József Eötvös, Baron
József Eötvös, Baron , 1813-71, Hungarian writer and statesman. A vigorous reformer and a Christian Liberal, he was minister of public instruction and religious affairs in 1848 and again in 1867. His novel The Village Notary (1844-46, tr. 1850) exposed the corrupt practices of county governments.
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Strabo's Cultural Geography: The Making of a Kolossourgia.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Geographical Review; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; STRABO'S CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY: The Making of a...85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0521853060. Strabo's Geography, which he called a "kolossourgia...see my 2004 article, "Squinting Back at Strabo," Geographical Review 94 [4]: 502...
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Squinting back at Strabo*.
Magazine article from: The Geographical Review; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Koelsch 2001, 269). "Both geographers [Strabo and Ptolemy] studied the oecumene...reinterpreting the model put forth by Strabo (ca. 64 B.C.-ca. A.D. 23...beginner's page, "Getting Started with Strabo." For most geographers, of course...
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Clay Finlay Insulated from Market Woes: Hewsenian and Strabo Discuss the Firm's Outlook.
Magazine article from: Investment Management Weekly; 11/19/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...manager, but Rosalind Hewsenian and Henrik Strabo don't seem particularly worried. They...economic issues are important," said Strabo, CIO and managing director at the firm...individual firms in Germany. "In general," Strabo said, "macro issues are more important...
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Survivors of the storm.(money managers, Mark Kopinski and Henrik Strabo)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine; 11/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Kopinski (at right in the photo) and Henrik Strabo, that this repository of stocks of small...curiosity that we met Copenhagen native Strabo and Chicagoan Kopinski one recent afternoon...by what is going on in world markets? Strabo: I've never been as confused as I am...
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Strabo 10.2.4 and the synoecism of "Newer" Pleuron.
Magazine article from: Hesperia; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...epigraphic evidence, most scholars have taken Strabo's short passage on Pleuron as proof...historical context and the language of Strabo suggests, however, that Old Pleuron...relied on the single short passage in Strabo, cited above, as the sole source for...
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Ptolemy and Strabo and their conversation with Appeles and Protogenes: cosmography and painting in Raphael's 'School of Athens.'
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; Writing only forty years after the completion of the so-called School of Athens [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED] for the private library of Julius II, now known as the Stanza della Segnatura, Giorgio Vasari outlined the main features of this large fresco painting by Raphael. Though historians
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A talent for deception
Magazine article from: New Statesman; 6/4/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...heard. It came from the actormanager Strabo, struggling to stay afloat and, indeed...impressed, so impressed that he hails Strabo's skills as an actor. He recognises...as an American, knows the feeling. Strabo had some great patter on the subject...
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Josephus Geographicus.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Shofar; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...geography, especially as reflected by Strabo, who combined the first two spatial concepts...Homeric as the space of cultural identity of Strabo himself. Third, Greek geography...The second concept above mentioned Strabo in particular because Strabo is the funnel...
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Evidence of a Hot Stock Market: Mutual Funds Post Runaway Gains.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 5/6/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...hot foreign market is Europe. Henrik Strabo, who heads international stocks for American...positive from a fundamental standpoint." Strabo pointed out some of those trends as early...practices are old hat in the United States, Strabo said "three or four years ago they were...
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Greek perspectives on the justness and merits of the Trojan War.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: College Literature; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...city of Ilium (Troy), the geographer Strabo (d. after 21 C.E.) notes that the...he had sacked their city. This puzzles Strabo. Heracles captured Troy but did not destroy...whereas the Greeks razed it. Hesitantly, Strabo speculates that the reason is that the...
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Strabo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Strabo Strabo (ca. 64 B.C.-ca. A.D. 23) was a Greek geographer and historian...Augustus of the Roman Empire. He wrote large-scale works in his fields. Strabo was born in the Greek city of Amisea in the district of Pontus, probably...
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Strabo, Walafrid
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Strabo, Walafrid. See WALAFRID STRABO .
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Walafrid Strabo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Walafrid Strabo ( c. 808–49), i.e. ‘Walafrid the Squinter’, poet and biblical exegete. He studied under...
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Europe’s Place in the World: Geographical Speculation in the Renaissance Era
Book article from: American Eras
...among the Italians: the Geography of Strabo, written about the time of Christ. The geographical knowledge contained in Strabo’s and Ptolemy’...the world. The Question of Africa. Strabo’s and Ptolemy’...
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Britons
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...such as Polybius (2nd cent. bc), Diodorus, and Strabo (1st cent. bc). Strabo, however, writing after Caesar's expeditions...polygamy, and lived a simple and frugal life. Strabo, who claimed he had seen British youths in Rome...
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