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Page 13
... facts in connection with Herodotus as a geographer . He assumes the influence of climate on character and institutions ... fact that our author included in his History the whole life of the people . The result is a book of astounding ...
... facts in connection with Herodotus as a geographer . He assumes the influence of climate on character and institutions ... fact that our author included in his History the whole life of the people . The result is a book of astounding ...
Page 101
... fact that he should not be recognized , but Odysseus had been gone not longer than twenty years , he was probably about thirty when he left and fifty when he returned , and a man changes but little in appearance in those twenty years ...
... fact that he should not be recognized , but Odysseus had been gone not longer than twenty years , he was probably about thirty when he left and fifty when he returned , and a man changes but little in appearance in those twenty years ...
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... fact that the swineherd and his swine were the creatures of his own fancy . There may have been , and of course there was , an island known as Ithaca , but the Ithaca of the Odyssey is an island of poetry , all the more wonderful from ...
... fact that the swineherd and his swine were the creatures of his own fancy . There may have been , and of course there was , an island known as Ithaca , but the Ithaca of the Odyssey is an island of poetry , all the more wonderful from ...
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