Dublin Core
Title
Str. 2,9,1.
Subject
The western expanse of the Parthian Empire.
Creator
Veit Erik Brandt
Date
early 1st c. CE
Language
Greek
Literary Sources Item Type Metadata
Work:
Geographica
Date:
early 1st c. CE
Translation:
Apart from its small size [Parthia] is also covered by forests, mountainous and unproductive [in agriculture], so that kings hurry their hosts through this land, as it cannot even sustain them for a short time. But now it is enlarged; the Komisene and Chorene are parts of Parthia, as well as the regions reaching to the Porta Caspia, to Rhagae and the Tapyrians*, which belonged to Media in the past. From the Porta Caspia to Rhagae is 500 stadia [...] and to Hekatompylos, the royal residency of the Parthians, [there are] 1.260.
* people at the southern coast of the Caspian Sea. Potentially = Tocharians
* people at the southern coast of the Caspian Sea. Potentially = Tocharians
Edition/Translation:
Hackl, U. et al. (eds.). 2010.
Quellen zur Geschichte des Partherreiches 2. NTOA 83. Göttingen.
Roller, D. W. (ed. and trans.). 2014.
Strabo, Geographica. Cambridge.