Talk:Earthquake lights

I believe it's the alines.

Thucydides?
Please somebody check again or delete that reference to Thucydides. He died in 395 BC according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides Quote:``Thucydides (between 460 and 455 BC - 395 BC) was an ancient Greek historian.'' Could it be Xenophon?


 * The original source from which I took the "Thucydides" name reference was this article, although the name of ancient Helice in the context of Earthquake lights can be found in other articles/websites.


 * Maybe we should ask the author of the article about his source. (Alberto Enriquez aenriquez{at}adn.com)


 * And BTW, Strabo has an accound of the Helice earthquake story, but nothing about the lights. (here's the link in case anyone wants to make an article about it). Bogdan | Talk 22:13, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

HERE'S THE CORRECT SOURCE: An extended passage about earthquake precursory signs and the destruction of Helike (373 B.C.) is not from the historian Thucydides, but instead can be found in the Greek geographer Pausanias, (circa AD 110 – 180). The specific citation is Pausanias (7.24.7-8), translated here as "occasionally great flames dart across the sky," the passage is available as an e-text:  It may be that in writing about the Helike earthquake, Pausanias compiled a list of all earthquake precursors then thought to occur, not necessarily limiting himself to those that were reported for Helike. It would be a shame to cut this Greek reference as one of the earliest known recorded references to earthquake lights. Could someone more expert on the Wiki editing process please consider restoring it with the proper translation and attribution? Un Mundo (talk) 21:22, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

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