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FOOTNOTES: [39:1] Hdt. i. 60 ἐπεί γε ἀπεκρίθη ἐκ παλαιτέρου τοῦ βαρβάρου ἔθνεος τὸ Ἑλληνικὸν ἐὸν καὶ δεξιώτερον καὶ εὐηθίης
Tarn, Antigonus Gonatas, p. 52, and authorities there quoted. Crown, 208. Letter VII. Cyrop. viii. 7, compared with Hdt. i. 214. Cf. Dümmler, Antisthenica ; Akademika . Cf. the Life of Antisthenes in Diog. Laert. Helena, i. 2. 'Man' is 'man' and 'good' is 'good'; but 'man' is not 'good'. Nor can 'a horse' possibly be 'running'; they are totally different conceptions. See Plutarch, adv.
In any tragedy which still retained the stamp of its Dionysiac origin, this Discovery and Peripety might normally be expected to occur, and to occur together. I have tried to show elsewhere how many of our extant tragedies do, as a matter of fact, show the marks of this ritual. Cf. Hdt. ii. 48; cf. 42,144. This may help to explain the transference of the tragic shows to other heroes.
The destruction can hardly have been complete. But in any case Herodotus can only have seen fragments, easily misinterpreted, easily explained by local ciceroni as relics of something quite unlike the facts. Others give the figures a little differently, but not so as to affect the argument. Hdt. iii. 159. Turn now to the actual remains of Babylon, as known from surveys and excavations.
Like other writers in various ages, he drew no sharp division between details which he saw and details which he learnt from others. Hdt. i. 178 foil. The accounts of Ctesias and other ancient writers seem to throw no light on the town-planning and streets of Babylon, however useful they may otherwise be. The Elizabethan description of Britain by William Harrison is an example from a modern time.
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