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... called the vine Oena , and the son of Oeneus was Aetolus . Aristotle instances Herodotus as an example of the running or what has been called the " bead - stringing " style . But any writer who rises above tediousness will sometimes ...
... called the vine Oena , and the son of Oeneus was Aetolus . Aristotle instances Herodotus as an example of the running or what has been called the " bead - stringing " style . But any writer who rises above tediousness will sometimes ...
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... called Herodotus " the father of liars . " This " parcel of lies " treatment , as it has been called , has been generally abandoned . Herod- otus has issued a blank caveat which is repeated more than once . For myself [ he says ] ...
... called Herodotus " the father of liars . " This " parcel of lies " treatment , as it has been called , has been generally abandoned . Herod- otus has issued a blank caveat which is repeated more than once . For myself [ he says ] ...
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... called “ the one supreme art genius in the history of the world . " To such criticism Thucydides might reply that he was not writing a general history of Greece , nor a history of culture in Athens ; that his was a political and ...
... called “ the one supreme art genius in the history of the world . " To such criticism Thucydides might reply that he was not writing a general history of Greece , nor a history of culture in Athens ; that his was a political and ...
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