id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3703 Strabo - Wikipedia .html text/html 4493 620 72 Meant to cover the history of the known world from the conquest of Greece by the Romans, Strabo quotes it himself and other classical authors mention that it existed, although the only surviving document is a fragment of papyrus now in the possession of the University of Milan (renumbered [Papyrus] 46). Strabo is best known for his work Geographica ("Geography"), which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known during his lifetime.[6] Although Strabo cited the classical Greek astronomers Eratosthenes and Hipparchus, acknowledging their astronomical and mathematical efforts covering geography, he claimed that a descriptive approach was more practical, such that his works were designed for statesmen who were more anthropologically than numerically concerned with the character of countries and regions.[citation needed] "In Search of the Author of Strabo's Geography." Journal of Roman Studies 87:92–110. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3703.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3703.txt