The Histories of HerodotusD. Appleton, 1899 - 568 pages |
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... Greeks and non - Greeks are not to be left unfamoused , and the cause of the war between them is to be set down . Thucydides is satisfied with how ? Herodotus demands why ? Thucydides looks to history as a lesson for future generations ...
... Greeks and non - Greeks are not to be left unfamoused , and the cause of the war between them is to be set down . Thucydides is satisfied with how ? Herodotus demands why ? Thucydides looks to history as a lesson for future generations ...
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... Greeks also say , was Io , daughter of Inachus . 1 By barbarians the Greeks meant all who were not sprung from them- selves - all foreigners . The Phoenicians passed over - land from the Red Sea to the Mediterra- nean , which in the ...
... Greeks also say , was Io , daughter of Inachus . 1 By barbarians the Greeks meant all who were not sprung from them- selves - all foreigners . The Phoenicians passed over - land from the Red Sea to the Mediterra- nean , which in the ...
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... Greeks were guilty of the second provoca- tion ; for that having sailed down in a vessel of war 1 to Æa , a city of Colchis on the river Phasis , when they had accom- plished the more immediate object of their expedition , they carried ...
... Greeks were guilty of the second provoca- tion ; for that having sailed down in a vessel of war 1 to Æa , a city of Colchis on the river Phasis , when they had accom- plished the more immediate object of their expedition , they carried ...
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... Greeks for the sake of a Lacedæmonian woman assembled a mighty fleet , and then having come to Asia overthrew the empire of Priam . That from this event they had always con- sidered the Greeks as their enemies : for the Persians claim ...
... Greeks for the sake of a Lacedæmonian woman assembled a mighty fleet , and then having come to Asia overthrew the empire of Priam . That from this event they had always con- sidered the Greeks as their enemies : for the Persians claim ...
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Herodotus. Greeks , and desired their friendship , the Lacedæmonians ac- cepted his offer of alliance ; and in the first ... Greeks called Syrians ; these Syrians , before the establishment of the Persian power , were subject to the Medes ...
Herodotus. Greeks , and desired their friendship , the Lacedæmonians ac- cepted his offer of alliance ; and in the first ... Greeks called Syrians ; these Syrians , before the establishment of the Persian power , were subject to the Medes ...
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