Strabo describes pitch from the rocks, asphalt and sulphur, and a native tradition that Sodom was destroyed by earthquake and flames (Geography 16.2.44).
Genesis’ slime pits, Josephus’ asphalt lake, Pliny’s Asphaltites, and Strabo’s pitch all point at the same physical strangeness Suddi names when he speaks of tar, resin, or pitch toward the south.
Older texts (Genesis, Josephus, Pliny, Strabo) also tie this shore to slime pits, bitumen, and Sodom’s destruction.
(4) - Strabo, the famous Greek geographer and historian, wrote in full agreement with Plato's claims that the story of Atlantis was true and not a fiction.
My favorites are definitely Strabo, Plutarch and Aelianus.
Delambre's disinformation: In 1816, the French mathematician and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre probably misinterpreted a 1587 commentary on Strabo by Isaac Casaubon, leading to widespread acceptance of Aristotle's skepticism of Atlantis.
Apparently, they failed to notice that many authors of classical literature, such as Proclus, Diodorus, Plutarch, Posidonius, Strabo, and Pliny, all made references to Atlantis.
Strabo says, speaking of the Turduli and Turdetani, "they are the most cultivated of all the Iberians; they employ the art of writing, and have written books containing memorials of ancient times, and also poems and laws set in verse, for which they claim an antiquity of six thousand years." (Strabo, lib.
Plato, four hundred years before our Saviour’s time, gives a particular account of the great island of Atlantis, "an island that was larger than Libya (Africa) and Asia." Strabo and Pliny both mention a like mysterious island.
Some ancient writers, including Strabo, located Erytheia in the region of Gadeira (modern-day Cádiz), and it has been speculated that the island represents early Greek contact with the western Mediterranean and beyond.
Strabo was a Greek geographer who identified Erytheia with the region of Gadeira (modern Cádiz).
There was an ancient tradition among the Persians that the Phœnicians migrated from the shores of the Erythræan Sea, and this has been supposed to mean the Persian Gulf; but there was a very old city of Erythia, in utter ruin in the time of Strabo, which was built in some ancient age, long before the founding of Gades, near the site of that town, on the Atlantic coast of Spain.
Strabo estimated that they had three hundred cities along the west coast of Africa.
iv., and a passage of Strabo, which speaks of the practice among the Scythians.
They are probably the Tochari of Strabo.
355.) Pliny says, "Letters were always in use." Strabo says, "The inhabitants of Spain possessed records written before the Deluge." (Jackson's "Chronicles of Antiquity," vol.
272.) Strabo (vol.
Strabo, a Greek geographer and historian from the 1st century BCE, also refers to Babylon in his Geography.
Strabo, writing in the 1st century BCE, mentions Babylon's decline in his Geography.
The Geertmen were known by only one of the Greek writers, Strabo, who mentions them as Γερμᾶνες, differing totally and entirely from the Βραχμᾶνες in manners, language, and religion.
In Strabo, book i.
2), for he encamped at Pi-ha-chiroht, the “mouth of the strait.” Moreover, Strabo mentions that Sesostris made an attempt to cut through the isthmus, but that he was not able to accomplish it.
Another statement, which occurs only in Strabo, finds also here a confirmation.
Strabo alone of all the Greek writers relates that Nearchus, after he had landed his troops in the Persian Gulf, at the mouth of the Pasitigris, sailed out of the Persian Gulf by Alexander’s command, and steered round Arabia through the Arabian Gulf.
If, as Strabo seems to think, it was only for geographical discovery, he need not have taken the whole fleet.
Strabo, the Greek geographer writing in the 1st century BC, echoed Herodotus' view.
These texts and sources include works by classical authors such as Herodotus, Strabo, and Pliny the Elder, who provide descriptions of the Nile Delta's extensive network of waterways.
Strabo, a Greek geographer, provided an extensive description of Egypt, including the Nile Delta, in his work, Geographica (Book XVII).
Strabo's account highlights the geographical and economic importance of the delta's distributaries in ancient times.
Strabo's Geographica: Available at Perseus Digital Library
Couvade has been documented by travelers throughout history, including the Greek geographer Strabo.
The classical framing around that quote also keeps Manetho / Herodotus / Diodorus / Strabo neighbors on long god and demigod rule spans (gods about 13,900 years; demigods about 11,000).