- In ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Richard"
<richaje_at_...> wrote:
>
> > A good place to start from. I've used "Histories" a lot. It's
> > like "News of the World" for pre-Classical and Classical
societies.
>
> Herodotus rocks. So does Thucydites and Pausanias. Once while
> spending three months in Greece and Italy, I used Pausanias'
> "Description of Greece" as my travel guide. Wonderful!
>
> Jeff
>
Actually, I'm using a few quotes from Strabo in my MSc thesis. He
went through the part of Cilicia we lookedg at and said it was
verdant. It's definitely not now...
Probably due to a large mountain lake draining abruptly and scouring
the countryside clean of, well, anything.
Jeff