Herodotus Excerpts from Book VII of The Histories Translated and ...
Herodotus Excerpts from Book VII of The Histories Translated and ...
Herodotus. Excerpts from Book VII of The Histories. Translated and Edited by A.D. Godley, 1921-24. CCI. King Xerxes lay encamped in Trachis in Malis and the ...
Herodotus, The Histories, Book 7
The slanderer wrongs another by accusing an absent man, and the other does wrong in that he is persuaded before he has learned the whole truth; the absent man ...
LacusCurtius • Herodotus — Book VII: Chapters 1‑56
A well-laid plan is ever to my mind most profitable; for even though it be thwarted later, yet none the less has the plan been good, and it is ...
LacusCurtius • Herodotus — Book VII: Chapters 175‑239
To the west2 of Thermopylae rises a high mountain inaccessible and precipitous, a spur of Oeta; to the east of the road there is nought but ...
Herodotus, The Histories, Book 7
8B. It is my intent to bridge the Hellespont and lead my army through Europe to Hellas, so I may punish the Athenians for what they have done to the Persians ...
The History of Herodotus - The Internet Classics Archive
Translated by George Rawlinson. Go to previous · Table of Contents Book VII, Go ... passages which promised them the greatest success. "'Twas fated," he ...
Page 1. BOOK VII. Page 2. Page 3. H. 1. 'ETrel Be a'yyekii) aTTLKero ... translated "scimitar" ; but that is, I believe, a curved weapon, whereas the ...
... Histories. Herodotus. TRANSLATED BY GEORGE RAWLINSON. BOOK 1. THESE are the ... [7] The sovereignty of Lydia, which had belonged to the Heraclides, passed ...
Histories of Herodotus, Book 7 - Iran Chamber Society
For no sooner is war proclaimed than they search out the smoothest and fairest plain that is to be found in all the land, and there they assemble and fight; ...
book on Hellenistic historiography. HERODOTUS. The Histories. Translated by AUBREY DE SÉLINCOURT. Revised with Introduction and Notes by. JOHN MARINCOLA.
The History of Herodotus (Macaulay)/Book VII - Wikisource
(b) I design to yoke the Hellespont with a bridge, and to march an army through Europe against Hellas, in order that I may take vengeance on the Athenians for ...
The Egyptian revolt is crushed (7). Xerxes addresses the council of Persian leaders, and states his reasons for invading Greece: revenge, gain, living up to the ...
The History of Herodotus - Project Gutenberg
BOOK I. THE FIRST BOOK OF THE HISTORIES, CALLED CLIO. This is the Showing forth of the Inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassos, to the end that 1 neither ...
Histories of Herodotus Book VII (Polymnia): The Battle of Thermopylae
Book seven of the histories of Herodotus. Named Polymnia after the greek muse of sacred poetry. Here we get the most bodacious recount of ...
Herodotus Book VII : partly in the original and partly in translation
Publication date: 1922 ; Topics: Greece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C ; Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Collection: pimslibrary; ...
Herodotus on Thermopylae - Livius.org
The main source for the battle of 480 is Herodotus, Histories, 7.201-233, which is offered here in the translation by G.C. Macaulay, with ...
The Visions of Xerxes in Book VII of the Histories of Herodotus - CORE
... translations of some excerpts of Herodotus. Stephen J ... 5. I have taken three short extracts from Book VII, first the Greek then Macaulay's translation.
The History of Herodotus, Volume 2 by Herodotus - Project Gutenberg
3. Now the Thracian race is the most numerous, except the Indians, in all the world: and if it should come to be ruled over by one man, or to agree together in ...
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... translations). Upvote 3. Downvote 7 Go to comments. Share ... book and is pretty good for understanding how he conceived of history.
Histories (Herodotus) - Wikipedia
Fragment from Histories, Book VIII on 2nd-century Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 2099 ; Fragment from Histories, Book VIII on 2nd-century Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 2099.