From his own writings, we know that this man studied under Aristodemus in Caria and Tyrannion in Rome, and was close friends with the prefect Aelius Gallus, whom he accompanied on a trip to Egypt.
From his own writings, we know that this man studied under Aristodemus in Caria and Tyrannion in Rome, and was close friends with the prefect Aelius Gallus, whom he accompanied on a trip to Egypt. He reportedly returned to his hometown of Amasia in Pontus in order to write a 43-book history which is no longer extant. His fame rests almost entirely on a 17-volume work which ends with the death of Juba, the king of Mauretania, in 21 AD. That work was patterned on the treatises of Eratosthenes and contains books on India, Gaul, and Spain. FTP, name this man who authored ►the Geographica, a Greek historian born in 64 BC. 
From his own writings, we know that this man studied under Aristodemus in Caria and Tyrannion in Rome, and was close friends with the prefect Aelius Gallus, whom he accompanied on a trip to Egypt.
Strabo  