A África na Geografia de Estrabão: a construção de paisagens egípcias, etíopes e líbias no Império Romano - volume I

Abstract

In this dissertation we investigate a description produced at the beginning of the Roman Empire entitled Strabo’s Geography (64 BC – 24 AD). We analyze the spatial construction presented in the seventeenth and last book of the work, a section in which Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya, which constituted the third part of the inhabited orb in Antiquity, that is, Africa, are described. Using as theoretical foundation the idea of landscape and weather-world by Timothy Ingold (2000; 2015) and choosing to translate khora (τῆς χώρας) as territory, we identified discursive expressions and the characterizing elements of the territories that allowed the identification of various Egyptian, Ethiopians and Libyans landscapes in the discourse. Thus, we perform a historical critique of Geography and submitted book XVII to the categorical analysis proposed by Laurence Bardin’s (2011) content analysis. Therefore, we argue that Strabo presents a particular Africa among the several produced throughout the Roman Empire.