Estrabón transmisor. Las fuentes del Libro III

Abstract

As a Hellenic author under the Roman regime of Octavian Augustus, Strabo had to harmonize his cultural tradition with the needs of the new political structure. In this sense, he maintained important connections between other authors in the same situation. His geographical work served as a consecration of the princeps´dominion in its spacial conception, clearly for a greek public. To analyze these principles is a key factor to reach an overall understanding of him as a transmitter of written sources, in our case, of the written sources he used for the elaboration of his 3th Book, dedicated to Hispania. On the other hand, we conserve these only fragmentarily, so the comprehension of their transmitter, in this case, Strabo, is an ineluctable element to have a more complete framework of each one. Once we have studied the transmitter and the transmitted authors, we can feel more authorized to determine the relations between them, what principles the first took from them, what principles or ideas he rejected, and after all, which use he made of them to complete his own objective.