Juliana Surratt -- Herodotus and Borders (paper 2 rewrite)

  I think this version is a great improvement over your first version; 
  your reasoning and conclusions are much sounder.  You have also 
  done a very good job working the theme of borders into what you 
  are saying.  Good work!  

  I have a comment on a historical point, though:  On page 2 you 
  say "In Ancient Greece the court was considered a divine institution ... "
  but I was not sure what sort of "court" you were thinking of.  The
  Greeks had many different sorts of governments in different places and
  at different times.  There were certainly royal courts of kings that
  were thought of that way in certain periods.  But during the 
  5th century BCE (the time when Herodotus was alive), during the 
  high point of the Athenian democracy, there were no such institutions 
  in Athens, for instance. All the political decisions were taken by direct 
  votes of the council of (male) citizens (imagine something like a 
  legislature with roughly 6000 voting members(!). I don't think your 
  comment is valid quite as generally as you seem to be saying.  

  A writing comment:  You occasionally use words like "betwixt" (top of 
  page 3).  It's not that you are using that word incorrectly, it's that 
  it doesn't really fit with the style of writing you are aiming for.
  Because they are pretty archaic, words like "betwixt" tend only to be used
  now when the writer is aiming for a humorous effect or a self-consciously
  "antique" style.  

  Content:  A

  Mechanics:  A