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This article began from the discussion of a paper by Prof. Deborah Levine Gera on “Early Jewish and Greek Storytelling: Judith, Herodotus and Ctesias,” presented at a symposium on December 22, 2004, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My thanks to Prof. Gera, Prof. Joseph Geiger, Prof. Simon Goldhill, and all the others whose comments there encouraged and enlightened me; further thanks go to the staff of the Kings College Archives at King’s College, London, for access to information relevant to Gilbert’s years there.
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Schaps, D.M. Nausicaa the Comedienne: The Odyssey and the Pirates of Penzance . Int class trad 15, 217–232 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-009-0036-3
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