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372 Dragons! (with Scott G. Bruce)

The History of Literature

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Sowing the Dragon's Teeth

Riliny, in his natural history, loved to talk about the far distant places on earth and he tended to populate those places with mythological creatures. His dragons are in india. And it was a way for him, it was kind of a roman imperial project to say, you know, in rome, around the mediterranean, with roman side control,. You know, we um it's all it's a place of order. But there were still places where wild and monstrous creatures still live. They didn't know exactly what was real and what wasn't back then - oh indeed.

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