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... wrote : " I devoutly wish that Herodotus ' other characteristics were imitable : not all of them , of course that is past praying for , but any one of them : the agreeable style , the constructive skill , the native charm of his Ionic ...
... wrote : " I devoutly wish that Herodotus ' other characteristics were imitable : not all of them , of course that is past praying for , but any one of them : the agreeable style , the constructive skill , the native charm of his Ionic ...
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... wrote an account of the voyages of Eudoxus of Cyzicus to India in the time of Ptolemy Euergetes ( ca. 118-113 B.C. ) and of his endeavor to discover the sources of the Nile . The Greeks were long disposed , on the word of Hecataeus of ...
... wrote an account of the voyages of Eudoxus of Cyzicus to India in the time of Ptolemy Euergetes ( ca. 118-113 B.C. ) and of his endeavor to discover the sources of the Nile . The Greeks were long disposed , on the word of Hecataeus of ...
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... wrote in Icelandic both ancient and recent history ; in the beginning of his book he wrote chiefly about the colonization of Iceland and legislative measures , then about the law- speakers , how long each of them held office and gave ...
... wrote in Icelandic both ancient and recent history ; in the beginning of his book he wrote chiefly about the colonization of Iceland and legislative measures , then about the law- speakers , how long each of them held office and gave ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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