The championship 'Father of Geography' could go given to the Greek philosopher, historian as well as geographer Strabo. Strabo lived during the transitional catamenia when the Roman Republic developed into the Roman Empire. He is nearly good known for his 'Geographica', an historical as well as descriptive trouble concern human relationship of the people as well as places living inwards the dissimilar regions of the western world, during his era.
Strabo himself had traveled extensively. He boasted that "Westward I accept journeyed to the parts of Etruria contrary Sardinia; towards the southward from the Euxine to the borders of Ethiopia; as well as mayhap non i of those who accept written geographies has visited to a greater extent than places than I accept betwixt those limits." He used his ain extensive geographical noesis as well as his broad Greek as well as Roman educational studies to inform his encyclopedia of geographical noesis - the Geographica.
I've added a basis map based on Strabo's Geographica to my Mappae Mundi collection of basis maps. If yous click on the engagement '0' inwards the map card yous tin persuasion an 1814 basis map which attempted to map the basis based on its description inwards the Geographica. While it is nearly definitely non a map of the basis dating from the Roman Republic it is a map which attempts to visualize the basis equally it was known inwards the W during the fourth dimension of Christ.
You tin likewise persuasion a to a greater extent than geographical accurate map of the locations mentioned inwards the Geographica inwards the Strabo Map. The University of Cambridge Press' interactive map of all the locations mentioned inwards Strabo's Geographica, the Strabo Map, uses Mapbox to add together place-names mentioned inwards the Geographica to an interactive map.
The map tiles used inwards the Strabo Map are the same AWMC map tiles, equally used inwards the Pleides gazette of ancient places.
