Editing Strabo (section)

=== Volcanism ===
Strabo commented on [[volcanism]] ([[effusive eruption]]) which he observed at [[Katakekaumene]] (modern [[Kula (volcano)|Kula]], Western Turkey).  Strabo's observations predated [[Pliny the Younger]] who witnessed the eruption of [[Mount Vesuvius]] on 24 August AD&nbsp;79 in [[Pompeii]]:<ref name="StraboGeogVI">{{cite book|author=Strabo|url=https://archive.org/stream/in.gov.ignca.2918/2918#page/n191/search/Dionysus+|title=Geography|date=1950|publisher=William Heinemann|volume=VI Book XIII|location=London|page=183|translator=Horace Leonard Jones|section=11}}</ref><blockquote>…There are no trees here, but only the vineyards where they produce the Katakekaumene wines which are by no means inferior from any of the wines famous for their quality. The soil is covered with ashes, and black in colour as if the mountainous and rocky country was made up of fires. Some assume that these ashes were the result of thunderbolts and subterranean explosions, and do not doubt that the legendary story of [[Typhon]] takes place in this region. Ksanthos adds that the king of this region was a man called Arimus. However, it is not reasonable to accept that the whole country was burned down at a time as a result of such an event rather than as a result of a fire bursting from underground whose source has now died out. Three pits are called "Physas" and separated by forty stadia from each other. Above these pits, there are hills formed by the hot masses burst out from the ground as estimated by a logical reasoning. Such type of soil is very convenient for [[viniculture]], just like the Katanasoil which is covered with ashes and where the best wines are still produced abundantly. Some writers concluded by looking at these places that there is a good reason for calling Dionysus by the name ("Phrygenes").</blockquote>