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| | Herodotus and the North Carolina Oral Narrative Tradition |
 | | The taletellers of Beech Mt. and vicinity all are descended from one famous storyteller, Council Harmon (1807-1896), but their ancestry goes back further, to English settlers of the mid-eighteenth century. |
| | Their world is an isolated one, essentially the mountains where they live, with little mention of cities, or national or state government, except as source of troubles: soldiers, the draft, taxes. |
| | [83] The comparison with much less sophisticated North Carolina storytellers suggests that this is an oral technique, and that Herodotus, in his oral performances as in his written text, wished his audience to make Solon's wisdom their own, to consider the end, and the nature of the human situation, ta anthropina. |
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