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Speech and action: Herodotus' debate on the constitutions

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Christopher Pelling
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When Mardonius sailed along the coast of Asia and arrived in Ionia, something happened that will seem very wondrous to those Greeks who find it impossible to accept that Otanes proposed to the seven Persians that Persia ought to have a democratic government: for Mardonius suppressed all the Ionian tyrannies and established democracies in the cities. (Herodotus 6.43.3)

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Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (Second Series) , Volume 48 , 2002, pp. 123 - 158
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