What is it about?
The aim of our paper is to shed new light on a Babylonian hydraulic work described by Herodotus and attributed by him to Nitocris.
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Why is it important?
We came up with a new and, hopefully, plausible interpretation of Herodotus 1.185, based both on engineering and philological evidence.
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This page is a summary of: A NEW APPROACH TO THE DESCRIPTION OF A BABYLONIAN HYDRAULIC WORK BY HERODOTUS, The Classical Quarterly, November 2013, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0009838813000360.
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