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T to Theban Plays Thebe to Thrasymedes Thriambos to Tyrtaeus
In the Histories, the historian Herodotus tells the story of how the Persian ruler, Kambyses (Cambyses) sent spies to Ethiopia to see if the Table of the Sun actually existed.
According to legend, the Table of the Sun was a meadow where the Ethiopians in authority would nightly bring the boiled meat of every four-legged animal and leave it for anyone who wanted to eat it; the legend also said that the food was actually renewed, not by the Ethiopians, but by the earth itself.
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T to Theban Plays Thebe to Thrasymedes Thriambos to Tyrtaeus
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