Nabataean Arabs According to the Data of Diodorus and Strabo.

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the consideration of problem of comparing the data of two ancient authors, contemporaries of Emperor Augustus – Strabo and Diodorus – about the Nabataeans. On the basis of narrative sources it had been established, that they used a variety of sources had been writing their papers and Nabateans had passed from a nomadic to a settled lifestyle during two centuries.