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56:(II, 55–60). Diodorus, who seems only to have transcribed lambulus in his description of the Indians, relates that lambulus was made a slave by the Ethiopians, and sent by them to a happy island in the eastern seas, where he acquired his knowledge. The whole account, however, has the appearance of a fiction, and the description which lambulus gave of the east, which he had probably never seen, consisted of nothing but fabulous absurdities. 347: 227: 85:, an author who wrote an account of India in the 5th century BC that was similarly full of wild claims, like human beings with one gigantic foot they used as umbrellas against sun far more blazingly hot than was known in the West. 403: 245: 384: 377: 408: 141: 370: 240: 36: 214: 278:"La travesía de Yambulo por las Islas del Sol (D.S., II.55-60). Introducción a su estudio, traducción y notas" 77:
as an inspiration. Lucian remarks that Iambulus's stories were obviously untrue, but not unpleasant for that.
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A similar story was composed somewhat later by a certain Iambulus. His name looks Semitic and even Arabic
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Winston, David (1976). "Iambulus' Island of the Sun and Hellenistic Literary Utopias".
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Baldassarri, Mariano (April–June 1963). "Intorno all'utopia di Giambulo".
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by Lucian, translated by Paul Turner, Indiana University Press, 1974.
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Ora, che Giambulo fosse semita di nascita, sembra sufficientemente..
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His work did not survive in the original, but only as a fragment in
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is presented as a satire of such accounts as those of Iambulus and
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about the strange forms and figures of the inhabitants of the "
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Ancient Greek writers known only from secondary sources
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Index

Ancient Greek
utopian novel
Islands of the Sun
Diodorus Siculus
Bibliotheca historica
A True Story
Lucian
Atlantic Ocean
preface
Ctesias
The City of the Sun
True History
Gulliver's Travels
The Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads
ISBN
9781136872891
OCLC
1120737717
JSTOR
43060194
OCLC
908485359
JSTOR
43060194
The Library of History of Diodorus Siculus II, 55-60
public domain
Schmitz, Leonhard
Smith, William
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
"La travesía de Yambulo por las Islas del Sol (D.S., II.55-60). Introducción a su estudio, traducción y notas"

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