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Book 	Section 	Description I.1 	1 	Geography is a branch of philosophy. 2 	Homer is the founder of geography. 3 	The Ocean. 4 	The Elysian Plain. 5 	The Isles of the Blessed. 6 	The Aethiopians, Definition of the Arctic Circle 7-9 	Tides of the Ocean. Earth is an island. 10 	The Mediterranean, the land of the Cimmerians, the Ister. 11 	Anaximander and Hecataeus. 12 	Hipparchus and the climata. 13 	The antipodes. 14-19 	The ecumene. Geography requires encyclopedic knowledge of celestial, terrestrial and maritime features as well as natural history and mathematics and is of strategic interest. 20 	Earth is a sphere with surface curved by the law of gravity, that bodies move to the center. 21 	Knowledge of geometry is required to understand geography. 22-23 	The purpose and plan of the encyclopedia. Chapter 2 – contributors to geography Book 	Section 	Description I.2 	1 	Contributions of the Romans and Parthians to geography 2–3 	Critique of Eratosthenes 4–40 	Critique of Homer's and the other poets' geography and various writers' view of it, especially Eratosthenes'. Chapter 3 – physical geography Book 	Section 	Description I.3 	1-2 	Critiques of Eratosthenes' sources: Damastes, Euhemerus. 3 	Critiques of Eratosthenes' geology, shape of the Earth. 4-7 	Fossils, formation of the seas. 8-9 	Silting. 10 	Volcanic action. 11-12 	Currents. 13-15 	More on the formation of the seas. 16-20 	Island-building, earthquakes 21 	Human migration. 22-23 	Hyperboreans, Hypernotians Chapter 4 – political geography Book 	Section 	Description I.4 	1 	Heaven is spherical corresponding to Earth's sphericity. 2-6 	Distances along lines of latitude and longitude to various peoples and places. 7-8 	The three continents: Europe, Asia, Libya. 9 	Recommends Alexander the great's division of people into good or bad rather than the traditional Greek barbarians and Greeks. Book II – mathematics of geography

Pages C67 through C136, Loeb Volume I pages 252-521. Chapter 1 – distances between parallels and meridians Book 	Section 	Description II.1 	1-3 	Relates Eratosthenes' description of the Tropic of Cancer, which was based on Patrocles. 4-5 	Critiques Hipparchus' criticism of Patrocles, which was based on Deimachus and Megasthenes. Points out that Eratosthenes used the Library of Alexandria. 6-8 	Critique of Patrocles. 9 	Fabrications of the geographers concerning India. 10-41 	Calculations of distances between parallels and meridians passing through various places in the habitable world, according to various geographers: Hipparchus, Eratosthenes, Pytheas, Deimachus. Chapter 2 – the five zones Book 	Section 	Description II.2 	1 	Introduces the work Oceans by Poseidonius. 2-3 	Critiques Poseidonius, who criticises Parmenides and Aristotle on the widths and locations of the five zones. Chapter 3 – distribution of plants, animals, civilizations Book 	Section 	Description II.3 	1-3 	Critiques the six zones of Polybius. 4 	Describes African voyages: the circumnavigation by an expedition sent by Necho II, another by Magus; to India by Eudoxus of Cyzicus. 5 	Adventures and misadventures of Eudoxus. Attacks the credibility of Pytheas, Euhemerus, Antiphanes[disambiguation needed]. 6 	Poseidonius' theory of Atlantis; attributes migration of Cimbri to inundation. 7 	Attributes the distribution of plants, animals and civilizations to chance (suntuchia) rather than to zones (which was Poseidonius' theory). 8 	Example of random racial distribution: Ethiopians were in both Asia (India) and Libya (Africa). Strabo says his school avoids such causal connections. Chapter 4 – criticisms of Polybius' and Eratosthenes' maps Book 	Section 	Description II.4 	1-2 	Polybius' critique of Pytheas. 3 	Strabo's criticisms of Polybius' European distances. 4 	Strabo's criticisms of Polybius' critique of the distances of Eratosthenes. 5-6 	Strabo's corrections to various geographers' descriptions of the locations of the Tanaïs[disambiguation needed], the Tyras, the Borysthenes and the Hypanis. 7 	Strabo criticises Polybius' length of the inhabited world. 8 	Strabo criticises Polybius' and Eratosthenes' physical divisions of Europe. Chapter 5 – Strabo's view of the ecumene Book 	Section 	Description II.5 	1 	Representation of a spherical surface as a plane requires the geographer to be a mathematician. 2 	The celestial sphere, gravity, the Earth's axis and the poles, stellar paths, equator, tropics, arctic circles, ecliptic, zodiac. 3 	The five zones, terrestrial and celestial, the hemispheres, the ocean. 4 	The gnomon, latitude, longitude, circumference of the Earth. 5-6 	The inhabited world is an island shaped like a truncated cone, in a spherical quadrilateral formed between the equator, the arctic circle and a great circle passing through the poles. The island is 70,000 stadia long by 30,000 stadia wide. 7 	Hipparchus says the equator is 252,000 stadia long; the great circle distance from equator to pole is 63,000 stadia. 8 	Strabo does not believe Pytheas that Thule is farthest north at the Arctic Circle. He thinks no one is north of Ierne. He believes the Romans scorned to invade Britain as being worthless. 9 	The length and width of the inhabited world are 70000 and 30000 stadia respectively. 10 	Strabo recommends representing the Earth on a globe of no less than 10 feet in diameter or on a plane map of at least 7 feet. 11-12 	Strabo says he personally travelled from Armenia to Tyrrhenia and from the Euxine Sea to the frontiers of Ethiopia. He and all other geographers receive information mostly by hearsay. He went up the Nile river with his friend Aelius Gallus, prefect of Egypt, to the edge of Ethiopia and Syene. 13-16 	The known limits of the Earth are Meroe in the Nile river, Ierne, the Sacred Promontory beyond the Pillars of Hercules and east of Bactriana. 17-18 	The sea determines the contours of the land. The four largest internal seas are the Caspian sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. 19-25 	Mediterranean Sea. 26 	The continents are Europe, Libya, Asia. Europe develops excellence in men and government and has contributed the most to the others. 27-33 	States the locations of the countries of the three continents. 34 	Division of the circumference of the Earth, which is 252000 stadia, by 360 gives 700 stadia per section. 35-43 	Equator, Tropic circle, Arctic circle, latitude by the shadow of the gnomon and the length of the longest day. Book III – Iberian peninsula Representation on a modern map of Iberia according to Strabo. Chapter 1 - Vicinity of the Sacred Cape Book 	Section 	Description III.1 	1-3 	Ibēria is poor, inhospitable and mountainous, 6000 stadia N-S, 5000 E-W. The Purēnē oros is aligned N-S and separates Ibēria from Keltikē.[12] 4 	The Sacred Cape is the westernmost point of the inhabited world.[13] The country next to it is called Cuneus, "wedge", in the Latin language from its shape. It is occupied by the Ibēres across the straits from the Maurousioi. 5 	Strabo repeats Poseidonius' assertion that the setting sun is larger at the coast because of a lens effect through the water vapor. He says Artemidorus is wrong in claiming a size of 100 times larger and that he could not have seen it because the cape was taboo at night. 6 	South West Iberia is delimited by the Tagus river (to the north of the Sacred Cape) and the Anas river to the east. The region is populated by the Keltikoi and some Lusitanai resettled there from beyond the Tagus by the Romans. Inland are the Karpētanoi (Madrid region), the Ōrētanoi (La Mancha and eastern Sierra Morena, and the Ouettōnoi (Salamanca region). The fertile southeast, Baetica (Andalusia region), east of the Baetis river after which it is named, is occupied by the Tourdētanoi or Tourdouloi, who have writing and a literature. Other Iberians have alphabets, but not the same, as they do not all use the same languages (glōttai). Chapter 2 - Bætica Book 	Section 	Description III.2 	1-2 	Bætica is the region around the Bætis river, main cities are Corduba and Gadira. 3-5 	Bætis river is navigable and boats go from the sea to Corduba. 6 	Bætica soil is fertile, it export a lot of wheat, wine and oil. 7 	Bætica littoral is full of fish, especially fat tunas, which eat a lot off acorn like some "sea pigs". 8 	Bætica subsoil is full of gold, silver, cooper and iron. 9-10 	How gold and silver are extract from the soil of Baetica and other regions of Hispania. 11-13 	What Homër say about Bætica. 14-15 	Bætica was a Phœnician colony, now it's romanised. Chapter 3 Book 	Section 	Description III 	1-8 	... Chapter 4 Book 	Section 	Description III 	1-20 	... Chapter 5 Book 	Section 	Description III 	1-1 	... Book IV – Gaul, Britain, Alps Wiki letter w.svg 	This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (June 2008) Book V – Italy to Campania Wiki letter w.svg 	This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (June 2008) Book VI – south Italy, Sicily Wiki letter w.svg 	This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (June 2008) Book VII – north, east and central Europe Chapter 1 – Germany Book 	Section 	Description VII 	1 	Overview of the lands to be covered in the rest of the text. 2 	Germanic peoples. 3 	Geography of Germania, list of Germanic tribes. 4 	Roman conflicts with Germans. 5 	The Hercynian Forest, the Ister river. Chapter 2 – Germany Book 	Section 	Description VII 	1 	Correcting false tales of the Cimbri. 2 	Cimbri raids. 3 	Cimbri divination. 4 	Lack of knowledge of areas beyond Germany. Chapter 3 – northern Black Sea region Book 	Section 	Description VII 	1 	Southern Germania, myths about distant regions. 2 	The Mysians. 3 	Mysian culture and religion. 4 	Getae. Different views of their culture. 5 	Zalmoxis, his travels, and his influence on the Mysians. 6 	Errors in other Greek accounts of Mysia. 7-10 	The Scythians. 11-12 	The Getae. 13-19 	Danube river, Dacians, Thracians, Peucini, Dniester river, Dnepr river, Roxolani. Chapter 4 Book 	Section 	Description VII 	1-8 	Crimea Chapter 5 Book 	Section 	Description VII 	1-12 	Countries along the west bank of the Danube. Chapter 6 Book 	Section 	Description VII 	1-2 	Continuation of countries along the western and southern banks of the Danube (the Balkans). Chapter 7 Book 	Section 	Description VII 	1-2 	Continuation on the Balkans. Book VIII – Greece Book 	Section 	Description VIII 	1.1 	Summary of previous chapters and intro to Greece 1.2 	Greek tribes and dialects, Origins thereof 1.3 	Topography - coastline and peninsulas 3.9 	Epeians and Eleians peoples 3.12 	Temples and Shrines to various gods 3.17 	Cauconians, Origins thereof 3.30 	Olympia, legends thereof 4.11 	Depopulation of Laconia (area around Sparta) Book IX - More on Greece Wiki letter w.svg 	This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (June 2008) Book X - Yet more on Greece, Greek islands Wiki letter w.svg 	This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (June 2008) Book XI - Russia east of the Don, the Transcaucasus, northwest Iran, Central Asia Wiki letter w.svg 	This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (June 2008) Book XII – anatolia Wiki letter w.svg 	This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (June 2008) Book XIII – northern Aegean Wiki letter w.svg 	This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (June 2008) Book XIV – eastern Aegean Wiki letter w.svg 	This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (June 2008) Book XV – Persia, Ariana, the Indian subcontinent Wiki letter w.svg 	This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (June 2008) Book XVI – middle east Wiki letter w.svg 	This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (June 2008) Book XVII – north Africa Chapter 1 Book 	Section 	Description 17 	1-2 	Eratosthenes on the Nile and surrounding people. 3 	The Nile in Ethiopia. The organization of Egypt, nomes, classes, comments on the Labyrinth. 4 	The Nile in the Nile Delta. 5 	Source of the Nile. Greek writers about the Nile. Definition of the name Aegypt. 6 	Harbours of Alexandria, Pharos Island. Julius Caesar. Founding of the city by Alexander the Great. 7 	Importance of Alexandria. Lake Mareotis. 8 	Details about Alexandria. Ptolemy I Soter steals Alexanders body. Perdiccas is slain. Roxana departes for Macedonia. 9 	Lighthouse of Alexandria. Other temples and buildings, Lochias (promontory), Royal palace, Antirrhodos (island), Theatre, Poseidium, Emporium, Timonium, Caesarium, Heptastadium. 10 	More details about Alexandria. More buildings and structures. The Sarapium. Emperor Augustus defeats Mark Antony. 11 	The Ptolemaic dynasty. 12-13 	Egypt as a Roman province. Roman Legions. Polybius' visit to Alexandria. 14 	Coastal cities from Cyrenaica to Alexandria. About wine. 15 	Papyrus, Cyperus and Cyperus papyrus in the Deltaic marshes and lakes. 16-17 	Road to Canopus. Temple of Sarapis. 18 	Nile mounts in the Delta, Canopic (Canopus), Bolbitine (Rosetta), Sebennytic (Buto), Phantnitic (Damietta), Mendesian (Mendes), Tanitic (Tanis) and Pelusiac (Pelusium). 19-21 	Interior of the mouth. Expulsion of foreigners. Difficulty in entering Egypt. Cities. 22-53 	... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zaheen312 (talk • contribs) 08:09, 13 October 2012 (UTC)