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"According to Rolle (p. 88), graves of women warriors are found throughout the steppe region. They are buried with armour and weapons, and the skeletons bear evidence of wounds taken in battle. In Sauromatia, the region of the lower Volga, 20 per cent of graves containing weapons and harness are those of women, but sizeable numbers have been found in western Scythia as well."
— Jan 01, 2020 08:39AM
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Again from the notes:
"On the one hand, the Athenians are indeed firmly committed to fighting the Persians, but on the other, a lynch-mob mentality seems to prevail, among the women (cf. 5.87) as well as among the councillors themselves."
— Jan 02, 2020 10:30AM
"On the one hand, the Athenians are indeed firmly committed to fighting the Persians, but on the other, a lynch-mob mentality seems to prevail, among the women (cf. 5.87) as well as among the councillors themselves."
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From the notes:
"One wishes that the Persian nobility had been more inventive in their names and less inclined to marry their close relatives."
— Jan 01, 2020 10:42PM
"One wishes that the Persian nobility had been more inventive in their names and less inclined to marry their close relatives."
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"As mentioned above (n. 4.17–27), east of the middle Dnieper, where H puts the Cannibals (106), human bones have been found mixed with animal bones and kitchen refuse."
— Jan 01, 2020 08:39AM
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"3.149 Asheri notes that this is the first of a number of wholesale interferences with European populations by Darius; he deports Barcans (4.204), Paeonian Thracians (5.15), Milesians (6.20), Eretrians (6.119)."
— Jan 01, 2020 04:52AM
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From the notes:
"3.127–8 The theme of tisis or divine retribution recurs here; cf. n. 1.8. The word itself occurs in the Greek text in 1.13, 86, 2.152, 3.109, 5.56, 79, 6.72, 84, 7.8a, 8.76, 105, 106, and twice in this passage."
— Jan 01, 2020 01:48AM
"3.127–8 The theme of tisis or divine retribution recurs here; cf. n. 1.8. The word itself occurs in the Greek text in 1.13, 86, 2.152, 3.109, 5.56, 79, 6.72, 84, 7.8a, 8.76, 105, 106, and twice in this passage."
Alex
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From the (informative) notes:
"Asheri notes that four of H’s five instances of the verb ‘to flourish, be prosperous’ are of cities which later are destroyed[...]"
— Dec 31, 2019 12:00AM
"Asheri notes that four of H’s five instances of the verb ‘to flourish, be prosperous’ are of cities which later are destroyed[...]"
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It appears to me that the romanticists have only read the last three books, because these give very much to admire about the Greeks.
— Dec 29, 2019 09:57PM
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"They [the Persians] chased one group of Phocians as far as the mountains, where they caught up with them; some of the women from this party were gang-raped until they died."
— Dec 27, 2019 02:30AM
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"Persian casualties were high, because their regimental commanders wielded whips and urged every single man ever onward from behind. Quite a few of them fell into the sea and died there, but even larger numbers were trampled alive underfoot by their comrades, until the dead were beyond counting."
— Dec 27, 2019 01:38AM
