ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns Strabo's Historical Commentaries and his Geography. Apart from the Strabonian fragment preserved in Tertullian, all the quotes from Strabo concern historical episodes: Josephus uses Strabo's Historical Commentaries for the history of the Jews, and Plutarch cites them three times, in the biographies of Sulla, Lucullus and Caesar. The fragment preserved in Tertullian's work On the soul is, in fact, not a citation but merely a reference to the fact that Strabo preserves information on a dream that Mithridates had which prompted him to covet Pontos. In his commentary Duane Roller asserts that this fragment appears in a passage where Tertullian refers to many famous men who have had dreams which include portents. Unlike Tertullian, it is quite certain that Lucullus Plutarch had direct access to Strabo's Historical Commentaries, since the polymath from Chaironeia specifically states that he is quoting from Strabo's work.
