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11 ssss1 The map is available to view in full colour and with optional overlays at the Cambridge University Press website: http://www.cambridge.org/us/talbert/index.html.

12 ssss1 Kubitschek RE X (1919) s.v. “Karten,” col. 2015–16, reconstructs the 24 regions in a table: region 17, Syria; 18, Asia citerior; 19, Asia superior; 20, Caspian and Armenia; 21, India; 22, Media, Parthia, Persia; 23, Mesopotamia; 24, Ethiopia and Arabia.

13 ssss1 Nicolet 1991: 30–33; Velleius Paterculus 1.6.6: a later interpolation, quote of Aemilius Sura’s de annis populi Romani on Rome as fifth world power after 146 BCE. Strabo refers to Parthia as submissive to Roman power, 6.4.2, Parthia as rival to Rome based on its size and numerous subjects, 11.9.2, and Rome as having surpassed all previous rulers of the oikoumenē, 17.3.24.

14 ssss1 Strabo 2.5.6 and 10; Dilke 1985: 36–37; Nicolet 1991: 35; Romm 1992: 131, 180; Clarke 1999: 212. Crates sojourned at Rome in the 150s BCE, teaching and writing, and Cicero used his ideas of the globe for his Dream of Scipio, de Rep. 6.19–20.