Herodotus book 6 perseus wife

Herodotus, the histories, book 1, chapter 1, section 0. Herodotus has 267 books on goodreads with 122786 ratings. Formal impeachment procedures are begun, and sparta appeals to the oracle at delphi. He travelled widely in most of asia minor, egypt as far as assuan, north africa, syria, the country north of the black sea, and many parts of the aegean sea and the mainland of greece. The history of herodotus, volume 2 by herodotus project gutenberg. According to the persian story, perseus was an assyrian who became a. Book 1 these are the researches of herodotus of halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, and of preventing the great. Here are presented the results of the enquiry carried out by herodotus of halicarnassus. Hide browse bar your current position in the text is marked in blue. Leutychides hated demaratus for stealing his wifetobe by capture cf plut lyc 15. Herodotus was a greek historian widely referred to as the father of history. How candaules made his bodyguard, gyges, view the naked body of his wife. Ancient man and his first civilizations the persian wars by herodotus written 440 b.

Written in 440 bc in the ionic dialect of classical greek, the histories serves as. Your wives will wash the feet of many longhaired men. Full text of the historry of herodotus vol vi see other formats. The history of herodotus by herodotus the internet classics archive. Histories, by herodotus, is an ancient greek text that tells the history of the wars between greece and persia.

In the histories, he describes the expansion of the achaemenid empire under its kings cyrus the great, cambyses, and darius i the great, culminating in xerxes expedition to greece 480 bce, which met with disaster in the naval engagement at salamis and the battles at plataea and mycale. The history of herodotus by herodotus, part of the internet classics archive. All search options view abbreviations home collectionstexts perseus catalog research grants open source about help. The history of herodotus, parallel englishgreek, tr. At the beginning of the histories, herodotus sets out his reasons for writing it.

Herodotus claims to have traveled extensively around the ancient world, conducting interviews and collecting stories for his book, almost all of which covers territories of the persian empire. On the side of the barbarians the number of vessels was six hundred. Candaules, king of lydia, shews his wife by stealth to gyges, by william etty 1830. Simultaneously, it tells the story of the growth of the persian empire.

Ariston, king of sparta, had married two wives, but no children were born to him. I said up to perseus and did not take the descent from a yet higher point, because there is no name mentioned of a mortal father for perseus, as amphitryon is for heracles. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position. Greek researcher, often called the worlds first historian. Histiaeus goes to sardis, where artaphrenes accuses him of. The histories of herodotus is considered the founding work of history in western literature. Herodotus the great greek historian was born about 484 bce, at halicarnassus in caria, asia minor, when it was subject to the persians. Believing that he p209 himself was not in fault, he married a third. He gave him a house and estate, and also a persian wife, by whom there.