The Geography of Strabo: An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes
The Geography of Strabo: An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes
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斯特拉波地理：英文翻译，附简介和注释
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10.1111/j.1931-0846.2015.12082.x
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2015
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W. A. Koelsch
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《斯特拉波的地理：英译》，附导言和注释。由Duane W.Roller翻译，XV和891页；地图，书目，索引。英国剑桥：剑桥大学出版社，2014年。190.00美元(布料)，ISBN 9781107038257。可怜的斯特拉波！对于地理学家来说，他是一个倒霉的主人，举办了一场没有人参加的派对。借用小说家玛丽·雷诺的《阿波罗面具》中的一句话说，对于执着于传统正典的古典主义者来说，他就像婚礼上的妓女的孩子。在公元一世纪早期，也就是他晚年的时候，他花了大约六年的时间将他的笔记和备忘录汇编成一本关于可居住世界的长篇地理记述，以便希腊人和罗马人更好地了解他们生活和迁移的环境，或者他们会感兴趣的环境。斯特拉博从未通过将副本存放在其他地方来“出版”它，而且在他去世时，它可能没有被完全修改。但这本书逐渐出现在几个古代图书馆中，或许最早出现在拜占庭时期。东罗马帝国的一些希腊学者提到它，始于公元2世纪末。但这在西方直到15世纪才为人所知，首先是通过老拜占庭学者Georgios Gemistos Plethon于1439年至1440年在佛罗伦萨全基督教理事会向他的西方同事提供的研讨会，随后通过拉丁语翻译。19世纪末，埃克塞特学院学者亨利·范肖·托泽试图将斯特拉博纳入僵化的牛津古典课程，特别是通过他从斯特拉博(1893)中选择的内容，但没有成功。在二十世纪，有几个完整的英文版本被提出，有些甚至开始了，但只有一个出版了。古典主义者(和古典地理学家)约翰·林顿·迈尔斯(John Linton Myres)试图召集一个由古典学家和地理学家组成的委员会来研究这样一个项目，但由于第一次世界大战的爆发，他的尝试失败了。美国古典主义者W·A·奥德帕德(W.A.OldPart)在938年也做出了类似的努力，代表美国语言学会(American Philology Association)，试图让约翰·K·赖特(John K.Wright)(哈佛大学希腊语教授的儿子)参与创作一部新的批判性文本和翻译，并由美国地理学会出版。但这些显然是因为希腊社会大萧条时期的金融问题而失败的，二战的爆发让这个项目变得毫无意义。一本鲜为人知的选集《希腊地理》出版于公元934年，出版于《希腊思想图书馆》系列，其中包括斯特拉博的一些摘录，由该书的编辑埃里克·华明顿翻译。到目前为止，标准的英语翻译是霍勒斯·L·琼斯在勒布经典图书馆系列中的翻译，在1917年至1932年间出版了八卷。然而，它主要是基于两位德国学者在19世纪40年代和50年代汇编的希腊文本，长期以来一直被认为是过时的。正在审阅的这本书是人们期待已久的《地理学》的完整英译本，它是基于最近的希腊文本的学术基础上的。与Loeb不同的是，它的正面页面上没有这样的文本。它确实有关于斯特拉波的生活和工作的34页精辟的介绍，为新版重新研究的片段清单，从巨大的斯特拉波恩书目中选择的有用的简短内容，以及详细和有用的索引。这本重要著作的翻译者和编辑杜安·罗勒是俄亥俄州立大学古典学荣誉退休教授，既是一位古典学者，也是一位经验丰富的考古学家。罗尔还精通古典地理学的历史，并于2010年出版了另一位古希腊地理学家埃拉托色尼的第一个英文翻译和版本。罗尔认为，“研究古代地理还需要田野调查。”因此，为了准备这本巨著，他访问了斯特拉波文本中提到的许多网站。罗尔将斯特拉博的《地理学》描述为“众所周知，被很多人引用，只有少数人理解”，这无疑是正确的，正如他将其描述为“一部复杂的、流浪的作品。”…
THE GEOGRAPHY OF STRABO: An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes. Translated by Duane W. Roller, xv and 891 pp; maps, bibliog., index. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2014. $190.00 (cloth), isbn 9781107038257. Poor Strabo! To geographers he is the hapless host who gave a party to which nobody came. To classicists wedded to the traditional canon, he is "like the whore's child at the wedding," to borrow a phrase from novelist Mary Renault's Mask of Apollo. In the early first century AD, late in his life, he spent six years or so in compiling his notes and memoranda into a lengthy geographical account of the habitable world so that Greeks and Romans might better know the environment in which they lived and moved or in which they would be interested. Strabo never "published" it by depositing copies elsewhere, and it may have been left incompletely revised at the time of his death. But the text gradually appeared in a few ancient libraries, perhaps first in Byzantion. Some Greek scholars in the eastern Roman Empire refer to it, beginning in the late-second century. But it was unknown in the West until the fifteenth century, first through seminars offered by the aged Byzantine scholar Georgios Gemistos Plethon to his Western colleagues at the Ecumenical Council in Florence in 1439-1440 and subsequently through a Latin translation. In the late-nineteenth century, Exeter College scholar Henry Fanshaw Tozer's attempts to insert Strabo into the ossified Oxford classical curriculum, especially through his Selections From Strabo (1893), went nowhere. In the twentieth century, several complete English-language editions were proposed and some even begun, but only one reached publication. An attempt by classicist (and classical geographer) John Linton Myres to bring together a committee of classicists and geographers on such a project was confounded by the outbreak of World War I. Similar efforts in t938 were made by the American classicist W. A. Oldfather, representing the American Philological Association, to interest John K. Wright (son of a Harvard professor of Greek) in a joint effort to create a new critical text and translation, to be published by the American Geographical Society. But these apparently foundered on the Society's Depression-era financial problems, and the project was rendered moot by the outbreak of World War II. A little-known anthology, Greek Geography, published in t934 in the "Library of Greek Thought" series, includes a number of excerpts from Strabo, translated by the volume's editor, Eric Warmington. The standard English-language translation until now has been that of Horace L. Jones in the Loeb Classical Library series, published in eight volumes between 1917 and 1932. It is, however, largely based on Greek texts compiled in the 1840s and 1850s by two German scholars and has long been known to be obsolete. The volume under review is a long-awaited complete English translation of the Geographia, based in recent scholarship on the Greek text. Unlike the Loeb, it does not have that text on its facing pages. It does have an incisive thirty-four page introduction on Strabo's life and work, a list of fragments restudied for the new edition, a useful brief selection from the enormous Strabonic bibliography, and a detailed and helpful index. The translator and editor of this important volume, Duane Roller, is professor emeritus of classics at the Ohio State University and is both a classical scholar and an experienced archaeologist. Roller is also well versed in the history of classical geography, and in 2010 produced the first English-language translation and edition of the surviving fragments of another ancient Greek geographer, Eratosthenes. Roller contends that "the study of ancient geography also requires fieldwork." So, in preparation for this hefty volume, he visited many of the sites mentioned in Strabo's text. Roller's characterization of Strabo's Geography as "known to all, quoted by many, and understood by few" is undoubtedly correct, as is his description of it as "a complex, wandering work . …