According to ancient sources, ( Plutarch Theseus, Pausanias ), Amazon tombs could be found frequently throughout what was once known as the ancient Greek world.

According to Pausanias ( 6. 18. 6 ), Anaximenes was " the first who practised the art of speaking extemporaneously.

According to Pausanias, writing in the 2nd century AD, the term ' Achaean ' was originally given to those Greeks inhabiting the Argolis and Laconia.

According to Pausanias, local inhabitants of Therapne, Sparta, recognized Thero " feral, savage " as a nurse of Ares.

According to Pausanias and the Greek historian Polybius, an inscribed pillar ( stele ) was erected near the altar of Zeus on Mt.

According to Pausanias, Poseidon was one of the caretakers of the oracle at Delphi before Olympian Apollo took it over.

According to Pausanias ( 2nd century AD ), the torch relay, called lampadedromia or lampadephoria, was first instituted at Athens in honor of Prometheus.

According to Pausanias, Pelarge the daughter of Potnieus, was connected with the cult of Demeter in the Cabeirian ( potniai ).

According to Pausanias, someone named Oenobius was able to get a law passed allowing Thucydides to return to Athens, presumably sometime shortly after the city's surrender and the end of the war in 404 BC.

According to the sixteenth book of Diodorus ' history, Pausanias had been a lover of Philip, but became jealous when Philip turned his attention to a younger man, also called Pausanias.

According to geographer Pausanias ( 1. 28. 2 ), the original bronze Lemnian Athena was created by Phidias circa 450-440 BCE, for Athenians living on Lemnos.

According to Pausanias ( 5. 14. 3 ) the Boeotian Asopus can produce the tallest reeds of any river.

According to Pausanias, Alpheius was a passionate hunter and fell in love with the nymph Arethusa, but she fled from him to the island of Ortygia near Syracuse, and metamorphosed herself into a well, after which Alpheius became a river, which flowing from Peloponnesus under the sea to Ortygia, there united its waters with those of the well Arethusa.

According to Pausanias, he is buried in Sparta next to the tomb of Helen of Troy.

According to Pausanias, a heroon was dedicated to him for worship by hereditarily assigned priests.

According to Pausanias in the later 2nd century AD, there were three original Muses: Aoidē (" song " or " voice "), Meletē (" practice " or " occasion "), and Mnēmē (" memory ").

According to Pausanias, there was an altar of Caerus close to the entrance to the stadium at Olympia, for Opportunity is regarded as a divinity and not as a mere allegory.

According to Pausanias, he was the youngest son of Eumolpus, one of the first priests of Demeter at Eleusis and a founder of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

According to Pausanias there was a statue of Artemis made by Praxiteles in her temple in Anticyra of Phokis.

According to Pausanias ( 3. 15. 7 ) the Lacedaemonians believed that by chaining up Enyalius they would prevent the god from deserting Sparta.

According to Herodotus and Pausanias ( vi. 17. 6 ), on the authority of Hesiod, his father was Amythaon, whose name implies the " ineffable " or " unspeakably great "; Melampus and his heirs were thus Amythaides of the " House of Amythaon ".

According to Pausanias, Phocus visited the region that was later called Phocis shortly before his death, with the intent of settling there and gaining rule over the local inhabitants.

According to Pausanias, they dwell together on the island of Leuke.

According to the accounts of historian Diodorus Siculus and geographer Strabo, the area's first permanent settlers were the mountain-dwelling Ligures, who emigrated from their native city of Genoa, Italy.

According to Ahmad Y. al-Hassan, these panemone windmills were invented in eastern Persia as recorded by the Persian geographer Estakhri in the 9th century .< ref >

According to the Sicilian Greek poet Stesichorus, in his poem the " Song of Geryon ", and the Greek geographer Strabo, in his book Geographika ( volume III ), the Hesperides are in Tartessos, a location placed in the south of the Iberian peninsula.

According to the Roman geographer Strabo, the early Empire sent a fleet of around 120 ships on an annual one-year trip to China, Southeast Asia, India and back.

According to the ancient geographer Ptolemy, writing in the 2nd century AD, Dunium was the main settlement of the Durotriges.

The Greek geographer Strabo claimed that Greek colonists named the river Sybaris after a fountain of the same name at Bura in Achaia: According to some sources it had the property of making the horses that drank its water shy.

According to the Arab geographer Yakut, in the mid-13th century there were two independent sultans ruling over parts of Pemba Island.

According to the Greek geographer Strabo, Capri was once part of the mainland.

According to the 9th century Arab geographer Ya ' qubi, ar-Ramleh ( Ramla ) was founded in 716 by the Caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, and its name was derived from the Arabic word Raml ( رمل )— meaning sand.

According to the Egyptian Greek geographer Ptolemy, the Phoenicians had founded here a colony named Saduce, but the Romans are the most likey to have founded the current town, as shown by findings of edifices and a necropolis ( from whose size it has been deduced that the settlement had around 2, 000 inhabitants ).

According to the ancient geographer Strabo, Daco-Moesian was further spread into Asia Minor in the form of Mysian by a migration of the Moesi people ; Strabo asserts that Moesi and Mysi were variants of the same name.

According to the environmental geographer Laura Pulido, the historical processes of suburbanization and urban decentralization contribute to contemporary environmental racism.

According to the French geographer Ernest Nègre, the name Menton comes from the Roman name Mento.

According to the geographer Strabo's reports in the 1st century, today's location of the city of Čakovec was the site of Aquama ( wet town ) in Roman times and at the time a marshland, a military post and a legionnaire camp.

According to geographer Elek Fényes, in 1851 Felső-Őr was a Hungarian village with a population of 2323 people.

According to Arab geographer al-Ya ' qubi, it was the last town in the Province of Syria and on the road from Ramla to Egypt.

According to the geographer Claudius Ptolemy, the indigenes were the powerful Turdetani, in the valley of the Guadalquivir in the west, bordering on Lusitania, and the partly Hellenized Turduli with their city Baelon, in the hinterland behind the coastal Phoenician trading colonies, whose Punic inhabitants Ptolemy termed the " Bastuli ".

According to a theory first proposed by Lennart Meri, it is possible that Saaremaa was the legendary Thule island, first mentioned by ancient Greek geographer Pytheas, whereas the name " Thule " could have been connected to the Finnic word tule ("( of ) fire ") and the folklore of Estonia, which depicts the birth of the crater lake in Kaali.

According to the Greek geographer Strabo, Seleucus was also the first to assume the universe to be infinite.

According to the calculations of the Russian geographer Alexander Bazelyuk, merely 9. 1 km of the length of the West Manych river remains in its original " river " ( rather than reservoir form ): 8. 2 km from the Vesyolovsk Dam to the upper reaches of the Ust-Manych Reservoir, and 0. 9 km from the Ust-Manych Dam to the river's fall into the Don.

According to Israeli geographer Zev Vilnay, the land belonged to the Catholic Monastery of St. Anne, whose monks hailed mainly from France.

According to Ahmad ibn Rustah ( c. 930 ), a Persian explorer and geographer, the " Magyars are a race of Huns and their king rides out with horsemen to the number of 10, 000 and this king is called Kanda.

According to Glanville Price, the account of the Greek geographer Strabo shows that the Getae and the Dacians were one and the same people.