The Histories of HerodotusD. Appleton, 1899 - 568 pages |
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... gods , and we have a movement like that of the " Iliad . " The history opens on mythical ground , but it is note- worthy that Herodotus singles out the Phoenicians as the first Orientals who came into contact with the Greeks , and it is ...
... gods , and we have a movement like that of the " Iliad . " The history opens on mythical ground , but it is note- worthy that Herodotus singles out the Phoenicians as the first Orientals who came into contact with the Greeks , and it is ...
Page vii
... gods . But Samos was a digression , and Herodotus apolo- gizes for it as he resumes the thread of his narrative of Per- sian history , and recounts the uprising of the false Smerdis , the death of Cambyses , and the reign of Smerdis ...
... gods . But Samos was a digression , and Herodotus apolo- gizes for it as he resumes the thread of his narrative of Per- sian history , and recounts the uprising of the false Smerdis , the death of Cambyses , and the reign of Smerdis ...
Page xiv
... gods . Eschylus shows by his attempts to justify the ways of God to men that there is a profound dissidence to be bridged . Sophocles wears his faith with a difference . Euripides is counted by some an out- and - out rationalist . The ...
... gods . Eschylus shows by his attempts to justify the ways of God to men that there is a profound dissidence to be bridged . Sophocles wears his faith with a difference . Euripides is counted by some an out- and - out rationalist . The ...
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... gods put such a thought into the Islanders as to attack the sons of the Lydi- ans with horse . " The other answering said : " Sire , you ap- pear to wish above all things to see the Islanders on horse- back upon the continent ; and not ...
... gods put such a thought into the Islanders as to attack the sons of the Lydi- ans with horse . " The other answering said : " Sire , you ap- pear to wish above all things to see the Islanders on horse- back upon the continent ; and not ...
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... gods fell heavily upon Croesus , probably because he thought himself the most happy of all men . A dream soon after visited him while sleeping , which pointed out to him the truth of the mis- fortunes that were about to befall him in ...
... gods fell heavily upon Croesus , probably because he thought himself the most happy of all men . A dream soon after visited him while sleeping , which pointed out to him the truth of the mis- fortunes that were about to befall him in ...
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