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- adjective Characteristic of
Herodotus or his works
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This Herodotean world resembles our own in its emphasis on the eastern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, and the Iranian plateau.
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This Herodotean world resembles our own in its emphasis on the eastern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, and the Iranian plateau.
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Ultimately the film takes a moral stance, Herodotean in nature: there is a difference, an unapologetic difference between free citizens who fight for eleutheria and imperial subjects who give obeisance.
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Only with the birth of social history did the freewheeling spirit of Herodotean inquiry return.
Riddle of the sands 2009
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… It is only one of the extensive Herodotean motifs that Ondaatje threaded through his novel.
The Return of Candaules - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Ultimately the film takes a moral stance, Herodotean in nature: there is a difference, an unapologetic difference between free citizens who fight for eleutheria and imperial subjects who give obeisance.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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… It is only one of the extensive Herodotean motifs that Ondaatje threaded through his novel.
The Return of Candaules - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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It is a popular error to explain the Homeric and Herodotean legend of the Pygmies by anthropoid apes.
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Scholars cannot even agree on the Herodotean chicken-and-egg question: Did he write the text from start to finish as we have it (that is, fitting the ethnographies into an overall plan ab initio), or draft the invasion narrative first and then see how his earlier, and presumably experimental, writings could be reworked as part of a greater whole?
The Great Marathon Man Green, Peter 2008
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It might have come closer still had it not been for Robert Strassler's editorial concern that the text should be "comprehensible to the modern reader," even if that meant losing some fidelity (and, I suspect, Herodotean style).
The Great Marathon Man Green, Peter 2008
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