Walahfrid Strabo--the second part of his name means "the squinter"--was born in Swabia in poor circumstances and educated at the monastery of the Reichenau on Lake Constance, which he remembered fondly in verses in the Sapphic meter that have the...

c. 808-849 Swabian scholar whose Liber de cultura hortorum describes a number of herbs and medicinal plants and their healing properties. A Benedictine monk, he served as tutor to Holy Roman Emperor Charles II (the Bald) in about 829, and wrote a...

Walafrid, alternatively spelt Walahfrid, surnamed Strabo (or Strabus, i.e. "squint-eyed") (c. 808 – August 18, 849), was a Frankish monk and theological...

Strabo of Amasia (ca. 64 B.C.-ca. A.D. 23) wrote the first comprehensive geography of the world known to the Greeks and Romans. Interest in Strabo and his Geography, which survives nearly intact in seventeen books, has fluctuated over the centuries among both classicists and...

STRABO'S CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY: The Making of a Kolossourgia. Edited by DANIELA DUECK, HUGH LINDSAY, and SARAH POTHECARY. xvi and 286 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0521853060. Strabo's Geography, which he called a "kolossourgia" or...