'And first, both we and our predecessors, one of whom was Ipparchos, rightfully considered Homer to be the founder of the science of geography. He, not only surpassed in the excellence of poetry both the ancients and the contemporaries, but almost also in his expertise of everythiing pertaining to public life. Thus, not only studied the deeds of the public figures and gave an account of them to posterity, but also the geography of individual countries and of the inhabited world, both land and sea; otherwise he would not have gone to its uttermost bounds to leave everything inside it to memory.'From Strabo's Geography. Book 1:2.

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