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Strabo of Amaseia

c. 64 BCE–24 CE. Lived in Alexandria in the 20s BCE and went up the Nile with the prefect Aelius Gallus. Book 17 of his Geography is the only eyewitness description of the Mouseion: a walk, an exedra, a hall where the scholars dined together, a priest.

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Opening words not preserved.

Length: not counted

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Survives whole

Was it in Alexandria?

Conjectured

A witness to the city.

On the ledge: written elsewhere, a witness to the city; not known in the Library.

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Ancient references
  • Strabo 17.1.8; 13.1.54
Modern scholarship (5)
  • D. W. Roller, The Geography of Strabo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
  • D. Dueck, Strabo of Amasia: A Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome (London: Routledge, 2000).
  • P. M. Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972)
  • J. McKenzie, The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt, c. 300 BC to AD 700 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)
  • A. Erskine, "Culture and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Museum and Library of Alexandria", Greece & Rome 42.1 (1995) 38–48

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