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... Ctesias , the historian and travel- ler , who lived for many years around 400 BC at the court of the Persian king , Darius II , at Persepolis . ( Persepolis is now an exten- sive and impressive ruin in the Luristan region of Persia ...
... Ctesias , the historian and travel- ler , who lived for many years around 400 BC at the court of the Persian king , Darius II , at Persepolis . ( Persepolis is now an exten- sive and impressive ruin in the Luristan region of Persia ...
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... Ctesias had in mind is uncertain even today . But it was from Ctesias that much of the later lore about the unicorn derives , certainly much of what was written about it by the Greeks and Romans . For them the unicorn was not a fabulous ...
... Ctesias had in mind is uncertain even today . But it was from Ctesias that much of the later lore about the unicorn derives , certainly much of what was written about it by the Greeks and Romans . For them the unicorn was not a fabulous ...
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... Ctesias . However in his account Ctesias has clearly got the porcupine mixed up with the tiger . It was indeed thought that porcupines could shoot their darts like arrows , as Ctesias describes . This is not true to nature , but Ctesias ...
... Ctesias . However in his account Ctesias has clearly got the porcupine mixed up with the tiger . It was indeed thought that porcupines could shoot their darts like arrows , as Ctesias describes . This is not true to nature , but Ctesias ...
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Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
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