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 ...
India has not been just a career for author William Dalrymple. He has engaged with it and particularly with Delhi from the peripheries, from its centre, and has followed its various masters and power ...
This was the first name of today’s Zmiiny Island. The island, which is located in the open sea in front of the Danube estuary, was mentioned by ancient authors such as Ovid, Ptolemy and Strabo.