 | Karl Otfried Müller - 1840 - 546 pages
...in the period JllHt preceding the first Persian war. The expedition against Eretria unil Atlii'iia was the first blow struck by Persia at the mother...battle of Marathon was the first glorious signal that Iliis Asiatic power, hitherto unchecked in its encroachments, was there lit leiiglh to find a limit.... | |
 | Karl Otfried Müller - 1847 - 584 pages
...Greece and Persia; among which is the flight of the Spartan king Demaratus to Darius. To this event he annexes a detailed explanation of the relations and...Asiatic power, hitherto unchecked in its encroachments, was there at length to find a limit. From this point the narrative runs in a regular channel, and pursues... | |
 | Karl Otfried Müller - 1847 - 562 pages
...Greece and Persia; among which is the flight of the Spartan king Demaratus to Darius. To this event he annexes a detailed explanation of the relations and...Asiatic power, hitherto unchecked in its encroachments, was there at length to find a limit. From this point the narrative runs in a regular channel, and pursues... | |
 | Herodotus - 1852 - 124 pages
...Greece and Persia ; among which is the flight of the Spartan king Demaratus to Darius. To this event he annexes a detailed explanation of the relations and...Asiatic power, hitherto unchecked in its encroachments, was there at length to find a limit. From this point the narrative runs in a regular channel, and pursues... | |
 | James Talboys Wheeler - 1855 - 486 pages
...struck by Persia at the mother-country of Greece ; and the battle of Marathon, which speedily ensued, was the first glorious signal that this Asiatic power,...encroachments, had at length found its limit. Book vn. commences with the death of Darius Hystaspis and the accession of his son Xerxes. The history now... | |
 | James Talboys Wheeler - 1856 - 478 pages
...struck by Persia at the mother-country of Greece ; and the battle of Marathon, which speedily ensued, was the first glorious signal that this Asiatic power,...limit. Book VII. commences with the death of Darius Hystaspis and the accession of his son Xerxes. The history now flows on in a regular channel. Herodotus... | |
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... terminated in a complete defeat (Book VI.). Herodotus next pursues the constantly increasing causes of enmity between Greece and Persia ; among which is the flight of the Spartan king Demaratus to Darius. To this event he annexes a detailed explanation... 