. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . uption of 1G50, or it was simply an additionto the ancient Hiera, of which there are some in-stances at a later period. It is apparently to thiseruption that the statement of Posidonius, quoted bySeneca, refers. The last statement of Pliny that anew island, named Thia, was thrown up 2 stadiafrom Thia in the consulship of M. Junius Silaimsand L. Balbus, on the 8th of July, is so exact that itseems hardly possible to reject it; but here again isan error in the date. If we take the numbers asthey stand, this event would have happened in ;.3, or, a
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . uption of 1G50, or it was simply an additionto the ancient Hiera, of which there are some in-stances at a later period. It is apparently to thiseruption that the statement of Posidonius, quoted bySeneca, refers. The last statement of Pliny that anew island, named Thia, was thrown up 2 stadiafrom Thia in the consulship of M. Junius Silaimsand L. Balbus, on the 8th of July, is so exact that itseems hardly possible to reject it; but here again isan error in the date. If we take the numbers asthey stand, this event would have happened in ;.3, or, according to the corrected numbers, in a. D. 43,whereas we know that M. Junius Silanus and were consuls 19. No other writer,however, speaks of an eruption of an island in thisyear, which, if it actually happened, must againhave disappeared. Moreover, it is strange that Plinyshould have passed over the eruption of the realThia, or Mikra Kainmuii, which occurred in his life-time, in the consulship of Valerius Asiaticus, and in. ABPPOJilBI MAP OF ASH IHK BUBBOCHDIHG ISLANDS. Shoal formed by the submarine volcanic eruption in IIEntrance to the Kliat. Metsa- Vouno and ruined city, probably ruins at Kamari, probably at tcriisa. G. C. II. Ituins. probably of Modern capital Thera or Promontory of . MerooovU. M. Epanomeria. N. C. Kolumbu. 4b 4 1160 THERA. the reign of Claudius, 46. This event, withthe difference of only a single year, is mentioned byseveral writers. (Senec. Qu. Nat. ii. 26, vi. 21;Dion Cass. lx. 29; Aurel. Viet. Caes. 4, Epit. 4;Oros. vii. 6; Amm. Marc. xvii. 7; Georg. p. 197, ed. Par.) Moreover Pliny himself, inanother passage (iv. 12. s. 23), says that Thia ap-peared in our age ( in nostro aevo), which canhardly apply to the consulship of Silanus and Balbus,since he was not born till 23. In a. d. 726, during the reign of Leo the Isaurian,Hiera, or t
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