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Sea-Monsters at Sunrise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Stephanie West
Stephanie West
Affiliation:
Hertford College, Oxford
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Extract

It is hard to avoid the suspicion that the time appointed for the arrival of Lucian's leviathan was intended to bring to the reader's mind Nearchus' account of an alarming encounter with a school of whales in the course of his famous voyage from the Indus to the Persian Gulf (Arrian, Ind. 30.1−3 = FGrHist 133 F 1 (c. 30)):

Type
Shorter Notes
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , May 1991 , pp. 275
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1991

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