HISTORY

OF

HERODOTUS.

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.,

CANON OF CANTERBURY, AND CAMDEN PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

ASSISTED BY

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, K.C.B.,

AND SIR J. G. WILKINSON, F.R.S.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.-VOL. I.

WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1875.

The right of Translation is reserved.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET