Educating Croesus: talking and learning in Herodotus' Lydian logos

Two themes, the elusiveness of wisdom and the distortion of speech, are traced through three important scenes of Herodotus' Lydian logos, the meeting of Solon and Croesus (1.29–33), the scene where Cyrus places Croesus on the pyre (1.86–90), and the advice of Croesus to Cyrus to cross the river...

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Egile nagusia: Pelling, C
Formatua: Journal article
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: University of California Press 2006
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