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Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community: Arions Leap

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Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community: Arions Leap - Thompson, Norma, Professor
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The subtitle of this book is Arion's Leap' and it is from this example of the puzzling fictionality of some of Herodotus' histories that the author starts her exploration (Arion was the singer who leapt into the sea to escape from Corinthian pirates and was rescued by dolphins).

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Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community: Arions Leap 2000, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

ISBN-13: 9780300062601

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