THE

HISTORY

OF

HERODOTU

S.

A NEW ENGLISH VERSION, EDITED WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND APPENDICES,
ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF HERODOTUS, FROM THE

MOST RECENT SOURCES OF INFORMATION; AND EMBODYING

THE CHIEF RESULTS, HISTORICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL,

WHICH HAVE BEEN OBTAINED IN THE PROGRESS

OF CUNEIFORM AND HIEROGLYPHICAL

DISCOVERY.

BY

GEORGE RAWLINSON, M.A.,

LATE FELLOW AND TUTOR OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD.

ASSISTED BY

COL. SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, K.C.B., AND SIR J. G. WILKINSON, F.R.S.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS.

THE SECOND BOOK, ENTITLED EUTERPÉ.

ACCESSION of Cambyses - he invades Egypt (ch. 1). Description of Egypt -

Antiquity (2). Seats of learning (3). Inventions, &c. (4). Description of the

country (5-13). Agriculture (14). Boundaries (15-18). The Nile Causes

of the inundation (19-27). Sources (28). The Upper Nile (29-31). The

interior of Libya (32). Comparison of the Nile and Ister (33-4). Customs

of the Egyptians - their strangeness (35-36.) Religious customs (37-48).

Connexion of the religions of Egypt and Greece (49-57). Egyptian Festivals

(58-64). Sacred animals (65-67). The Crocodile (68-70). The Hippopotamus

(71). Otters, fish, &c. (72). The Phoenix (73). Sacred and winged ser-

pents (74-75). The Ibis (76). Daily life of the Egyptians (77-80). Dress

(81). Divination (82). Oracles (83). Practice of Medicine (84). Funerals

(85-90). Worship of Perseus (91). Customs of the marsh-men (92-5).

Egyptian boats (96). Routes in the flood-time (97). Anthylla and

Archandropolis (98). History of Egypt - Mên (99). His successors -

Nitocris Moris (100-1). Sesostris - his expeditions his works in Egypt

(102-110). His son, Pheron (111). Proteus story of Helen (112-120).

Rhampsinitus (122). Doctrine of metempsychosis (123). Cheops - his

pyramid (124-6). Chephren (127-8). Mycerinus (129-133). His pyramid —

history of Rhodôpis (134-5). Asychis (136). Anysis Sabaco (137-40).

Sethos-invasion of Sennacherib (141). Number of the kings (142-3). Greek

and Egyptian notions of the age of the gods (144-6). The Dodecarchy

(147-152). Psammetichus (154-7). Neco, his son (158-9). Psammis, son of

Neco (160). Apries, son of Psammis- his deposition (161-9). Tomb of
Osiris (170). Egyptian mysteries (171). Reign of Amasis (172-7). His
favour to the Greeks (178-182)

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APPENDIX TO BOOK II.

CHAPTER I.

THE EGYPTIANS BEFORE THE REIGN OF THEIR KING PSAMMETICHUS BELIEVED

THEMSELVES TO BE THE MOST ANCIENT OF MANKIND."-Chap. 2. [G. W.]

1. The Egyptians from Asia. 2. Egyptian and Celtic. 3. Semitic character of

Egyptian. 4. Evidences of an older language than Zend and Sanscrit. 5.

Ba or Pa, and Ma, primitive cries of infants, made into father and mother.

6. m for b. 7. Bek not to be pronounced by an untutored child. 8. Bek,

name of bread in Egypt. 9. The story told to Herodotus. 10. Claim of the

Scythians to be an early race

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