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Persians and Thessalians: Lucan compares Thessalian women’s techniques to Magian ones (mid-first century CE)
Ancient authors: Lucan of Corduba, Civil War 6.413-588 (link; link to Latin). Comments: Early evidence for Latin-speaking Roman authors directly reflecting knowledge of Greek ethnographic discussions about Persian Magians is somewhat limited (cf. Rives 2010). Greeks had been talking about Magians since the fifth century BCE, but Romans started late. There is Catullus’ poem which […]
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