Classical Authors and Other Valuable Sources:

Dio Chrysostom

• The Thirty-sixth, or Borysthenitic, Discourse

Ephorus

• Fragment (via Strabo)

Herodotus

• The Histories (excerpt)

Hippocrates

• Airs, Waters, and Places

• On the Sacred Disease

Justin

• Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus (excerpt)

Lucian of Samosata

• Toxaris: A Dialogue on Friendship

Ovid

• Tristia (excerpt)

Hiuen Tsiang

• Si-Yu-Ki

Strabo

• Geography (excerpt)