Iambulus
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iambulus-201-1692414
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Iambulus
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Iambulus or Jambulus was an ancient Greek merchant and the likely author of a utopian novel about the strange forms and figures of the inhabitants of the "Islands of the Sun". His name seems not to be Greek and reveals a Semitic or an Arabic origin. His work did not survive in the original, but only as a fragment in Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca historica. Diodorus, who seems only to have transcribed lambulus in his description of the Indians, relates that lambulus was made a slave by the Ethiop
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iambulus
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2022-12-18T19:20:13Z
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