Note 112 — LECTURE V HERODOTUS AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Far more explicit and detailed is the comparative study of foreign customs which underlies Socratic doctrine in the Laws. The stock examples of the fifth century, Sarmatians (804 E), Amazons (806 A), Thracians (805 D), and the like, are all there, side by side with the Spartans and the Cretans, the Persians, the Egyptians, and the Phoenicians (750 C). But the anthropological basis of fourth-century thought is a distinct subject, and would require a whole chapter to itself.