Note 62 — Chapter I · THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
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See White, Warfare, 1920, vol. i, pp. 89–90. Lutz, Geographical Studies, 1924, p. 168, holds that “the fundamental notions of the Homeric poems, of Hesiod and Aeschylus regarding the earth [a disk surrounded by an ocean stream] are Babylonian in origin.”