Earthling
David Henson
Pliny The Elder (d. A.D. 79)
Pliny the Elder, a first-century Roman military commander, author, naturalist and philosopher, referred to the Turkish city of Hieropolis as the heartland of Magog. Hierapolis was an ancient Greco-Roman city in Phyrgia near Laodicea. Hieropolis was also known as Scythopolis, (City of Scythes) which the peoples of that day referred to as Magog. One would think that this would be crucial information to consider and mention, yet in the numerous popular books and treatments of Gog and Magog I’ve reviewed in my studies, I have never once seen this important historical reference cited.
Jewish Antiquities, I, 123 [vi, 1]
In Classical Greek and Roman writings the term Scythian applied to northern barbarians.
Encyclopaedia Britannica (Vol. 20, p. 235) - “throughout classical literature Scythia generally meant all regions to the north and northeast of the Black sea, and a Scythian (Skuthes) any barbarian coming from those parts.”
The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge - “The name ‘Scythians’ was among the ancients an elastic appellation, and so was the Hebrew ‘Magog.’” - Edited by S. Jackson, 1956, Vol. V, p. 14.