Santorini and Its Eruptions (Foundations of Natural History)
Edition: Har/Map edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780801856143
Subjects: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; Vulcanology & seismology; Sociology; Greece; Ancient Archaeology; Social Science; Science; Greek islands; Penology; Archaeology; Earth Sciences - Geology; Earthquakes & Volcanoes; Science / History; Thera Island Region; Eruptions; Geology; Santorini Volcano (Greece)
First sentence: We possess no published eyewitness account of the first appearance of these islands, but Strabo, Seneca, Plutarch, Pausanias, Justin, Eusebe, and Ammianus Marcellinus all speak of them in more or less detail, and all are in general agreement.