of the Roman Empire and the boundaries of the oikoumene ̄. Strabo ̄n’s Geography in focus,
terms and methodology, belongs with the descriptive branch of traditional Greek geo-
graphy, which did not employ exact calculations and empirical research but presented
descriptions of sites, their appearance and nature, their topographical, botanical and
zoological traits.
Contribution: The Geography was the first attempt to collect all contemporary geo-
graphical knowledge and to compose a general treatise on geography which until then
had featured only as an appendix to historical surveys. The work was not well known in
antiquity but forms an important milestone in attitudes towards geography and offers an
encyclopedic collection of otherwise lost information.
Ed.: H. Jones, The Geography of Strabo (Loeb 1969–1982, repr.); G. Aujac, F. Lasserre, and R. Baladié,
Strabon. Géographie (CUF 1966 – 1996); S.L. Radt, Strabons Geographika vv. 1–10 (2002–). The historical
work(s): FGrHist 91.
G. Maddoli and F. Prontera, edd., Strabone: Contributi allo Studio della Personalita e dell’ Opera 2 vv. (1984–
1986); K. Clarke, “In Search of the Author of Strabo’s Geography,” JRS 87 (1997) 92–110; Eadem,
Between Geography and History (1999); J. Engels, Augusteiche Oikumenegeographie und Universalhistorie im Werk
Strabons von Amaseia (1999); Daniela Dueck, “The Date and Method of Composition of Strabo’s
Geography,” Hermes 127 (1999) 467–478; S. Pothecary, “Strabo the Geographer: his Name and its
Meaning,” Mnemosyne 52 (1999) 691–704; Dueck (2000); Eadem, S. Pothecary, and H. Lindsay, edd.,
Strabo’s World History: A Kolossourgia of a Work (2005).
Daniela Dueck
Strato ̄n (Med.) (350 – 325 BCE)
Physician, cited by A (D L 5.61), perhaps the Stratonikos
who remarked that odors enjoyed for their own nature, such as flowers, smell beautiful
(kalon) while others, e.g., foods, smell pleasant (he ̄du: Eth. Eud. 3 [1231a11]), in turn possibly
identifiable with Athe ̄naios’ clever kitharist (Deipn., 8 [347f, 348d–352d]).
RE 4A.1 (1931) 315 (#18), F.E. Kind.
GLIM
Strato ̄n (Erasistratean) (265 – 245 BCE)
Student and close connection of E, teacher of A M, he
performed all cures without phlebotomy, arguing that the procedure risked death (by fear or
excess bleeding) and that practitioners might err and open an artery: G, On Venesection,
Against Erasistratos 2 (11.151 K. = p. 18 Brain), On Venesection, Against the Erasistrateans in
Rome 2 (11.196–197 K. = p. 43 Brain), and Diff. Puls. 4.17 (8.759 K.). He is described as
“writing from the house” (11.151 K.) or “being a fosterling” (D L 5.61) of
Erasistratos. In some unknown context he explained the ambe ̄ in H C,
J as a “round lever,” E A-108 ( p. 23.8 Nachm.). S, Gyn. 4.14 [1.71]
(CMG 4, p. 145 = v. 2, p. 11 CUF), preserves his fumigation to expel the afterbirth, the
herbs (including cassia, dittany, horehound, spikenard, tree wormwood, and oils of lily
and rose) being heated in a silver or tinned-bronze vessel, with a spout directing the fumes
into the vagina; he treated uterine prolapse with spodion and castoreum, ibid. 4.36[85]
(CMG 4, pp. 149–150 = v.4, p. 26 CUF). P preserves his remedies for
bites: human or dog (5.2, CMG 10.1.1, p. 9), snakes (21.6 [p. 28]; 23.4 [p. 30]; 33.1– 3
[p. 36]), and stingrays or moray eels (37.3, p. 40); pseudo-A P, Iobol. 30
STRATO ̄N (MED.)