This is a selective summary of translations of strabos work from ancient greek into. He became a keen traveller who saw a large part of italy, various near eastern regions including the black sea, various parts of asia minor, egypt as far as ethiopia, and parts of greece. Ivanhoe is easily the bestknown scott novel, probably because it became a celebrated hollywood epic in 1952. Ivanhoe, historical romance by sir walter scott, published in 1819. As with most ancient authors, not that much is known of strabo, and the loeb editions introductory material, by the translator horace leonard jones, is about as good as one can get. It has proved to be one of the best known and most. It concerns the life of sir wilfred of ivanhoe, a fictional saxon knight. This celebrity reflects scotts success in creating a heroic image that remains. Despite the criticism it received because of its historical inaccuracies, the novel was one of scotts most popular works.
Passage across in strabo means the usual boatpassage, but the terminal points of this passage are now unknown. At the time it was written it represented a shift by scott away from fairly realistic novels set in scotland in the comparatively recent past, to a somewhat fanciful depiction of medieval england. The project gutenberg ebook of the geography of strabo, vol. Geography, volume viii, book 17 and general index loeb classical library no. After two introductory books, numbers 3 and 4 deal with spain and gaul, 5 and 6 with italy and sicily, 7 with north and east europe, 8 10 with greek lands, 11 14 with the main regions of asia and with asia minor, 15 with india and iran, 16 with assyria, babylonia, syria, and arabia, 17 with egypt and africa. Lake of constance the length of the lake is now 46 12 miles from bregenz to steinamrhein, while its greatest width is 10 12 miles. The sixteenth book contains assyria, in which are the great cities babylon and nisibis.