# Strabo of Amasia: Author of the 1st-Century Geography — WHE Definition Discussion (1-28931)

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Strabo of Amasia (c. (c. 64 BCE - c. 24 CE) was the author of _Geography_, a 17-book geography of the world as it was known to the Greeks and Romans of the time, extending from Iberia and Mauria (Mauretania) in the west to India as recorded by Alexander the Great’s companions, and from Ethiopia to ‘Farthest Thule’, an unidentified island north of Britain. Strabo lived during the 1st centuries BCE and CE, and thus would have been an outside observer on some momentous political upheavals, including Rome’s civil wars and the establishment of Augustus as emperor.

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