By this means he found that the circumference of the earth was 250,000 stadia, according to Cleomedes, but Strabo says that it was 252,000 stadia. A discrepancy arises when we come to consider the ...
In his Geography, Greek historian Strabo wrote of a queen called “Candace” who signed a peace treaty with the emperor Augustus. Candace, in fact, means “sister,” and was the title given to ...