Geography. It was a great traveler, drawing on the Roman peace, toured almost all the lands of the ecumene, arriving in Armenia in the east, to Sardinia in the west, and from the Euxine Sea (Black Sea) in the north to the borders of Ethiopia in the south. He walked down the Nile to Aswan in an expedition led by Elio Galo, Roman prefect of Egypt.
In it are preserved only fragments of his historical work, its historical memories, in 43 books, complement the history of Greek Polybius. Instead itself almost entirely taken up his magnum opus Geographic (Geography), which is dated between 29 a. C., it starts its journey, until 7 consists of 17 volumes of a detailed description of the world as it was known in ancient times and are of great value, especially as a report, and their own extensive observations. Interesting to note that the third one is dedicated to Iberia and what is said in it was compiled from other sources, especially Posidonius and Strabo was never in the Iberian Peninsula. In Geography you can see a map of Europe.
As a descriptive geographer rejected the mathematical work of geographers Eratosthenes of Cyrene or Hipparchus or his purely astronomical character mapping. This led to a disregard for the physical causes of natural phenomena, focusing on the human aspects, history and myths to compose a portrait of the people and the countries studied.