It was in 1520, the year after his great disputation with Eck at Leipzig, that Luther published his cataclysmic addresses: "To the Christian Nobles of Germany" and "On the babylonian Captivity,"-the latter of which itself contains the whole Protestant Reformation in embryo.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
It is the rhythm of all early poetry, the Egyptian and babylonian.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
If, therefore, we may regard it as an established fact that our narrative has not arisen out of Assyrian or babylonian tradition, that the views and additions of Greek origin introduced into it leave the centre untouched; if we have succeeded in discovering, to a tolerably satisfactory degree, the outlines of the narrative of Ctesias, the main question still remains to be answered: from what sources is this narrative to be derived?
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker