SOURCE: “Some Questions Bearing on the Date and Place of Composition of Strabo’s Geography” in Anatolian Studies Presented to Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, edited by W. H. Buckler & W. M. Calder, Cambridge University Press, 1923, 1-13.

In the following essay, Anderson presents his case that the bulk of the Geography was completed by 2 b.c. and that it was written in “some provincial city in the eastern Mediterranean.”

I.

Nine or ten years ago I began to prepare a commentary on Strabo’s description of Pontus for a projected edition of the books dealing with Asia Minor, which, in the present state of the world, is not likely to see the light—a fact to be deplored, if only because we lose the valuable information and well-pondered ideas which would have been contributed by the scholar in whose honour this volume is written. In preparing the commentary, I...