Geography

​And Antissa was formerly an island, as Myrsilus says; and since Lesbos was formerly called Issa, it happened that the island was called Antissa; but now it is a city of Lesbos. And some have believed that Lesbos also was torn away from Ida, just as Prochyte and Pithecoussa were from Misenum, and Capreae from the Athenaeum, and Sicilia from the Rhegine territory, and Ossa from Olympus. And such changes have also occurred in these parts. And the Ladon in Arcadia once checked its flow. And Douris says that Rhagae in Media was named because the land about the Caspian Gates was rent by earthquakes, so that many cities and villages were overturned, and rivers underwent various changes. And Ion says of Euboea in his satyr-play Omphale: “The narrow wave of Euripus separated the Euboean land from Boeotia, having cut off the projecting shore with a strait.”

​And Demetrius of Callatis, in his account of the earthquakes which once occurred throughout the whole of Greece, says that the greater part of both the Lichades islands and Cenaeum was submerged, and that the hot springs at Aedepsos and Thermopylae were checked for three days and then flowed again, and those at Aedepsos broke forth also from other springs; and that at Oreos the wall facing the sea and about seven hundred of the houses collapsed, and of Echinos and Phalara and Heracleia in Trachis, a large part fell, and at Phalara the town was overturned from its foundations. And similar things happened also to the Lamian and Larisaean peoples; and Scarpeia was thrown up from its foundations, and no fewer than seventeen hundred bodies were submerged, and of the Thronians more than half of this number; and a wave, being raised and split in three, was carried, one part toward Tarphe and Thronion, another toward Thermopylae, and another into the plain as far as Daphnous in Phocis, and the sources of the rivers were dried up for some days; and the Spercheios changed its bed and made the roads navigable, and the Boagrios was carried through another ravine, and many parts of Alope, Kynos, and Opous were severely damaged, and Oion, the fortress situated above them, was entirely overturned, and a part of the wall of Elateia collapsed; and near Alponos, during the festival of the Thesmophoria, twenty-five maidens who had run up into one of the harbor towers for a view, fell into the sea when the tower collapsed. And they say also that a passage for ships was opened in the middle of Atalante near Euboea, a cleft having been made, and some of the plains were flooded as far as twenty stadia, and a certain trireme was lifted out of the docks and thrown over the wall.