Re: Imperialism as the source of new geographical knowledge

> Strabo would then mean that Mithradates as early as 110 or even
> sooner was "intending" (or planning) to lead "an army against the
> barbarians who lived beyond the isthmus as far as the Borysthenes
> and the Adrias; this, however, was preparatory to a campaign against
> the Romans". Not that he or his generals were already on the field!

(TP) Were too.

****GK: Where exactly? In ->110 BCE the Scythians controlled everything from the Thracian boundary (as described by Ps. Skymnos) to that of the Bosporan kingdom. And M's "first spoils" against them were those of Diophantes at Chersonesos. So which "barbarians" was he battling against? (NB= Not Greek coastal cities).****