Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy and ZoologyOliver & Boyd, 1830 - 503 pàgines |
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... Herodotus - by Diodorus -by Strabo - Ancient Accounts of the Nile - of Ethio- pia — of Abyssinia - Expedition sent by Necho - Journey of the Nasamones - Voyage of Sataspes of Hanno- Voyages of Eudoxus - Periplus of the Erythrean Sea ...
... Herodotus - by Diodorus -by Strabo - Ancient Accounts of the Nile - of Ethio- pia — of Abyssinia - Expedition sent by Necho - Journey of the Nasamones - Voyage of Sataspes of Hanno- Voyages of Eudoxus - Periplus of the Erythrean Sea ...
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... Herodotus , the earliest and most interesting of Greek historians , when endeavouring to collect in- formation respecting the whole of the known world , was obliged , in the absence of written records , to have recourse to travelling ...
... Herodotus , the earliest and most interesting of Greek historians , when endeavouring to collect in- formation respecting the whole of the known world , was obliged , in the absence of written records , to have recourse to travelling ...
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... Herodotus finds a tribe of the Auses , called Maxyes , who cultivated the ground ; and he is now on the border of the Carthaginian territory , of which , for reasons that Major Rennel cannot fully comprehend , he forbears to treat . He ...
... Herodotus finds a tribe of the Auses , called Maxyes , who cultivated the ground ; and he is now on the border of the Carthaginian territory , of which , for reasons that Major Rennel cannot fully comprehend , he forbears to treat . He ...
Pàgina 20
... Herodotus here stops , frankly own- ing that his information did not enable him to go farther . The only other accounts which had reach- ed him respected a nation beyond the Pillars of Hercules , with whom the Carthaginians carried on ...
... Herodotus here stops , frankly own- ing that his information did not enable him to go farther . The only other accounts which had reach- ed him respected a nation beyond the Pillars of Hercules , with whom the Carthaginians carried on ...
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... Herodotus of this west- ern region be tinctured with fable , the narrative of Diodorus shows still more that the ancients had made it one of the grand theatres of their mytho- logy . To it they refer the ancient and early reign of ...
... Herodotus of this west- ern region be tinctured with fable , the narrative of Diodorus shows still more that the ancients had made it one of the grand theatres of their mytho- logy . To it they refer the ancient and early reign of ...
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