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== Dating the voyage == [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] said that [[Timaeus (historian)|Timaeus]] (born about 350 BC) believed Pytheas' story of the discovery of [[amber]].<ref name="pliny37-11">''Natural History'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plin.+Nat.+37.11&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137 Book 37, Chapter 11].</ref> First century BC [[Strabo]] said that [[Dicaearchus]] (died about 285 BC) did not trust the stories of Pytheas.<ref>''Geographica'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/2D*.html Book II.4.2] paragraph 401).</ref> That is all the information that survives concerning the date of Pytheas' voyage. [[Henry Fanshawe Tozer]] estimated that Pytheas' voyage occurred about 330 BC, derived from three main sources.<ref name="Tozer">{{cite book |last=Tozer |first=Henry Fanshawe |url=https://archive.org/details/b24876628/page/152/mode/2up |title=A History of Ancient Geography |publisher=Cambriddge University Press |year=1897 |location=Cambridge |pages=152β154}}.</ref>
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