{"id":11624,"date":"2018-03-09T06:18:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T06:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jassa.org\/?p=11624"},"modified":"2018-03-09T06:19:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T06:19:48","slug":"the-abbreviator-of-strabo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/?p=11624","title":{"rendered":"The Abbreviator of Strabo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/frommz.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11638 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/frommz.png?resize=625%2C264\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/frommz.png?resize=1024%2C433&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/frommz.png?resize=300%2C127&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/frommz.png?resize=768%2C325&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/frommz.png?resize=624%2C264&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/frommz.png?w=1385&amp;ssl=1 1385w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/frommz.png?w=1250 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The so-called abbreviator (or, if you will, epitomizer) of Strabo, writing between 670 and 680, created, as the name suggests, an abbreviated copy of Strabo&#8217;s &#8220;Geography&#8221;.\u00a0In doing so, he also added his own comments where he saw fit. \u00a0It is possible too that the comments came from several authors. A number of those comments appear of relevance to Slavic history. \u00a0The book numbers below refer to the books of the &#8220;Geography&#8221;. The manuscript itself comes from the end of the ninth century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/epitomz.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11633 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/epitomz.jpg?resize=625%2C251\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/epitomz.jpg?resize=1024%2C411&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/epitomz.jpg?resize=300%2C120&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/epitomz.jpg?resize=768%2C308&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/epitomz.jpg?resize=624%2C251&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/epitomz.jpg?w=1748&amp;ssl=1 1748w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/epitomz.jpg?w=1250 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Book 7.47<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavos.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11639 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavos.jpg?resize=625%2C115\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavos.jpg?resize=1024%2C188&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavos.jpg?resize=300%2C55&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavos.jpg?resize=768%2C141&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavos.jpg?resize=624%2C115&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavos.jpg?w=1739&amp;ssl=1 1739w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavos.jpg?w=1250 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">&#8220;The\u00a0Scythian Slavs\u00a0now hold all Epirus and almost all of Greece, together with the Peloponnesus and\u00a0Macedonia.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavost.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11640 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavost.jpg?resize=625%2C99\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavost.jpg?resize=1024%2C162&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavost.jpg?resize=300%2C48&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavost.jpg?resize=768%2C122&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavost.jpg?resize=624%2C99&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavost.jpg?w=1825&amp;ssl=1 1825w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/slavost.jpg?w=1250 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright \u00a92018 jassa.org All Rights Reserved<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The so-called abbreviator (or, if you will, epitomizer) of Strabo, writing between 670 and 680, created, as the name suggests, an abbreviated copy of Strabo&#8217;s &#8220;Geography&#8221;.\u00a0In doing so, he also added his own comments where he saw fit. \u00a0It is possible too that the comments came from several authors. A number of those comments appear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-byzantine-slavs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11624"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11642,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions\/11642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}