ABSTRACT
The presence of philosophy in Strabo's Geography is threefold: firstly, Strabo presents geography as a philosophical discipline, which endows it with prestige and a tradition of illustrious predecessors. Secondly, there are echoes of philosophical ideas in the Geography, which are not explicitly advertised as such, and yet frequently bear traces of Stoic influence. The third aspect of philosophy's presence in the Geography is the historical one: Strabo is an invaluable source of information on the careers of philosophers in the first century BCE, including teacher-pupil relationships, professional rivalries and events of great cultural importance. Where Stoicism appears to have been most influential without, however, much explicit acknowledgement, is in Strabo's political outlook, where nature and human society are inextricably linked in a cosmic unity across the oikoumenê. Strabo's engagement with the philosophical schools of his time does not exhaust itself with Stoicism.
