ANALYSIS AND SUMMARY

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HERODOTUS.

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PREFACE.

THE object of the present work is to assist the student in "getting up" the History of Herodotus, after a careful reading of the original text of his author. Accordingly it contains an analytical Summary of all the important events recorded by the historian, in the exact order in which they were written.* Each Book of this Summary is separated into divisions, and each division into paragraphs, all of which have the contents appended in a peculiar type; these contents are also thrown together, and reprinted at the beginning of each book. By these means every digression is carefully marked, and wherever one occurs a reference is also given to the chapter where the main history is continued; so that the student has the option of reading through the Summary in the exact order in which Herodotus wrote, or of reading the main history apart from the digressions. In addition to this analytical Summary and analytical Contents, the present work also contains a Synchronistical Table of the principal events in chronological order, arranged from the dates of Baehr, Larcher, and Dr. Gaisford; a Table of Herodotean weights, measures, money, distances, etc., compiled for the first time from Dahlmann's Life, Hussey's Essay, and Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities; an introductory Outline of the history and geography of Herodotus;

* This rule has been slightly transgressed in one or two instances, where the advantage to be gained by it seemed very great; but none of these are worth mentioning save one in Book II., where the list of god-kings prior to Menes is placed in its proper chronological position.