Here are the historical sources cited in today's sermon for you to see for yourself what was said by historians.
Herodotus (The Histories section 1.101)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text…
Strabo, a Greek geographer and historian (The Geography of Strabo Book 11 chapter 9 section 3)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text…
Macrobius (Saturnalia, Book II, Chapter IV,11)
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/…/Texts/Mac…/Saturnalia/2*.html