572 Strabo, xiii. 4. 11, p. 628. Compare his account of the Catanian vineyards (vi. 2. 3, p. 269). M145 Earthquakes in Asia Minor. Worship of Poseidon, the earthquake god. 573 Strabo, xii. 8. 16-18, pp. 578 _sq._; xiii. 4. 10 _sq._, p. 628. 574 Strabo, xii. 8. 18, p. 579. Compare Tacitus, _Annals_, xii. 58. 575 Strabo, i. 3. 16, p. 57. Compare Plutarch, _De Pythiae oraculis_, 11; Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ ii. 202; Justin, xxx. 4. The event seems to have happened in 197 B.C. Several other islands are known to have appeared in the same bay both in ancient and modern times. So far as antiquity is concerned, the dates of their appearance are given by Pliny, but some confusion on the subject has crept into his mind, or rather, perhaps, into his text. See the discussion of the subject in W. Smith’s _Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography_ (London, 1873), ii. 1158-1160. As to the eruptions in the bay of Santorin, the last of which occurred in 1866 and produced a new island, see Sir Charles Lyell, _Principles of Geology_12 (London, 1875), i. 51, ii. 65 _sqq._; C. Neumann und J. Partsch, _Physikalische Geographie von Griechenland_ (Breslau, 1885), pp. 272 _sqq._ There is a monograph on Santorin and its eruptions (F. Fouqué, _Santorin et ses éruptions_, Paris, 1879). Strabo has given a brief but striking account of Rhodes, its architecture, its art-treasures, and its constitution (xiv. 2. 5, pp. 652 _sq._). As to the Rhodian schools of art see H. Brunn, _Geschichte der griechischen Künstler_ (Stuttgart, 1857-1859), i. 459 _sqq._, ii. 233 _sqq._, 286 _sq._ 576 Aristophanes, _Acharn._ 682; Pausanias, iii. 11. 9, vii. 21. 7; Plutarch, _Theseus_, 36; Aristides, _Isthmic._ vol. i. p. 29, ed. G. Dindorf (Leipsic, 1829); Appian, _Bell. Civ._ v. 98; Macrobius, _Saturn._ i. 17. 22; G. Dittenberger, _Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum_2 (Leipsic, 1898-1901), ii. p. 230, No. 543. 577 Cornutus, _Theologiae Graecae Compendium_, 22. M146 Spartan propitiation of Poseidon during an earthquake. 578 Xenophon, _Hellenica_, iv. 7. 4. As to the Spartan headquarters staff (οἱ περὶ δαμοσίαν), see _id._ iv. 5. 8, vi. 4. 14; Xenophon, _Respublica Lacedaem_. xiii. 1, xv. 4. Usually the Spartans desisted from any enterprise they had in hand when an earthquake happened (Thucydides, iii. 59. 1, v. 50. 5, vi. 95. 1).