Amathus ...104. The Cyprians did likewise of their own free will, all save the people of Amathus, for these too revolted from the Medes in such manner as I will show. There was...
Amathus
81 33.1438299,34.712174,0 Salamis ...response, and when the Persian army afterwards arrived on the plain of Salamis, the Cyprian kings ordered their battle line. They drew up the best of the...
Salamis
73 33.90294,35.17926,0 Salaminians ...the traitor with great company of men under him. The war-chariots of the Salaminians immediately followed their lead, and the Persians accordingly gained the upper...
Salaminians
75 33.90294,35.17926,0 Salaminians ...show. There was a certain Onesilus, a younger brother of Gorgus king of the Salaminians,51 son of Chersis, whose father was Siromus, and grandson of Euelthon. [2] This...
Salaminians
78 33.90294,35.17926,0 Sardo ...He also asked them whether he should lead them from there to a settlement in Sardo, or Myrcinus in Edonia, which Histiaeus had received as a gift from Darius and...
Sardo
79 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Dardanus ...and sacked them. 117. Daurises made for the cities of the Hellespont and took Dardanus, Abydus, Percote, Lampsacus, and Paesus, each in a single day. Then as he...
Dardanus
81 26.385172,40.071124,0 Abydus ...them. 117. Daurises made for the cities of the Hellespont and took Dardanus, Abydus, Percote, Lampsacus, and Paesus, each in a single day. Then as he marched from...
Abydus
80 26.41122,40.19406,0 Paesus ...Percote, Lampsacus, and Paesus, each in a single day. Then as he marched from Paesus against Parius, news came to him that the Carians had made common cause with...
Paesus
80 26.787097,40.400225,0 Aeolian ...the third general, were appointed to lead the army against Ionia and the Aeolian territory on its borders. They took Clazomenae in Ionia, and Cyme in Aeolia...
Aeolian
75 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Leros ...of these places, but that Aristagoras should build a fortress in the island of Leros and reside there, if he were driven from Miletus. Afterwards, with this as a...
Leros
81 26.83383,37.17743,0 Ilium ...proof to show that the Aeolians had no more part or lot in the land of Ilium than they themselves and all the other Greeks who had aided Menelaus to avenge...
Ilium
73 26.23873,39.9577,0 Ionian sea ...had agreed, Cleomenes asked Aristagoras how many days' journey it was from the Ionian sea to the king. [2] Till now, Aristagoras had been cunning and fooled the Spartan...
Ionian sea
81 19.674861075555555,39.03244647555555,0 Phoenicians ...of Miltiades by another wife, not the daughter of Olorus the Thracian. [3] The Phoenicians took this man captive with his ship; and when they heard that he was Miltiades'...
Phoenicians
81 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...to break the bridge of boats and sail away to their homes. [4] But when the Phoenicians brought Miltiades' son Metiochus before him, Darius did him no harm but much...
Phoenicians
78 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenician ...this island, which is now called after that Phoenician Thasos. [2] These Phoenician mines are between the place called Aenyra and Coenyra in Thasos, opposite...
Phoenician
75 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...Miletus, taking less account of the other fortresses. Of the fleet, the Phoenicians were the most eager to fight, and there came with them to the war the newly...
Phoenicians
74 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicia ...planned to remove the Phoenicians and settle them in Ionia, and the Ionians in Phoenicia; for this reason, he said, he had sent the order. The king had made no such...
Phoenicia
81 35.25,33.25,0 Milesian ...others were brought over by force. 26. All this happened so. Histiaeus the Milesian was at Byzantium, seizing the Ionian merchant ships as they sailed out of the...
Milesian
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Atarneus ...From there, since his army suffered from hunger, he crossed over to reap from Atarneus the corn there and the Mysian corn of the Caicus plain. Now it chanced that in...
Atarneus
80 26.92073,39.09127,0 Cyprians ...the most eager to fight, and there came with them to the war the newly subdued Cyprians, and the Cilicians and Egyptians. 7. These were coming to attack Miletus and...
Cyprians
81 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Milesian ...he cried out in the Persian language and revealed himself to be Histiaeus the Milesian. 30. Now if he had been taken prisoner and brought to king Darius, he would...
Milesian
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Atarneus ...wanted to frighten the Ionians. 4. Then Histiaeus, using Hermippus, a man of Atarneus, as messenger, sent letters to the Persians at Sardis, because they had...
Atarneus
80 26.92073,39.09127,0 Aeolians ...easily subdued them. 28. Then Histiaeus brought a great force of Ionians and Aeolians against Thasos. While he was besieging Thasos a message came that the...
Aeolians
80 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Aeolians ...8. The Ionians then came there with their ships manned, and with them the Aeolians who dwell in Lesbos. This was their order of battle: The Milesians themselves...
Aeolians
77 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Myesians ...were the Prieneans with twelve ships, and the Myesians with three; next to the Myesians were the Teians with seventeen ships; next to these the Chians with a hundred...
Myesians
81 27.42788,37.59716,0 Samians ...in Sicily, in that part which looks towards Tyrrhenia. At this invitation, the Samians alone of the Ionians, with those Milesians who had escaped, set forth. 23. In...
Samians
81 26.84,37.73,0 Medes ...Marathon, it happened that their line of battle was as long as the line of the Medes. The center, where the line was weakest, was only a few ranks deep, but each...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Phocaean ...among those whom I suppose to have addressed them was Dionysius, the Phocaean general, who spoke thus: [2] “Our affairs, men of Ionia, stand on the edge of a...
Phocaean
71 26.75261,38.6684,0 Samians ...and next to these the Lesbians with seventy; last of all in the line were the Samians, holding the western wing with sixty ships. [2] The total number of all these...
Samians
80 26.84,37.73,0 Chians ...line, until they had taken many ships but lost most of their own. 16. The Chians escaped to their own country with their remaining ships, but the crews of the...
Chians
77 26.053,38.414,0 Sybarites ...when the Milesians suffered all this at the hands of the Persians, the Sybarites (who had lost their city and dwelt in Laus and Scidrus) did not give them equal...
Sybarites
73 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Tyrrhenia ...Fair Coast, as it is called, is in Sicily, in that part which looks towards Tyrrhenia. At this invitation, the Samians alone of the Ionians, with those Milesians who...
Tyrrhenia
78 11.752744124826158,42.42102874792005,0 Didyman ...wives will wash the feet of many long-haired men; Other ministers will tend my Didyman4 shrine! ” [3] All this now came upon the Milesians, since most of their men...
Didyman
81 27.256115,37.384829,0 Sybaris ...Laus and Scidrus) did not give them equal return for what they had done. When Sybaris was taken by the Crotoniates, all the people of Miletus, young and old, shaved...
Sybaris
80 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Hellas ...49. So the cities set about these preparations. The heralds who went to Hellas received what the king's proclamation demanded from many of those dwelling on...
Hellas
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...they went to Sparta and there accused the Aeginetans of acting to betray Hellas. 50. Regarding this accusation, Cleomenes son of Anaxandrides, king of Sparta...
Hellas
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...moreover, Darius desired to take this pretext for subduing all the men of Hellas who had not given him earth and water. [2] He dismissed from command Mardonius...
Hellas
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Asia ...that this is the story Epizelus tells. 118. Datis journeyed with his army to Asia, and when he arrived at Myconos he saw a vision in his sleep. What that vision...
Asia
80 Asia ...to his fleet. This expedition after an inglorious adventure returned back to Asia. 46. In the next year after this,13 Darius first sent a message bidding the...
Asia
79 Caria ...[2] After Miletus was captured, the Persians at once gained possession of Caria. Some of the towns submitted voluntarily; others were brought over by force...
Caria
76 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Hellespont ...Ionia and captured everything which lies to the left of one sailing up the Hellespont; the right side had been subdued by the Persians themselves from the mainland...
Hellespont
77 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...From there they held their course not by the mainland and straight towards the Hellespont and Thrace, but setting forth from Samos they sailed by the Icarian sea and...
Hellespont
81 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...time that was all. But a great many years later, when the Chersonese on the Hellespont was made subject to Athens, Miltiades son of Cimon accomplished the voyage from...
Hellespont
78 26.4,40.2,0 Epizephyrian6 Locrians ...I will show. As they voyaged to Sicily, the Samians came to the country of the Epizephyrian6 Locrians at a time when the people of Zancle and their king (whose name was Scythes)...
Epizephyrian6 Locrians
81 16.23715,38.20782,0 Inyx ...Pythogenes in chains for losing the city, and sent them away to the city of Inyx. He betrayed the rest of the Zanclaeans to the Samians, with whom he had made...
Inyx
78 Chersonese ...set out from Cardia and crossed the Black Bay, and as he was sailing along the Chersonese the Phoenicians fell upon him with their ships. [2] Miltiades himself escaped...
Chersonese
81 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Thasos ...to sea from Miletus to attack the rest of Ionia. When he learned this, he left Thasos unsacked, and hastened instead with all his army to Lesbos. [2] From there...
Thasos
81 24.717535,40.78201,0 Thasos ...had been made subject to the Persians before this. [2] Crossing over from Thasos they travelled near the land as far as Acanthus, and putting out from there...
Thasos
76 24.717535,40.78201,0 Chersonese ...Oebares son of Megabazus. 34. The Phoenicians subdued all the cities in the Chersonese except Cardia. Miltiades son of Cimon son of Stesagoras was tyrant there...
Chersonese
79 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Dolonci ...any Athenian who wanted to take part in the expedition, sailed off with the Dolonci, and took possession of their land. Those who brought him appointed him tyrant...
Dolonci
78 Thrace ...of five hundred men, and married Hegesipyle the daughter of Olorus, king of Thrace. 40. But not long after this Miltiades son of Cimon had come to the...
Thrace
78 27.5,42.5,0 Olympic ...back from exile to his own property under truce. [3] After taking yet another Olympic prize with the same horses, he happened to be murdered by Pisistratus' sons...
Olympic
80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Olympic ...this victory he won the same prize as his half-brother Miltiades. At the next Olympic games he won with the same horses but permitted Pisistratus to be proclaimed...
Olympic
80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Apsinthians ...Dolonci held possession of this Chersonese. They were crushed in war by the Apsinthians, so they sent their kings to Delphi to inquire about the war. [2] The Pythia...
Apsinthians
78 26.25,40.75,0 Boeotia ...they left the sacred precinct. But as the Dolonci passed through Phocis and Boeotia, going along the Sacred Way,7 no one invited them, so they turned toward...
Boeotia
78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Sacred Way ...But as the Dolonci passed through Phocis and Boeotia, going along the Sacred Way,7 no one invited them, so they turned toward Athens. 35. At that time in...
Sacred Way
72 23.699604,37.993384,0 Scythians ...Miltiades did not await their attack and fled from the Chersonese, until the Scythians departed and the Dolonci brought him back again. All this had happened three...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...for revenge, so they sent to Sparta and made an alliance. They agreed that the Scythians would attempt to invade Media by way of the river Phasis, and they urged the...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Lampsacenes ...No one from Lampsacus is allowed to compete. [2] But in the war against the Lampsacenes Stesagoras too met his end and died childless; he was struck on the head with...
Lampsacenes
78 26.68998,40.34869,0 Athens ...the Athenians refused to give them back, Leutychides said to them: “Men of Athens, do whichever thing you desire. If you give them back, you do righteously; if...
Athens
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...son of Artaphrenes; the order he gave them at their departure was to enslave Athens and Eretria and bring the slaves into his presence. 95. When these appointed...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...to take control of the country; they had already treated him well at Athens, feigning that they had not been accessory to the death of Cimon his father...
Athens
71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...children who were reckoned as Persians. Miltiades made his way from Imbros to Athens. 42. In this year10 the Persians caused no further trouble for the Ionians...
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Black Bay ...the possessions that he had nearby. He set out from Cardia and crossed the Black Bay, and as he was sailing along the Chersonese the Phoenicians fell upon him with...
Black Bay
77 26.46,40.55,0 Eretrians ...unloaded their horses and made preparation to attack their enemies. [2] The Eretrians had no intention of coming out and fighting; all their care was to guard their...
Eretrians
78 22.607216,39.290562,0 Eretrians ...place until my time, keeping their ancient language. Such was the fate of the Eretrians. 120. After the full moon two thousand Lacedaemonians came to Athens, making...
Eretrians
80 22.607216,39.290562,0 Eretria ...the order he gave them at their departure was to enslave Athens and Eretria and bring the slaves into his presence. 95. When these appointed generals on...
Eretria
70 22.607216,39.290562,0 Eretria ...the Hellenes to fall into slavery at the hands of the foreigners. Even now Eretria has been enslaved, and Hellas has become weaker by an important city.” [3] He...
Eretria
77 22.607216,39.290562,0 Eretrian ...sailed holding their course for Temenos and Choereae and Aegilea, all in Eretrian territory. Landing at these places, they immediately unloaded their horses and...
Eretrian
75 22.607216,39.290562,0 Athens ...the Hellespont on shipboard and marched through Europe, with Eretria and Athens as their goal. 44. This was the stated end of their expedition, but they...
Athens
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athos ...this, to my thinking, was because they feared above all the voyage around Athos, seeing that in the previous year they had come to great disaster by holding...
Athos
76 24.295147727272727,40.24683418181819,0 Abdera ...at the king's command destroyed their walls and brought all their ships to Abdera. 48. Then Darius attempted to learn whether the Greeks intended to wage war...
Abdera
77 24.97363,40.93119,0 Athos ...the land as far as Acanthus, and putting out from there they tried to round Athos. But a great and irresistible north wind fell upon them as they sailed past and...
Athos
78 24.295147727272727,40.24683418181819,0 Aeginetans ...whom he was terribly angry because of their insulting behavior. [2] When the Aeginetans saw that both kings had come after them, they now deemed it best to offer no...
Aeginetans
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...assembled a court and gave judgment that Leutychides had done violence to the Aeginetans; and they condemned him to be given up and carried to Aegina in requital for...
Aeginetans
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...to Aegina in requital for the men that were held at Athens. [2] But when the Aeginetans were about to carry Leutychides away, a man of repute at Sparta, Theasides son...
Aeginetans
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...they do not bring utter destruction upon your country if you do this.” [3] The Aeginetans heard this and refrained from carrying the king away, and made an agreement...
Aeginetans
81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...that Leutychides should go with them to Athens and restore the men to the Aeginetans. 86. When Leutychides came to Athens and demanded back the hostages, the...
Aeginetans
76 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...but even so the Athenians would not listen to him, and he departed. The Aeginetans, before paying the penalty for the violence they had done to the Athenians to...
Aeginetans
74 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...show up at the right time, Nicodromus took ship and escaped from Aegina. Other Aeginetans followed him, and the Athenians gave them Sunium to dwell in; setting out from...
Aeginetans
81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...gave them Sunium to dwell in; setting out from there they harried the Aeginetans of the island. 91. But this happened later.32 The rich men of Aegina gained...
Aeginetans
72 23.42372,37.74991,0 Coenyra ...Thasos. [2] These Phoenician mines are between the place called Aenyra and Coenyra in Thasos, opposite Samothrace; they are in a great hill that has been dug up...
Coenyra
77 24.761705,40.6711405,0 Lydians ...until my time at Thebes, in the Theban temple of Ismenian Apollo. 53. The Lydians who were to bring these gifts to the temples were instructed by Croesus to...
Lydians
77 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...two gold staters16 apiece. [2] The Delphians, in return, gave Croesus and all Lydians the right of first consulting the oracle, exemption from all charges, the chief...
Lydians
80 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...gods that they do not put it in the heads of the Persians to march against the Lydians.” Sandanis spoke thus but he did not persuade Croesus. Indeed, before they...
Lydians
81 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...man, and who, from the advice which he now gave, won a great name among the Lydians, advised him as follows (his name was Sandanis): “O King, you are getting ready...
Lydians
78 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...not give up the Scythians to Cyaxares at his demand, there was war between the Lydians and the Medes for five years; each won many victories over the other, and once...
Lydians
81 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...and fought the Persians on foot. Many of both armies fell; at length the Lydians were routed and driven within their city wall, where they were besieged by the...
Lydians
75 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...other favor you may ever ask me.” [4] When Croesus heard this, he sent Lydians to Delphi, telling them to lay his chains on the doorstep of the temple, and to...
Lydians
73 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...it is called the Gygaean lake. Such then is this tomb. 94. The customs of the Lydians are like those of the Greeks, except that they make prostitutes of their female...
Lydians
81 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...alone Cyrus made a treaty on the same terms as that which they had with the Lydians. The rest of the Ionians resolved to send envoys in the name of them all to...
Lydians
78 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...instructing Pactyes, a Lydian, to take charge of the gold of Croesus and the Lydians, he himself marched away to Ecbatana, taking Croesus with him, and at first...
Lydians
79 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...town he heard an account contrary to his expectations; [4] so presently the Lydians and Milesians ended the war and agreed to be friends and allies, and Alyattes...
Lydians
78 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...against the Persians and whether he was to add an army of allies. [2] When the Lydians came to the places where they were sent, they presented the offerings, and...
Lydians
81 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...who were more than a father to the Lydians, and handed the city over to the Lydians themselves; and then indeed I marvel that they revolt!” So Cyrus uttered his...
Lydians
78 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...he said to Croesus, “What end to this business, Croesus? It seems that the Lydians will never stop making trouble for me and for themselves. It occurs to me that...
Lydians
77 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...host and found Pactyes' followers no longer there, first of all compelled the Lydians to carry out Cyrus' commands; and by his order they changed their whole way of...
Lydians
80 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...with the rest of the people that if the oracle should ordain him king of the Lydians, then he would reign; but if not, then he would return the kingship to the...
Lydians
79 27.5,37.5,0 Persian ...possess the royal power, then in justice some Mede should have had it, not a Persian: but now you have made the Medes, who did you no harm, slaves instead of...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...are of all kinds, and all borrowed: the Greeks taught them pederasty. Every Persian marries many lawful wives, and keeps still more concubines. 136. After valor...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...them had nothing to fear: for the Phoenicians were not yet subjects of the Persians, nor were the Persians themselves mariners. [2] But those of Asia were cut off...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...do they even have a market of any kind. [3] Presently, entrusting Sardis to a Persian called Tabalus, and instructing Pactyes, a Lydian, to take charge of the gold...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Delphians ...a mixing-bowl at the feast of the Divine Appearance.15 [3] It is said by the Delphians to be the work of Theodorus of Samos, and I agree with them, for it seems to me...
Delphians
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphians ...destroy the kingdom of Cyrus, he sent once again to Pytho and endowed the Delphians, whose number he had learned, with two gold staters16 apiece. [2] The...
Delphians
76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphians ...of Delphian citizenship to whoever should wish it. 55. After his gifts to the Delphians, Croesus made a third inquiry of the oracle, for he wanted to use it to the...
Delphians
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphians ...territory, which they had burnt. 20. I know this much to be so because the Delphians told me. The Milesians add that Periander son of Cypselus, a close friend of...
Delphians
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 the Lacedaemonians ...an alliance, Labynetus at this time being their sovereign), [3] and to summon the Lacedaemonians to join him at a fixed time. He had in mind to muster all these forces and...
the Lacedaemonians
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 the Lacedaemonians ...was besieged and to plead for help as quickly as possible. 82. So he sent to the Lacedaemonians as well as to the rest of the allies. Now at this very time the Spartans...
the Lacedaemonians
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...as an evil for the human race. [5] After reasoning this out, he went back to Sparta and told the Lacedaemonians everything. They made a pretence of bringing a...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...of Hera. And it may be that the sellers of the bowl, when they returned to Sparta, said that they had been robbed of it by the Samians. Such are the tales about...
Sparta
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 the Lacedaemonians ...deceit or guile.’” [3] Croesus proposed this through his messengers; and the Lacedaemonians, who had already heard of the oracle given to Croesus, welcomed the coming of...
the Lacedaemonians
75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Marathon ...took no notice of it, did now, and when they learned that he was marching from Marathon against Athens, they set out to attack him. [3] They came out with all their...
Marathon
81 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Arcadia ...gaining all the Arcadian land. [2] She replied in hexameter: “You ask me for Arcadia? You ask too much; I grant it not. There are many men in Arcadia, eaters of...
Arcadia
79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Asiatic Greeks ...very petty grounds of offense. 27. Then, when he had subjugated all the Asiatic Greeks of the mainland and made them tributary to him, he planned to build ships and...
Asiatic Greeks
75 Taenarus ...and Lesbians say, and there is a little bronze memorial of Arion on Taenarus, the figure of a man riding upon a dolphin. 25. Alyattes the Lydian, his war...
Taenarus
70 22.4831905,36.3856534,0 Argive men ...made clear that for human beings it is a better thing to die than to live. The Argive men stood around the youths and congratulated them on their strength; the Argive...
Argive men
81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Medes ...with them above all, for he thought that a mule would never be king of the Medes instead of a man, and therefore that he and his posterity would never lose his...
Medes
77 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...of Astyages king of the Medes; but he was a Persian and a subject of the Medes and although in all respects her inferior he married this lady of his.” This...
Medes
75 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...the Assyrians had ruled Upper Asia for five hundred and twenty years,32 the Medes were the first who began to revolt from them. These, it would seem, proved...
Medes
78 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...and lawlessness to increase greatly in the towns; and, gathering together, the Medes conferred about their present affairs, and said (here, as I suppose, the main...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...much longer way, keeping the Caucasian mountains on their right. There, the Medes met the Scythians, who defeated them in battle, deprived them of their rule...
Medes
78 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...of them were entertained and made drunk and then slain by Cyaxares and the Medes: so thus the Medes took back their empire and all that they had formerly...
Medes
77 46.5,34.5,0 Pytho ...expecting that he would destroy the kingdom of Cyrus, he sent once again to Pytho and endowed the Delphians, whose number he had learned, with two gold staters16...
Pytho
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Medes ...came Alyattes, [2] who waged war against Deioces' descendant Cyaxares and the Medes, drove the Cimmerians out of Asia, took Smyrna (which was a colony from...
Medes
80 46.5,34.5,0 Halys ...Syrians on the right from the Paphlagonians on the left. [3] Thus the Halys river cuts off nearly the whole of the lower part of Asia from the Cyprian to...
Halys
72 35.9295291,41.6767598,0 Cappadocians ...the Lydians, the Persians had no luxury and no comforts. 72. Now the Cappadocians are called by the Greeks Syrians, and these Syrians before the Persian rule...
Cappadocians
72 37.5,37.5,0 Armenian mountains ...of the Median and Lydian empires was the river Halys, which flows from the Armenian mountains first through Cilicia and afterwards between the Matieni on the right and the...
Armenian mountains
77 42.5,38.5,0 Lacedaemonian ...the two Argives, believing themselves victors, ran to Argos; but Othryades the Lacedaemonian, after stripping the Argive dead and taking the arms to his camp, waited at his...
Lacedaemonian
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Argive territory ...the Argives over the country called Thyrea; [2] for this was a part of the Argive territory which the Lacedaemonians had cut off and occupied. (All the land towards the...
Argive territory
77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lacedaemonians ...six hundred were left, Alcenor and Chromios of the Argives, Othryades of the Lacedaemonians: these three were left alive at nightfall. [5] Then the two Argives, believing...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...Lacedaemonians as well as to the rest of the allies. Now at this very time the Spartans themselves were feuding with the Argives over the country called Thyrea; [2]...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Persians ...when they saw what was happening, they leaped from their horses and fought the Persians on foot. Many of both armies fell; at length the Lydians were routed and driven...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 tomb of Alyattes ...much the greatest of all, except those of Egypt and Babylon. In Lydia is the tomb of Alyattes, the father of Croesus, the base of which is made of great stones and the rest...
tomb of Alyattes
79 28.04514,38.57236,0 Ephesus ...descent and keep the feast Apaturia.48 All do keep it, except the men of Ephesus and Colophon; these are the only Ionians who do not keep it, and these because...
Ephesus
75 27.339722,37.941944,0 Ismenus ...There is a golden tripod at Thebes in Boeotia, which he dedicated to Apollo of Ismenus; at Ephesus29 there are the oxen of gold and the greater part of the pillars...
Ismenus
81 Arizanti ...The Median tribes are these: the Busae, the Paretaceni, the Struchates, the Arizanti, the Budii, the Magi. Their tribes are this many. 102. Deioces had a son...
Arizanti
78 Panthialaei ...Achaemenidae, the royal house of Persia. [4] The other Persian tribes are the Panthialaei, the Derusiaei, and the Germanii, all tillers of the soil, and the Dai, the...
Panthialaei
80 Persians ...most effective, he did: [2] writing what he liked on a paper, he assembled the Persians, and then unfolded the paper and declared that in it Astyages appointed him...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Phocaea ...city and the life of their land, and they broke their oath and sailed back to Phocaea. Those of them who kept the oath put out to sea from the Oenussae. 166. And...
Phocaea
80 26.75261,38.6684,0 Phocaea ...and then build earthworks against the walls and so take the cities. 163. Phocaea was the first Ionian town that he attacked. These Phocaeans were the earliest...
Phocaea
76 26.75261,38.6684,0 Ionian cities ...in the same letter, just as do the names of the Persians. 149. Those are the Ionian cities, and these are the Aeolian: Cyme (called “Phriconian”),49 Lerisae, Neon...
Ionian cities
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionian cities ...different from the speech of the three former cities. There are yet three Ionian cities, two of them situated on the islands of Samos and Chios, and one, Erythrae, on...
Ionian cities
76 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Teos ...in Caria, and they have a common language; Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea, all of them in Lydia, [4] have a language in common which...
Teos
73 26.785014,38.177262,0 Lebedos ...are settlements in Caria, and they have a common language; Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea, all of them in Lydia, [4] have a language in common...
Lebedos
80 26.964722,38.077883,0 Mede ...and of a quiet temper: for Astyages held Cambyses to be much lower than a Mede of middle rank. 108. But during the first year that Mandane was married to...
Mede
76 46.5,34.5,0 Cymaeans ...of my oracle about giving up those that seek refuge with you.” 160. When the Cymaeans heard this answer, they sent Pactyes away to Mytilene; for they were anxious...
Cymaeans
80 26.936283,38.75953,0 Spartan herald ...were who made this declaration. When he was told, he said to the Spartan herald, “I never yet feared men who set apart a place in the middle of their city...
Spartan herald
67 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cymaeans ...this, he sent messengers to Cyme demanding that Pactyes be surrendered. The Cymaeans resolved to make the god at Branchidae their judge as to what course they...
Cymaeans
78 26.936283,38.75953,0 Oenussae ...back to Phocaea. Those of them who kept the oath put out to sea from the Oenussae. 166. And when they came to Cyrnus they lived there for five years as one...
Oenussae
75 26.26478,38.49869,0 Araxes ...rise up to dance and even sing. Such is said to be their way of life. [3] The Araxes73 flows from the country of the Matieni (as does the Gyndes, which Cyrus...
Araxes
80 46.5,38.5,0 Boeotian sandals ...himself in a white mantle; he wears the shoes of his country, which are like Boeotian sandals. Their hair is worn long, and covered by caps; the whole body is perfumed. [2]...
Boeotian sandals
79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Babylonian ...For clothing, they wear a linen tunic, reaching to the feet; over this the Babylonian puts on another tunic, of wool, and wraps himself in a white mantle; he wears...
Babylonian
77 44.42082,32.53617,0 Egypt ...Hermotubies, and they belong to the following districts (for all divisions in Egypt are made according to districts). 165. The Hermotubies are from the districts...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian measure ...The parasang is three and three quarters miles, and the schoenus, which is an Egyptian measure, is twice that. 7. By this reckoning, then, the seaboard of Egypt will be four...
Egyptian measure
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Libyan ...more than thirty miles between the Arabian mountains and those that are called Libyan. Beyond this Egypt is a wide land again. Such is the nature of this country...
Libyan
81 Egypt ...with salt, so that even the pyramids show it, and the only sandy mountain in Egypt is that which is above Memphis; [2] besides, Egypt is like neither the...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Libya ...these a fourth part, the Delta of Egypt, if it belongs neither to Asia nor to Libya; for by their showing the Nile is not the river that separates Asia and Libya...
Libya
80 26.5,31.5,0 Saïs ...except the recorder of the sacred treasures of Athena in the Egyptian city of Saïs. [2] I thought he was joking when he said that he had exact knowledge, but this...
Saïs
80 30.7695,30.96716,0 Phoenicians ...are the only nations that have from the first practised circumcision. [3] The Phoenicians and the Syrians of Palestine acknowledge that they learned the custom from the...
Phoenicians
80 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...learned it through traffic with Egypt, I consider clearly proved by this: that Phoenicians who traffic with Hellas cease to imitate the Egyptians in this matter and do...
Phoenicians
81 35.25,33.25,0 Lydian ...[2] There, waiting till Darius should be sitting in state in the suburb of the Lydian city, they put on their sister the best adornment they had, and sent her to...
Lydian
81 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Asia ...did was not in the manner of the Persians or Lydians or any of the peoples of Asia. Having taken note of this, he sent some of his guards, bidding them watch what...
Asia
80 Myrcinus ...his vision of the future was correct. Presently the king sent a message to Myrcinus which read as follows: “ Histiaeus, these are the words of Darius the king: my...
Myrcinus
77 23.819776,40.901252,0 Naxians ...both meat and drink in case of a siege, and strengthened their walls. [2] The Naxians, then, made all preparations to face the onset of war. When their enemies had...
Naxians
80 25.52001,37.127,0 Cyprus ...easily attack Euboea, which is a great and a wealthy island, no smaller than Cyprus and very easy to take. A hundred ships suffice for the conquest of all these.”...
Cyprus
79 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Cyclades ...which are its dependents, Paros, Andros, and the rest of those that are called Cyclades. [3] Making these your starting point, you will easily attack Euboea, which is...
Cyclades
81 25.139512376923083,37.0415464153846,0 Parians ...the Greeks by the Milesians for this purpose, made peace among them, 29. The Parians reconciled them in the following manner. Their best men came to Miletus, and...
Parians
80 25.19093,37.03613,0 Parians ...who had been at feud should obey these men. 30. It was in this way that the Parians made peace in Miletus, but now these cities began to bring trouble upon Ionia...
Parians
79 25.19093,37.03613,0 Euboea ...seven hundred of them prisoner. On that same day the Athenians crossed to Euboea where they met the Chalcidians too in battle, and after overcoming them as...
Euboea
76 23.87,38.53,0 Armenia ...of three stages and fifteen and a half parasangs. The boundary of Cilicia and Armenia is a navigable river, the name of which is the Euphrates. In Armenia there are...
Armenia
80 42.5,37.5,0 Cilicia ...a great force. So the Ionians were in Cyprus when the Persians, crossing from Cilicia, marched to Salamis by land, and the Phoenicians were sailing around the...
Cilicia
80 35.75,38.25,0 Halys ...ninety-four and a half parasangs. [2] Next after Phrygia it comes to the river Halys, where there is both a defile which must be passed before the river can be...
Halys
81 35.9295291,41.6767598,0 Phrygia ...the purpose of his plan, but rather to vex king Darius). He sent a man into Phrygia, to the Paeonians who had been led captive from the Strymon by Megabazus, and...
Phrygia
78 29.75,38.75,0 Medes ...Greeks. They were settlers from the Ionians and Dorians. 96. Persians and Medes and Sacae served as soldiers on all the ships. The most seaworthy ships were...
Medes
77 46.5,34.5,0 Ionians ...said in the beginning of my history45 what they were formerly called. 94. The Ionians furnished a hundred ships; their equipment was like the Greek. These Ionians...
Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Libyans ...at this very time brought against Gelon three hundred thousand Phoenicians, Libyans, Iberians, Ligyes, Elisyci, Sardinians, and Cyrnians,85 led by Amilcas son of...
Libyans
78 26.5,31.5,0 Milesian ...my father and me. [3] First they came to Sardis with our slave Aristagoras the Milesian and burnt the groves and the temples; next, how they dealt with us when we...
Milesian
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Phoenicians ...was twelve hundred and seven, and they were furnished by the following: the Phoenicians with the Syrians of Palestine furnished three hundred; for their equipment...
Phoenicians
78 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...linen breastplates, and carried shields without rims, and javelins. [2] These Phoenicians formerly dwelt, as they themselves say, by the Red Sea; they crossed from there...
Phoenicians
80 35.25,33.25,0 Acrothoum ...to make them into island and not mainland towns; they are Dion, Olophyxus, Acrothoum, Thyssus, and Cleonae. 23. These are the towns situated on Athos. The...
Acrothoum
77 24.34933,40.183833,0 Strymon ...her own behalf to the fabled god beneath the earth. 115. Journeying from the Strymon, the army passed by Argilus, a Greek town standing on a stretch of coast...
Strymon
80 23.848889,40.785833,0 Mendesian ...from the Sebennytic and so flow into the sea: by name, the Saïtic and the Mendesian. [6] The Bolbitine and Bucolic mouths are not natural but excavated channels...
Mendesian
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Bucolic ...into the sea: by name, the Saïtic and the Mendesian. [6] The Bolbitine and Bucolic mouths are not natural but excavated channels. 18. The response of oracle of...
Bucolic
77 Marea ...after my judgment was already formed about Egypt. [2] The men of the cities of Marea and Apis, in the part of Egypt bordering on Libya, believing themselves to be...
Marea
81 Ethiopians ...now begins to be inhabited by Ethiopians: half the people of the island are Ethiopians, and half Egyptians. Near the island is a great lake, on whose shores live...
Ethiopians
78 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopians ...half Egyptians. Near the island is a great lake, on whose shores live nomadic Ethiopians. After crossing this, you come to the stream of the Nile, which empties into...
Ethiopians
80 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopians ...peoples are, too; but my better proof was that the Colchians and Egyptians and Ethiopians are the only nations that have from the first practised circumcision. [3] The...
Ethiopians
81 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopians ...it is seen that they do just as the Egyptians. [4] But as to the Egyptians and Ethiopians themselves, I cannot say which nation learned it from the other; for it is...
Ethiopians
81 38.721522,14.125005,0 Nile ...sharp peaks, one called Crophi and the other Mophi. [3] The springs of the Nile, which are bottomless, rise between these hills; half the water flows north...
Nile
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greek traders ...many curses on its head, which they carry away. Where there is a market, and Greek traders in it, the head is taken to the market and sold; where there are no Greeks, it...
Greek traders
79 Greek ...will kiss a Greek man, or use a knife, or a spit, or a cauldron belonging to a Greek, or taste the flesh of an unblemished bull that has been cut up with a Greek...
Greek
81 Greek ...buried by the priests of the Nile themselves. 91. The Egyptians shun using Greek customs, and (generally speaking) the customs of all other peoples as well...
Greek
78 Greek ...112. Pheros was succeeded (they said) by a man of Memphis, whose name in the Greek tongue was Proteus. This Proteus has a very attractive and well-appointed...
Greek
80 Greek ...the wind and driven to my coasts, I would have punished you on behalf of the Greek, you most vile man. You committed the gravest impiety after you had had your...
Greek
79 Greek ...the roof is held up by great statues twenty feet high for pillars. Apis in Greek is Epaphus. 154. To the Ionians and Carians who had helped him, Psammetichus...
Greek
77 Greek ...And he decided to marry from there, either because he had his heart set on a Greek wife, or for the sake of the Corcyreans' friendship; [2] in any case, he...
Greek
79 Greek language ...he deposed Typhon,60 and was the last divine king of Egypt. Osiris is, in the Greek language, Dionysus. 145. Among the Greeks, Heracles, Dionysus, and Pan are held to be...
Greek language
80 Greek language ...more costly, but none more pleasing to the eye than this. Bubastis is, in the Greek language, Artemis. 138. Her temple is of this description: except for the entrance, it...
Greek language
80 Colchians ...it from others. When it occurred to me, I inquired of both peoples; and the Colchians remembered the Egyptians better than the Egyptians remembered the Colchians...
Colchians
78 42.5,42.5,0 Thermodon ...learned the custom from the Egyptians, and the Syrians of the valleys of the Thermodon and the Parthenius, as well as their neighbors the Macrones, say that they...
Thermodon
79 36.9424975,41.1939559,0 Thracians ...until he had crossed over from Asia to Europe and defeated the Scythians and Thracians. Thus far and no farther, I think, the Egyptian army went; for the pillars can...
Thracians
79 27.5,42.5,0 Palestine ...from the first practised circumcision. [3] The Phoenicians and the Syrians of Palestine acknowledge that they learned the custom from the Egyptians, and the Syrians of...
Palestine
80 37.5,32.5,0 lake Moeris ...made underground. 149. Such is this labyrinth; and still more marvellous is lake Moeris, on which it stands. This lake has a circumference of four hundred and fifty...
lake Moeris
79 30.580833,29.453611,0 Ninus ...thing happening in the Assyrian city of Ninus. [3] Sardanapallus king of Ninus had great wealth, which he kept in an underground treasury. Some thieves...
Ninus
75 43.1609,36.34773,0 Ephesus ...not amount to the labor and cost of this labyrinth. And yet the temple at Ephesus and the one on Samos are noteworthy. [3] Though the pyramids beggar description...
Ephesus
76 27.339722,37.941944,0 City of Crocodiles ...a labyrinth62 a little way beyond lake Moeris and near the place called the City of Crocodiles. I have seen it myself, and indeed words cannot describe it;63 [2] if one were...
City of Crocodiles
78 32.45905,25.58589,0 Peloponnese ...Egypt and taught it to the Pelasgian women; afterwards, when the people of the Peloponnese were driven out by the Dorians, it was lost, except in so far as it was...
Peloponnese
81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Rhodes ...Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene. [3] It is...
Rhodes
78 28.15629,36.41451,0 Egypt ...they had been carrying to Croesus and the breastplate which Amasis King of Egypt had sent them as a gift. [2] This breastplate had been stolen by the Samians in...
Egypt
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...and so sailed to Lacedaemon. [3] There are those who say that the Samians from Egypt defeated Polycrates; but to my thinking this is untrue; for they need not have...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...subjects sent a herald to Cambyses, son of Cyrus, then raising an army against Egypt, inviting Cambyses to send to Samos too and request men from him. [2] At this...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...saw the hand of heaven in this matter; he wrote a letter and sent it to Egypt, telling all that he had done, and what had happened to him. 43. When Amasis...
Egypt
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...so made himself lord of all Samos; then he made a treaty with Amasis king of Egypt, sending to him and receiving from him gifts. [2] Very soon after this...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...known to you something which I kept most strictly concealed. [2] When I was in Egypt I had a dream, which I wish I had not had; it seemed to me that a messenger...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...and the part of Syria called Palestine, and Cyprus. [2] The sixth province was Egypt and the neighboring parts of Libya, and Cyrene and Barca, all of which were...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...joint was dislocated from its socket. Darius called in the best physicians of Egypt, whom he had until now kept near his person. But by violently twisting the foot...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...successor to the royal power was the man to whom he had given the garment in Egypt; so he went up to Susa and sat in the king's antechamber, saying that he was...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...This Zopyrus was the father of Megabyzus, who was general of an army in Egypt against the Athenians and their allies; and Megabyzus' son was that Zopyrus who...
Egypt
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...of Egypt, the people saw an extraordinary thing, namely, rain at Thebes of Egypt, where, as the Thebans themselves say, there had never been rain before, nor...
Egypt
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...evil act was to destroy his full brother Smerdis, whom he had sent away from Egypt to Persia out of jealousy, because Smerdis alone could draw the bow brought...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...charge, or was it one of his servants?” [2] “Since King Cambyses marched to Egypt,” answered the herald, “I have never seen Smerdis the son of Cyrus; the Magus...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...the royal throne; then he sent heralds to all parts, one of whom was to go to Egypt and proclaim to the army that henceforth they must obey not Cambyses but...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Persia ...to the name of Cyrus, he recounted all the good which that king had done to Persia, [2] and after he had narrated this, he revealed the truth, saying that he had...
Persia
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...fingerbreadths, but no other Persian could draw it. [2] Smerdis having gone to Persia, Cambyses saw in a dream a vision, in which it seemed to him that a messenger...
Persia
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...3. The following story, incredible to me, is also told: that one of the Persian women who came to visit Cyrus' wives, and saw the tall and attractive children...
Persian
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Thebes ...and marched back to Thebes , with the loss of many of his army; from Thebes he came down to Memphis, and sent the Greeks to sail away. 26. So fared the...
Thebes
71 32.65285,25.70247,0 Thebes ...who were sent to march against the Ammonians, they set out and journeyed from Thebes with guides; and it is known that they came to the city of Oasis,12 inhabited...
Thebes
80 32.65285,25.70247,0 Ethiopian ...saw what is called the Table of the Sun. 24. Last after this they viewed the Ethiopian coffins; these are said to be made of alabaster, as I shall describe: [2] they...
Ethiopian
79 38.721522,14.125005,0 Samians ...soldiers and bowmen of his own, was beaten by a few men like the returning Samians. [4] Polycrates took the children and wives of the townsmen who were subject to...
Samians
77 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...further the expedition against Samos. For an outrage had been done them by the Samians a generation before this expedition, about the time of the robbery of the bowl...
Samians
81 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...hurt by them. This was the cause. 60. I have written at such length of the Samians, because the three greatest works of all the Greeks were engineered by them...
Samians
78 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...from the Siphnians a loan of ten talents; when the Siphnians refused them, the Samians set about ravaging their lands. [4] Hearing this the Siphnians came out at once...
Samians
81 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...not understand this oracle either when it was spoken or at the time of the Samians' coming. As soon as the Samians put in at Siphnus, they sent ambassadors to the...
Samians
77 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...founded, and now I give you freedom.” [5] Such was Maeandrius' promise to the Samians. But one of them arose and answered: “But you are not even fit to rule us...
Samians
80 26.84,37.73,0 Islands of the Blest ...from Thebes across sandy desert; this place is called, in the Greek language, Islands of the Blest. [2] Thus far, it is said, the army came; after that, except for the Ammonians...
Islands of the Blest
80 -16.09,28.098333500000003,0 Oasis ...the Ammonians themselves say: when the Persians were crossing the sand from Oasis to attack them, and were about midway between their country and Oasis, while...
Oasis
78 30.73046277641199,25.596754764260208,0 Persia ...was to destroy his full brother Smerdis, whom he had sent away from Egypt to Persia out of jealousy, because Smerdis alone could draw the bow brought from the...
Persia
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Susa ...to run away from what is to be; but I, blind as I was, sent Prexaspes to Susa to kill Smerdis. When that great wrong was done I lived without fear, for I...
Susa
75 48.24854,32.19202,0 Susa ...father, Hystaspes, was a subordinate governor of the Persians, arrived at Susa. When he came, then, the six Persians resolved to include Darius too. 71. The...
Susa
76 48.24854,32.19202,0 Susa ...a hundred and seventy talents; this was the seventh province; the eighth was Susa and the rest of the Cissian country, paying three hundred talents. 92. From...
Susa
79 48.24854,32.19202,0 Red14 Sea ...some say that he took Smerdis out hunting, others that he brought him to the Red14 Sea and there drowned him. 31. This, they say, was the first of Cambyses' evil...
Red14 Sea
79 39.5,19.0,0 Susa ...the most trusted of his Persians, to Persia to kill him. Prexaspes went up to Susa and killed Smerdis; some say that he took Smerdis out hunting, others that he...
Susa
80 48.24854,32.19202,0 Phoenician ...and jeered at the image there. This image of Hephaestus is most like the Phoenician Pataici,17 which the Phoenicians carry on the prows of their triremes. I will...
Phoenician
75 35.25,33.25,0 Samos ...to view the country for this reason. 139. After this, King Darius conquered Samos, the greatest of all city states, Greek or barbarian, the reason for his...
Samos
79 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...good.” [5] Syloson answered, “Do not give me gold, O king, or silver, but Samos, my country, which our slave has now that my brother Polycrates has been killed...
Samos
76 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...enough to defeat the king, but because he did not want Syloson to recover Samos safe and sound with no trouble. [2] He wanted therefore by provoking the...
Samos
76 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...listened to his advice and banished Maeandrius by proclamation. 149. As for Samos, the Persians swept it clear and turned it over uninhabited to Syloson. But...
Samos
79 26.84,37.73,0 Indians ...and Mares, the nineteenth province, were ordered to pay three hundred. The Indians made up the twentieth province. These are more in number than any nation of...
Indians
77 77.5,22.5,0 Indians ...weave them crosswise like a mat, and wear them like a breastplate. 99. Other Indians, to the east of these, are nomads and eat raw flesh; they are called Padaei. It...
Indians
80 77.5,22.5,0 Lacedaemonians ...they first sent a fleet to help the Lacedaemonians against Messenia; but the Lacedaemonians say that they sent this army less to aid the Samians in their need than to...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...were over-wordy with “the sack”;21 but they did resolve to help them. 47. The Lacedaemonians then equipped and sent an army to Samos, returning a favor, as the Samians say...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...a favor, as the Samians say, because they first sent a fleet to help the Lacedaemonians against Messenia; but the Lacedaemonians say that they sent this army less to...
Lacedaemonians
75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Samos ...for although he had not been injured or spoken badly of by Polycrates of Samos, and had in fact never even seen him before, he desired to seize and kill him...
Samos
75 26.84,37.73,0 Lacedaemonians ...the first expedition to Asia made by Dorians of Lacedaemon.23 57. When the Lacedaemonians were about to abandon them, the Samians who had brought an army against...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Ionia ...the human race Polycrates was the first, and he had great hope of ruling Ionia and the Islands. [3] Learning then that he had this intention, Oroetes sent him...
Ionia
75 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Corinthians ...at odds with each other, despite their kinship. [2] For these reasons then the Corinthians bore a grudge against the Samians. Periander chose the sons of the notable...
Corinthians
81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Spartan ...stranger quit the country, lest he persuade Cleomenes himself or some other Spartan to do evil. The ephors listened to his advice and banished Maeandrius by...
Spartan
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...them the cups, he went to the ephors and told them it would be best for Sparta if this Samian stranger quit the country, lest he persuade Cleomenes himself or...
Sparta
74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Europe ...to do. 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...
Europe
79 Lacedaemon ...arrived at the battle and was killed. 231. When Aristodemus returned to Lacedaemon, he was disgraced and without honor. He was deprived of his honor in this way...
Lacedaemon
75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Bosporus ...once almost overtook us, when your father, making a highway over the Thracian Bosporus and bridging the river Ister, crossed over to attack the Scythians. At that...
Bosporus
80 29.075278,41.119444,0 Thracians ...were driven from their homes by Teucrians and Mysians. The commander of the Thracians of Asia was Bassaces son of Artabanus. 76. The <Pisidians> had little shields...
Thracians
78 27.5,42.5,0 Thracians ...before the Trojan war crossed the Bosporus into Europe,13 subdued all the Thracians, and came down to the Ionian sea, marching southward as far as the river...
Thracians
76 27.5,42.5,0 Trojan ...they were armed like the Greeks. These Pamphylians are descended from the Trojans of the diaspora who followed Amphilochus and Calchas. 92. The Lycians...
Trojan
76 26.23873,39.9577,0 Aeginetans ...the demand. Among the islanders who gave earth and water to Darius were the Aeginetans. [3] The Athenians immediately came down upon them for doing this, for they...
Aeginetans
78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Dug Forest ...the mines. About eighty talents on average came in from the gold-mines of the “Dug Forest”,14 and less from the mines of Thasos itself, yet so much that the Thasians...
Dug Forest
81 Aegina ...the Athenians were now set upon harming the Aeginetans, he agreed to betray Aegina to the Athenians, naming the day when he would make the attempt and when they...
Aegina
78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Laconian ...are the mares who won the three Olympic prizes. [4] The mares of Evagoras the Laconian did the same as these, but none others. Stesagoras, the elder of Cimon's sons...
Laconian
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...mention of matters which others have not touched. 56. These privileges the Spartans have given to their kings: two priesthoods, of Zeus called Lacedaemon19 and of...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...was deposed. A son was born to him, Zeuxidemus, called by some of the Spartans Cyniscus. This Zeuxidemus never became king of Sparta, for he died before...
Spartans
72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...so excellently freed his country, as I have said; second, for what he did at Olympia, where he won a horserace, and was second in a four-horse chariot, after...
Olympia
79 21.630126,37.637849,0 Zacynthus ...he planned to escape and went in pursuit. [2] Demaratus somehow went across to Zacynthus from Elis before them; the Lacedaemonians crossed over after him and laid hands...
Zacynthus
81 20.76,37.77,0 Elis ...and went in pursuit. [2] Demaratus somehow went across to Zacynthus from Elis before them; the Lacedaemonians crossed over after him and laid hands on him...
Elis
75 21.37493,37.89131,0 Tegea ...and banished from Sparta, and his house was destroyed. He went into exile at Tegea and died in that country. 73. This happened long afterwards. When Cleomenes'...
Tegea
79 22.429,37.464,0 Styx ...men of Arcadia to the city of Nonacris and make them swear by the water of the Styx.26 [2] Near this city is said to be the Arcadian water of the Styx, and this is...
Styx
81 22.25,38.25,0 Erasinus ...at Argos, and from that place onwards the stream is called by the Argives Erasinus）—when Cleomenes came to this river he offered sacrifices to it. [2] The omens...
Erasinus
76 22.75,37.75,0 Tiryns ...sacrificed a bull to the sea and carried his men on shipboard to the region of Tiryns and to Nauplia. 77. The Argives heard of this and came to the coast to do...
Tiryns
81 22.80004,37.59918,0 Thebans ...the penalty for the violence they had done to the Athenians to please the Thebans, acted as follows: blaming the Athenians and deeming themselves wronged, they...
Thebans
76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Spartans ...tell you the story of what happened at Sparta in the matter of a trust. [2] We Spartans say that three generations ago there was at Lacedaemon one Glaucus, the son of...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athens ...to Athens and restore the men to the Aeginetans. 86. When Leutychides came to Athens and demanded back the hostages, the Athenians were unwilling to give them back...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebans ...sat at the altar as suppliants and put themselves under protection. When the Thebans heard this, they marched against the Plataeans, but the Athenians came to their...
Thebans
79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Delos ...taking with him Ionians and Aeolians; and after he had put out from there, Delos was shaken by an earthquake, the first and last, as the Delians say, before my...
Delos
77 25.268194,37.397274,0 Delos ...in Delos when there had been none before. Also there was an oracle concerning Delos, where it was written: “I will shake Delos, though unshaken before. ” In the...
Delos
80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Delians ...out from there, Delos was shaken by an earthquake, the first and last, as the Delians say, before my time. This portent was sent by heaven, as I suppose, to be an...
Delians
80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Delians ...the coast opposite Chalcis. [3] Datis gave this order and sailed away, but the Delians never carried that statue away; twenty years later the Thebans brought it to...
Delians
81 25.268194,37.397274,0 Naxos ...Naxos was still unconquered and constrained them. 96. When they approached Naxos from the Icarian sea and came to land (for it was Naxos which the Persians...
Naxos
78 25.52001,37.127,0 Aleian plain ...95. When these appointed generals on their way from the king reached the Aleian plain in Cilicia, bringing with them a great and well-furnished army, they camped...
Aleian plain
76 35.25,36.75,0 Attica ...possession of Lemnos in this way: When the Pelasgians54 were driven out of Attica by the Athenians, whether justly or unjustly I cannot say, beyond what is told...
Attica
77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Carystians ...[2] When in their voyage about the islands they put in at Carystos, the Carystians gave them no hostages and refused to join them against neighboring cities...
Carystians
74 24.4204,38.0165,0 Plataeans ...undergone many labors on their behalf. This is how they did it: [2] when the Plataeans were pressed by the Thebans, they first tried to put themselves under the...
Plataeans
79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataeans ...The Lacedaemonians gave this advice not so much out of goodwill toward the Plataeans as wishing to cause trouble for the Athenians with the Boeotians. [4] So the...
Plataeans
77 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataeans ...under protection. When the Thebans heard this, they marched against the Plataeans, but the Athenians came to their aid. [5] As they were about to join battle...
Plataeans
74 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataeans ...fourth year,47 the Athenian herald prays for good things for the Athenians and Plataeans together. [3] As the Athenians were marshalled at Marathon, it happened that...
Plataeans
81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Athens ...his mother. [2] He supposed from the dream that he would return from exile to Athens, recover his rule, and end his days an old man in his own country. Thus he...
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Marathon ...the Athenians and Plataeans together. [3] As the Athenians were marshalled at Marathon, it happened that their line of battle was as long as the line of the Medes...
Marathon
80 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Aphidnae ...Athenians had made his vote of equal weight with the generals. Callimachus of Aphidnae was polemarch at this time. Miltiades approached him and said, [3]...
Aphidnae
80 23.362766,37.974359,0 Marathon ...protection of the Athenians in the aforesaid manner, and now came to help at Marathon. 109. The Athenian generals were of divided opinion, some advocating not...
Marathon
79 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Athens ...approached him and said, [3] “Callimachus, it is now in your hands to enslave Athens or make her free, and thereby leave behind for all posterity a memorial such as...
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...plan prevailed. An eleventh man had a vote, chosen by lot to be polemarch44 of Athens, and by ancient custom the Athenians had made his vote of equal weight with the...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Hellenic ...over to Hippias. But if the city prevails, it will take first place among Hellenic cities. [4] I will tell you how this can happen, and how the deciding voice on...
Hellenic
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Asia ...of Miltiades, he could have departed under treaty from Eion and returned to Asia, but he refused, lest the king think that he had saved his life out of...
Asia
78 Asia ...to me that its numbers were still such as I will now show. The ships from Asia were twelve hundred and seven in number, and including the entire host of...
Asia
76 Asia ...three hundred thousand. [3] When these numbers are added to the numbers from Asia, the sum total of fighting men is two million, six hundred and forty-one...
Asia
79 Asia ...But against you, O king, who shall make war? You will bring the multitudes of Asia, and all your ships. I think there is not so much boldness in Hellas as that...
Asia
80 Asia ...ones from Libya have the woolliest hair of all men. [2] These Ethiopians of Asia were for the most part armed like the Indians; but they wore on their heads the...
Asia
78 Asia ...ships and horses and provisions and transport vessels than they had before. Asia was in commotion with these messages for three years,1 as the best men were...
Asia
78 Lacedaemonians ...during which the Spartans were unable to obtain good omens from sacrifice. The Lacedaemonians were grieved and dismayed by this and frequently called assemblies, making a...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...was the divine result of Talthybius' anger. [3] These two had been sent by the Lacedaemonians as ambassadors to Asia, and betrayed by the Thracian king Sitalces son of...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...him about each of these matters, wanting to understand what it was that the Lacedaemonians were doing. Demaratus said, “You have already heard about these men from me...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...seen. 209. When Xerxes heard that, he could not comprehend the fact that the Lacedaemonians were actually, to the best of their ability, preparing to kill or be killed...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...would see them fleeing and give chase with shouting and noise, but when the Lacedaemonians were overtaken, they would turn to face the barbarians and overthrow...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Egypt ...was intent on his expedition. But in the year after this and the revolt of Egypt, death came upon him in the midst of his preparations, after a reign of six and...
Egypt
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...handed it over to Achaemenes, his own brother and Darius' son. While governing Egypt, this Achaemenes was at a later time6 slain by a Libyan, Inaros son of...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...by a bridge. 25. Thus Xerxes did this. He assigned the Phoenicians and Egyptians to make ropes of papyrus and white flax for the bridges,15 and to store...
Egyptians
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Susa ...When Xerxes was resolved to march against Hellas, Demaratus, who was then at Susa and had knowledge of this, desired to send word of it to the Lacedaemonians...
Susa
79 48.24854,32.19202,0 Egyptians ...for service against Hellas and made preparations. [3] In the fourth year the Egyptians, whom Cambyses had enslaved, revolted from the Persians; thereupon Darius was...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Susa ...decision, it chanced that at this time Demaratus son of Ariston had come up to Susa, in voluntary exile from Lacedaemonia after he had lost the kingship of Sparta...
Susa
81 48.24854,32.19202,0 Hellas ...they who had refused tribute were afraid, since there were not enough ships in Hellas to do battle with their invader; furthermore, the greater part of them had no...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...of us play false and others will not come to our aid, while the sound part of Hellas is but small, then it is to be feared that all Greek lands alike will be...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...army, just as the spring is the best part of the year. He accordingly compared Hellas deprived of alliance with him to a year bereft of its spring.83 163. After...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Lacedaemonians ...the Hellenes remaining there. [2] Later he fled into Thessaly in fear of the Lacedaemonians, and while he was in exile, a price was put on his head by the Pylagori110 when...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...where the dead lay and hearing that Leonidas had been king and general of the Lacedaemonians, he gave orders to cut off his head and impale it. [2] It is plain to me by...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...be troubled by the way-wardens. [4] When the tablet came to Lacedaemon, the Lacedaemonians could not guess its meaning, until at last (as I have been told) Gorgo...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonian ...however, another story told by the Sicilians: even though he was to be under Lacedaemonian authority, Gelon would still have aided the Greeks had it not been for Terillus...
Lacedaemonian
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Hellas ...unwilling to submit to this and will at all hazards lead your army overseas to Hellas, then I think that those left behind in this place will hear that Mardonius has...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...6. He said this because he desired adventures and wanted to be governor of Hellas. Finally he worked on Xerxes and persuaded him to do this, and other things...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...to his son Xerxes. Now Xerxes was at first by no means eager to march against Hellas; it was against Egypt that he mustered his army. But Mardonius son of Gobryas...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...from the Aleuadae (who were princes of Thessaly) and invited the king into Hellas with all earnestness; the Pisistratidae who had come up to Susa used the same...
Hellas
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Phoenicians ...at Memphis, south of the temple of Hephaestus. [2] Around the precinct live Phoenicians of Tyre, and the whole place is called the Camp of the Tyrians. There is in the...
Phoenicians
78 35.25,33.25,0 Soloeis ...the whole northern seacoast of Libya, from Egypt as far as the promontory of Soloeis, which is the end of Libya, is inhabited throughout its length by Libyans, many...
Soloeis
79 -5.9236482,35.7910308,0 Libya ...seen the farthest. [4] It must be known that the whole northern seacoast of Libya, from Egypt as far as the promontory of Soloeis, which is the end of Libya, is...
Libya
78 26.5,31.5,0 Mendesians ...other gods; but why they represent him so, I have no wish to say. [3] The Mendesians consider all goats sacred, the male even more than the female, and goatherds...
Mendesians
76 31.51667,30.95833,0 Europe ...by the Phoenicians, who made a settlement there when they voyaged in search of Europe; now they did so as much as five generations before the birth of Heracles the...
Europe
81 Lacedaemonians ...that this opinion, which is held by all Greeks and particularly by the Lacedaemonians, is of foreign origin. It is in Corinth that artisans are held in least...
Lacedaemonians
73 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Greek ...prospers. [4] This is what they say; and their doings in honor of Perseus are Greek, inasmuch as they celebrate games that include every form of contest, and offer...
Greek
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Ethiopian ...in the reign of Sesostris, they were yet further raised in the reign of the Ethiopian. [5] Of the towns in Egypt that were raised, in my opinion, Bubastis is...
Ethiopian
78 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopian ...trees reaching to heaven. Such is this temple. 139. Now the departure of the Ethiopian (they said) came about in this way. After seeing in a dream one who stood over...
Ethiopian
80 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopian ...had formerly been in exile in Syria, where he had fled from Sabacos the Ethiopian, who killed his father Necos; then, when the Ethiopian departed because of what...
Ethiopian
74 38.721522,14.125005,0 Round Pond ...it is, as it seemed to me, the size of the lake at Delos which they call the Round Pond. 171. On this lake they enact by night the story of the god's sufferings, a...
Round Pond
79 Egyptian cubits ...untaxed plot of twelve acres was set apart. This acre is a square of a hundred Egyptian cubits each way, the Egyptian cubit being equal to the Samian. [2] These lands were...
Egyptian cubits
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Delos ...made in a complete circle; it is, as it seemed to me, the size of the lake at Delos which they call the Round Pond. 171. On this lake they enact by night the...
Delos
80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Cyrene ...when he had conquered Egypt and learned who Ladice was, sent her away to Cyrene unharmed. 182. Moreover, Amasis dedicated offerings in Hellas. He gave to...
Cyrene
75 21.856169,32.818736,0 Canobic mouth ...the Pelusian mouth, flows east; the second flows west, and is called the Canobic mouth. But the direct channel of the Nile, when the river in its downward course...
Canobic mouth
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Naucratis ...to Zeus; and so did the Samians for Hera and the Milesians for Apollo. 179. Naucratis was in the past the only trading port in Egypt. Whoever came to any other mouth...
Naucratis
79 30.5925,30.89722,0 Persians ...most prominent of the Persians that were about him, and thus addressed them: “Persians, I have to make known to you something which I kept most strictly concealed...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...no more. But about twenty days later, he sent for the most prominent of the Persians that were about him, and thus addressed them: “Persians, I have to make known...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...were six, Darius, whose father, Hystaspes, was a subordinate governor of the Persians, arrived at Susa. When he came, then, the six Persians resolved to include...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and that the Magi were in power. [3] Then, invoking a terrible curse on the Persians if they did not win back the throne and take vengeance on the Magi, he threw...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...made this second proposal to him, that they should call an assembly of all the Persians before the palace wall, and he should go up on to a tower and declare that it...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...faith and oaths to keep to himself and betray to no one their deception of the Persians, and promising to give him all things in great abundance. [3] When Prexaspes...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the rest of your army to assault the whole circuit of the walls, and post the Persians before the gate of Belus and the gate called Cissian. For I think that once I...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to his advice and banished Maeandrius by proclamation. 149. As for Samos, the Persians swept it clear and turned it over uninhabited to Syloson. But afterwards...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to kill everyone they took, men and boys alike. [2] Then, while some of the Persians laid siege to the acropolis, the rest killed everyone they met, inside the...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Samos safe and sound with no trouble. [2] He wanted therefore by provoking the Persians to weaken Samos as much as he could before surrendering it, for he was well...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...than he attempted with reviling and abuse to persuade Maeandrius to attack the Persians. “Although I am your brother, you coward,” he said, “and did no wrong deserving...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to death. They had, it would seem, no desire to be free. 144. So when the Persians brought Syloson back to Samos, no one raised a hand against them, but...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...is because of this fixing of tribute, and other similar ordinances, that the Persians called Darius the merchant, Cambyses the master, and Cyrus the father; for...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the young that they have left. Such is the tale. Most of the gold (say the Persians) is got in this way by the Indians; they dig some from mines in their country...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...country is the only one which I have not recorded as tributary; for the Persians live free from all taxes. [2] As for those on whom no tribute was laid, but who...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...for a hundred and twenty thousand bushels of grain were also assigned to the Persians quartered at the White Wall of Memphis and their allies. [4] The Sattagydae...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...displaying an insolence that is not to be borne. So, then, before he does the Persians some still greater harm, he has to be punished by us with death.” 128. Darius...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...said than did it. For the next day at dawn he summoned fifteen prominent Persians, and instructed them to go with Democedes and sail along the coast of Hellas...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...bow, and this message: [3] ‘The King of the Ethiopians advises the King of the Persians to bring overwhelming odds to attack the long-lived Ethiopians when the...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...her in this way (for before this, it had by no means been customary for Persians to marry their sisters): Cambyses was infatuated with one of his sisters and...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...shoot so true.” [5] Thus did Cambyses then; at another time he took twelve Persians, equal to the noblest in the land, convicted them of some minor offense, and...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...son in the porch; now if I shoot and pierce his heart, that will prove the Persians to be wrong; if I miss, then say that they are right and that I am out of my...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...you, but they say that you love wine too well.” [3] So he reported of the Persians. The king angrily replied: “If the Persians now say that it is my fondness for...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...wept (for it happened that he too had come with Cambyses to Egypt) and the Persians that were there wept; Cambyses himself felt some pity, and he ordered that...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to join the stock that has already been taken there. 7. Now as soon as the Persians took possession of Egypt, they became the caretakers of the entryway into it...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...son of Inaros, and also to Pausiris son of Amyrtaeus; yet none ever did the Persians more harm than Inaros and Amyrtaeus.6 [4] But as it was, Psammenitus plotted...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the Persians with their sticks. “Men of Croton, watch what you do,” said the Persians; “you are harboring an escaped slave of the King's. [3] How do you think King...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...taken from their ships until the physician was in his own country. 137. The Persians sailed from Tarentum and pursued Democedes to Croton, where they found him in...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...by a man. On two counts it is in your interest to do this, both so that the Persians know that their leader is a man, and so that they be occupied by war and not...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greeks ...the barbarians a man of Histiaea in a boat, telling them of the flight of the Greeks from Artemisium. Not believing this, they kept the bringer of the news in...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...of the writing, it might induce the Ionians to change sides and join with the Greeks, while if the writing were maliciously reported to Xerxes, he might thereby be...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...interim for news of how Mardonius' affairs were proceeding. 131. As for the Greeks, the coming of spring and Mardonius' being in Thessaly moved them to action...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...would be content to guard their own country. This they thought because the Greeks had not pursued them when they fled from Salamis, but had been glad to be quit...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...Ionian and other, was three hundred. [3] In truth they did not expect that the Greeks would come to Ionia, but rather that they would be content to guard their own...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...lauded, and throughout all of Hellas was deemed the wisest man by far of the Greeks. [2] However, because he had not received from those that fought at Salamis the...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Athenians ...first to take an Attic ship and receive gifts from the king, for it was the Athenians of whom there was most talk in the fleet. 11. But the Greeks, when the signal...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...five Greek ships together with their crews. As regards the Greeks, it was the Athenians who bore themselves best on that day, and of the Athenians Clinias son of...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...their ways in their appointed order, the Corinthians first and last of all the Athenians. 22. Themistocles, however, picked out the seaworthiest Athenian ships and...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...in the war. From the mainland outside the Peloponnese came the following: the Athenians provided more than all the rest, one hundred and eighty ships. They provided...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Greeks ...the appointed ships on their way, intending not to make an attack upon the Greeks either on that day or before the signal should be seen, whereby the ships that...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...it was the Athenians of whom there was most talk in the fleet. 11. But the Greeks, when the signal was given them, first drew the sterns of their ships together...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...to the Greeks came unwillingly to the war and were distressed to see the Greeks surrounded. They supposed that not one of them would return home, so powerless...
Greeks
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...the art of breaking the line. 10. When Xerxes' men and their generals saw the Greeks bearing down on them with but a few ships, they thought that they were...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...hopes in the fight. In that battle Antidorus of Lemnos, the only one of the Greeks siding with the Persian, deserted to the Greeks, and for that the Athenians...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...Leonidas, ready for his part to bring the news in a thirty-oared bark to the Greeks at Artemisium. [2] So this Abronichus came and declared to them the fate of...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...they drew together and went on their way. 108. When it was day, the Greeks saw the land army abiding where it had been and supposed the ships also to be...
Greeks
71 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...for while you and the members of your household are safe, many a time will the Greeks have to fight for their lives. As for Mardonius, if any disaster befalls him...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Athenians ...on purpose, but not so the Boeotians; they fought for a long time against the Athenians. For those Thebans who were on the Persian side had great enthusiasm in the...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Persians. 105. In that battle those of the Greeks who fought best were the Athenians, and the Athenian who fought best was one who practised the pancratium,36...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...stood their ground for a long time, but at last fled within their wall. The Athenians and Corinthians and Sicyonians and Troezenians, who were next to each other in...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the islands and the Hellespont were the prizes of victory. 102. As for the Athenians and those whose place was nearest them, that is, for about half of the line...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...permitted the barbarian to march into Attica. [2] For the present, then, the Athenians are angry with you since you have acted in a manner unworthy of you. Now they...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...lies wide open for the Persian. No, give heed to what they say before the Athenians take some new resolve which will bring calamity to Hellas.” 10. This was the...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...have they achieved such feats of arms as we.” 27. To these words the Athenians replied: “It is our belief that we are gathered for battle with the barbarian...
Athenians
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...up of battle formation there arose much dispute between the Tegeans and the Athenians, for each of them claimed that they should hold the second9 wing of the army...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the Macedonians also and those who lived in the area of Thessaly opposite the Athenians. 32. These which I have named were the greatest of the nations set in array by...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...leads towards Plataea. This pass the Boeotians call the Three Heads, and the Athenians the Oak's Heads. The horsemen who were sent out did not go in vain, [2] for...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...[2] “Since, therefore, the battle is to begin at dawn, it is best that you Athenians should take your stand opposite the Persians, and we opposite the Boeotians and...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebans ...cavalry, however, kept pressing upon and troubling the Greeks, for the Thebans, in their zeal for the Persian part, waged war heartily, and kept on guiding...
Thebans
73 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...by them facing the Tegeans; this he did being so informed and taught by the Thebans. [3] Next to the Persians he posted the Medes opposite the men of Corinth...
Thebans
78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenians ...[2] He sent this for the second time because although he already knew the Athenians' unfriendly purpose, he expected that they would abandon their stubbornness now...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...because he had been bribed by Mardonius, or because the plan pleased him. The Athenians in the council were, however, very angry; so too were those outside when they...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Corinthians ...but it was all over. The Athenians spread this rumor about them, but the Corinthians do not agree at all, and they consider themselves to have been among the...
Corinthians
75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...delayed their departure but went their ways in their appointed order, the Corinthians first and last of all the Athenians. 22. Themistocles, however, picked out the...
Corinthians
76 22.878721,37.906045,0 Macedonian ...unserviceable for war, so long as this war will last. Let not Alexander the Macedonian win you with his smooth-tongued praise of Mardonius' counsel. It is his...
Macedonian
78 21.75,41.25,0 Delphians ...of Athena. 38. All of this together struck panic into the barbarians, and the Delphians, perceiving that they fled, descended upon them and killed a great number. The...
Delphians
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Macedonia ...was seventh in descent from Perdiccas, who got for himself the tyranny of Macedonia in the way that I will show. Three brothers of the lineage of Temenus came as...
Macedonia
76 21.75,41.25,0 Delphi ...marched as I have said, and others set forth with guides for the temple at Delphi, keeping Parnassus on their right. These, too, laid waste to every part of...
Delphi
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Hellespont ...them into the sea for offerings to the sun, or repented having whipped the Hellespont and gave gifts to the sea as atonement. 55. When they had done this they...
Hellespont
77 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...[2] It is said that when Xerxes had now crossed the Hellespont, a man of the Hellespont cried, “O Zeus, why have you taken the likeness of a Persian man and changed...
Hellespont
79 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...they were called Pelasgian, as the Greek story goes. [2] Of the people of the Hellespont, the people of Abydos had been charged by the king to remain at home and guard...
Hellespont
80 26.4,40.2,0 Ister ...into the Triballic plain and the Brongus river, and the Brongus into the Ister, which receives these two great rivers into itself. The Carpis and another...
Ister
75 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...itself more water in summer than in winter, the water that commingles with the Ister is many times more abundant in summer than it is in winter; these opposites...
Ister
81 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...that owes its volume of water to no tributary river or spring. [2] But the Ister is always the same height in summer and winter, the reason for which, I think...
Ister
77 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...northward, from the country north of the Ombrici, to flow into it; [3] for the Ister traverses the whole of Europe, rising among the Celts, who are the most...
Ister
81 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...leaving behind there great piles of stones. 93. But before he came to the Ister, he first took the Getae, who pretend to be immortal. The Thracians of...
Ister
77 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...Now it has been seen that on its northern and inland side, running from the Ister, Scythia is bounded first by the Agathyrsi, next by the Neuri, next by the...
Ister
78 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...and that the Scythians not try to force their way across the bridge over the Ister; and to say while they were breaking the portion of the bridge on the Scythian...
Ister
79 29.647293,45.16291,0 Byzantines ...that the people of Calchedon had founded their town seventeen years before the Byzantines had founded theirs, that the Calchedonians must at that time have been blind...
Byzantines
81 28.975926,41.012379,0 Thermodon ...“oior” and to kill is “pata”), the story runs that after their victory on the Thermodon they sailed away carrying in three ships as many Amazons as they had been able...
Thermodon
80 36.9424975,41.1939559,0 Byzantines ...assembled was six hundred. [2] These pillars were afterward carried by the Byzantines into their city and there used to build the altar of Orthosian41 Artemis...
Byzantines
77 28.975926,41.012379,0 Orthosian ...carried by the Byzantines into their city and there used to build the altar of Orthosian41 Artemis, except for one column covered with Assyrian writing that was left...
Orthosian
81 28.228037,37.824122,0 Black-cloaks ...and it is a twenty days' journey from the sea inland to the country of the Black-cloaks who live north of Scythia. [3] Now, as I reckon a day's journey at two hundred...
Black-cloaks
77 Black-cloaks ...to the countries of those who had refused their alliance, to the land of the Black-cloaks first. [3] The Scythians and Persians burst into their land, agitating them...
Black-cloaks
79 Itanus ...to Libya. In their travels about the island, these came to the town of Itanus, where they met a murex fisherman named Corobius, who told them that he had...
Itanus
73 26.263095,35.263286,0 Theraeans ...and Theraean records agree; for the rest, we have only the word of the Theraeans. [2] Grinnus son of Aesanius, king of Thera, a descendant of this same Theras...
Theraeans
73 25.478129,36.36399,0 Barce ...slain, Amasis the general of the foot soldiers devised a plot, knowing that Barce could not be taken by force but might be taken by guile: he dug by night a wide...
Barce
78 20.892778,32.498333,0 Barce ...of the land army would not consent, saying that he had been sent against Barce and no other Greek city; at last they passed through Cyrene and camped on the...
Barce
75 20.892778,32.498333,0 Barce ...Darius gave them a town of Bactria to live in. They gave this town the name Barce, and it remained an inhabited place in Bactria until my own lifetime. 205. But...
Barce
78 20.892778,32.498333,0 Cyrenaean ...him; they engaged, and so wholly overcame the Cyrenaeans that seven thousand Cyrenaean soldiers were killed there. [4] After this disaster, Arcesilaus, being worn...
Cyrenaean
79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Salamis ...a faction; but he was defeated and banished to Samos, and his mother fled to Salamis in Cyprus. [3] Now Salamis at this time was ruled by Evelthon, who dedicated...
Salamis
79 33.90294,35.17926,0 Mantinea ...enable them to live best; [2] the priestess told them bring a mediator from Mantinea in Arcadia. When the Cyrenaeans sent their request, the Mantineans gave them...
Mantinea
78 22.393259,37.618138,0 Gindanes ...trees; it is twenty-five miles from the sea. 176. Next to these Macae are the Gindanes, where every woman wears many leather anklets, because (so it is said) she puts...
Gindanes
81 11.5,33.5,0 Tritonian lake ...the tripod, then a hundred Greek cities would be founded on the shores of the Tritonian lake. Hearing this (it is said) the Libyan people of the country hid the tripod...
Tritonian lake
80 8.5,33.5,0 Tritonian lake ...reaches to a great river called the Triton,59 which empties into the great Tritonian lake, in which is an island called Phla. It is said that the Lacedaemonians were...
Tritonian lake
77 8.5,33.5,0 Crestonaeans ...all their customs, save the Getae, the Trausi, and those who dwell above the Crestonaeans. 4. As for the Getae, who claim to be immortal, I have already given an...
Crestonaeans
79 22.75,40.75,0 Macedonia ...Darius the king. [2] Now there is a very straight way from the Prasiad lake to Macedonia. First there is near the lake that mine from which Alexander later drew a daily...
Macedonia
81 21.75,41.25,0 Ionians ...quite fair seeing that the Phoenicians had brought them into Greece.26 [3] The Ionians have also from ancient times called sheets of papyrus skins, since they...
Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...could. [3] The Athenians, now persuaded, voted to send twenty ships to aid the Ionians, appointing for their admiral Melanthius, a citizen of Athens who had an...
Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...before advised Gorgus to revolt from Darius, and now when he heard that the Ionians too had revolted, he was insistent in striving to move him. When, however, he...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...me wrong. He has brought men from the mainland overseas, and persuaded certain Ionians—who shall yet pay me the penalty for their deeds—to follow them and has robbed...
Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...of Cyprus called together the generals of the Ionians, and said to them: “Ionians, we Cyprians offer you the choice of engaging either the Persians or the...
Ionians
76 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...noteworthy things which they did or endured after they were freed and before Ionia revolted from Darius and Aristagoras of Miletus came to Athens to ask help of...
Ionia
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...clearly demonstrated, was a man of little courage, for after he had disturbed Ionia and thrown all into utter confusion, he, perceiving what he had done, began to...
Ionia
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...great size, but that it was otherwise a beautiful and noble island lying near Ionia. Furthermore it had a store of wealth and slaves. “Therefore send an army...
Ionia
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...join in his revolt. Then he proceeded to do the same things in the rest of Ionia. Some of the tyrants he banished, and as for those tyrants whom he had taken...
Ionia
77 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Naxos ...power to return to their own country. Believing that he would become ruler of Naxos if they were restored to their city with his help and using as a pretext their...
Naxos
80 25.52001,37.127,0 Naxos ...would pay since they had great hope that when they should appear off Naxos, the Naxians would obey all their commands. The rest of the islanders, they...
Naxos
71 25.52001,37.127,0 Scythians ...and subdue all the people, accusing some of shunning service against the Scythians and others of plundering Darius' army on its way back from Scythia. 28. All...
Scythians
75 27.5,47.5,0 Parians ...however, she had been very greatly troubled by factional strife, till the Parians, chosen out of all the Greeks by the Milesians for this purpose, made peace...
Parians
76 25.19093,37.03613,0 Persian ...Arabian Gulf, to which Darius brought a canal from the Nile. [2] Now from the Persian country to Phoenicia there is a wide and vast tract of land; and from Phoenicia...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...water.” 127. Idanthyrsus the Scythian king replied: “It is like this with me, Persian: I never ran from any man before out of fear, and I am not running from you...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...and made straight for the Ister in pursuit of the Persians. [2] And as the Persian army was for the most part infantry and did not know the roads (which were not...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Assyria ...to the Red Sea, and is Persian land; and next, the neighboring land of Assyria; and after Assyria, Arabia; this peninsula ends (not truly but only by common...
Assyria
73 37.5,37.5,0 Persian ...But the second, beginning with Persia, stretches to the Red Sea, and is Persian land; and next, the neighboring land of Assyria; and after Assyria, Arabia...
Persian
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Nile ...the Ister becomes the greatest river of all, while river for river the Nile surpasses it in volume, since that owes its volume of water to no tributary...
Nile
73 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Persians ...Amyntas made this request and had gone his way, Alexander said to the Persians, “Sirs, you have full freedom to deal with these women, and may have...
Persians
72 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...women's clothes, and gave them daggers. These he brought in, and said to the Persians, [4] “I believe, men of Persia, that you have feasted to your hearts' content...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the women sit beside them. When the women had done as they were bidden, the Persians, flushed as they were with excess of wine, at once laid hands on the women's...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to follow our custom.” [3] To this Amyntas replied, “ We have no such custom, Persians. Among us, men and women sit apart, but since you are our masters and are...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...he need only cross the mountain called Dysorum10 to be in Macedonia. 18. The Persians who had been sent as envoys came to Amyntas and demanded earth and water for...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...made the Paeonians captive, sent as messengers into Macedonia9 the seven Persians who (after himself) were the most honorable in his army. These were sent to...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...So the Paeonians were ready to withstand the onset of Megabazus' army, but the Persians, learning that the Paeonians had gathered their forces and were guarding the...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...them, they gathered together and marched away to the sea, thinking that the Persians would attempt to attack them by that way. [2] So the Paeonians were ready to...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Thrace and led his army to Paeonia. 15. When the Paeonians learned that the Persians were coming against them, they gathered together and marched away to the sea...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...defended themselves, till at last they were brought to evil plight, and the Persians set as governor over those that were left of them Lycaretus the brother of...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...them, “What men are you and where do you live, who desire alliance with the Persians?” When he had received the information he wanted from the envoys, he gave them...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the Athenians heard of it and sent messengers to Sardis, warning the Persians not to believe banished Athenians. Artaphrenes, however, bade them receive...
Persians
71 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...over the whole city. [2] While the city was burning, the Lydians and all the Persians who were in the citadel, being hemmed in on every side since the fire was...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...made this their pretext for burning the temples of Hellas. At this time, the Persians of the provinces this side50 of the Halys, on hearing of these matters...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...a temple of Cybebe,49 the goddess of that country, was burnt, and the Persians afterwards made this their pretext for burning the temples of Hellas. At this...
Persians
72 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...The war-chariots of the Salaminians immediately followed their lead, and the Persians accordingly gained the upper hand over the Cyprians. [2] So the army was...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...battle line. They drew up the best of the Salaminians and Solians against the Persians, leaving the remaining Cyprians to face the rest of the enemy's army. Onesilus...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to guard the seas, not to deliver our ships to men of Cyprus and encounter the Persians on land. We will attempt then to bear ourselves bravely in the task which was...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to them: “Ionians, we Cyprians offer you the choice of engaging either the Persians or the Phoenicians. [2] If you want to draw up your army on land and try your...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...however, rallied and fought again after this disaster, for learning that the Persians had set forth to march against their cities, they beset the road with an ambush...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Perinthians ...great victory, leaving few of their enemies alive. 2. This, then, is what the Perinthians had previously suffered at the hands of the Paeonians. Now they fought like...
Perinthians
81 27.95454,40.97089,0 Perinthians ...subdued them before any others of the people of the Hellespont. These Perinthians had already been roughly handled by the Paeonians. [2] For the oracle of the...
Perinthians
72 27.95454,40.97089,0 Athenians ...[3] Afterwards they departed to Sigeum on the Scamander. They had ruled the Athenians for thirty-six years30 and were in lineage of the house of Pylos and Neleus...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...[2] Hippias, their tyrant, was growing ever more bitter in enmity against the Athenians because of Hipparchus' death, and the Alcmeonidae, a family of Athenian stock...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...sent a herald to Athens demanding the banishment of Cleisthenes and many other Athenians with him, the Accursed, as he called them. This he said in his message by...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...then again cast out together with his Lacedaemonians. As for the rest, the Athenians imprisoned them under sentence of death. Among the prisoners was Timesitheus...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...foretold that many deeds of enmity would be perpetrated against them by the Athenians. Previously they had had no knowledge of these oracles but now Cleomenes...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...of the wood of the cultivated olive. [2] So the men of Epidaurus asked the Athenians to permit them to cut down some olive trees, supposing the olives there to be...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...one in particular is worth mention; In the course of a battle in which the Athenians had the upper hand, Alcaeus the poet took to flight and escaped, but his armor...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...at Achilleum. The Mytilenaeans were demanding the place back, and the Athenians, bringing proof to show that the Aeolians had no more part or lot in the land...
Athenians
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...resolved that they should be openly at war with Persia. 97. It was when the Athenians had made their decision and were already on bad terms with Persia, that...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...knees. Both have remained in this position ever since. [4] This is what the Athenians did, but the Aeginetans say that they discovered that the Athenians were about...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...even if they had no navy themselves. The truth was, they said, that the Athenians descended upon their coasts with many ships and that they yielded to them...
Athenians
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...is the Athenian version of the matter, but the Aeginetans say that the Athenians came not in one ship only, for they could easily have kept off a single ship...
Athenians
73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persian ...a year, were enslaved once more.55 Daurises, Hymaees, and Otanes, all of them Persian generals and married to daughters of Darius, pursued those Ionians who had...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...ceased from fulfilling their agreement with the Athenians. Then the Athenians sent an angry message to the Epidaurians who pleaded in turn that they were...
Athenians
70 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persian ...Salamis was besieging the Amathusians, news was brought him that Artybius, a Persian, was thought to be coming to Cyprus with a great Persian host. [2] Upon hearing...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...fact an evil of which he had received a premonition in a dream. After this the Athenians were subject for four years to a tyranny not less but even more absolute than...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Greeks ...more part or lot in the land of Ilium than they themselves and all the other Greeks who had aided Menelaus to avenge the rape of Helen, would not consent...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...on the sound and the form of the letters were changed. [2] At this time the Greeks who were settled around them were for the most part Ionians, and after being...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...an unblemished reputation. These ships were the beginning of troubles for both Greeks and foreigners. 98. Aristagoras sailed before the rest, and when he came to...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Sparta ...is accordingly made longer by three days. 55. When he was forced to leave Sparta, Aristagoras went to Athens, which had been freed from its ruling tyrants in...
Sparta
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...The Athenians, who were now caught in a ring of foes, decided to oppose the Spartans at Eleusis and to deal with the Boeotians and Chalcidians later. 75. When the...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Greek ...you all the honor that you deserve, and tell your king who sent you how his Greek viceroy of Macedonia has received you hospitably, providing food and...
Greek
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...Sire, what is this that you have done? You have permitted a clever and cunning Greek to build a city in Thrace, where there are abundant forests for ship-building...
Greek
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...Alexander, however, proving himself to be an Argive, was judged to be a Greek. He accordingly competed in the furlong race and tied step for first place...
Greek
74 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Lacedaemonian ...less. 54. Aristagoras of Miletus accordingly spoke the truth to Cleomenes the Lacedaemonian when he said that the journey inland was three months long. If anyone should...
Lacedaemonian
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonian ...Persia, that Aristagoras the Milesian, driven from Sparta by Cleomenes the Lacedaemonian, came to Athens, since that city was more powerful than any of the rest. Coming...
Lacedaemonian
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Sparta ...Lacedaemon, for it was necessary for him to find some strong ally.16 39. At Sparta, Anaxandrides the son of Leon, who had been king, was now no longer alive but...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Persians ...they could not agree and had different intentions. When Eurytus learned of the Persians circuit, he demanded his armor and put it on, bidding his helot to lead him to...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...this time most of them had had their spears broken and were killing the Persians with swords. Leonidas, proving himself extremely valiant, fell in that struggle...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...them with the dawn. Then deserters came who announced the circuit made by the Persians. These gave their signals while it was still night; a third report came from...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...When he had established what he wanted to know with certainty, he arrayed the Persians for battle. [3] The Phocians, assailed by thick showers of arrows and supposing...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...he would never have dealt so outrageously with his dead body, for the Persians are beyond all men known in the habit of honoring valiant warriors. They, then...
Persians
72 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...task, so that what is ours be under the Greeks, or what is theirs under the Persians; there is no middle way in our quarrel. [4] Honor then demands that we avenge...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...preferred that one which was more fraught with danger to yourself and to the Persians. 16B. Now when you have turned to the better opinion, you say that, while...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...incited by the vision, and when daylight came Xerxes imparted all this to the Persians. Artabanus now openly encouraged that course which he alone had before openly...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and the service train by the bridge towards the Aegean. [2] The ten thousand Persians, all wearing garlands, led the way, and after them came the mixed army of...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greeks ...these kings to be Greek; for by that time they had come to be classified as Greeks. [2] I said as far back as Perseus, and I took the matter no further than that...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...Acrisius18 had no bond of kinship with Perseus, and they indeed were, as the Greeks say, Egyptians. 55. Enough of these matters. Why and for what achievements...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...his promise of marriage in a year from that sixtieth day. [3] Then all the Greeks who were proud of themselves and their country came as suitors, and to that end...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...From Aetolia came Males, the brother of that Titormus who surpassed all the Greeks in strength, and fled from the sight of men to the farthest parts of the...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Persians ...own account of themselves. [2] The Cissians in the army were equipped like the Persians, but they wore turbans instead of caps. Their commander was Anaphes son of...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...woman Medea came from Athens to the Arians they changed their name, like the Persians. This is the Medes' own account of themselves. [2] The Cissians in the army...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...equipped like Greeks. They were settlers from the Ionians and Dorians. 96. Persians and Medes and Sacae served as soldiers on all the ships. The most seaworthy...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...made terms with Xerxes. In either case Hellas would have been subdued by the Persians, for I cannot see what advantage could accrue from the walls built across the...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...were previously inclined. 172. The Thessalians had at first sided with the Persians, not willingly but of necessity. This their acts revealed, because they...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenian ...could not prevail with him, they tried another way and gave Themistocles, the Athenian admiral, a bribe of thirty talents on the condition that the Greek fleet should...
Athenian
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...99. When the first message came to Susa, saying that Xerxes had taken Athens, it gave such delight to the Persians who were left at home that they strewed...
Athens
73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...Since we are in the hands of these gods, we will give no money; the power of Athens can never be stronger than our inability.” 112. It was for giving this answer...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...certainly give money, they said in response, “It is then but reasonable that Athens is great and prosperous, being blessed with serviceable gods. [3] As for us...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...I wholly disbelieve them), it was here that Xerxes in his flight back from Athens first loosed his girdle, as being here in safety. Now Abdera lies nearer to the...
Athens
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...to whom the Spartans gave this escort. 125. But when Themistocles returned to Athens from Lacedaemon, Timodemus of Aphidnae, who was one of Themistocles' enemies...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...them by day. 79. As the generals disputed, Aristides son of Lysimachus, an Athenian, crossed over from Aegina. Although he had been ostracized by the people, I...
Athenian
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...also what had been said many years before this in an oracle by Lysistratus, an Athenian soothsayer, concerning the wrecks carried to shore there. Its meaning had...
Athenian
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...it and gone to the Peloponnese, and Plataea likewise. Now the army had come to Athens and was devastating everything there. The army burnt Thespia and Plataea upon...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...the Persian advanced, the more nations followed him. 67. All these came to Athens except the Parians. The Parians stayed behind in Cythnus watching to see which...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedaemon ...note, was crazed with envy and spoke bitterly to Themistocles of his visit to Lacedaemon, saying that the honors he had from the Lacedaemonians were paid him for...
Lacedaemon
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemon ...Spartans gave this escort. 125. But when Themistocles returned to Athens from Lacedaemon, Timodemus of Aphidnae, who was one of Themistocles' enemies but not a man of...
Lacedaemon
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...and had made himself a foot of wood, he declared himself an open enemy of the Lacedaemonians. Yet the enmity which he bore them brought him no good at the last, for they...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...48. When all were at their former posts again, Mardonius sent a herald to the Lacedaemonians with this message: “Men of Lacedaemon, you are said by the people of these...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...this place deserted? For you, who are their neighbors, kept telling me that Lacedaemonians fled from no battlefield and were the masters of warfare. These same men...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Peloponnesians ...he fought that duel and killed Hyllus. It was for that feat of arms that the Peloponnesians granted us this in addition to other great privileges which we have never...
Peloponnesians
79 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesians ...disliked the whole plan of removing the Greeks from Ionia, or allowing the Peloponnesians to determine the lot of Athenian colonies, and as they resisted vehemently, the...
Peloponnesians
77 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Lacedaemonians ...clothing that she had, and alighting thus from her carriage came to the Lacedaemonians while they were still in the midst of slaughtering. When she saw Pausanias...
Lacedaemonians
74 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...the rest of the Spartans, and in the third the helots. This, then is how the Lacedaemonians buried their dead. The Tegeans, however, buried all theirs together in a place...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Plataeans ...gold and silver and other things. [2] Moreover, when their bodies (which the Plataeans gathered into one place) were laid bare of flesh, a skull was found of which...
Plataeans
79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataeans ...spoke to the generals of the Greeks. 83. Long after these events many of the Plataeans also found chests full of gold and silver and other things. [2] Moreover, when...
Plataeans
80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataean ...carried out of the battle and died a lingering death, saying to Arimnestus, a Plataean, that it was not a source of grief to him to die for Hellas' sake; his sorrow...
Plataean
80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Peloponnesian ...the Athenians had crossed over to Salamis. As long as they expected that the Peloponnesian army would come to their aid, they remained in Attica. But when the...
Peloponnesian
79 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Aeginetans ...that country, not stay and fight for a captured land; but the Athenians and Aeginetans and Megarians said they must stay and defend themselves. 75. When the...
Aeginetans
78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...out of the strait. Whoever escaped from the Athenians charged right into the Aeginetans. 92. The ships of Themistocles, as he was pursuing a ship, and of Polycritus...
Aeginetans
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...to Themistocles, mocking and reproaching him concerning the Medizing of the Aeginetans. After ramming an enemy ship, Polycritus hurled these insults at Themistocles...
Aeginetans
78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...was content with what he had received from all other Greeks, but not from the Aeginetans. From these he demanded the victor's prize for the sea-fight of Salamis. When...
Aeginetans
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Peloponnese ...in old time was Dryopian. This region is the motherland of the Dorians of the Peloponnese. To this Dorian territory the barbarians did no harm at their invasion, for the...
Peloponnese
80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...of most of the speakers was to sail to the Isthmus and fight at sea for the Peloponnese, giving this reason: if they were defeated in the fight at Salamis they would...
Peloponnese
78 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...something you are very fond of: by remaining here you will be fighting for the Peloponnese just as much as at the Isthmus, and you will not lead them to the Peloponnese...
Peloponnese
81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...paid the penalty. [3] If then you so desire, let us straightway attack the Peloponnese, or if it pleases you to wait, that also we can do. Do not be downcast, for the...
Peloponnese
77 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...for war; it was better, he thought, to winter in Thessaly, and then attack the Peloponnese in the spring. [2] When they had arrived in Thessaly, Mardonius first chose all...
Peloponnese
81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesians ...and Megarians said they must stay and defend themselves. 75. When the Peloponnesians were outvoting him, Themistocles secretly left the assembly, and sent a man by...
Peloponnesians
73 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Tearus ...pillar there, cut with this inscription: [2] “From the headwaters of the river Tearus flows the best and finest water of all; and to them came, leading an army...
Tearus
81 27.75,41.75,0 Tearus ...to the sources of the Tearus river, where he camped for three days. 90. The Tearus is said by those living on it to be the best river of all for purposes of...
Tearus
79 27.75,41.75,0 Byzantium ...of Parium, Metrodorus of Proconnesus, Aristagoras of Cyzicus, Ariston of Byzantium, [2] all from the Hellespont and sovereigns of cities there; and from Ionia...
Byzantium
75 28.975926,41.012379,0 Minyae ...to others the women they had brought from Lemnos. 146. But in no time these Minyae became imperious, demanding an equal right to the kingship, and doing other...
Minyae
79 Teügetum ...fact his own people. [2] So when the Minyae escaped from prison and camped on Teügetum, and the Lacedaemonians were planning to put them to death, Theras interceded...
Teügetum
80 22.3503405,36.9528148,0 Nasamones ...of water, where men live; this place is called Augila; it is to this that the Nasamones come to gather palm-fruit. 183. After ten days' journey again from Augila...
Nasamones
80 20.5,30.5,0 Bacales ...About the middle of the land of the Auschisae lives the little tribe of the Bacales, whose territory comes down to the sea at Tauchira, a town in the Barcaean...
Bacales
78 20.5,32.5,0 Tauchira ...the little tribe of the Bacales, whose territory comes down to the sea at Tauchira, a town in the Barcaean country; their customs are the same as those of the...
Tauchira
76 20.565847,32.537142,0 Euhesperidae ...until at last they came to Egypt. 204. This Persian force advanced as far as Euhesperidae in Libya and no farther. As for the Barcaeans whom they had taken for slaves...
Euhesperidae
80 20.5,32.5,0 Augila ...who in summer leave their flocks by the sea and go up to the land called Augila to gather dates from the palm-trees that grow there in great abundance and all...
Augila
75 21.290963,29.127566,0 Lycaean Zeus ...other Greek city; at last they passed through Cyrene and camped on the hill of Lycaean Zeus; there they regretted not having taken the city, and tried to enter it again...
Lycaean Zeus
81 Lydian ...they took away from the temple at Branchidae15 the treasure which Croesus the Lydian had dedicated there. With this at their disposal, he fully expected them to...
Lydian
80 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Asia ...17. So those of the Paeonians who had been captured were taken into Asia. Then Megabazus, having made the Paeonians captive, sent as messengers into...
Asia
71 Asia ...came to be under Athenian rule, but Hippias, having come from Lacedaemon into Asia, left no stone unturned, maligning the Athenians to Artaphrenes, and doing all...
Asia
80 Phoenicians ...stood about the stern of the ship bargaining for the wares they liked, the Phoenicians incited one another to set upon them. Most of the women escaped: Io and others...
Phoenicians
77 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...it was the taking of Troy which began their hatred of the Greeks. [2] But the Phoenicians do not tell the same story about Io as the Persians. They say that they did not...
Phoenicians
80 35.25,33.25,0 Assyrian ...among the many rulers of this city of Babylon (whom I shall mention in my Assyrian history) who finished the building of the walls and the temples, there were two...
Assyrian
76 37.5,37.5,0 Athenians ...These rose with Pisistratus and took the Acropolis; and Pisistratus ruled the Athenians, disturbing in no way the order of offices nor changing the laws, but governing...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...loved the rule of one more than freedom. These, then, assembled; [2] but the Athenians in the city, who while Pisistratus was collecting money and afterwards when he...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Corinthian ...of mention. [2] These weigh thirty talents4 and stand in the treasury5 of the Corinthians; although in truth it is not the treasury of the Corinthian people but of...
Corinthian
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Athenians ...there was born to him this Pisistratus, who, when there was a feud between the Athenians of the coast under Megacles son of Alcmeon and the Athenians of the plain under...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...from silly foolishness) that these men should devise such a plan to deceive Athenians, said to be the subtlest of the Greeks. [4] There was in the Paeanian deme20 a...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Greeks ...to demand reparation for the robbery and restitution of his daughter, the Greeks replied that, as they had been refused reparation for the abduction of the...
Greeks
76 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...that he would not suffer punishment. [2] So he carried off Helen. The Greeks first resolved to send messengers demanding that Helen be restored and...
Greeks
72 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...Asia, and destroyed the power of Priam. [4] Ever since then we have regarded Greeks as our enemies.” For the Persians claim Asia for their own, and the foreign...
Greeks
79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...reason, and because he had chosen them as his friends before all the other Greeks, the Lacedaemonians accepted the alliance. So they declared themselves ready to...
Greeks
77 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...will not keep their force. [6] These nations make sworn compacts as do the Greeks; and besides, when they cut the skin of their arms, they lick each other's...
Greeks
77 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...in war. Their luxurious practices are of all kinds, and all borrowed: the Greeks taught them pederasty. Every Persian marries many lawful wives, and keeps still...
Greeks
76 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...name of Panionia. [2] Not only the Ionian festivals, but all those of all the Greeks alike, end in the same letter, just as do the names of the Persians...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...153. When the herald had proclaimed this, Cyrus is said to have asked the Greeks who were present who and how many in number these Lacedaemonians were who made...
Greeks
77 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...not those of the Ionians.” [2] He uttered this threat against all the Greeks, because they have markets and buy and sell there; for the Persians themselves...
Greeks
72 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...first Ionian town that he attacked. These Phocaeans were the earliest of the Greeks to make long sea-voyages, and it was they who discovered the Adriatic Sea, and...
Greeks
79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...all nations. [4] They invented three things in which they were followed by the Greeks: it was the Carians who originated wearing crests on their helmets and devices...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Lydian armies ...brought in a wife for his son, and although Atys was accustomed to command the Lydian armies, Croesus now would not send him out on any such enterprise, while he took the...
Lydian armies
81 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Pelasgians ...cannot say definitely. But if one may judge by those that still remain of the Pelasgians who live above the Tyrrheni19 in the city of Creston—who were once neighbors of...
Pelasgians
80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Hellenic ...second a Hellenic people. The Pelasgian race has never yet left its home; the Hellenic has wandered often and far. [3] For in the days of king Deucalion17 it...
Hellenic
80 Pelasgian ...These races, Ionian and Dorian, were the foremost in ancient time, the first a Pelasgian and the second a Hellenic people. The Pelasgian race has never yet left its...
Pelasgian
81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Crete ...the past none that lived on Crete were Greek). [2] Now there was a dispute in Crete about the royal power between Sarpedon and Minos, sons of Europa; Minos...
Crete
80 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Spartans ...to good government in this way: Lycurgus, a man of reputation among the Spartans, went to the oracle at Delphi. As soon as he entered the hall, the priestess...
Spartans
74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Laconia ...intending to use it for the statue of Apollo which now stands on Thornax23 in Laconia; and Croesus, when they offered to buy it, made them a free gift of it...
Laconia
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Persians ...with Cyrus, Croesus sent to ask the oracles if he should march against the Persians; and when a deceptive answer came he thought it to be favorable to him, and so...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Ecbatana ...foothills of the mountains where this cowherd pastured his cattle are north of Ecbatana, towards the Euxine sea; for the rest of Media is everywhere a level plain, but...
Ecbatana
81 48.51696,34.80523,0 Ecbatana ...strong walls, one standing inside the next in circles, which are now called Ecbatana.33 [4] This fortress is so designed that each circle of walls is higher than...
Ecbatana
78 48.51696,34.80523,0 Paretaceni ...nation by itself and ruled it. The Median tribes are these: the Busae, the Paretaceni, the Struchates, the Arizanti, the Budii, the Magi. Their tribes are this many...
Paretaceni
77 Median tribes ...101. Deioces, then, united the Median nation by itself and ruled it. The Median tribes are these: the Busae, the Paretaceni, the Struchates, the Arizanti, the Budii...
Median tribes
76 46.5,34.5,0 Busae ...the Median nation by itself and ruled it. The Median tribes are these: the Busae, the Paretaceni, the Struchates, the Arizanti, the Budii, the Magi. Their...
Busae
77 Persians ...have made the Medes, who did you no harm, slaves instead of masters and the Persians, who were the slaves, are now the masters of the Medes.” 130. Thus Astyages...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Panionion ...it, and these because, they say, of a certain pretext of murder. 148. The Panionion is a sacred ground in Mykale, facing north; it was set apart for Poseidon of...
Panionion
77 27.329993,37.703924,0 Myus ...dialects. Miletus lies farthest south among them, and next to it come Myus and Priene; these are settlements in Caria, and they have a common language...
Myus
72 27.42788,37.59716,0 Lesbos ...those on the islands, five divide Lesbos among them (there was a sixth on Lesbos, Arisba, but its people were enslaved by their kinfolk of Methymna); there is...
Lesbos
76 26.10052,39.20874,0 Colophonian exiles ...and exiles from their country, had been received by them into the town. These Colophonian exiles waited for the time when the men of Smyrna were holding a festival to Dionysus...
Colophonian exiles
80 27.142222,38.115556,0 Myrina ...Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegaeae, Myrina, Gryneia.50 These are the ancient Aeolian cities, eleven in number; but one of...
Myrina
77 26.985537,38.840097,0 Smyrnaeans ...and leave the city. After this was done, the other eleven cities divided the Smyrnaeans among themselves and made them citizens of their own. 151. These then are the...
Smyrnaeans
79 27.1383,38.41905,0 Gryneia ...Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegaeae, Myrina, Gryneia.50 These are the ancient Aeolian cities, eleven in number; but one of them...
Gryneia
76 27.069173,38.874665,0 Teians ...and not the island. 168. Thus, then, it went with the Ionian Phocaea. The Teians did the same things as the Phocaeans: when Harpagus had taken their walled city...
Teians
77 26.785014,38.177262,0 Ionians ...[3] This was the advice which Bias of Priene gave after the destruction of the Ionians; and that given before the destruction by Thales of Miletus, a Phoenician by...
Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Priene ...(he said) no hope of freedom for them. [3] This was the advice which Bias of Priene gave after the destruction of the Ionians; and that given before the...
Priene
79 27.298333,37.66,0 Termilae ...as well by his brother, Aegeus—to join Sarpedon in the land of the Termilae, they came in time to be called Lycians after Lycus. [4] Their customs are...
Termilae
69 Termilae ...called Solymi. [3] For a while Sarpedon ruled them, and the people were called Termilae, which was the name that they had brought with them and that is still given to...
Termilae
81 Sacae ...They were settlers from the Ionians and Dorians. 96. Persians and Medes and Sacae served as soldiers on all the ships. The most seaworthy ships were furnished by...
Sacae
79 72.5,37.5,0 Sacae ...board all these ships were thirty fighting men of the Persians and Medes and Sacae in addition to the company which each had of native fighters; the number of...
Sacae
79 72.5,37.5,0 Indians ...cavalry were equipped like their infantry, and the Cissians similarly. The Indians were armed in the same manner as their infantry; they rode swift horses and...
Indians
77 77.5,22.5,0 Indians ...of all men. [2] These Ethiopians of Asia were for the most part armed like the Indians; but they wore on their heads the skins of horses' foreheads, stripped from the...
Indians
81 77.5,22.5,0 Ethiopians ...bodies with gypsum and the other half with vermilion. The Arabians and the Ethiopians who dwell above Egypt had as commander Arsames, the son of Darius and Artystone...
Ethiopians
77 38.721522,14.125005,0 Peneus ...great height of the Thessalian mountains Olympus and Ossa and learned that the Peneus flows through them in a narrow pass, which was the way that led into Thessaly...
Peneus
81 21.75,39.75,0 Peneus ...the sea by one narrow passage. [3] As soon as they are united, the name of the Peneus prevails, making the rest nameless. In ancient days, it is said, there was not...
Peneus
81 21.75,39.75,0 Peneus ...apart.59 130. Xerxes asked his guides if there were any other outlet for the Peneus into the sea, and they, with their full knowledge of the matter, answered him...
Peneus
80 21.75,39.75,0 Peneus ...a sea. [4] Now the Thessalians say that Poseidon made the passage by which the Peneus flows. This is reasonable, for whoever believes that Poseidon is the shaker of...
Peneus
81 21.75,39.75,0 Athos ...and Orithyia to help them by destroying the barbarian fleet, just as before at Athos. [3] I cannot say whether this was the cause of Boreas falling upon the...
Athos
81 24.295147727272727,40.24683418181819,0 Agathyrsi ...time passed, Ariapithes was treacherously killed by Spargapithes, king of the Agathyrsi, and Scyles inherited the kingship and his father's wife, a Scythian woman...
Agathyrsi
80 27.5,47.5,0 Agathyrsi ...up to guard the whole house. The Tauri live by plundering and war. 104. The Agathyrsi are the most refined of men and especially given to wearing gold. Their...
Agathyrsi
79 27.5,47.5,0 Agathyrsi ...were of one mind and promised to help the Scythians; but the kings of the Agathyrsi and Neuri and Maneaters and Black-cloaks and Tauri gave this answer to the...
Agathyrsi
76 27.5,47.5,0 Agathyrsi ...that if they tried to break through they would have to fight with the Agathyrsi first. [5] With this warning, the Agathyrsi mustered on their borders...
Agathyrsi
72 27.5,47.5,0 Naparis ...Ister; the second, the Tiarantus, is more westerly and smaller; the Ararus, Naparis, and Ordessus flow between these two and pour their waters into the Ister...
Naparis
78 27.5,44.5,0 Ararus ...with the Ister; the second, the Tiarantus, is more westerly and smaller; the Ararus, Naparis, and Ordessus flow between these two and pour their waters into the...
Ararus
79 Thracians ...and taller. This grows both of itself and also by their cultivation, and the Thracians even make garments of it which are very like linen; no one, unless he were an...
Thracians
79 27.5,42.5,0 Thracians ...him back and mourned him for dead; then in the fourth year he appeared to the Thracians, and thus they came to believe what Salmoxis had told them. Such is the Greek...
Thracians
80 27.5,42.5,0 Thracians ...into the underground chamber, where he lived for three years, [5] while the Thracians wished him back and mourned him for dead; then in the fourth year he appeared...
Thracians
78 27.5,42.5,0 Thracians ...across the neck of the Bosporus, and how having crossed it and subjugated the Thracians he was now bridging the Ister, so as to make that whole region subject to him...
Thracians
80 27.5,42.5,0 Bosporus ...the river where its various mouths separate. [3] But Darius, passing over the Bosporus on the floating bridge of ships, journeyed through Thrace to the sources of the...
Bosporus
80 29.075278,41.119444,0 Bosporus ...living north of the Tauri and beside the eastern sea, west of the Cimmerian Bosporus and the Maeetian lake, as far as the Tanaïs river, which empties into the end...
Bosporus
78 29.075278,41.119444,0 Thracian Bosporus ...to furnish infantry and some to furnish ships, and others again to bridge the Thracian Bosporus, Artabanus, son of Hystaspes and Darius' brother, by no means wanted him to...
Thracian Bosporus
80 29.075278,41.119444,0 Cymae ...As for the Aeolians, their only notable man present was Aristagoras of Cymae. 139. When these accepted Histiaeus' view, they decided to act upon it in the...
Cymae
73 26.936283,38.75953,0 Parium ...gave their vote were Daphnis of Abydos, Hippoclus of Lampsacus, Herophantus of Parium, Metrodorus of Proconnesus, Aristagoras of Cyzicus, Ariston of Byzantium, [2]...
Parium
81 27.0670163,40.4259096,0 Samians ...to Tartessus. [3] Now this was at that time an untapped52 market; hence, the Samians, of all the Greeks whom we know with certainty, brought back from it the...
Samians
79 26.84,37.73,0 Pillars of Heracles ...them from their course, and did not abate until they had passed through the Pillars of Heracles and came providentially to Tartessus. [3] Now this was at that time an...
Pillars of Heracles
78 -5.384583,35.9358335,0 Barcaeans ...force advanced as far as Euhesperidae in Libya and no farther. As for the Barcaeans whom they had taken for slaves, they carried them from Egypt into banishment...
Barcaeans
76 20.892778,32.498333,0 Delphic ...them there. [3] Then, perceiving too late that this was the meaning of the Delphic oracle which forbade him to bake the amphora if he found them in the oven, he...
Delphic
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Barcaeans ...sent a herald to Barce to ask who it was who had killed Arcesilaus. The Barcaeans answered that it was the deed of the whole city, for the many wrongs that...
Barcaeans
74 20.892778,32.498333,0 Barcaeans ...Now he had a wife who was a relation of his, a daughter of Alazir king of the Barcaeans, and Arcesilaus went to Alazir; but men of Barce and some of the exiles from...
Barcaeans
80 20.892778,32.498333,0 Corinthians ...dedicated that marvellous censer at Delphi which stands in the treasury of the Corinthians. Pheretime came to him, asking him for an army to bring her and her son back to...
Corinthians
81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Garamantes ...it is like the squeaking of bats. 184. Another ten days' journey from the Garamantes there is again a salt hill and water, where men live called Atarantes. These...
Garamantes
77 13.5,27.5,0 Garamantes ...Lotus Eaters' country is from here, thirty days' journey distant. Among the Garamantes are the cattle that go backward as they graze, the reason being that their...
Garamantes
78 13.5,27.5,0 Ister ...and infinitely large tract of land. I can learn of no men dwelling beyond the Ister save certain that are called Sigynnae and wear Median dress. [2] Their horses...
Ister
80 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...use it for spears. 10. According to the Thracians, all the land beyond the Ister is full of bees, and that by reason of these none can travel there. This, to my...
Ister
78 29.647293,45.16291,0 Massalia ...of time. However that may be, we know that the Ligyes who dwell inland of Massalia use the word “sigynnae” for hucksters, and the Cyprians use it for spears...
Massalia
76 5.365307,43.299467,0 Milesians ...Athenians but the Milesians themselves, thereby repaying their debt (for the Milesians had once been the allies of the Eretrians in the war against Chalcis, when the...
Milesians
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...when the Samians came to aid the Chalcidians against the Eretrians and Milesians). When these, then, and the rest of the allies had arrived, Aristagoras planned...
Milesians
73 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesian ...their decision and were already on bad terms with Persia, that Aristagoras the Milesian, driven from Sparta by Cleomenes the Lacedaemonian, came to Athens, since that...
Milesian
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Hellas ...to do so. When you have him in your grasp, see to it that he never returns to Hellas.” 24. Megabazus easily persuaded Darius, who believed that his vision of the...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Cissian ...and sixty channels.21 [6] When this country is passed, the road is in the Cissian land, where there are eleven stages and forty-two and a half parasangs, as far...
Cissian
76 Cissian ...the Matieni, whose country I show you. [7] Adjoining these you see the Cissian land, in which, on the Choaspes, lies that Susa where the great king lives and...
Cissian
73 Armenia ...and fifty-six and a half parasangs. Here too there is a fortress. From Armenia the road enters the Matienian land, in which there are thirty-four stages and...
Armenia
73 42.5,37.5,0 Ephesus ...thousand and forty stages, for there are five hundred and forty furlongs from Ephesus to Sardis. The three months' journey is accordingly made longer by three days...
Ephesus
80 27.339722,37.941944,0 Lydia ...Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea, all of them in Lydia, [4] have a language in common which is wholly different from the speech of the...
Lydia
72 27.5,37.5,0 Italy ...and Aegae, where is the never-failing river Crathis, from which the river in Italy took its name; Bura and Helice, where the Ionians fled when they were worsted...
Italy
79 11.953951787557699,43.55087092641273,0 Colophon ...and keep the feast Apaturia.48 All do keep it, except the men of Ephesus and Colophon; these are the only Ionians who do not keep it, and these because, they say, of...
Colophon
79 27.142222,38.115556,0 Mykale ...it was set apart for Poseidon of Helicon by the joint will of the Ionians. Mykale is a western promontory of the mainland opposite Samos; the Ionians used to...
Mykale
77 27.12558,37.66144,0 Sardis ...at all, nor do they even have a market of any kind. [3] Presently, entrusting Sardis to a Persian called Tabalus, and instructing Pactyes, a Lydian, to take charge...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Mytilene ...you.” 160. When the Cymaeans heard this answer, they sent Pactyes away to Mytilene; for they were anxious not to perish for delivering him up or to be besieged...
Mytilene
77 26.489422,39.05495,0 Halicarnassus ...to him without resistance. 175. There were Pedaseans dwelling inland above Halicarnassus; when any misfortune was approaching them or their neighbors, the priestess of...
Halicarnassus
78 27.424112,37.037864,0 Babylon ...there are many other great cities, but the most famous and the strongest was Babylon, where the royal dwelling had been established after the destruction of...
Babylon
79 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylon ...of the same. [4] There is another city, called Is,63 eight days' journey from Babylon, where there is a little river, also named Is, a tributary of the Euphrates...
Babylon
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylon ...rise with the water; and from there the bitumen was brought for the wall of Babylon. 180. Thus, then, this wall was built; the city is divided into two parts; for...
Babylon
78 44.42082,32.53617,0 Thebes ...the god himself is accustomed to visit the shrine and rest on the couch, as in Thebes of Egypt, as the Egyptians say [2] (for there too a woman sleeps in the temple...
Thebes
81 32.75,26.25,0 Euphrates ...as she could for her protection. [2] First she dealt with the river Euphrates, which flows through the middle of her city; this had been straight before; but...
Euphrates
70 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Euphrates ...lake was filled by the river and the bridge was finished, Nitocris brought the Euphrates back to its former channel out of the lake; thus she had served her purpose, as...
Euphrates
81 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Choaspes ...with him, the only river from which the king will drink. [2] This water of the Choaspes67 is boiled, and very many four-wheeled wagons drawn by mules carry it in...
Choaspes
81 70.12808435,29.059230300000003,0 Gyndes ...at the beginning of the following spring, when Cyrus had punished the Gyndes by dividing it among the three hundred and sixty canals, he marched against...
Gyndes
72 Babylon ...for the first time, was taken in this way. I shall show how great the power of Babylon is by many other means, but particularly by this. All the land that the great...
Babylon
81 44.42082,32.53617,0 Asia ...eight. [2] Thus the wealth of Assyria is one third of the entire wealth of Asia. The governorship of this land, which the Persians call “satrapy,” is by far...
Asia
77 Egypt ...from the river that ripens the crop and brings the grain to fullness. In Egypt, the river itself rises and floods the fields; in Assyria, they are watered by...
Egypt
75 Egypt ...by hand and by swinging beams.70 [2] For the whole land of Babylon, like Egypt, is cut across by canals. The greatest of these is navigable: it runs towards...
Egypt
75 Tigris ...where the sun rises in winter, from the Euphrates to another river, the Tigris, on which stood the city of Ninus. This land is by far the most fertile in...
Tigris
74 44.79467829666667,34.52908255,0 Armenia ...river and go to Babylon are all of skins, and round. [2] They make these in Armenia, higher up the stream than Assyria. First they cut frames of willow, then they...
Armenia
78 42.5,37.5,0 Araxes ...and powerful people dwelling towards the east and the sunrise, beyond the Araxes and opposite the Issedones; and some say that they are a Scythian people...
Araxes
76 67.18936939999999,39.556608266666665,0 Gyndes ...of life. [3] The Araxes73 flows from the country of the Matieni (as does the Gyndes, which Cyrus divided into the three hundred and sixty channels) and empties...
Gyndes
79 Caspian sea ...[4] The one remaining stream of the Araxes flows in a clear channel into the Caspian sea. This is a sea by itself, not joined to the other sea. For that on which the...
Caspian sea
79 49.98680535,42.6759567125,0 country of the Massagetae ...plain as far as the eye can see. The greater part of this wide plain is the country of the Massagetae, against whom Cyrus was eager to lead his army. [2] For there were many weighty...
country of the Massagetae
78 62.5,37.5,0 Massagetae ...than remain at peace, then if you so greatly desire to try the strength of the Massagetae, stop your present work of bridging the river, and let us withdraw three days'...
Massagetae
81 62.5,37.5,0 Massagetae ...to honor Croesus and treat him well if the crossing of the river against the Massagetae should not go well. With these instructions, he sent the two back to Persia...
Massagetae
79 62.5,37.5,0 Phrygia ...and who he was: [3] “Friend,” he said, “who are you, and from what place in Phrygia do you come as my suppliant? And what man or woman have you killed?” “O King,”...
Phrygia
78 32.5,37.5,0 Phocia ...Greek and Libyan oracles, sending messengers separately to Delphi, to Abae in Phocia, and to Dodona, while others were despatched to Amphiaraus and Trophonius,13...
Phocia
80 22.25,38.25,0 Amphiaraus ...to Delphi, to Abae in Phocia, and to Dodona, while others were despatched to Amphiaraus and Trophonius,13 and others to Branchidae in the Milesian country. [3] These...
Amphiaraus
79 23.846116,38.291099,0 Lydia ...Sardis, and on the hundredth day inquire of the oracles what Croesus, king of Lydia, son of Alyattes, was doing then; then they were to write down whatever the...
Lydia
80 27.5,37.5,0 Delphi ...and a half talents. 51. When these offerings were ready, Croesus sent them to Delphi, with other gifts besides: namely, two very large bowls, one of gold and one of...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...own wife's necklaces and girdles. 52. Such were the gifts which he sent to Delphi. To Amphiaraus, of whose courage and fate he had heard, he dedicated a shield...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Amphiaraus ...necklaces and girdles. 52. Such were the gifts which he sent to Delphi. To Amphiaraus, of whose courage and fate he had heard, he dedicated a shield made entirely of...
Amphiaraus
78 23.846116,38.291099,0 Ossa ...it inhabited the land of Phthia, then the country called Histiaean, under Ossa and Olympus, in the time of Dorus son of Hellen; driven from this Histiaean...
Ossa
76 22.6851958,39.7957751,0 Placia ...which now is called Thessalian— [2] and of the Pelasgians who inhabited Placia and Scylace on the Hellespont, who came to live among the Athenians, and by...
Placia
74 28.27741,40.397648,0 Peloponnese ...was ready for their return: for they brought Argive mercenaries from the Peloponnese, and there joined them on his own initiative a man of Naxos called Lygdamis...
Peloponnese
75 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Delphi ...way: Lycurgus, a man of reputation among the Spartans, went to the oracle at Delphi. As soon as he entered the hall, the priestess said in hexameter: [3] “You have...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Sardis ...intention of making a gift in return to Croesus. [2] This bowl never reached Sardis, for which two reasons are given: the Lacedaemonians say that when the bowl was...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Samos ...coming too late, and learning that Sardis and Croesus were taken, sold it in Samos to certain private men, who set it up in the the temple of Hera. And it may be...
Samos
79 26.84,37.73,0 Sardis ...and perceived that it would be opportune for him to march quickly against Sardis, before the power of the Lydians could be assembled again. [2] This he decided...
Sardis
76 28.040278,38.488333,0 Delphi ...he could for his son; and besides resorting to other devices he had sent to Delphi to inquire of the oracle concerning him. [2] The Pythian priestess answered him...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Ionia ...but his. And this is the story of Croesus' rule, and of the first overthrow of Ionia. 92. There are many offerings of Croesus' in Hellas, and not only those of...
Ionia
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Delphi ...of the Milesians, as I learn by inquiry, are equal in weight and like those at Delphi. Those which he dedicated at Delphi and the shrine of Amphiaraus were his own...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...are equal in weight and like those at Delphi. Those which he dedicated at Delphi and the shrine of Amphiaraus were his own, the first-fruits of the wealth...
Delphi
76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Amphiaraus ...and like those at Delphi. Those which he dedicated at Delphi and the shrine of Amphiaraus were his own, the first-fruits of the wealth inherited from his father; the...
Amphiaraus
81 23.846116,38.291099,0 Lydia ...against Croesus before he became king, and conspired to win the throne of Lydia for Pantaleon. [3] This Pantaleon was a son of Alyattes, and half-brother of...
Lydia
76 27.5,37.5,0 Asia ...was turned to night in the battle, and who united under his dominion all of Asia that is beyond the river Halys. Collecting all his subjects, he marched against...
Asia
78 Asia ...down upon him, led by their king Madyes son of Protothyes. They had invaded Asia after they had driven the Cimmerians out of Europe: pursuing them in their...
Asia
78 Egypt ...body in earth they embalm it in wax. These Magi are as unlike the priests of Egypt as they are unlike all other men: [3] for the priests consider it sacrilege to...
Egypt
79 Miletus ...drought. [3] They do not all have the same speech but four different dialects. Miletus lies farthest south among them, and next to it come Myus and Priene; these are...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Aea ...Greeks who were guilty of the second wrong. [2] They sailed in a long ship to Aea, a city of the Colchians, and to the river Phasis:2 and when they had done the...
Aea
80 42.5,42.5,0 Phasis ...They sailed in a long ship to Aea, a city of the Colchians, and to the river Phasis:2 and when they had done the business for which they came, they carried off the...
Phasis
79 42.5,42.5,0 Asia ...for the sake of a Lacedaemonian woman, recruited a great armada, came to Asia, and destroyed the power of Priam. [4] Ever since then we have regarded Greeks...
Asia
75 Asia ...since then we have regarded Greeks as our enemies.” For the Persians claim Asia for their own, and the foreign peoples that inhabit it; Europe and the Greek...
Asia
77 Egypt ...story about Io as the Persians. They say that they did not carry her off to Egypt by force. She had intercourse in Argos with the captain of the ship. Then...
Egypt
78 Asia ...of others: the former being the Ionians, the Aeolians, and the Dorians of Asia, and the latter the Lacedaemonians. [3] Before the reign of Croesus, all Greeks...
Asia
76 Lydia ...you will follow. You must either kill Candaules and take me and the throne of Lydia for your own, or be killed yourself now without more ado; that will prevent you...
Lydia
80 27.5,37.5,0 Delphi ...This Gyges then was the first foreigner whom we know who placed offerings at Delphi after the king of Phrygia, Midas son of Gordias. [3] For Midas too made an...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Colophon ...led an army into the lands of Miletus and Smyrna; and he took the city of Colophon. But as he did nothing else great in his reign of thirty-eight years, I shall...
Colophon
76 27.142222,38.115556,0 Sardis ...Priene and invaded the country of Miletus; and it was while he was monarch of Sardis that the Cimmerians, driven from their homes by the nomad Scythians, came into...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Maeander ...battle of Limeneion in their own territory, and the other in the valley of the Maeander. [2] For six of these eleven years Sadyattes son of Ardys was still ruler of...
Maeander
81 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Lydia ...[2] For six of these eleven years Sadyattes son of Ardys was still ruler of Lydia, and it was he who invaded the lands of Miletus, for it was he who had begun...
Lydia
78 27.5,37.5,0 Delphi ...to question the god about his sickness. [3] But when the messengers came to Delphi, the Pythian priestess would not answer them before they restored the temple of...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Sardis ...the message he had been instructed by the Lydian to deliver, and returned to Sardis; and this, as I learn, was the sole reason for the reconciliation. [3] For...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Miletus ...reconciliation. [3] For Alyattes had supposed that there was great scarcity in Miletus and that the people were reduced to the last extremity of misery; but now on...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Corinth ...into the sea, as he was with all his regalia. [6] So the crew sailed away to Corinth; but a dolphin (so the story goes) took Arion on his back and bore him to...
Corinth
79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Sardis ...Bias of Priene or Pittacus of Mytilene (the story is told of both) came to Sardis and, asked by Croesus for news about Hellas, put an end to the shipbuilding by...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...“O King, the islanders are buying ten thousand horse, intending to march to Sardis against you.” Croesus, thinking that he spoke the truth, said: “Would that the...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Scythians ...and contemptuously (being, as appears from this, prone to anger). [5] The Scythians, feeling themselves wronged by the treatment they had from Cyaxares, planned to...
Scythians
76 28.5,44.5,0 Scythians ...by Cyaxares, son of Phraortes, son of Deioces. Cyaxares at first treated the Scythians kindly, as suppliants for his mercy; and, as he had a high regard for them, he...
Scythians
79 28.5,44.5,0 Scythians ...monarch of Sardis that the Cimmerians, driven from their homes by the nomad Scythians, came into Asia, and took Sardis, all but the acropolis. 16. Ardys reigned for...
Scythians
78 28.5,44.5,0 oracle ...but if not, then he would return the kingship to the Heraclidae. [2] The oracle did so ordain, and Gyges thus became king. However, the Pythian priestess...
oracle
75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Mariandynians ...Croesus held subject under him. These were the Lydians, Phrygians, Mysians, Mariandynians, Chalybes, Paphlagonians, the Thracian Thynians and Bithynians, Carians...
Mariandynians
78 31.603681575,41.091651424999995,0 Thracian Thynians ...the Lydians, Phrygians, Mysians, Mariandynians, Chalybes, Paphlagonians, the Thracian Thynians and Bithynians, Carians, Ionians, Dorians, Aeolians, and Pamphylians; 29. and...
Thracian Thynians
79 27.985781,41.884086,0 Persians ...sovereignty of Astyages son of Cyaxares, and the growth of the power of the Persians, distracted Croesus from his mourning; and he determined, if he could, to...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Lacedaemonian gift ...The figure of a boy, through whose hand the water runs, is indeed a Lacedaemonian gift; but they did not give either of the sprinkling-vessels. [5] Along with these...
Lacedaemonian gift
70 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Corinthians ...Moreover, Croesus sent four silver casks, which stand in the treasury of the Corinthians, and dedicated two sprinkling-vessels, one of gold, one of silver. The golden...
Corinthians
79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Persians ...he might send again and ask if he should undertake an expedition against the Persians. 47. And when he sent to test these shrines he gave the Lydians these...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Attic ...artaba is a Persian measure, containing more than an Attic medimnus by three Attic choenixes),69 and besides warhorses he had eight hundred stallions in his...
Attic
79 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attic ...full of silver [3] (the artaba is a Persian measure, containing more than an Attic medimnus by three Attic choenixes),69 and besides warhorses he had eight...
Attic
79 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Athens ...the longest wall is about the length of the wall that surrounds the city of Athens.34 The battlements of the first circle are white, of the second black, of the...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eretria ...what was going on, went alone away from the country altogether, and came to Eretria where he deliberated with his sons. [3] The opinion of Hippias prevailing, that...
Eretria
78 22.607216,39.290562,0 Nisaea ...reputation in his command of the army against the Megarians, when he had taken Nisaea and performed other great exploits. [5] Taken in, the Athenian people gave him...
Nisaea
81 23.362766,37.974359,0 Samians ...the Samians descended upon them in warships and carried it off; [3] but the Samians themselves say that the Lacedaemonians who were bringing the bowl, coming too...
Samians
78 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...Erythrae, on the mainland; the Chians and Erythraeans speak alike, but the Samians have a language which is their own and no one else's. It is thus seen that...
Samians
77 26.84,37.73,0 Cappadocia ...unencumbered is five days.24 73. The reasons for Croesus' expedition against Cappadocia were these: he desired to gain territory in addition to his own, and (these...
Cappadocia
80 35.75,39.25,0 Hermus ...it and run violently together into the greatest of them, which is called Hermus (this flows from the mountain sacred to the Mother Dindymene27 and empties into...
Hermus
75 28.1112899,38.5178164,0 Spartans ...spot at Thyreae. 83. The Sardian herald came after this had happened to the Spartans to ask for their help for Croesus, now besieged; nonetheless, when they heard...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thyreae ...all the men of his company had been killed, and killed himself on the spot at Thyreae. 83. The Sardian herald came after this had happened to the Spartans to ask...
Thyreae
80 22.75,37.25,0 Colchi ...the Maeetian lake38 to the river Phasis and the land of the Colchi; from the Colchi it is an easy matter to cross into Media: there is only one nation between, the...
Colchi
79 42.5,42.5,0 Median army ...the Persians, he was beaten: Astyages himself was taken prisoner, and lost the Median army which he led. 129. When Astyages was a captive, Harpagus came and exulted over...
Median army
81 46.5,34.5,0 Persian host ...and oxen in one place, he slaughtered and prepared them as a feast for the Persian host, providing also wine and all the foods that were most suitable. [3] When the...
Persian host
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Dropici ...and the Germanii, all tillers of the soil, and the Dai, the Mardi, the Dropici, the Sagartii, all wandering herdsmen. 126. So when they all came with sickles...
Dropici
73 Aegira ...of the Achaeans who drove the Ionians out—Pellene nearest to Sicyon; then Aegira and Aegae, where is the never-failing river Crathis, from which the river in...
Aegira
76 22.3782,38.12855,0 Sicyon ...twelve divisions of the Achaeans who drove the Ionians out—Pellene nearest to Sicyon; then Aegira and Aegae, where is the never-failing river Crathis, from which...
Sicyon
80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Spartans ...Pythennos, to speak for all. He then put on a purple cloak, so that as many Spartans as possible might assemble to hear him, and stood up and made a long speech...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Adriatic Sea ...of the Greeks to make long sea-voyages, and it was they who discovered the Adriatic Sea, and Tyrrhenia, and Iberia, and Tartessus,52 [2] not sailing in round...
Adriatic Sea
77 15.885196,42.7752864,0 Phocaeans ...cause against them, and sailed to attack them with sixty ships each. [2] The Phocaeans also manned their ships, sixty in number, and met the enemy in the sea called...
Phocaeans
79 26.75261,38.6684,0 Cyrnus ...and all of their possessions that their ships could hold on board, and leaving Cyrnus they sailed to Rhegium. 167. As for the crews of the disabled ships, the...
Cyrnus
81 9.200077440000001,42.103331615555554,0 Rhegium ...that their ships could hold on board, and leaving Cyrnus they sailed to Rhegium. 167. As for the crews of the disabled ships, the Carthaginians and...
Rhegium
74 15.649244,38.111146,0 Chaldeans ...footstool and the chair are also gold; the gold of the whole was said by the Chaldeans to be eight hundred talents' weight. [2] Outside the temple is a golden altar...
Chaldeans
79 Euphrates ...the Assyrian villages three times; the village which is so approached by the Euphrates is called Ardericca. And now those who travel from our sea to Babylon must...
Euphrates
79 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Patara ...is said, has intercourse with men), and as does the prophetess of the god66 at Patara in Lycia, whenever she is appointed; for there is not always a place of...
Patara
81 29.35379,36.25418,0 Ninus ...and moreover, seeing that the kingdom of Media was great and restless and Ninus itself among other cities had fallen to it, she took such precautions as she...
Ninus
76 43.1609,36.34773,0 Thessaly ...and told him what he had heard from the Athenians, Mardonius set forth from Thessaly and led his army with all zeal against Athens;1 he also took with him all the...
Thessaly
78 22.2,39.6,0 Lydian ...Now at this time there was no nation in Asia more valiant or warlike than the Lydian. It was their custom to fight on horseback, carrying long spears, and they were...
Lydian
80 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Lydian ...then was the intention of his maneuver, that Croesus' cavalry, on which the Lydian relied to distinguish himself, might be of no use. [5] So when battle was...
Lydian
78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Lydian ...of the oracle concerning him. [2] The Pythian priestess answered him thus: ““Lydian, king of many, greatly foolish Croesus, Wish not to hear in the palace the...
Lydian
79 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Lydian ...him to let Tomyris and her army enter his country. 207. But Croesus the Lydian, who was present, was displeased by their advice and spoke against it. “O...
Lydian
75 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Lydian ...continues in the same place, I shall mention both alike. 6. Croesus was a Lydian by birth, son of Alyattes, and sovereign of all the nations west of the river...
Lydian
77 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Milesians ...city. The reason that the Lydian did not destroy the houses was this: that the Milesians might have homes from which to plant and cultivate their land, and that there...
Milesians
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...these lent their aid in return for a similar service done for them; for the Milesians had previously helped the Chians in their war against the Erythraeans. 19. In...
Milesians
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...themselves with walls, and assembled in the Panionion,47 all except the Milesians, with whom alone Cyrus made a treaty on the same terms as that which they had...
Milesians
74 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 The Corinthians ...answer to Thrasybulus, was the son of Cypselus, and sovereign of Corinth. The Corinthians say (and the Lesbians agree) that the most marvellous thing that happened to...
The Corinthians
76 22.878721,37.906045,0 Aeolians ...soon as the Lydians had been subjugated by the Persians, the Ionians and Aeolians sent messengers to Cyrus, offering to be his subjects on the same terms as...
Aeolians
75 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Aeolians ...I played to you.” [3] The reason why Cyrus told the story to the Ionians and Aeolians was that the Ionians, who were ready to obey him when the victory was won, had...
Aeolians
79 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Aeolians ...Ionian territory, but the climate was not so good. 150. Now this is how the Aeolians lost Smyrna. Some men of Colophon, the losers in civil strife and exiles from...
Aeolians
79 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Aeolians ...by the Ionians; for these too were once twelve, on the mainland. [2] These Aeolians had settled where the land was better than the Ionian territory, but the...
Aeolians
77 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Ionians ...came from the very town-hall of Athens and think they are the best born of the Ionians, these did not bring wives with them to their settlements, but married Carian...
Ionians
81 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...than the rest of the Ionians, let it be granted that those of pure birth are Ionians; [2] and all are Ionians who are of Athenian descent and keep the feast...
Ionians
79 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...Chalybes, Paphlagonians, the Thracian Thynians and Bithynians, Carians, Ionians, Dorians, Aeolians, and Pamphylians; 29. and after these were subdued and...
Ionians
74 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...he sent heralds to the Ionians to try to draw them away from Croesus. The Ionians would not be prevailed on; but when Cyrus arrived and encamped face to face...
Ionians
76 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...before, when I played to you.” [3] The reason why Cyrus told the story to the Ionians and Aeolians was that the Ionians, who were ready to obey him when the victory...
Ionians
80 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...lead the army against these himself, and to send another commander against the Ionians. 154. But no sooner had Cyrus marched away from Sardis than Pactyes made the...
Ionians
81 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Persians ...the Greeks. [2] But the Phoenicians do not tell the same story about Io as the Persians. They say that they did not carry her off to Egypt by force. She had...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Creston ...still remain of the Pelasgians who live above the Tyrrheni19 in the city of Creston—who were once neighbors of the people now called Dorians, and at that time...
Creston
78 17.205128,39.028864,0 Pelasgians ...from a small beginning to comprise a multitude of nations, chiefly because the Pelasgians and many other foreign peoples united themselves with them. Before that, I...
Pelasgians
81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pelasgian blood ...If, then, all the Pelasgian stock spoke so, then the Attic nation, being of Pelasgian blood, must have changed its language too at the time when it became part of the...
Pelasgian blood
78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedaemonians ...of Agamemnon. Bring him back, and you shall be lord of Tegea. ” [5] When the Lacedaemonians heard this, they were no closer to discovery, though they looked everywhere...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Pythia ...tomb, they sent once more to the god22 to ask where he was buried. The Pythia responded in hexameter to the messengers: [4] “There is a place Tegea in the...
Pythia
73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Media ...to the enemy, and most were deliberate cowards and ran. 128. Thus the Median army was shamefully scattered. As soon as Astyages heard, he sent a...
Media
73 46.5,34.5,0 Cilician ...the more eager to make peace. Those who reconciled them were Syennesis the Cilician and Labynetus the Babylonian; [4] they brought it about that there should be a...
Cilician
77 33.25,36.25,0 Median ...of the Medes, and, at this time, of Cyrus. [2] For the boundary of the Median and Lydian empires was the river Halys, which flows from the Armenian mountains...
Median
73 46.5,34.5,0 Egypt ...and made themselves masters of all Asia. 105. From there they marched against Egypt: and when they were in the part of Syria called Palestine, Psammetichus king of...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Caucasian mountains ...they turned aside and came by the upper and much longer way, keeping the Caucasian mountains on their right. There, the Medes met the Scythians, who defeated them in...
Caucasian mountains
75 42.4378759,43.3525468,0 Cnidus ...own house. For this offense the five cities—Lindus, Ialysus, Camirus, Cos, and Cnidus—forbade the sixth city—Halicarnassus—to share in the use of the temple. Such...
Cnidus
81 27.37404,36.686188,0 Triopian Apollo ...who had broken the temple law. [2] For long ago, in the games in honor of Triopian Apollo, they offered certain bronze tripods to the victors; and those who won these...
Triopian Apollo
76 27.493021,36.684805,0 Halicarnassus ...five cities—Lindus, Ialysus, Camirus, Cos, and Cnidus—forbade the sixth city—Halicarnassus—to share in the use of the temple. Such was the penalty imposed on the...
Halicarnassus
79 27.424112,37.037864,0 Erythrae ...for the Milesians had previously helped the Chians in their war against the Erythraeans. 19. In the twelfth year, when the Lydian army was burning the crops, the...
Erythrae
78 26.48103,38.38122,0 Lycian descendants ...and sons. This happened at Miletus. 147. And as kings, some of them chose Lycian descendants of Glaucus son of Hippolochus, and some Caucones of Pylus, descendants of...
Lycian descendants
77 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Carian women ...Ionians, these did not bring wives with them to their settlements, but married Carian women whose parents they had put to death. [3] For this slaughter, these women made a...
Carian women
81 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Epidaurus ...renegades from their nation, Molossians, Pelasgian Arcadians, Dorians of Epidaurus, and many other tribes; [2] and as for those who came from the very town-hall...
Epidaurus
75 23.079167,37.596111,0 Persians ...the god again gave the same answer, that Pactyes should be surrendered to the Persians. [3] With that Aristodicus did as he had already decided; he went around the...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Lydian has come to us a suppliant fleeing a violent death at the hands of the Persians; and they demand him of us, telling the men of Cyme to surrender him. [2] But...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Chios ...Mytilenaeans were about, they sent a ship to Lesbos and took Pactyes away to Chios. From there he was dragged out of the temple of City-guarding Athena and...
Chios
79 26.053,38.414,0 Cnidians ...by the sea off Syme and Rhodes). Now while Harpagus was conquering Ionia, the Cnidians dug a trench across this little space, which is about two-thirds of a mile...
Cnidians
80 27.37404,36.686188,0 Bubassus ...Triopion) lies between the sea and that part of the peninsula which belongs to Bubassus, and all but a small part of the Cnidian territory is washed by the sea [3]...
Bubassus
81 28.25,36.75,0 Xanthus ...were at length taken, and when Harpagus led his army into the plain of Xanthus, the Lycians came out to meet him, and showed themselves courageous fighting...
Xanthus
73 29.3042606,36.3090579,0 Massagetae ...endeavor to overcome them by doing as I shall show. [6] As I understand, the Massagetae have no experience of the good things of Persia, and have never fared well as...
Massagetae
79 62.5,37.5,0 Persia ...of his sons, then about twenty years old; this Darius had been left behind in Persia, not yet being of an age to go on campaign. [3] So when Cyrus awoke he...
Persia
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Ionians ...his grain, and so garners it. 15. Now if we agree with the opinion of the Ionians, who say that only the Delta is Egypt, and that its seaboard reaches from the...
Ionians
77 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...Delta, so that this land must be between Asia and Libya. 17. We leave the Ionians' opinion aside, and our own judgment about the matter is this: Egypt is all...
Ionians
77 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...saw in this the fulfillment of the oracle; he made friends with the Ionians and Carians, and promised them great rewards if they would join him and, having...
Ionians
70 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...statues twenty feet high for pillars. Apis in Greek is Epaphus. 154. To the Ionians and Carians who had helped him, Psammetichus gave places to live in called The...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Aethiopia ...there was once another such gulf; this extended from the northern sea towards Aethiopia, and the other, the Arabian gulf of which I shall speak, extended from the...
Aethiopia
80 38.721522,14.125005,0 Maeander ...as the country about Ilion and Teuthrania and Ephesus and the plain of the Maeander, to compare these small things with great. [2] For of the rivers that brought...
Maeander
77 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Arabia ...the sea, has already made half of the Echinades Islands mainland. 11. Now in Arabia, not far from Egypt, there is a gulf extending inland from the sea called Red9...
Arabia
80 42.5,27.5,0 Arabian gulf ...separated them. [4] Now, if the Nile inclined to direct its current into this Arabian gulf, why should the latter not be silted up by it inside of twenty thousand years?...
Arabian gulf
80 50.9999999,27.0000001,0 Sebennytic ...mouth. [5] There are also two channels which separate themselves from the Sebennytic and so flow into the sea: by name, the Saïtic and the Mendesian. [6] The...
Sebennytic
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Syria ...since being smaller they have a weaker current. Yet there are many rivers in Syria and many in Libya, and they behave nothing like the Nile. 21. The second...
Syria
79 37.5,37.5,0 Arabia ...were watchposts at Elephantine facing Ethiopia, at Daphnae of Pelusium facing Arabia and Assyria, and at Marea facing Libya. [3] And still in my time the Persians...
Arabia
80 42.5,27.5,0 Egyptian ...with whom he was feuding, and occupy their land. These Ethiopians then learned Egyptian customs and have become milder-mannered by intermixture with the Egyptians...
Egyptian
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Marea ...facing Ethiopia, at Daphnae of Pelusium facing Arabia and Assyria, and at Marea facing Libya. [3] And still in my time the Persians hold these posts as they...
Marea
76 Celts ...as far away as does the Ister.18 [3] For the Ister flows from the land of the Celts and the city of Pyrene through the very middle of Europe; now the Celts live...
Celts
80 Europe ...of all the peoples inhabiting Europe. [4] The Ister, then, flows clean across Europe and ends its course in the Euxine sea, at Istria, which is inhabited by...
Europe
80 Bubastis ...they come alongside any riverside town. [3] But when they have reached Bubastis, they make a festival with great sacrifices, and more wine is drunk at this...
Bubastis
73 31.51591,30.56826,0 Bubastis ...my opinion, Bubastis is especially prominent, where there is also a temple of Bubastis, a building most worthy of note. Other temples are greater and more costly, but...
Bubastis
80 31.51591,30.56826,0 Bubastis ...are greater and more costly, but none more pleasing to the eye than this. Bubastis is, in the Greek language, Artemis. 138. Her temple is of this description...
Bubastis
76 31.51591,30.56826,0 Buto ...and the like is done with mongooses. Shrewmice and hawks are taken away to Buto, ibises to the city of Hermes. [2] There are few bears, and the wolves are...
Buto
77 31.95395,30.87763,0 Buto ...became blind. When he had been blind for ten years, an oracle from the city of Buto declared to him that the term of his punishment was drawing to an end, and that...
Buto
81 31.95395,30.87763,0 Carians ...are descended the present-day Egyptian interpreters. [3] The Ionians and Carians lived for a long time in these places, which are near the sea, on the arm of...
Carians
75 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Papremis ...63. When the people go to Heliopolis and Buto, they offer sacrifice only. At Papremis sacrifice is offered and rites performed just as elsewhere; but when the sun is...
Papremis
80 30.52701,30.7765,0 Trojans ...that they were so inclined in the first days, yet when not only many of the Trojans were slain in fighting against the Greeks, but Priam himself lost to death two...
Trojans
78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Hades ...122. They said that later this king went down alive to what the Greeks call Hades and there played dice with Demeter, and after winning some and losing some...
Hades
79 Nile ...for himself, and surrounded them with water, bringing in a channel from the Nile. [5] The pyramid itself was twenty years in the making. Its base is square...
Nile
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Kalasiries ...classes, each named after its occupation. [2] The warriors are divided into Kalasiries and Hermotubies, and they belong to the following districts (for all divisions...
Kalasiries
78 Kalasiries ...it was never the same men who cultivated them, but each in turn.69 A thousand Kalasiries and as many Hermotubies were the king's annual bodyguard. These men, besides...
Kalasiries
80 Kalasiries ...common trade; they are free to follow the profession of arms alone. 166. The Kalasiries are from the districts of Thebes , Bubastis, Aphthis, Tanis, Mendes, Sebennys...
Kalasiries
80 Anytis ...Aphthis, Tanis, Mendes, Sebennys, Athribis, Pharbaïthis, Thmuis, Onuphis, Anytis, Myecphoris (this last is in an island opposite the city of Bubastis）— [2] from...
Anytis
76 Egyptians ...the crew (like butchers) and carried them within the walls. [3] So the Egyptians were besieged, and after a long while surrendered; but the neighboring Libyans...
Egyptians
73 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...Libyan, and they were like the others. 13. After their rout in the battle the Egyptians fled in disorder; and when they had been overtaken in Memphis, Cambyses sent a...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...11. When the Persians had crossed the waterless country and encamped near the Egyptians intending to engage them, the Egyptian mercenaries, Greeks and Carians, devised...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...Cambyses and his court, it is said, thought the answer good. [11] And, the Egyptians say, Croesus wept (for it happened that he too had come with Cambyses to Egypt)...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...them passing and perceived that his son was being led out to die, and all the Egyptians who sat with him wept and showed their affliction, he did as he had done at the...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...by, Cambyses next made Psammenitus' son go out before him with two thousand Egyptians of the same age, all with ropes bound round their necks and bridle-bits in...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...Egyptian, who advised it out of resentment against Amasis, that out of all the Egyptian physicians Amasis had dragged him away from his wife and children and sent him...
Egyptian
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...to Amasis asking for the best eye-doctor in Egypt. [2] Out of resentment, the Egyptian by his advice induced Cambyses to ask Amasis for his daughter, so that Amasis...
Egyptian
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...brittle that if you throw no more than a pebble it will pierce them, but the Egyptian skulls are so strong that a blow of a stone will hardly crack them. [2] And...
Egyptian
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...whose business it was, to scourge the priests well, and to kill any other Egyptian whom they found holiday-making. [3] So the Egyptian festival ended, and the...
Egyptian
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...a herald to Egypt asking Amasis for his daughter; he asked on the advice of an Egyptian, who advised it out of resentment against Amasis, that out of all the Egyptian...
Egyptian
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Sparta ...Samians. 46. When the Samians who were expelled by Polycrates came to Sparta, they came before the ruling men and made a long speech to show the greatness...
Sparta
73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corcyra ...sent a third messenger, through whom he proposed that he should go to Corcyra, and that the boy should return to Corinth and be the heir of his power. [7]...
Corcyra
72 19.92178,39.60733,0 Corcyra ...or overcome, he sent him away out of his sight in a ship to Corcyra; for Corcyra too was subject to him. [7] And when he had sent him away, he sent an army...
Corcyra
75 19.92178,39.60733,0 Corinth ...consented to this; Periander got ready to go to Corcyra and Lycophron to go to Corinth; but when the Corcyraeans learned of all these matters, they put the young man...
Corinth
81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Asia ...whinnied. 88. So Darius son of Hystaspes was made king,28 and the whole of Asia, which Cyrus first and Cambyses after him had conquered, was subject to him...
Asia
78 Delphi ...on the island. They were so wealthy that the treasure dedicated by them at Delphi, which is as rich as any there, was made from a tenth of their income; and they...
Delphi
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Dorians ...coins, as a native currency. This was the first expedition to Asia made by Dorians of Lacedaemon.23 57. When the Lacedaemonians were about to abandon them, the...
Dorians
77 Ecbatana ...asked what was the name of the town where he was. [4] They told him it was Ecbatana. Now a prophecy had before this come to him from Buto, that he would end his...
Ecbatana
77 48.51696,34.80523,0 Aegina ...in the days when Amphicrates was king of Samos, sailing in force against Aegina, had hurt the Aeginetans and been hurt by them. This was the cause. 60. I have...
Aegina
75 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...were shaped like boars' heads, and dedicated them in the temple of Athena in Aegina. [4] The Aeginetans did this out of a grudge against the Samians; for...
Aegina
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Persian ...I pray things turn out the opposite for you, and on top of this, that every Persian meet an end such as mine.” With that Cambyses wept bitterly for all that had...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...There was one Otanes, son of Pharnaspes, as well-born and rich a man as any Persian. [2] This Otanes was the first to guess that the Magus was not Cyrus' son...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...was; the reason was, that he never left the acropolis nor summoned any notable Persian into his presence. And having formed this suspicion Otanes did as follows: [3]...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...to them. [2] They resolved that each should take into his confidence that Persian whom he most trusted; Otanes brought in Intaphrenes, Gobryas brought Megabyzus...
Persian
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...out as Darius had expected; the guards, out of respect for the leading men in Persia and never suspecting that there would be trouble from them, allowed them to...
Persia
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Babylonians ...against Babylon, and he marched up to the town and laid siege to it; but the Babylonians thought nothing of the siege. They came up on to the ramparts of the wall and...
Babylonians
79 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylonians ...gate called Cissian. For I think that once I have done conspicuous things the Babylonians will give me, among other things, the keys of their gates; then it will depend...
Babylonians
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylonians ...159. Thus Babylon was taken a second time, and when Darius was master of the Babylonians, he destroyed their walls and tore away all their gates, neither of which Cyrus...
Babylonians
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Euboic ...the gold-dust is found to be worth four thousand six hundred and eighty Euboic talents. Therefore it is seen by adding all together that Darius collected a...
Euboic
74 23.87,38.53,0 Euboic ...in Euboic money, the sum is seen to be nine thousand eight hundred and eighty Euboic talents: [2] and the gold coin being thirteen times the value of the silver...
Euboic
80 23.87,38.53,0 Babylonian ...he did exactly as he had arranged with Darius. On the tenth day he led out the Babylonian army, surrounded and slaughtered the thousand whom he had instructed Darius to...
Babylonian
81 44.42082,32.53617,0 Hellespontians ...hundred talents; this was the second province. [2] The third comprised the Hellespontians on the right of the entrance of the straits, the Phrygians, Thracians of Asia...
Hellespontians
77 26.4,40.2,0 Magnesians ...Cyrus was merciful and always worked for their well-being. 90. The Ionians, Magnesians of Asia, Aeolians, Carians, Lycians, Milyans, and Pamphylians, on whom Darius...
Magnesians
79 27.52785,37.8507,0 Milyans ...well-being. 90. The Ionians, Magnesians of Asia, Aeolians, Carians, Lycians, Milyans, and Pamphylians, on whom Darius laid one joint tribute, paid a revenue of four...
Milyans
80 29.75,36.75,0 Lasonians ...of silver. This was established as his first province. The Mysians, Lydians, Lasonians, Cabalians, and Hytennians paid five hundred talents; this was the second...
Lasonians
79 Lydians ...talents of silver. This was established as his first province. The Mysians, Lydians, Lasonians, Cabalians, and Hytennians paid five hundred talents; this was the...
Lydians
78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Paphlagonians ...on the right of the entrance of the straits, the Phrygians, Thracians of Asia, Paphlagonians, Mariandynians, and Syrians; these paid three hundred and sixty talents of...
Paphlagonians
81 33.23855021666667,41.44846296666666,0 Paricanians ...boys; this was the ninth province; Ecbatana and the rest of Media, with the Paricanians and Orthocorybantians, paid four hundred and fifty talents, and was the tenth...
Paricanians
78 Pausicae ...talents, and was the tenth province. [2] The eleventh comprised the Caspii, Pausicae, Pantimathi, and Daritae, paying jointly two hundred; 93. The twelfth, the...
Pausicae
78 Babylon ...and the rest of the Cissian country, paying three hundred talents. 92. From Babylon and the rest of Assyria came to Darius a thousand talents of silver and five...
Babylon
79 44.42082,32.53617,0 Bactrians ...and the Pactyic country,34 north of the rest of India; these live like the Bactrians; they are of all Indians the most warlike, and it is they who are sent for the...
Bactrians
77 67.5,37.5,0 Chorasmians ...and Caspii were the fifteenth, paying two hundred and fifty. The Parthians, Chorasmians, Sogdi, and Arii were the sixteenth, paying three hundred. 94. The Paricanii...
Chorasmians
78 Matieni ...Paricanii and Ethiopians of Asia, the seventeenth, paid four hundred; the Matieni, Saspiri, and Alarodii were the eighteenth, and two hundred talents were the...
Matieni
76 46.5,36.5,0 Macrones ...and two hundred talents were the appointed tribute. [2] The Moschi, Tibareni, Macrones, Mossynoeci, and Mares, the nineteenth province, were ordered to pay three...
Macrones
80 39.5,40.5,0 Ethiopians ...no tribute was laid, but who rendered gifts instead, they were, firstly, the Ethiopians nearest to Egypt, whom Cambyses conquered in his march towards the long-lived...
Ethiopians
79 38.721522,14.125005,0 Indian ...their festivals. These Ethiopians and their neighbors use the same seed as the Indian Callantiae, and they live underground. [3] These together brought every other...
Indian
81 77.5,22.5,0 Ethiopians ...nearest to Egypt, whom Cambyses conquered in his march towards the long-lived Ethiopians; and also those who dwell about the holy Nysa,31 where Dionysus is the god of...
Ethiopians
80 38.721522,14.125005,0 India ...with water at this time. [3] At midday the sun's heat is nearly the same in India as elsewhere. As it goes to afternoon, the sun of India has the power of the...
India
78 77.5,22.5,0 Hellas ...and let me keep the rest; thus you shall have wealth enough to rule all Hellas. If you mistrust what I tell you about the money, send someone who is most...
Hellas
74 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...is fitter than any other to instruct and guide you in everything concerning Hellas: I mean the physician who healed your foot.” [6] Darius answered, “Woman, since...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Arabia ...but that is because (although there are vipers in every land) these are all in Arabia and are found nowhere else. 110. The Arabians get frankincense in the...
Arabia
81 42.5,27.5,0 Persian ...events occurred. The governor of Sardis appointed by Cyrus was Oroetes, a Persian. This man had an impious desire; for although he had not been injured or spoken...
Persian
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greek ...[3] But when Darius turned the case over to him and Democedes applied Greek remedies and used gentleness instead of the Egyptians' violence, he enabled him...
Greek
72 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...one of that nation has come to us, and I have, I may say, no use for any Greek. Nevertheless bring him in, so that I may know what he means.” [3] The...
Greek
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Magnesia ...most skillful physician of his time. [2] But no sooner had Polycrates come to Magnesia than he was horribly murdered in a way unworthy of him and of his aims; for...
Magnesia
80 27.52785,37.8507,0 Croton ...retinue of followers, among whom was Democedes, son of Calliphon, a man of Croton and the most skillful physician of his time. [2] But no sooner had Polycrates...
Croton
77 17.205128,39.028864,0 Magnesia ...believe whichever you like. But the consequence was that Oroetes, then at Magnesia which is above the river Maeander, sent Myrsus son of Gyges, a Lydian, with a...
Magnesia
76 27.52785,37.8507,0 Syracuse ...in a way unworthy of him and of his aims; for, except for the sovereigns of Syracuse, no sovereign of Greek race is fit to be compared with Polycrates for...
Syracuse
78 15.29382,37.05963,0 Croton ...Thus he came to Samos, and not least because of this man the physicians of Croton were well-respected [ [3] for at this time the best physicians in Greek...
Croton
77 17.205128,39.028864,0 Persian ...him at once. Thus atonement for Polycrates the Samian overtook Oroetes the Persian. 129. Oroetes' slaves and other possessions were brought to Susa. Not long...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Elean ...Democedes interceded with the king for them and saved them; and he saved an Elean seer, too, who had been a retainer of Polycrates' and was forgotten among the...
Elean
78 21.37493,37.89131,0 Attic ...I tell you, march against Hellas. I have heard of Laconian and Argive and Attic and Corinthian women, and would like to have them as servants. You have a man...
Attic
76 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Italy ...of agitating Greece, if on his account a great expedition sailed against Italy, he said that it was enough that the Cnidians alone be his escort; for he...
Italy
75 12.5,42.5,0 Persian ...in the marketplace and tried to seize him. [2] Some Crotoniats, who feared the Persian power, would have given him up; but others resisted and beat the Persians with...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greece ...the story of his misfortune; but, so as not to be the occasion of agitating Greece, if on his account a great expedition sailed against Italy, he said that it was...
Greece
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Assyrians ...me, and no one but I myself did this, O King, because I felt it terribly that Assyrians were laughing at Persians.” [3] Darius answered, “Unfeeling man, you give a...
Assyrians
80 37.5,37.5,0 Persian ...were carried in litters. [4] They were engaged in this when the rest of the Persian force came up in reinforcement, and, hard-pressed, the guards retreated into...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...paid him a talent to be their public physician; in the third year the Athenians hired him for a hundred minae, and Polycrates in the fourth year for two...
Athenians
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persian ...or after who did better service than Zopyrus, except Cyrus, with whom no Persian could compare himself. Many times Darius is said to have declared that he would...
Persian
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Gephyraean ...from his mind, he led the procession in which he met his death.23 57. Now the Gephyraean clan, of which the slayers of Hipparchus were members, claim to have come at...
Gephyraean
81 36.352594,36.249652,0 Boeotia ...porch of the acropolis and38 bears this inscription: “Athens with Chalcis and Boeotia fought, Bound them in chains and brought their pride to naught. Prison was...
Boeotia
80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Achaean ...rest of the Athenians take no part, particularly the rites and mysteries of Achaean Demeter. 62. I have told both of the vision of Hipparchus' dream and of the...
Achaean
78 22.5,37.5,0 Attica ...Athenians too acknowledge that only one man of their number returned safely to Attica. [2] The Argives, however, say that he escaped after they had destroyed the...
Attica
81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...the first Lacedaemonian army drew off, and Anchimolius' tomb is at Alopecae in Attica, near to the Heracleum in Cynosarges.28 64. After this the Lacedaemonians sent...
Attica
81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Carians ...his army to Caria. 118. It so happened that news of this was brought to the Carians before Daurises' coming, and when the Carians heard, they mustered at the place...
Carians
79 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...by the odds. Of the Persians, as many as two thousand men fell, and of the Carians ten thousand. [2] Those of them who escaped were driven into the precinct of...
Carians
77 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Caria ...place and heard that Daurises had left the Hellespont and was marching towards Caria, he left the Propontis and led his army to the Hellespont, making himself...
Caria
81 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...took counsel, the Milesians and their allies came to their aid, whereupon the Carians put aside their former plans, and prepared to wage a new war over again. They...
Carians
80 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carian ...bore down upon him. When the horse struck his hooves on Onesilus' shield, the Carian shore away the horse's legs with a stroke of his curved sword. 113. It was in...
Carian
80 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Thebans ...to their demand that they were sending the Sons of Aeacus in aid. 81. The Thebans took the field on the strength of their alliance with that family but were...
Thebans
77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...feud with Athens, accordingly made war on the Athenians at the entreaty of the Thebans without sending a herald. [3] While the Athenians were busy with the Boeotians...
Thebans
81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Argos ...country should be used. 89. Ever since that day even to my time the women of Argos and Aegina wore brooch-pins longer than before, by reason of the feud with the...
Argos
80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Eleusis ...sons of Pisistratus, and the fourth was now, when Cleomenes broke in as far as Eleusis with his following of Peloponnesians. This was accordingly the fourth Dorian...
Eleusis
81 23.538311,38.041096,0 Chalcidians ...decided to oppose the Spartans at Eleusis and to deal with the Boeotians and Chalcidians later. 75. When the armies were about to join battle, the Corinthians, coming...
Chalcidians
79 23.602,38.464,0 Chalcidians ...Athenians saw these allies, they resolved to attack the Boeotians before the Chalcidians. [2] When they met the Boeotians in battle, they won a great victory, slaying...
Chalcidians
79 23.602,38.464,0 Dorian ...lawful that Dorians should pass in here. “My lady,” he answered, “I am not a Dorian, but an Achaean.” [4] So without taking heed of the omen, he tried to do as he...
Dorian
79 Megara ...of the Athenian people. The first time was when they planted a settlement at Megara36(this expedition may rightly be said to have been in the reign of Codrus), the...
Megara
79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Chalcis ...the Milesians had once been the allies of the Eretrians in the war against Chalcis, when the Samians came to aid the Chalcidians against the Eretrians and...
Chalcis
77 23.602,38.464,0 Aeginetans ...the order that they must hold their hand for thirty years, seeing that the Aeginetans had dealt them a foul blow. 90. As they were making ready for vengeance, a...
Aeginetans
77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...of Asopus and sisters. The god's answer is, I think, that we should ask the Aeginetans to be our avengers.” [2] Seeing that there seemed to be no better opinion...
Aeginetans
78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...of help from the Argives. So when the Athenians disembarked on the land of Aegina, the Argives came to aid the Aeginetans, crossing over from Epidaurus to the...
Aegina
77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...in the thirty-first to mark out a precinct for Aeacus and begin the war with Aegina. In this way their purpose would prosper. If, however, they sent an army...
Aegina
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Epidaurians ...aimed their raillery not at any men but at the women of the country. The Epidaurians too had the same rites, and they have certain secret rites as well. 84. When...
Epidaurians
75 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurus ...were in all matters still subject to the Epidaurians and even crossed to Epidaurus for the hearing of their own private lawsuits. From this time, however, they...
Epidaurus
75 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurus ...the land of Aegina, the Argives came to aid the Aeginetans, crossing over from Epidaurus to the island secretly. They then fell upon the Athenians unaware and cut them...
Epidaurus
81 23.079167,37.596111,0 Argives ...about to make war upon them and therefore assured themselves of help from the Argives. So when the Athenians disembarked on the land of Aegina, the Argives came to...
Argives
80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Oea ...took away and set them up in the middle of their own country at a place called Oea, about twenty furlongs distant from their city. [3] Having set them up in this...
Oea
81 Argives ...times all women in Greece wore the costume now known as Dorian. [2] As for the Argives and Aeginetans, this was the reason of their passing a law in both their...
Argives
81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Ionian ...it is said, no other way to punish the women than changing their dress to the Ionian fashion. Until then the Athenian women had worn Dorian dress, which is very...
Ionian
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Corinth ...fortunate who steps into my house, Cypselus, son of Eetion, the king of noble Corinth, He himself and his children, but not the sons of his sons. ” Such was the...
Corinth
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...through the corn, continually asking why the messenger had come to him from Corinth, he kept cutting off all the tallest ears of wheat which he could see, and...
Corinth
78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...will be a millstone Which will fall upon the rulers and will bring justice to Corinth. ” [3] This oracle which was given to Eetion was in some way made known to the...
Corinth
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Thesprotia ...had sent messengers to the Oracle of the Dead on the river Acheron in Thesprotia to enquire concerning a deposit that a friend had left, but Melissa, in an...
Thesprotia
72 20.25,39.75,0 Caicus ...Ephesians to guide them on their way. They made their way along the river Caicus, and after crossing the Tmolus, they came to Sardis and captured it without any...
Caicus
76 27.0057354,38.9471678,0 Eretrians ...thereby repaying their debt (for the Milesians had once been the allies of the Eretrians in the war against Chalcis, when the Samians came to aid the Chalcidians...
Eretrians
81 22.607216,39.290562,0 Eretrians ...put to the sword many men of renown including Eualcides the general of the Eretrians who had won crowns as victor in the games and been greatly praised by Simonides...
Eretrians
77 22.607216,39.290562,0 Ephesian ...had come to Ephesus with this force, they left their ships at Coresus47 in the Ephesian territory and marched inland with a great host, taking Ephesians to guide them...
Ephesian
81 27.339722,37.941944,0 Coresus ...the Ionians had come to Ephesus with this force, they left their ships at Coresus47 in the Ephesian territory and marched inland with a great host, taking...
Coresus
76 27.3683,37.95479,0 Pactolus ...which in turn issues into the sea. They assembled in the marketplace by this Pactolus and were forced to defend themselves there. [3] When the Ionians saw some of...
Pactolus
79 28.0627776,38.4803822,0 Tmolus ...their way. They made their way along the river Caicus, and after crossing the Tmolus, they came to Sardis and captured it without any resistance. They took all of...
Tmolus
80 28.101929,38.3233025,0 Lydians ...the Halys, on hearing of these matters, gathered together and came to aid the Lydians. [2] It chanced that they found the Ionians no longer at Sardis, but following...
Lydians
80 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Hellespont ...other cities of that region subject to themselves. Then sailing out from the Hellespont they gained to their cause the greater part of Caria, for even Caunus, which...
Hellespont
79 26.699162,40.346685,0 Ceos ...had won crowns as victor in the games and been greatly praised by Simonides of Ceos. Those of the Ionians who escaped from the battle fled, each to his city...
Ceos
81 24.35666,37.6217,0 Hellas ...judgment. [3] Be at peace, since I have changed my mind about marching against Hellas.” 14. When the Persians heard that, they rejoiced and made obeisance to him...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Phrygians ...the Paphlagonian, with only a small difference. As the Macedonians say, these Phrygians were called Briges as long as they dwelt in Europe, where they were neighbors...
Phrygians
80 29.75,38.75,0 Hellas ...the vision, and it is his full pleasure that there this expedition against Hellas take place, that same dream will hover about you and give you the same command...
Hellas
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Media ...Artachaees. 64. The Bactrians in the army wore a headgear very similar to the Median, carrying their native reed bows and short spears. [2] The Sacae, who are...
Media
81 46.5,34.5,0 Media ...settles those who are called Exiles, wore dress and armor very similar to the Median. The commander of these islanders was Mardontes son of Bagaeus, who in the...
Media
80 46.5,34.5,0 Scythian ...Darius led against the Scythians is nothing compared to it; neither is the Scythian expedition when they burst into Media12 in pursuit of the Cimmerians and...
Scythian
77 27.5,47.5,0 Chaldeans ...feet high. [3] I myself have not seen it, but I relate what is told by the Chaldeans. Darius son of Hystaspes proposed to take this statue but dared not; Xerxes his...
Chaldeans
77 Egypt ...myself have never seen it, only pictures of it; for the bird seldom comes into Egypt: once in five hundred years, as the people of Heliopolis say. [2] It is said...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...not justly make reparation for what Proteus the Egyptian had. [4] But the Greeks, thinking that the Trojans were mocking them, laid siege to the city, until...
Greeks
76 Greeks ...Priam's own wife, I cannot but think that he would have restored her to the Greeks, if by so doing he could escape from the evils besetting him. [4] Alexandrus...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...became a philhellene, and besides other services which he did for some of the Greeks, he gave those who came to Egypt the city of Naucratis to live in; and to those...
Greeks
80 Egypt ...the priests did not say this, too. [2] For this is the nature of the land of Egypt: in the first place, when you approach it from the sea and are still a day's...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...Most of this they showed me in fact to be the case. The first human king of Egypt, they said, was Min. [3] In his time all of Egypt except the Thebaic5 district...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Pelasgians ...The gods whose names they say they do not know were, as I think, named by the Pelasgians, except Poseidon, the knowledge of whom they learned from the Libyans. [3]...
Pelasgians
80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Samothracians ...Pelasgians who came to live among the Athenians, and it is from them that the Samothracians take their rites. [4] The Athenians, then, were the first Greeks to make...
Samothracians
80 25.5302283,40.5009431,0 Egyptian temple ...though native born Egyptians, are alone of all men forbidden to enter any Egyptian temple; nor will any give a swineherd his daughter in marriage, nor take a wife from...
Egyptian temple
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Cabeiri ...to be considered as Greeks. Whoever has been initiated into the rites of the Cabeiri, which the Samothracians learned from the Pelasgians and now practice...
Cabeiri
79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Khemmis ...of their city; for Danaus and Lynceus, who travelled to Greece, were of Khemmis; and they traced descent from these down to Perseus. [6] They told how he came...
Khemmis
74 31.746075,26.565878,0 Khemmis ...to districts). 165. The Hermotubies are from the districts of Busiris, Saïs, Khemmis, and Papremis, the island called Prosopitis, and half of Natho—from all of...
Khemmis
80 31.746075,26.565878,0 Khemmis ...as well. Yet, though the rest are wary of this, there is a great city called Khemmis, in the Theban district, near the New City. [2] In this city is a square temple...
Khemmis
79 31.746075,26.565878,0 Scythians ...doing this until he had crossed over from Asia to Europe and defeated the Scythians and Thracians. Thus far and no farther, I think, the Egyptian army went; for...
Scythians
76 27.5,47.5,0 Egyptian men ...Ethiopian kings, and one queen, native to the country; the rest were all Egyptian men. [2] The name of the queen was the same as that of the Babylonian princess...
Egyptian men
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Arabian Gulf ...[2] This king, the priests said, set out with a fleet of long ships45 from the Arabian Gulf and subjugated all those living by the Red Sea, until he came to a sea which...
Arabian Gulf
81 50.9999999,27.0000001,0 Europe ...marched over the country doing this until he had crossed over from Asia to Europe and defeated the Scythians and Thracians. Thus far and no farther, I think, the...
Europe
77 Egypt ...had been a land of horses and carts empty of these. [3] For from this time Egypt, although a level land, could use no horses or carts, because there were so...
Egypt
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Aegean ...Alexandrus sailed away for his own country; violent winds caught him in the Aegean and drove him into the Egyptian sea; and from there (as the wind did not let...
Aegean
78 25.8829628235849,37.42245628773585,0 Egyptian ...him, saying that he had achieved nothing equal to the deeds of Sesostris the Egyptian; for Sesostris (he said) had subjugated the Scythians, besides as many nations...
Egyptian
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Persian ...of his four sons, each thirty-three feet. [2] Long afterwards, Darius the Persian would have set up his statue before these; but the priest of Hephaestus forbade...
Persian
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Sparta ...poems relate that Alexandrus reached Ilion with Helen in three days from Sparta, having a fair wind and a smooth sea; but according to the Iliad, he wandered...
Sparta
75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Elbo ...him sought it in vain for more than seven hundred years. The name of it is Elbo, and it is over a mile long and of an equal breadth. 141. The next king was...
Elbo
77 Egypt ...Egyptians who would follow him camped at Pelusium, where the road comes into Egypt; and none of the warriors would go with him, but only merchants and craftsmen...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Patumus ...the Nile, and is carried from a little above Bubastis by the Arabian town of Patumus; it issues into the Red Sea. Digging began in the part of the Egyptian plain...
Patumus
79 32.09944,30.55278,0 Egyptian plain ...town of Patumus; it issues into the Red Sea. Digging began in the part of the Egyptian plain nearest to Arabia; the mountains that extend to Memphis (the mountains where...
Egyptian plain
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Red Sea ...a little above Bubastis by the Arabian town of Patumus; it issues into the Red Sea. Digging began in the part of the Egyptian plain nearest to Arabia; the...
Red Sea
77 39.5,19.0,0 Sebennytic arm ...This oracle is sacred to Leto, and is situated in a great city by the Sebennytic arm of the Nile, on the way up from the sea. [2] Buto is the name of the city where...
Sebennytic arm
72 31.25,31.0,0 Arabian ...with mud to precipitous cliffs, where man has no means of approach. [3] The Arabian solution to this is to cut dead oxen and asses and other beasts of burden into...
Arabian
78 42.5,27.5,0 Thebes ...was king of Egypt, the people saw an extraordinary thing, namely, rain at Thebes of Egypt, where, as the Thebans themselves say, there had never been rain...
Thebes
76 32.65285,25.70247,0 Syria ...of Memphis must fill them with water and carry them to those arid lands of Syria; so the earthen pottery that is brought to Egypt and unloaded or emptied there...
Syria
77 37.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...mad, however, he marched at once on hearing from the Fish-eaters, ordering the Greeks who were with him to await him where they were, and taking with him all his...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...on the whole state of affairs, at which sentiments were uttered which to some Greeks seem incredible, but there is no doubt that they were spoken. [2] Otanes was...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...having learned Polycrates' intention; [2] for Polycrates was the first of the Greeks whom we know to aim at the mastery of the sea, leaving out of account Minos of...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Libyans ...like the Libyans. [4] Cambyses received in all kindness the gifts of the Libyans; but he seized what came from Cyrene and, displeased, I think, because it was...
Libyans
75 26.5,31.5,0 Persian ...heads as in Egypt. [4] Their skulls then are strong for this reason; while the Persian skulls are weak because they cover their heads throughout their lives with the...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...fled in disorder; and when they had been overtaken in Memphis, Cambyses sent a Persian herald up the river aboard a Mytilenean boat to invite the Egyptians to an...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...for all the nations nearer to them than Macedonia had been made subject to the Persians before this. [2] Crossing over from Thasos they travelled near the land as far...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...happened before,35 fled away to the mountains instead of waiting for them. The Persians enslaved all of them that they caught, and burnt their temples and their city...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to join them against neighboring cities, meaning Eretria and Athens; the Persians besieged them and laid waste their land, until the Carystians too came over to...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...townspeople, according to Darius' command. 102. After subduing Eretria, the Persians waited a few days and then sailed away to the land of Attica, pressing ahead in...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...broken through the center. The Athenians prevailed, then followed the fleeing Persians and struck them down. When they reached the sea they demanded fire and laid...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Persians made this offer to them alone. This happened immediately after the Persians arrived at Miletus. 11. Then the Ionians who had gathered at Lade held...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...29. Histiaeus was taken prisoner in this way: the Greeks fought with the Persians at Malene in the country of Atarneus; the armies fought for a long time, until...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Sparta ...the rest. Coming before the people, Aristagoras spoke to the same effect as at Sparta, of the good things of Asia, and how the Persians carried neither shield nor...
Sparta
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...trial of tyrants and take the greatest precautions that none will arise at Sparta, deal wrongfully with your allies. If you had such experience of that thing as...
Sparta
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...already on bad terms with Persia, that Aristagoras the Milesian, driven from Sparta by Cleomenes the Lacedaemonian, came to Athens, since that city was more...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Greek ...you the exact truth. [2] As soon as I learned that you were coming down to the Greek sea, I wanted to give you money for the war, so I inquired into the matter, and...
Greek
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...and were equipped like Greeks; formerly they were called Pelasgian, as the Greek story goes. [2] Of the people of the Hellespont, the people of Abydos had been...
Greek
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...Greeks whom I have talked to, a man from neither the least nor the weakest of Greek cities. [2] So tell me: will the Greeks offer battle and oppose me? I think...
Greek
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...of burden alone. This city is called Pistyrus. 110. Xerxes marched past these Greek cities of the coast, keeping them on his left. The Thracian tribes through...
Greek
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...Thermaic gulf. Then rounding Ampelus, the headland of Torone, it passed the Greek towns of Torone, Galepsus, Sermyle, Mecyberna, and Olynthus, all of which gave...
Greek
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...men to run with horsemen.80 I also pledge to furnish provisions for the whole Greek army until we have made an end of the war. [5] All this, however, I promise on...
Greek
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...him to a year bereft of its spring.83 163. After such dealings with Gelon the Greek envoys sailed away. Gelon, however, feared that the Greeks would not be able to...
Greek
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...of this statement was that Gelon's army was the most notable part of the Greek army, just as the spring is the best part of the year. He accordingly compared...
Greek
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...of the Thessalian horsemen, whom he had heard were the best in Hellas. The Greek horses were far outpaced in this contest. Of the Thessalian rivers, the...
Greek
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Delphi ...of the evil foretold. Then Timon son of Androbulus, as notable a man as any Delphian, advised them to take boughs of supplication and in the guise of suppliants...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...would attempt to gain their aid against the Persian, they sent messengers to Delphi to inquire of the god how it would be best for them to act, for six thousand of...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...would be potent allies for Hellas. [2] When they had received the oracle, the Delphians first sent word of it to those Greeks who desired to be free; because of...
Delphi
80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...to attack Hellas; with this knowledge it was that they sent to the oracle at Delphi, where they received the answer about which I spoke a little while ago. Now the...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Greeks ...these men and learned what they desired to know of Xerxes' force, the Greeks sent them away to the isthmus of Corinth in bonds. 196. So the foreign fleet...
Greeks
72 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...hundred Thebans, he seized the town of Plataea. 234. This, then, is how the Greeks fought at Thermopylae. Xerxes then sent for Demaratus and questioned him...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Corinth ...one thousand from the rest of Arcadia; that many Arcadians, four hundred from Corinth, two hundred from Phlius, and eighty Mycenaeans. These were the Peloponnesians...
Corinth
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Athenians ...the rest of the sacred precinct, but on the day after its burning, when the Athenians ordered by the king to sacrifice went up to the sacred precinct, they saw a...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Persians took up a position on the hill opposite the acropolis, which the Athenians call the Areopagus, and besieged them in this way: they wrapped arrows in tar...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...risk battle for that country, not stay and fight for a captured land; but the Athenians and Aeginetans and Megarians said they must stay and defend themselves...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...you still be backing water?” 85. The Phoenicians were marshalled against the Athenians, holding the western wing toward Eleusis. Against the Lacedaemonians were the...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...turned their ships around and came to the fleet, but it was all over. The Athenians spread this rumor about them, but the Corinthians do not agree at all, and they...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...flee, the Aeginetans those sailing out of the strait. Whoever escaped from the Athenians charged right into the Aeginetans. 92. The ships of Themistocles, as he was...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...to the Athenians. [2] It was thus that he supposed he could best gain the Athenians for his allies, of whom he heard that they were a numerous and valiant people...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...rest of the Dorians must be driven out of the Peloponnese by the Medes and the Athenians, they were greatly afraid that the Athenians should agree with the Persian, and...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...to you:—there is a message come to me from the king, saying, ‘I forgive the Athenians all the offenses which they have committed against me; [2] and now, Mardonius...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...chanced to be the prediction of the oracles which counseled him to make the Athenians his ally. It was in obedience to this that he sent his messenger. 137. This...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...disregarded and burnt their houses and their adornments. [3] Come no more to Athenians with such a plea, nor under the semblance of rendering us a service, counsel us...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...nor truth.” These are the words of the envoys. 143. But to Alexander the Athenians replied as follows: “We know of ourselves that the power of the Mede is many...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedaemonians ...afterwards went to Lacedaemon in order that he might receive honor there. The Lacedaemonians welcomed him and paid him high honor. They bestowed on Eurybiades a crown of...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...and whose friend he would be.” 141. These were the words of Alexander. The Lacedaemonians, however, had heard that Alexander had come to Athens to bring the Athenians to...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...messenger had come from the Persians for an agreement. They had heard that the Lacedaemonians would send their envoys with all speed. Therefore it was of set purpose that...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...time, for the Athenians delayed and waited for them, being certain that the Lacedaemonians were going to hear that the messenger had come from the Persians for an...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Plataeans ...reason: when the Hellenes departed from Artemisium and were off Chalcis, the Plataeans landed on the opposite shore of Boeotia and attended to the removal of their...
Plataeans
79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Spartans ...Xerxes for the slaying of Leonidas and take whatever he should offer them. The Spartans then sent a herald with all speed. He found the army yet undivided in Thessaly...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...was two hundred and seventy-one, besides the fifty-oared barks. [2] The Spartans, however, provided the admiral who had the chief command, Eurybiades, son of...
Spartans
74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Plataeans ...were these: the Athenians furnished a hundred and twenty-seven ships; the Plataeans manned these ships with the Athenians, not that they had any knowledge of...
Plataeans
76 23.273866,38.221019,0 Lacedaemonian ...and Seriphians, who brought fifty-oared boats. The Melians (who are of Lacedaemonian stock) provided two; the Siphnians and Seriphians, who are Ionians from Athens...
Lacedaemonian
73 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Thermopylae ...those Greeks who fell at Thermopylae, was unknown to them until they came to Thermopylae and learned of it from the men of Trachis. This pass they were resolved to...
Thermopylae
79 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thermopylae ...was in Pieria, they broke up from the Isthmus and set out with their army to Thermopylae and with their fleet to Artemisium. 178. So with all speed the Greeks went...
Thermopylae
79 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thermopylae ...then, of those whom Xerxes son of Darius led as far as the Sepiad headland and Thermopylae was five million, two hundred and eighty-three thousand, two hundred and...
Thermopylae
81 22.538294,38.796511,0 Sparta ...As soon as they were informed that Pausanias and his army had departed from Sparta, they sent as their herald to Attica the swiftest runner of long distances whom...
Sparta
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonia ...The Greek custom, then, is not good; and when I marched as far as the land of Macedonia, it had not come into their minds to fight. 9C. But against you, O king, who...
Macedonia
80 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonian ...region of Pieria while a third part of his army was clearing a road over the Macedonian mountains so that the whole army might pass by that way to the Perrhaebian...
Macedonian
79 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonian ...for only a few days, for messengers came from Alexander son of Amyntas, the Macedonian. These, pointing out the size of the army and the great number of ships...
Macedonian
78 21.75,41.25,0 Sparta ...Euryanax son of Dorieus. 11. So Pausanias' army had marched away from Sparta; but as soon as it was day, the envoys came before the ephors, having no...
Sparta
73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonians ...was very similar to the Paphlagonian, with only a small difference. As the Macedonians say, these Phrygians were called Briges as long as they dwelt in Europe, where...
Macedonians
77 21.75,41.25,0 Hypanis ...in Scythian Exampaeus; in the Greek tongue, Sacred Ways. [4] The Tyras and the Hypanis draw near together in the Alazones' country; after that they flow apart, the...
Hypanis
81 31.3343727,47.5349319,0 Hypanis ...This lake is truly called the mother of the Hypanis. [2] Here, then, the Hypanis rises; for five days' journey its waters are shallow and still sweet; after...
Hypanis
75 31.3343727,47.5349319,0 Hypanis ...when I said that there is a spring of salt water in it, whose water makes the Hypanis unfit to drink. [3] In this region is a bronze vessel, as much as six times...
Hypanis
80 31.3343727,47.5349319,0 Gerrhus ...river; at this place it separates, and has the same name as the place itself, Gerrhus; then in its course to the sea it divides the country of the Nomads and the...
Gerrhus
80 35.44448538716876,46.87699559686738,0 Hypacuris ...of the Nomads and the country of the Royal Scythians, and empties into the Hypacuris. 57. The eighth is the Tanaïs river;31 in its upper course, this begins by...
Hypacuris
77 33.5,46.5,0 Exampaeus ...them; and he made of these this bronze vessel, and set it up in this country Exampaeus. This much I heard about the number of the Scythians. 82. As for marvels...
Exampaeus
79 Panticapas ...is the produce of these rivers, and after these there is a fifth river called Panticapas; this also flows from the north out of a lake, and the land between it and the...
Panticapas
80 32.5,46.5,0 Salmydessus ...Ister, he first took the Getae, who pretend to be immortal. The Thracians of Salmydessus and of the country above the towns of Apollonia and Mesambria, who are called...
Salmydessus
79 28.25,41.75,0 Getae ...to the Getae, let the question be dismissed. 97. Such were the ways of the Getae, who were subdued by the Persians and followed their army. When Darius and the...
Getae
78 25.5,44.5,0 Contadesdus ...the Euxine sea; each is a two days' journey. This Tearus is a tributary of the Contadesdus river, and that of the Agrianes, and that of the Hebrus, which empties into the...
Contadesdus
81 27.25,41.75,0 Aenus ...Agrianes, and that of the Hebrus, which empties into the sea near the city of Aenus. 91. Having come to this river and camped there, then, Darius was pleased with...
Aenus
80 26.0806,40.7241,0 Miletus ...that they do as the Scythians said and set Ionia free. [2] But Histiaeus of Miletus advised the opposite. He said, “It is owing to Darius that each of us is...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Athenian ...of the crew of the Argo were driven out by the Pelasgians who carried off the Athenian women from Brauron; after being driven out of Lemnos by them, they sailed away...
Athenian
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...against anyone again.” 137. Then the Ionians held a council. Miltiades the Athenian, general and sovereign of the Chersonesites of the Hellespont, advised that...
Athenian
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Oarus ...Maeetians, and issue into the lake called the Maeetian; their names are Lycus, Oarus, Tanaïs, Syrgis. 124. When Darius came into the desolate country, he halted in...
Oarus
81 Calliste ...of these were in my time taken and sacked by the Eleans. As for the island Calliste, it was called Thera after its colonist. 149. But as Theras' son would not...
Calliste
77 25.4,36.4,0 Caucones ...for the greater part of them made their way to the lands of the Paroreatae and Caucones, and after having driven these out of their own country, they divided...
Caucones
81 21.75,37.25,0 Phrixae ...themselves into six companies and established the cities of Lepreum, Macistus, Phrixae, Pyrgus, Epium, and Nudium in the land they had won;48 most of these were in my...
Phrixae
81 21.71145,37.635009,0 Thera ...a Phoenician; for Cadmus son of Agenor had put in at the place now called Thera during his search for Europa; and having put in, either because the land...
Thera
76 25.478129,36.36399,0 Lacedaemonian ...too, with the children of the Aegidae at Thera. 150. So far in the story the Lacedaemonian and Theraean records agree; for the rest, we have only the word of the...
Lacedaemonian
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Pyrgus ...into six companies and established the cities of Lepreum, Macistus, Phrixae, Pyrgus, Epium, and Nudium in the land they had won;48 most of these were in my time...
Pyrgus
79 21.691539,37.411551,0 Egypt ...over the sea, and always more before him, he turned back and made sail for Egypt. [5] Coming to King Xerxes from there, he related in his narrative that, when...
Egypt
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...for the sake of their garments and possessions; until at last they came to Egypt. 204. This Persian force advanced as far as Euhesperidae in Libya and no...
Egypt
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Giligamae ...people is like the others in its customs. 170. The next people west of the Giligamae are the Asbystae, who live inland of Cyrene, not coming down to the coast, for...
Giligamae
78 23.5,32.5,0 Maraphian ...and gave her all the Egyptian land and sea forces, appointing Amasis, a Maraphian, general of the army, and Badres of the tribe of the Pasargadae, admiral of the...
Maraphian
74 Plynus ...these pleases him. These Adyrmachidae extend from Egypt to the harbor called Plynus. 169. Next to them are the Giligamae, who inhabit the country to the west as...
Plynus
79 25.152644,31.552706,0 Atlantes ...country call it the pillar of heaven. [4] These men get their name, which is Atlantes, from this mountain. It is said that they eat no living creature, and see no...
Atlantes
79 Triton ...of Libya, which the nomads inhabit, is low-lying and sandy as far as the Triton river; but the land west of this, where the farmers live, is exceedingly...
Triton
75 Zauekes ...enquiry we have been able to learn. 193. Next to the Maxyes of Libya are the Zauekes, whose women drive their chariots to war. 194. Next to these are the Gyzantes...
Zauekes
80 Ethiopian ...go in their four-horse chariots chasing the cave-dwelling Ethiopians: for the Ethiopian cave-dwellers are swifter of foot than any men of whom tales are brought to us...
Ethiopian
80 3.5,32.5,0 Prasiad lake ...and water for Darius the king. [2] Now there is a very straight way from the Prasiad lake to Macedonia. First there is near the lake that mine from which Alexander later...
Prasiad lake
79 23.75,40.75,0 Odomanti ...Pangaean6 mountains and the country of the Doberes and the Agrianes and the Odomanti and the Prasiad lake itself were never subdued at all by Megabazus. He did in...
Odomanti
78 Susa ...said. [4] This Histiaeus did because he greatly disliked his detention at Susa and fully expected to be sent away to the coast in the case that there should...
Susa
76 48.24854,32.19202,0 Susa ...Adjoining these you see the Cissian land, in which, on the Choaspes, lies that Susa where the great king lives and where the storehouses of his wealth are located...
Susa
81 48.24854,32.19202,0 Susa ...to Sardis must be added to the rest. [2] So, then, from the Greek sea to Susa, which is the city called Memnonian, it is a journey of fourteen thousand and...
Susa
75 48.24854,32.19202,0 Lesbians ...this, but were brought from Chios by the Chians to Lesbos and carried by the Lesbians to Doriscus, from where they made their way by land to Paeonia. 99. The...
Lesbians
79 26.10052,39.20874,0 Samos ...were left of them Lycaretus the brother of Maeandrius who had been king of Samos. [2] This Lycaretus met his end while ruling in Lemnos because he tried to...
Samos
77 26.84,37.73,0 Lemnians ...Lemnos and Imbros, both of which were still inhabited by Pelasgians. 27. The Lemnians fought well and defended themselves, till at last they were brought to evil...
Lemnians
80 25.25,39.916667,0 Cinyps ...with men of Thera to guide him. [3] When he arrived there, he settled by the Cinyps river in the fairest part of Libya, but in the third year he was driven out by...
Cinyps
79 14.5,32.5,0 Macae ...in the fairest part of Libya, but in the third year he was driven out by the Macae, the Libyans and the Carchedonians and returned to the Peloponnesus. 43. There...
Macae
79 13.5,31.5,0 Phoenicians ...yourselves on land and for us to embark in your ships to contend with the Phoenicians. If, however, you desire rather to engage the Phoenicians, do so, but whichever...
Phoenicians
76 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...come at first from Eretria, but my own enquiry shows that they were among the Phoenicians24 who came with Cadmus to the country now called Boeotia. In that country the...
Phoenicians
80 35.25,33.25,0 Boeotians ...the Athenians first marched against the Chalcidians to punish them. The Boeotians came to the Euripus to help the Chalcidians and as soon as the Athenians saw...
Boeotians
74 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotia ...were among the Phoenicians24 who came with Cadmus to the country now called Boeotia. In that country the lands of Tanagra were allotted to them, and this is where...
Boeotia
78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Tanagra ...with Cadmus to the country now called Boeotia. In that country the lands of Tanagra were allotted to them, and this is where they settled. [2] The Cadmeans had...
Tanagra
78 23.587064,38.309371,0 Egyptians ...I am in fact the daughter of Apries, the ruler Amasis revolted from with the Egyptians and killed.” [5] This speech and this crime that occurred turned Cyrus' son...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Athenians ...had often been of service to them, and would be in the future. [3] The Athenians believed that these things were true, and when they became prosperous they...
Athenians
73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the Athenians as they were leaving but were defeated in battle. [6] The Athenians went beyond the boundaries the Corinthians had made for the Plataeans, fixing...
Athenians
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...rendering this decision, the Corinthians departed. The Boeotians attacked the Athenians as they were leaving but were defeated in battle. [6] The Athenians went beyond...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...about it. [3] We advise you to put yourselves under the protection of the Athenians, since they are your neighbors and not bad men at giving help.” The...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and Hysiae. So the Plataeans had put themselves under the protection of the Athenians in the aforesaid manner, and now came to help at Marathon. 109. The Athenian...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...marshalled last, holding the left wing. [2] Ever since that battle, when the Athenians are conducting sacrifices at the festivals every fourth year,47 the Athenian...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...posterity a memorial such as not even Harmodius and Aristogeiton left. Now the Athenians have come to their greatest danger since they first came into being, and, if we...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...who visited Croesus, and also Hippocleides son of Tisandrus, who surpassed the Athenians in wealth and looks. From Eretria, which at that time was prosperous, came...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persian ...in the country of Atarneus; the armies fought for a long time, until the Persian cavalry charged and fell upon the Greeks. So this was the accomplishment of the...
Persian
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...too, reached the Milesian shore, and all their land power was present, the Persian generals, learning the number of the Ionian ships, feared they would be too...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...them down. When they reached the sea they demanded fire and laid hold of the Persian ships. 114. In this labor Callimachus the polemarch was slain, a brave man...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...the Parians had brought this on themselves by first sending triremes with the Persian fleet to Marathon. Such was the pretext of his argument, but he had a grudge...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...son of Tisias, a man of Parian descent, had slandered him to Hydarnes the Persian. [2] When he reached his voyage's destination, Miltiades with his army drove...
Persian
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...took ship and escaped from Aegina. Other Aeginetans followed him, and the Athenians gave them Sunium to dwell in; setting out from there they harried the...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...come to aid him. 89. Later Nicodromus, according to his agreement with the Athenians, took possession of the Old City, as it was called; but the Athenians were not...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...had done to the Athenians to please the Thebans, acted as follows: blaming the Athenians and deeming themselves wronged, they prepared to take vengeance on the...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...except giving it back on demand!” 87. Thus spoke Leutychides; but even so the Athenians would not listen to him, and he departed. The Aeginetans, before paying the...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...from the Spartans for what he was doing; instead he had been bribed by the Athenians; otherwise he would have come to make the arrests with the other king. He said...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...of enmity for Athens, so they might join with the Persians in attacking the Athenians. Gladly laying hold of this pretext, they went to Sparta and there accused the...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persia ...due ceremony, as of a man who had done great good to Darius himself and to Persia. 31. Thus it fared with Histiaeus. The Persian fleet wintered at Miletus, and...
Persia
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...Against Miletus itself a great fleet and army were expected, for the Persian generals had joined their power together and made one army, which they led...
Persian
71 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenian ...of Heracles in Cynosarges. The foreigners lay at anchor off Phalerum, the Athenian naval port at that time. After riding anchor there, they sailed their ships...
Athenian
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...that many fell on each side. [2] The following marvel happened there: an Athenian, Epizelus son of Couphagoras, was fighting as a brave man in the battle when he...
Athenian
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...and father of Hipponicus), or even more so. [2] Callias was the only Athenian who dared to buy Pisistratus' possessions when they were put up for sale by the...
Athenian
71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...as I have previously shown. 124. Perhaps out of some grudge against the Athenian people they betrayed their country. But there were no others at Athens more...
Athenian
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...departed and took possession of Lemnos, besides other places. This is the Athenian story; the other is told by Hecataeus. 138. These Pelasgians dwelt at that...
Athenian
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedaemonians ...twins; Aristodemus lived to see the children, then died of a sickness. [3] The Lacedaemonians of that day planned to follow their custom and make the eldest of the children...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...but if she changed her practice haphazardly, then it would be manifest to the Lacedaemonians that she know no more than they did, and they must have recourse to some other...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...near Tiryns and were at the place called Hesipeia, they encamped opposite the Lacedaemonians, leaving only a little space between the armies. There the Argives had no fear...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...resolve in this way: whenever the Spartan herald signalled anything to the Lacedaemonians, the Argives did the same thing. 78. When Cleomenes saw that the Argives did...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...Cleomenes and put in on the Argolid coast, where their crews landed with the Lacedaemonians; men from ships of Sicyon also took part in the same invasion. [2] The Argives...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Athenians ...to Athens and offered to pay the penalty for all their wrongdoing. [3] The Athenians set in their town-hall a couch adorned as finely as possible, and placed beside...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persians ...he straight away attempted to make a change for himself also, by moving the Persians opposite the Lacedaemonians. When Pausanias perceived what was being done, he...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...for all the harm they have done the Persians.” 59. With that, he led the Persians with all speed across the Asopus in pursuit of the Greeks, supposing that they...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...well what the outcome of the battle would be, and no sooner had the Greeks and Persians met than he led these with a fixed purpose, telling them to follow him all...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and was there killed, he and his three hundred. 65. At Plataea, however, the Persians, routed by the Lacedaemonians, fled in disorder to their own camp and inside...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...For the barbarians laid hold of the spears and broke them short. [3] Now the Persians were neither less valorous nor weaker, but they had no armor; moreover, since...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Lacedaemonians became favorable. Now they too charged the Persians, and the Persians met them, throwing away their bows. [2] First they fought by the fence of...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and in the meanwhile many of them were killed and by far more wounded (for the Persians set up their shields for a fence, and shot showers of arrows). Since the...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to Cithaeron. 70. So these perished without anyone noticing. But when the Persians and the rest of the multitude had fled within the wooden wall, they managed to...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...prompted because they saw the Persians flee, proves to me that it was on the Persians that the fortune of the barbarians hung. They accordingly all fled, save the...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...to these, nor seek to wring good from them,19 but rather give battle after Persian custom. 42. No one withstood this argument, and his opinion accordingly...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...Athenians, fifty-two.24 71. Among the barbarians, the best fighters were the Persian infantry and the cavalry of the Sacae, and of men, it is said, the bravest was...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...the barbarians at Plataea, a woman, who was the concubine of Pharandates a Persian, son of Teaspis, deserting from the enemy, came to them. She, learning that the...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...Coan I am by birth, the daughter of Hegetorides, son of Antagoras; in Cos the Persian seized me by force and held me prisoner.” [3] “Take heart, lady,” Pausanias...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...and tallest man in Persia, was their general. [3] It was the design of the Persian admirals to flee to the shelter of that army, and there to beach their ships...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...the Milesians to watch the passes, so that if anything should happen to the Persian army such as did happen to it, they might have guides to bring them safely to...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...answered: “Must you not then tell this to Mardonius and those honorable Persians who are with him?” “Sir,” said the Persian, “that which a god wills to send no...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Tegeans also. In his arraying of them he chose out the strongest part of the Persians to set it over against the Lacedaemonians, and posted the weaker by them facing...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...show. He posted the Persians facing the Lacedaemonians. [2] Seeing that the Persians by far outnumbered the Lacedaemonians, they were arrayed in deeper ranks and...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...army, and men who came with the wagons. When they had taken this quarry, the Persians killed without mercy, sparing neither man nor beast. When they had their fill...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...it ready to face danger, arrived amongst the Greeks the very day on which the Persians' disaster at Plataea and that other which was to befall them at Mykale took...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...they also abandoned the Persians and attacked the foreigners. 104. The Persians had for their own safety appointed the Milesians to watch the passes, so that...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the people from the lands of those Greek nations which had sided with the Persians and giving their land to the Ionians to dwell in. The Athenians disliked the...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...Boeotia; and who were to remind the Lacedaemonians of the promises which the Persian had made to Athens if she would change sides, and warn them that the Athenians...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...There he laid waste the lands of the Thebans, though they sided with the Persian part. This he did, not for any ill-will that he bore them, but because sheer...
Persian
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...son of Teaspis, deserting from the enemy, came to them. She, learning that the Persians were ruined and the Greeks victorious, decked herself (as did also her...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...there. Sestus was held38 by the Aeolians of the country, but with him were Persians and a great multitude of their allies. 116. This province was ruled by Xerxes'...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...furthermore, we know that it is more to our advantage to make terms with the Persians than to wage war with him, yet we will not make terms with him of our own free...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athens ...I cannot say for certain why it was that when Alexander the Macedonian came to Athens3 the Lacedaemonians insisted that the Athenians should not join the side of the...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thrace ...passing over the Bosporus on the floating bridge of ships, journeyed through Thrace to the sources of the Tearus river, where he camped for three days. 90. The...
Thrace
79 27.5,42.5,0 Thrace ...much if you do this.” Having said this, Darius hastened to march further. 99. Thrace runs farther out into the sea than Scythia; and Scythia begins where a bay is...
Thrace
81 27.5,42.5,0 Thrace ...Noes, and the Artanes flow into the Ister from the country of the Crobyzi in Thrace; the Cius river, which cuts through the middle of Haemus, from the Paeonians...
Thrace
79 27.5,42.5,0 Triballic ...range of Rhodope. [2] The Angrus river flows north from Illyria into the Triballic plain and the Brongus river, and the Brongus into the Ister, which receives...
Triballic
75 22.5,43.5,0 Thracians ...heard this he led his army there. But when he was beside the Ister, the Thracians barred his way; and when the armies were about to engage, Sitalces sent this...
Thracians
74 27.5,42.5,0 Lacedaemonians ...people, sharing in their rights and receiving allotted pieces of land. [5] The Lacedaemonians were happy to receive the Minyae46 on the terms which their guests desired; the...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Maeetian ...country through the land of the Maeetians, and issue into the lake called the Maeetian; their names are Lycus, Oarus, Tanaïs, Syrgis. 124. When Darius came into the...
Maeetian
80 35.862586,45.814417000000006,0 Racecourse of Achilles ...city of Carcine, bordering on its right the Woodland and the region called the Racecourse of Achilles. 56. The seventh river, the Gerrhus, separates from the Borysthenes at about...
Racecourse of Achilles
81 31.5,46.5,0 Nomads ...itself, Gerrhus; then in its course to the sea it divides the country of the Nomads and the country of the Royal Scythians, and empties into the Hypacuris...
Nomads
79 Tauri ...but the kings of the Agathyrsi and Neuri and Maneaters and Black-cloaks and Tauri gave this answer to the messengers: [2] “Had it not been you who wronged the...
Tauri
78 34.27150174333333,44.883441823333335,0 Tauri ...four boundary lines of Scythia, just as seas are boundaries of Attica; and the Tauri inhabit a part of Scythia like Attica, as though some other people, not Attic...
Tauri
81 34.27150174333333,44.883441823333335,0 Thoricus ...some other people, not Attic, were to inhabit the heights of Sunium from Thoricus to the town of Anaphlystus, if Sunium jutted farther out into the sea. [5] I...
Thoricus
75 24.053634,37.73787,0 Tarentum ...to live on the promontory within a line drawn from the harbor of Brundisium to Tarentum. I am speaking of these two countries, but there are many others of a similar...
Tarentum
81 17.228553,40.476034,0 Chersonesus ...taunted the Ionians. 143. Darius marched through Thrace to Sestos on the Chersonesus; from there, he crossed over with his ships to Asia, leaving Megabazus as his...
Chersonesus
76 26.5,40.33333,0 Lacedaemon ...from Brauron; after being driven out of Lemnos by them, they sailed away to Lacedaemon, and there camped on Teügetum and kindled a fire. [3] Seeing it, the...
Lacedaemon
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lemnos ...who carried off the Athenian women from Brauron; after being driven out of Lemnos by them, they sailed away to Lacedaemon, and there camped on Teügetum and...
Lemnos
77 25.25,39.916667,0 Cyrenaeans ...kingship passed to his son Battus, who was lame and infirm in his feet. The Cyrenaeans, in view of the affliction that had overtaken them, sent to Delphi to ask what...
Cyrenaeans
78 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaeans ...as the island of Aphrodisias; in between lies the island of Platea, which the Cyrenaeans colonized, and on the mainland is the harbor called Menelaus, and the Aziris...
Cyrenaeans
80 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...declared that they would fare better if they helped Battus plant a colony at Cyrene in Libya. Then the Theraeans sent Battus with two fifty-oared ships; these...
Cyrene
79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...country. [5] Apries mustered a great force of Egyptians and sent it against Cyrene; the Cyrenaeans marched out to Irasa and the Thestes spring, and there fought...
Cyrene
78 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...I say shall be sorry afterward.” ” [4] So a great multitude gathered at Cyrene, and cut out great tracts of land from the territory of the neighboring...
Cyrene
74 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...was the oracle given by the priestess to Arcesilaus. 164. But he returned to Cyrene with the men from Samos, and having made himself master of it he forgot the...
Cyrene
80 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...Cyrenaeans, fearing the death prophesied and supposing the tidal place to be Cyrene. [4] Now he had a wife who was a relation of his, a daughter of Alazir king of...
Cyrene
79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...will not touch the flesh of cows; and they rear no swine. [2] The women of Cyrene, too, consider it wrong to eat cows' flesh, because of the Isis of Egypt; and...
Cyrene
77 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaeans ...warned all Greeks by an oracle to cross the sea and live in Libya with the Cyrenaeans; for the Cyrenaeans invited them, promising a distribution of land; [3] and...
Cyrenaeans
77 21.856169,32.818736,0 Paeonians ...Darius asked of what nation she was, and the young man told him that they were Paeonians and that she was their sister. [2] “But who,” he answered, “are the Paeonians...
Paeonians
81 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...got guides and marched instead by the highland road. They accordingly took the Paeonians unaware and won entrance into their cities, which were left without men, and...
Paeonians
81 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...who had been captured were taken into Asia. Then Megabazus, having made the Paeonians captive, sent as messengers into Macedonia9 the seven Persians who (after...
Paeonians
78 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...kinds of these, some called “paprakes,” some “tilones.” 17. So those of the Paeonians who had been captured were taken into Asia. Then Megabazus, having made the...
Paeonians
79 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...going his own way, and surrendered themselves to the Persians. Thus of the Paeonians the Siriopaeones and Paeoplae and all who lived as far as the Prasiad lake were...
Paeonians
77 21.75,41.75,0 Strymon ...as his reward for guarding the bridge, a place called Myrcinus by the river Strymon. Megabazus discovered what he was doing, and upon his arrival at Sardis with...
Strymon
78 23.848889,40.785833,0 Delphi ...the Athenians were setting out to march against them, but an oracle from Delphi came to them bidding them to restrain themselves for thirty years after the...
Delphi
75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Cyprus ...the Phoenicians were sailing around the headland which is called the keys of Cyprus.54 109. In this turn of affairs, the tyrants of Cyprus called together the...
Cyprus
79 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Cyprus ...common voice of Ionia to guard the seas, not to deliver our ships to men of Cyprus and encounter the Persians on land. We will attempt then to bear ourselves...
Cyprus
78 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Lacedaemon ...Had he endured Cleomenes' rule and stayed at Sparta he would have been king of Lacedaemon, for Cleomenes reigned no long time, and died leaving no son but one only...
Lacedaemon
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemon ...that Sigeum came to be under Athenian rule, but Hippias, having come from Lacedaemon into Asia, left no stone unturned, maligning the Athenians to Artaphrenes, and...
Lacedaemon
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Chios ...women and fled to the sea. After arriving there, the Paeonians crossed over to Chios. [4] They were already in Chios, when a great host of Persian horsemen came...
Chios
81 26.053,38.414,0 Lacedaemon ...to set up governors in each city. Then he went on an embassy in a trireme to Lacedaemon, for it was necessary for him to find some strong ally.16 39. At Sparta...
Lacedaemon
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Myndus ...among the ships' watches, it chanced that there was no watch on the ship of Myndus. Megabates, very angry at this, ordered his guards to find the captain of this...
Myndus
78 27.23432,37.05332,0 Zanclaeans ...goods and slaves in the city, and all that was in the country. [6] Most of the Zanclaeans were kept in chains as slaves by Hippocrates himself; he gave three hundred...
Zanclaeans
81 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 the river Tigris ...harm, settling them by the sea called Red, in the city of Ampe, by which the river Tigris flows as it issues into the sea. Of the Milesian land the Persians themselves...
the river Tigris
75 44.79467829666667,34.52908255,0 Egyptians ...the names of all the gods have always existed in Egypt. I only say what the Egyptians themselves say. The gods whose names they say they do not know were, as I...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...wick floats, and they burn all night. This is called the Feast of Lamps. [2] Egyptians who do not come to this are mindful on the night of sacrifice to keep their own...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...spearshafts are made of it. 72. Otters are found in the river, too, which the Egyptians consider sacred; and they consider sacred that fish, too, which is called the...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...then, of this country of which I have spoken was land deposited for the Egyptians as the priests told me, and I myself formed the same judgment; all that lies...
Egyptians
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...there was once no land for the Egyptians; [2] for we have seen that (as the Egyptians themselves say, and as I myself judge) the Delta is alluvial land and but...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...we follow this account, we can show that there was once no land for the Egyptians; [2] for we have seen that (as the Egyptians themselves say, and as I myself...
Egyptians
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...lived lower down than the city Elephantine and drank the river's water were Egyptians. Such was the oracle given to them. 19. When the Nile is in flood, it...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...solstice again. [3] I was not able to get any information from any of the Egyptians regarding this, when I asked them what power the Nile has to be contrary in...
Egyptians
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...There is a sacred legend about this. 82. Other things originating with the Egyptians are these. Each month and day belong to one of the gods, and according to the...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...goats, but will not touch sheep. [2] For no gods are worshipped by all Egyptians in common except Isis and Osiris, who they say is Dionysus; these are...
Egyptians
73 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...add an intercalary month every other year, so that the seasons agree; but the Egyptians, reckoning thirty days to each of the twelve months, add five days in every...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...has sense, that that Egypt to which the Greeks sail is land deposited for the Egyptians, the river's gift—not only the lower country, but even the land as far as three...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...the heads of sacrificed beasts and the libation of wine, the practice of all Egyptians is the same in all sacrifices; and from this ordinance no Egyptian will taste...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ephesus ...are in Ionia two figures47 of this man carved in rock, one on the road from Ephesus to Phocaea, and the other on that from Sardis to Smyrna. [3] In both places...
Ephesus
78 27.339722,37.941944,0 Macrones ...valleys of the Thermodon and the Parthenius, as well as their neighbors the Macrones, say that they learned it lately from the Colchians. These are the only nations...
Macrones
78 39.5,40.5,0 Ionia ...writing and the women's private parts on them. [2] Also, there are in Ionia two figures47 of this man carved in rock, one on the road from Ephesus to...
Ionia
72 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Tigris ...to the palace, carrying the earth taken out of the passage dug by night to the Tigris, which runs past Ninus, until at last they accomplished their end. [4] This, I...
Tigris
81 44.79467829666667,34.52908255,0 Pelusian ...but after that it parts into three. [4] One of these, which is called the Pelusian mouth, flows east; the second flows west, and is called the Canobic mouth. But...
Pelusian
76 32.540631,31.042265,0 Momemphis ...Egyptians, and so did Amasis' men against the foreigners. So they both came to Momemphis and were going to make trial of one another. 164. The Egyptians are divided...
Momemphis
81 30.6005,30.79506,0 Cyrene ...in the Libyan part of this history. [4] Apries sent a great force against Cyrene and suffered a great defeat. The Egyptians blamed him for this and rebelled...
Cyrene
76 21.856169,32.818736,0 Olympic games ...by ambassadors from Elis, the Eleans boasting that they had arranged the Olympic games with all the justice and fairness in the world, and claiming that even the...
Olympic games
75 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lindus ...Cyrene a gilt image of Athena and a painted picture of himself; to Athena of Lindus, two stone images and a marvellous linen breast-plate; and to Hera in Samos...
Lindus
79 28.15629,36.41451,0 Arabians ...except the smoke of storax will drive them away from the trees. 108. The Arabians also say that the whole country would be full of these snakes if the same thing...
Arabians
76 42.5,27.5,0 Arabians ...This is used in the manufacture of many perfumes; there is nothing that the Arabians burn so often as incense. 113. Enough of marvels, and yet the land of Arabia...
Arabians
78 42.5,27.5,0 Arabians ...able to bear the weight, break and fall down the mountain side, and then the Arabians come and gather them up. Thus is cinnamon said to be gathered, and so to come...
Arabians
79 42.5,27.5,0 Sardis ...many things and put the seal of Darius on them, and then went with them to Sardis. [3] When he got there and came into Oroetes' presence, he took out each letter...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Syrians ...as far as the borders of the city of Cadytis,2 which belongs to the so-called Syrians of Palestine. [2] From Cadytis (which, as I judge, is a city not much smaller...
Syrians
80 37.5,37.5,0 Cadytis ...of Cadytis,2 which belongs to the so-called Syrians of Palestine. [2] From Cadytis (which, as I judge, is a city not much smaller than Sardis) to the city of...
Cadytis
77 34.46203,31.503959,0 Persia ...Phanes was too clever for him. [3] He made his guards drunk and so escaped to Persia. There he found Cambyses prepared to set out against Egypt, but in doubt as to...
Persia
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athens ...the Boeotians to withdraw to Athens. They have certain set forms of worship at Athens in which the rest of the Athenians take no part, particularly the rites and...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...who should come to inquire of her on a private or a public account to set Athens free. [2] Then the Lacedaemonians, when the same command was ever revealed to...
Athens
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...with the rest of the exiled Athenians to make their way back by force and free Athens. They were not successful in their return and suffered instead a great reverse...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...Codrus and Melanthus, who had formerly come from foreign parts to be kings of Athens. [4] It was for this reason that Hippocrates gave his son the name Pisistratus...
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...of Peloponnesians. This was accordingly the fourth Dorian invasion of Athens. 77. When this force then had been ingloriously scattered, the Athenians first...
Athens
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...would not go unpunished for their rebellion. Darius did, however, ask who the Athenians were, and after receiving the answer, he called for his bow. This he took and...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...When it was reported to Darius that Sardis had been taken and burnt by the Athenians and Ionians and that Aristagoras the Milesian had been leader of the conspiracy...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedaemonians ...as he pleased and was, as I have said, then again cast out together with his Lacedaemonians. As for the rest, the Athenians imprisoned them under sentence of death. Among...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Athenian ...son of Adrastus. 69. This is what the Sicyonian Cleisthenes had done, and the Athenian Cleisthenes, following the lead of his grandfather and namesake, decided out of...
Athenian
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persian ...“sagaris.” These were Amyrgian Scythians, but were called Sacae; that is the Persian name for all Scythians. The commander of the Bactrians and Sacae was Hystaspes...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...us alone, and even then it is not common but rare; there are some among my Persian spearmen who will gladly fight with three Greeks at once. You have no knowledge...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...and so also were their sayings. On their way to Susa, they came to Hydarnes, a Persian, who was general of the coast of Asia. He entertained and feasted them as his...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...no stomach for grappling with the war, but were making haste to side with the Persian. 139. Here I am forced to declare an opinion which will be displeasing to...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...alike. [2] Those of them who had paid the tribute of earth and water to the Persian were of good courage, thinking that the foreigner would do them no harm, but...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...some to Argos, who should make the Argives their brothers in arms against the Persian, some to Gelon son of Dinomenes in Sicily, some to Corcyra, praying aid for...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...according to which it would seem that it was the Argives who invited the Persian into Hellas, because the war with the Lacedaemonians was going badly, and they...
Persian
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...plan but followed another instead. [2] As soon as he was informed that the Persian had crossed the Hellespont, he sent Cadmus son of Scythes,84 a man of Cos, to...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...they disliked the plans of the Aleuadae; as soon as they heard that the Persian was about to cross over into Europe, they sent messengers to the Isthmus, where...
Persian
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athens ...the conquest of Egypt, intending now to take in hand the expedition against Athens, Xerxes held a special assembly of the noblest among the Persians, so he could...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...great harm to Persia, and has been torn apart by dogs and birds in the land of Athens or of Lacedaemon, if not even before that on the way there; and that you have...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...of my history. 138. The professed intent of the king's march was to attack Athens, but in truth all Hellas was his aim. This the Greeks had long since learned...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...houses and city, Flee to the ends of the earth from the circle embattled of Athens! The head will not remain in its place, nor in the body, Nor the feet beneath...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persia ...pleased with what he said and replied: “My Lydian friend, since I came out of Persia I have so far met with no man who was willing to give hospitality to my army...
Persia
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...He was high in Xerxes' favor, an Achaemenid by lineage, and the tallest man in Persia, lacking four finger-breadths of five royal cubits55 in stature, and his voice...
Persia
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...he cast the phial into the Hellespont, and along with it a golden bowl, and a Persian sword which they call “acinaces.”30 [3] As for these, I cannot rightly...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...to mincemeat. [2] When he finally did fall, he still had life in him, and the Persian soldiers on the ships took great pains to keep him alive for his valor, tending...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athens ...had an Attic wife, Orithyia, the daughter of Erechtheus, ancient king of Athens. [2] Because of this connection, so the tale goes, the Athenians considered...
Athens
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...out into the sea opposite Abydos. It was here that not long afterwards the Athenians, when Xanthippus son of Ariphron was their general, took Artayctes, a Persian...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...that the Athenians were the saviors of Hellas is to hit the truth. It was the Athenians who held the balance; whichever side they joined was sure to prevail. choosing...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...The revenues from the mines at Laurium68 had brought great wealth into the Athenians' treasury, and when each man was to receive ten drachmae for his share...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...to fight by sea. [3] When Themistocles put forward this interpretation, the Athenians judged him to be a better counsellor than the readers of oracles, who would...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Spartans ...the command, however, they themselves had been commissioned to say that the Spartans had two kings, and the Argives but one. Now it was impossible to deprive either...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...would be at the Lacedaemonians' mercy. [2] Then those of the envoys who were Spartans replied to the demands of the council, saying that they would refer the...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...them and march, instead of medizing like the others if they learned that the Spartans were delaying. At present the Carneia108 was in their way, but once they had...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...alliance. They sent the men but intended something quite different 206. The Spartans sent the men with Leonidas on ahead so that the rest of the allies would see...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...of them died, and the other had the same excuse but was unwilling to die, the Spartans had no choice but to display great anger towards Aristodemus. 230. Some say...
Spartans
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...not of the royal house, and Themistocles son of Neocles was the general of the Athenians. [3] They remained there for only a few days, for messengers came from...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...was indeed unbearable. 189. The story is told that because of an oracle the Athenians invoked Boreas, the north wind, to help them, since another oracle told them to...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...allies were expected any day now, and that the sea was being watched, with the Athenians and Aeginetans and all those enrolled in the fleet on guard. There was nothing...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Spartans ...me to speak as truly as I could, I have told you how it stands with the Spartans. [2] You yourself best know what love I bear them: they have robbed me of my...
Spartans
74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenians ...at Marathon came to Darius son of Hystaspes, already greatly angry against the Athenians for their attack upon Sardis, he was now much more angry and eager to send an...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Plataea ...in addition that he had straightway told this to others before the battle of Plataea. 17. So Mardonius was making his encampment in Boeotia. All the Greeks of that...
Plataea
79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...had now been brought by the Spartans and was the diviner of the Greeks at Plataea. The sacrifices boded good to the Greeks if they would just defend themselves...
Plataea
76 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...Gargaphian spring, near which their army then lay, and in front of the town of Plataea. [2] It is like an island on dry land because the river in its course down from...
Plataea
81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...were of no avail, Pausanias lifted up his eyes to the temple of Hera at Plataea and called on the goddess, praying that they might not be disappointed in their...
Plataea
74 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...army of Messenia, and was there killed, he and his three hundred. 65. At Plataea, however, the Persians, routed by the Lacedaemonians, fled in disorder to their...
Plataea
76 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...leaders. Such were the doings of the Mantineans and Eleans. 78. There was at Plataea in the army of the Aeginetans one Lampon, son of Pytheas, a leading man of...
Plataea
80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Spartans ...what was being done, he saw that his action had been discovered and led the Spartans back to the right wing; Mardonius did the same thing on the left of his army...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...army left its station, they sent a horseman of their own to see whether the Spartans were attempting to march or whether they were not intending to depart, and to...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...and fought, as it were, naked against men fully armed. 64. On that day the Spartans, as the oracle had foretold, gained from Mardonius their full measure of...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...right wing were ten thousand Lacedaemonians; five thousand of these, who were Spartans, had a guard of thirty-five thousand light-armed helots, seven appointed for...
Spartans
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartan ...the barbarian; as regards the number of the light-armed men, there were in the Spartan array seven for each man-at-arms, that is, thirty-five thousand, and every one...
Spartan
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartan ...he would not be content with that alone; his brother Hegias too must be made a Spartan on the same terms as himself. 34. By so saying he imitated Melampus, in so far...
Spartan
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corinthians ...he won fame. 95. Deiphonus, the son of this Evenius, had been brought by the Corinthians, and was the army's prophet. But I have heard it said before now, that...
Corinthians
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Spartan ...they are the same for both.) As for Mardonius, he was killed by Aeimnestus, a Spartan of note who long after the Persian business led three hundred men to battle at...
Spartan
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Hellenes ...did not fight with the Athenians at Salamis for this reason: when the Hellenes departed from Artemisium and were off Chalcis, the Plataeans landed on the...
Hellenes
72 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...56. When this business concerning the Athenian acropolis was announced to the Hellenes at Salamis, some of the Peloponnesian generals became so alarmed that they did...
Hellenes
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...a cloud, which rose aloft and floated away towards Salamis to the camp of the Hellenes. In this way they understood that Xerxes' fleet was going to be destroyed...
Hellenes
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...“The Athenian general has sent me without the knowledge of the other Hellenes. He is on the king's side and prefers that your affairs prevail, not the...
Hellenes
71 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...were sunk, some destroyed by the Athenians, some by the Aeginetans. Since the Hellenes fought in an orderly fashion by line, but the barbarians were no longer in...
Hellenes
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...two ships. 83. When they found the words of the Tenians worthy of belief, the Hellenes prepared to fight at sea. As dawn glimmered, they held an assembly of the...
Hellenes
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...men of the Persians and Medes and other allies also died, but only a few Hellenes, since they knew how to swim. Those whose ships were sunk swam across to...
Hellenes
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Boeotia ...affairs. [2] They expected to find the entire population of the Peloponnese in Boeotia awaiting the barbarian, but they found no such thing. They learned that they...
Boeotia
81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotia ...all of it by fire. [2] The army with Xerxes had made its way through Boeotia and burnt the city of the Thespians, who had abandoned it and gone to the...
Boeotia
71 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotia ...before he comes into Attica, now is the time for us to march first into Boeotia.” At this reply of the Athenians the envoys returned back to Sparta.
Boeotia
74 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Hellenic ...ram a ship with a barbarian crew, he decided that Artemisia's ship was either Hellenic or a deserter from the barbarians fighting for them, so he turned away to deal...
Hellenic
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...which had taken place, he feared that some of the Ionians might advise the Hellenes, if they did not think of it themselves, to sail to the Hellespont and destroy...
Hellenes
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...concerning the wrecks carried to shore there. Its meaning had eluded all the Hellenes: “The Colian women will cook with oars. But this was to happen after the king...
Hellenes
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Boeotia ...Xerxes himself towards Athens and broke into the territory of Orchomenus in Boeotia. Now the whole population of Boeotia took the Persian side, and men of...
Boeotia
78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Persian ...In that battle Antidorus of Lemnos, the only one of the Greeks siding with the Persian, deserted to the Greeks, and for that the Athenians gave him land in Salamis...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Thessaly ...then came to the pass of Tempe, which runs from the lower87 Macedonia into Thessaly along the river Peneus, between the mountains Olympus and Ossa. [2] There the...
Thessaly
77 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...was fear, since they had found out that there was another pass leading into Thessaly by the hill country of Macedonia through the country of the Perrhaebi, near the...
Thessaly
78 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...soon as they had run their craft aground, leapt out and made their way through Thessaly to Athens. 183. The Greeks who were stationed at Artemisium were informed of...
Thessaly
81 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...Thessaly and Achaea, and it was three days since he had entered Malis. In Thessaly he held a race for his own cavalry; this was also a test of the Thessalian...
Thessaly
76 22.2,39.6,0 Salamis ...the dust and the cry came a cloud, which rose aloft and floated away towards Salamis to the camp of the Hellenes. In this way they understood that Xerxes' fleet was...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...landed many of the Persians on the islet of Psyttalea, which lies between Salamis and the mainland. When it was midnight, they brought their western wing in a...
Salamis
76 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...by the Hellenes or by his own men, so he attempted to build a dike across to Salamis, and joined together Phoenician cargo ships to be both a bridge and a wall...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...where it was till my lifetime, the second at Sunium, and the third for Ajax at Salamis where they were. [2] After that, they divided the spoils and sent the...
Salamis
81 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...Artemisium and put in at Salamis. The Athenians requested them to put in at Salamis so that they take their children and women out of Attica and also take counsel...
Salamis
78 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...them sent the members of their households to Troezen, and some to Aegina and Salamis. [2] They were anxious to get everything out safely because they wished to obey...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Thessaly ...Peneus flows through them in a narrow pass, which was the way that led into Thessaly, he desired to view the mouth of the Peneus because he intended to march by the...
Thessaly
78 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...channel with a dam and to turn it from its present bed so that the whole of Thessaly, with the exception of the mountains, might be under water.” [3] This he said...
Thessaly
78 22.2,39.6,0 Macedonians ...town was held by Bottiaeans who had been driven from the Thermaic gulf by the Macedonians. Having besieged and taken Olynthus, he brought these men to a lake and there...
Macedonians
80 21.75,41.25,0 Salamis ...took thirty of the foreigners ships as well as the brother of Gorgus king of Salamis, Philaon son of Chersis, a man of note in the fleet. The first Greek to take an...
Salamis
79 33.90294,35.17926,0 Salamis ...fared. 130. All that was left of Xerxes' fleet, having in its flight from Salamis touched the coast of Asia and ferried the king and his army over from the...
Salamis
77 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...Andros, they went to Carystus. When they had laid it waste, they returned to Salamis. First of all they set apart for the gods, among other first-fruits, three...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Thessaly ...by Othrys. In the middle, then, of this ring of mountains, lies the vale of Thessaly. [2] A number of rivers pour into this vale, the most notable of which are...
Thessaly
78 22.2,39.6,0 Scythia ...which the Scythians are provided. For rearing cattle, the grass growing in Scythia is the most productive of bile of all pastures which we know; that this is so...
Scythia
77 27.5,47.5,0 Scythia ...the deputy for Ariapithes, Anacharsis was an uncle of Idanthyrsus king of Scythia, and he was the son of Gnurus, son of Lycus, son of Spargapithes. Now if...
Scythia
76 27.5,47.5,0 Scythia ...just as seas are boundaries of Attica; and the Tauri inhabit a part of Scythia like Attica, as though some other people, not Attic, were to inhabit the...
Scythia
73 27.5,47.5,0 Scythia ...sea to the south and the sea to the east are two of the four boundary lines of Scythia, just as seas are boundaries of Attica; and the Tauri inhabit a part of Scythia...
Scythia
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythia ...to leave others alone and make straight for us, and would show everyone that Scythia and no other country was his goal. [5] But as it is, from the day he crossed...
Scythia
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythia ...these, the Scythians whom he was pursuing doubled north and turned back into Scythia. Then, when they had altogether vanished and were no longer within the...
Scythia
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythia ...indicated, Scythia produces no asses or mules; and there is not in most of Scythia an ass or a mule, because of the cold. Therefore the asses frightened the...
Scythia
77 27.5,47.5,0 Ombrici ...another river called Alpis also flow northward, from the country north of the Ombrici, to flow into it; [3] for the Ister traverses the whole of Europe, rising among...
Ombrici
80 12.576828209802876,42.89702754450271,0 Scythia ...and flowing thus clean across Europe it issues forth along the borders of Scythia. 50. With these rivers aforesaid, and many others, too, as its tributaries...
Scythia
76 27.5,47.5,0 Celts ...into it; [3] for the Ister traverses the whole of Europe, rising among the Celts, who are the most westerly dwellers in Europe, except for the Cynetes, and...
Celts
77 Thracian ...but this Salmoxis knew Ionian ways and a more advanced way of life than the Thracian; for he had consorted with Greeks, and moreover with one of the greatest Greek...
Thracian
78 27.5,42.5,0 Ionia ...[2] all from the Hellespont and sovereigns of cities there; and from Ionia, Strattis of Chios, Aiaces of Samos, Laodamas of Phocaea, and Histiaeus of...
Ionia
71 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Cyrmianae ...and of the country above the towns of Apollonia and Mesambria, who are called Cyrmianae and Nipsaei, surrendered without a fight to Darius; but the Getae resisted...
Cyrmianae
80 Amazons ...come from, and imagined them to be men all of the same age; and they met the Amazons in battle. The result of the fight was that the Scythians got possession of the...
Amazons
79 Amazons ...of the men; [2] and when they understood each other, the men said to the Amazons, “We have parents and possessions; therefore, let us no longer live as we do...
Amazons
75 Geloni ...unlike the Budini in form and in coloring. Yet the Greeks call the Budini too Geloni; but this is wrong. [2] Their whole country is thickly wooded with every kind...
Geloni
80 Aziris ...colonized, and on the mainland is the harbor called Menelaus, and the Aziris which was a settlement of the Cyrenaeans. Here the country of silphium begins...
Aziris
72 22.880611,32.683784,0 Thera ...before, he departed while the priestess was still speaking, and went away to Thera. 156. But afterward things turned out badly for Battus and the rest of the...
Thera
79 25.478129,36.36399,0 Aziris ...a settlement at a place in Libya itself, opposite the island which was called Aziris. This is a place enclosed on both sides by the fairest of groves, with a river...
Aziris
80 22.880611,32.683784,0 Platea ...Here the country of silphium begins, [2] which reaches from the island of Platea to the entrance of the Syrtis. This people is like the others in its customs...
Platea
76 26.2322965,35.8634532,0 Aphrodisias ...are the Giligamae, who inhabit the country to the west as far as the island of Aphrodisias; in between lies the island of Platea, which the Cyrenaeans colonized, and on...
Aphrodisias
81 Auseans ...people of the country hid the tripod. 180. Next to these Machlyes are the Auseans; these and the Machlyes, separated by the Triton, live on the shores of the...
Auseans
77 Ammonians ...The first on the journey from Thebes , ten days distant from there, are the Ammonians, who follow the worship of the Zeus of Thebes ; for, as I have said before, the...
Ammonians
78 25.54359,29.20514,0 Thebes ...of the Zeus of Thebes ; for, as I have said before, the image of Zeus at Thebes has the head of a ram. [3] They have another spring of water besides, which is...
Thebes
75 32.65285,25.70247,0 Cyprians ...of the Salaminians and Solians against the Persians, leaving the remaining Cyprians to face the rest of the enemy's army. Onesilus placed himself opposite...
Cyprians
77 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Sardis ...river Strymon. Megabazus discovered what he was doing, and upon his arrival at Sardis with the Paeonians, he said to Darius, [2] ” Sire, what is this that you have...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...and spoke as they had been bidden, Artaphrenes son of Hystaspes, viceroy of Sardis, asked them, “What men are you and where do you live, who desire alliance with...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Miletus ...he sent the man to Miletus with no other message except that when he came to Miletus he must bid Aristagoras shave his hair and examine his head. The writing...
Miletus
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Mytilenaeans ...withdrew to Sigeum, which Pisistratus had taken at the spear's point from the Mytilenaeans and where he then established as tyrant Hegesistratus, his own bastard son by...
Mytilenaeans
80 26.489422,39.05495,0 Cyprians ...who dwell inland of Massalia use the word “sigynnae” for hucksters, and the Cyprians use it for spears. 10. According to the Thracians, all the land beyond the...
Cyprians
78 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Sybarites ...with them to Sybaris helping them to take it. [2] This is the story which the Sybarites tell of Dorieus and his companions, but the Crotoniats say that they were aided...
Sybarites
80 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Hellas ...say that you will bridge the Hellespont and march your army through Europe to Hellas. Now suppose you happen to be defeated either by land or by sea, or even both...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Dorians ...ships and were equipped like Greeks. They were settlers from the Ionians and Dorians. 96. Persians and Medes and Sacae served as soldiers on all the ships. The...
Dorians
79 Acanthus ...Syleus (as they call it), passing by the Greek town of Stagirus, and came to Acanthus. He took along with him all these tribes and those that dwelt about the...
Acanthus
79 23.88504,40.39427,0 Acanthus ...and for what he heard of the digging of the canal. 117. While Xerxes was at Acanthus, it happened that Artachaees, overseer of the digging of the canal, died of an...
Acanthus
79 23.88504,40.39427,0 Elaeus ...been in the habit of bringing women right into the temple of Protesilaus at Elaeus and doing impious deeds there. 34. The men who had been given this assignment...
Elaeus
78 26.220385,40.051661,0 Miletus ...should obey these men. 30. It was in this way that the Parians made peace in Miletus, but now these cities began to bring trouble upon Ionia. Certain men of...
Miletus
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...his army away to Aristagoras. 33. Then Megabates,13 bringing Aristagoras from Miletus, the Ionian army, and the Naxians, pretended to be sailing to the Hellespont...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...to harm Darius. [2] First he made pretence of giving up his tyranny and gave Miletus equality of government so that the Milesians might readily join in his revolt...
Miletus
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Olympia ...trireme and covering all expenses for his men. This Philippus was a victor at Olympia and the fairest Greek of his day. [2] For his physical beauty he received from...
Olympia
80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Miletus ...Gorgo. 49. It was in the reign of Cleomenes that Aristagoras the tyrant of Miletus came to Sparta. When he had an audience with the king, as the Lacedaemonians...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sardis ...engaged in these activities, the Athenians heard of it and sent messengers to Sardis, warning the Persians not to believe banished Athenians. Artaphrenes, however...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Miletus ...march against Sardis. [2] He himself did not go with the army but remained at Miletus, and appointed others to be generals of the Milesians, namely his own brother...
Miletus
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Byzantium ...by what they had done to Darius). [2] They sailed to the Hellespont and made Byzantium and all the other cities of that region subject to themselves. Then sailing out...
Byzantium
79 28.975926,41.012379,0 Miletus ...restore that country to peace and deliver into your hands that vicegerent of Miletus who has devised all this. [6] Then, when I have done this to your satisfaction...
Miletus
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sardis ...when he had achieved what he promised. 108. Now while the message concerning Sardis was making its way to the king, and Darius, having done as I said with his bow...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Hellespont ...among themselves and sacked them. 117. Daurises made for the cities of the Hellespont and took Dardanus, Abydus, Percote, Lampsacus, and Paesus, each in a single...
Hellespont
78 26.4,40.2,0 Miletus ...for them to have some place of refuge in case they should be thrown out of Miletus. He also asked them whether he should lead them from there to a settlement in...
Miletus
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...a fortress in the island of Leros and reside there, if he were driven from Miletus. Afterwards, with this as a base, he could return to Miletus. 126. Such was...
Miletus
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...himself thought it best to depart for Myrcinus. He accordingly entrusted Miletus to Pythagoras, a citizen of repute, and himself sailed to Thrace with any that...
Miletus
75 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...fleet to the last ship and gather as quickly as possible at Lade to fight for Miletus at sea. This Lade is a small island lying off the city of Miletus. 8. The...
Miletus
80 26.974176,39.528399,0 Miletus ...18. When the Persians had conquered the Ionians by sea, they laid siege to Miletus by sea and land, mining the walls and using every device against it, until they...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...history; this was the prophecy given to the Milesians in their absence: “Then, Miletus, contriver of evil deeds, For many will you become a banquet and glorious...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...very differently. The Athenians made clear their deep grief for the taking of Miletus in many ways, but especially in this: when Phrynichus wrote a play entitled...
Miletus
80 26.974176,39.528399,0 Ionia ...Aeaces. [2] The people of Zancle5 in Sicily about this time sent messengers to Ionia inviting the Ionians to the Fair Coast, desiring there to found an Ionian city...
Ionia
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Miletus ...ships as they sailed out of the Euxine, when he had news of the business of Miletus. Leaving all matters concerning the Hellespont in charge of Bisaltes of Abydos...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...Thasos a message came that the Phoenicians were putting out to sea from Miletus to attack the rest of Ionia. When he learned this, he left Thasos unsacked, and...
Miletus
74 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Byzantium ...cities; Perinthus, and the forts that lie towards Thrace, and Selymbria and Byzantium. [2] The Byzantines and the Calchedonians beyond them did not even wait for the...
Byzantium
78 28.975926,41.012379,0 Sardis ...things happened which greatly benefited the Ionians. Artaphrenes governor of Sardis summoned ambassadors from the cities and compelled the Ionians to make...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Miletus ...tokens and demands it back.’ 86B. Thus spoke the stranger who had come from Miletus, and Glaucus received the trust according to the agreement. After a long time...
Miletus
78 26.974176,39.528399,0 Athens ...and it had befallen his father Cimon son of Stesagoras to be banished from Athens by Pisistratus son of Hippocrates. [2] While in exile he happened to take the...
Athens
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Phalerum ...sacred precinct of Heracles in Cynosarges. The foreigners lay at anchor off Phalerum, the Athenian naval port at that time. After riding anchor there, they sailed...
Phalerum
78 23.7062,37.9373,0 Marathon ...anchor there, they sailed their ships back to Asia. 117. In the battle at Marathon about six thousand four hundred men of the foreigners were killed, and one...
Marathon
77 35.907067,34.838764,0 Myconos ...tells. 118. Datis journeyed with his army to Asia, and when he arrived at Myconos he saw a vision in his sleep. What that vision was is not told, but as soon as...
Myconos
77 Chalcis ...the Delians to carry it away to Theban Delium, on the coast opposite Chalcis. [3] Datis gave this order and sailed away, but the Delians never carried that...
Chalcis
71 23.602,38.464,0 Susa ...reached Asia in their voyage, they carried the enslaved Eretrians inland to Susa. [2] Before the Eretrians were taken captive, king Darius had been terribly...
Susa
78 41.81359,42.04357,0 Athens ...agreed to hold up a shield as a sign for the Persians out of a desire to make Athens subject to foreigners and to Hippias; for it is plain to see that they were...
Athens
80 Athens ...[2] The suitors that most pleased him were the ones who had come from Athens, and of these Hippocleides son of Tisandrus was judged foremost, both for his...
Athens
72 Athens ...not enough for them; finally they were caught in the act of planning to attack Athens. [4] The Athenians were much better men than the Pelasgians, since when they...
Athens
81 Sardis ...the Aleuadae, offering Xerxes even more than they did. [3] They had come up to Sardis with Onomacritus, an Athenian diviner4 who had set in order the oracles of...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...wrong that its people did to my father and me. [3] First they came to Sardis with our slave Aristagoras the Milesian and burnt the groves and the temples...
Sardis
72 28.040278,38.488333,0 Asia ...in the past night your eldest son with wings on his shoulders, overshadowing Asia with the one and Europe with the other. [5] From this vision, there is no way...
Asia
79 Memphis ...This is the story which I heard from the priests of Hephaestus'2 temple at Memphis; the Greeks say among many foolish things that Psammetichus had the children...
Memphis
77 31.254278,29.849667,0 Thebaic ...king of Egypt, they said, was Min. [3] In his time all of Egypt except the Thebaic5 district was a marsh: all the country that we now see was then covered by...
Thebaic
77 Heliopolis ...will be four hundred and fifty miles in length. Inland from the sea as far as Heliopolis, Egypt is a wide land, all flat and watery and marshy. From the sea up to...
Heliopolis
80 31.305179,30.129369,0 Egypt ...yield frankincense. [2] Such are these mountains. On the side of Libya, Egypt is bounded by another range of rocky mountains among which are the pyramids...
Egypt
74 Memphis ...formed the same judgment; all that lies between the ranges of mountains above Memphis to which I have referred seemed to me to have once been a gulf of the sea, just...
Memphis
80 31.254278,29.849667,0 Ephesus ...been a gulf of the sea, just as the country about Ilion and Teuthrania and Ephesus and the plain of the Maeander, to compare these small things with great. [2]...
Ephesus
77 27.339722,37.941944,0 Nile ...to be compared for greatness with even one of the mouths of the Nile, and the Nile has five mouths. [3] There are also other rivers, not so great as the Nile...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...this should have been silted up by a river so great and so busy? 12. As for Egypt, then, I credit those who say it, and myself very much believe it to be the...
Egypt
79 Egypt ...the only sandy mountain in Egypt is that which is above Memphis; [2] besides, Egypt is like neither the neighboring land of Arabia nor Libya, not even like Syria...
Egypt
80 Nile ...theirs rises in the same proportion and broadens likewise in extent, and the Nile no longer floods it—will forever after be in the same straits as they...
Nile
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Libya ...truly, when they divide the whole earth into three parts, Europe, Asia, and Libya; [2] they must add to these a fourth part, the Delta of Egypt, if it belongs...
Libya
78 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Nile ...of Egypt, if it belongs neither to Asia nor to Libya; for by their showing the Nile is not the river that separates Asia and Libya; the Nile divides at the apex of...
Nile
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Libya ...Assyrians, and we know of no boundary line (rightly so called) below Asia and Libya except the borders of the Egyptians. [2] But if we follow the belief of the...
Libya
80 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Egypt ...argued; I learned this by inquiry after my judgment was already formed about Egypt. [2] The men of the cities of Marea and Apis, in the part of Egypt bordering on...
Egypt
79 Nile ...river's water were Egyptians. Such was the oracle given to them. 19. When the Nile is in flood, it overflows not only the Delta but also the lands called Libyan...
Nile
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Nile ...are many rivers in Syria and many in Libya, and they behave nothing like the Nile. 21. The second opinion is less grounded on knowledge than the previous...
Nile
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Nile ...of all. It has no more truth in it than the others. According to this, the Nile flows from where snows melt; but it flows from Libya through the midst of...
Nile
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Libya ...According to this, the Nile flows from where snows melt; but it flows from Libya through the midst of Ethiopia, and comes out into Egypt. [2] How can it flow...
Libya
77 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Ethiopia ...river is unlikely to flow from snows is that the winds blowing from Libya and Ethiopia are hot. [3] In the second place, the country is rainless and frostless; but...
Ethiopia
80 38.721522,14.125005,0 Elephantine ...but this was his story. Between the city of Syene in the Thebaid and Elephantine, there are two hills with sharp peaks, one called Crophi and the other Mophi...
Elephantine
71 32.89066,24.08292,0 Mophi ...there are two hills with sharp peaks, one called Crophi and the other Mophi. [3] The springs of the Nile, which are bottomless, rise between these hills...
Mophi
72 Nile ...of four months' travel by land and water, then, there is knowledge of the Nile, besides the part of it that is in Egypt. So many months, as reckoning shows...
Nile
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Nile ...[2] as to the river that ran past the city, Etearchus guessed it to be the Nile; and reason proves as much. For the Nile flows from Libya, right through the...
Nile
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Istria ...then, flows clean across Europe and ends its course in the Euxine sea, at Istria, which is inhabited by Milesian colonists. 34. The Ister, since it flows...
Istria
76 28.7748,44.5476,0 Egypt ...I have related everything that I could learn by inquiry; and it issues into Egypt. Now Egypt lies about opposite to the mountainous part of Cilicia; [2] from...
Egypt
78 Ister ...course of the Nile in its passage through Libya to be like the course of the Ister. 35. It is sufficient to say this much concerning the Nile. But concerning...
Ister
79 29.647293,45.16291,0 Egypt ...35. It is sufficient to say this much concerning the Nile. But concerning Egypt, I am going to speak at length, because it has the most wonders, and everywhere...
Egypt
77 Egypt ...the heads is that whatever ill threatens those who sacrifice, or the whole of Egypt, fall upon that head. [4] In respect of the heads of sacrificed beasts and the...
Egypt
80 Thebes ...also; for they, too, may not be killed. 42. All that have a temple of Zeus of Thebes or are of the Theban district sacrifice goats, but will not touch sheep. [2]...
Thebes
81 32.65285,25.70247,0 Hellas ...indeed a lot of other evidence that the name of Heracles did not come from Hellas to Egypt, but from Egypt to Hellas (and in Hellas to those Greeks who gave the...
Hellas
77 Thebes ...the matter of sickness and death. 143. Hecataeus59 the historian was once at Thebes , where he made a genealogy for himself that had him descended from a god in...
Thebes
80 32.75,26.25,0 Egypt ...the Greeks call Apollo; he deposed Typhon,60 and was the last divine king of Egypt. Osiris is, in the Greek language, Dionysus. 145. Among the Greeks, Heracles...
Egypt
79 Egypt ...Heracles, Dionysus, and Pan are held to be the youngest of the gods. But in Egypt, Pan61 is the most ancient of these and is one of the eight gods who are said...
Egypt
78 Egypt ...Zeus sewed him up in his thigh and carried him away to Nysa in Ethiopia beyond Egypt; and as for Pan, the Greeks do not know what became of him after his birth. It...
Egypt
81 Egypt ...hundred and fifty miles, or sixty schoeni: as much as the whole seaboard of Egypt. Its length is from north to south; the deepest part has a depth of fifty...
Egypt
78 Nile ...not by night but by day. The Egyptians bore the earth dug out by them to the Nile, to be caught and scattered (as was to be expected) by the river. Thus is this...
Nile
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...reason the island was made to float. So they say. 157. Psammetichus ruled Egypt for fifty-three years, twenty-nine of which he spent before Azotus, a great...
Egypt
77 Nile ...wide enough for two triremes to move in it rowed abreast. [2] It is fed by the Nile, and is carried from a little above Bubastis by the Arabian town of Patumus; it...
Nile
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Thebes ...the profession of arms alone. 166. The Kalasiries are from the districts of Thebes , Bubastis, Aphthis, Tanis, Mendes, Sebennys, Athribis, Pharbaïthis, Thmuis...
Thebes
79 32.65285,25.70247,0 Phoenicia ...jars full of wine are brought into Egypt twice a year from all Greece and Phoenicia besides: yet one might safely say there is not a single empty wine jar anywhere...
Phoenicia
76 37.5,32.5,0 pillars of Heracles ...called by the Greeks Erythea, on the shore of Ocean near Gadira, outside the pillars of Heracles. As for Ocean, the Greeks say that it flows around the whole world from where...
pillars of Heracles
79 -5.485833,35.971667,0 Scythians ...[2] Furthermore, it is evident that the Cimmerians in their flight from the Scythians into Asia also made a colony on the peninsula where the Greek city of Sinope...
Scythians
78 27.5,42.5,0 Asia ...it is evident that the Cimmerians in their flight from the Scythians into Asia also made a colony on the peninsula where the Greek city of Sinope has since...
Asia
76 Scythian ...along the coast of Scythia, the first inhabitants are the Callippidae, who are Scythian Greeks; and beyond them another tribe called Alazones; these and the...
Scythian
81 Scythians ...nation of men lives, as far as we know. 19. But to the east of these farming Scythians, across the Panticapes river, you are in the land of nomadic Scythians, who...
Scythians
80 27.5,42.5,0 Egypt ...first they learned the names of the rest of the gods, which came to them from Egypt, and, much later, the name of Dionysus; and presently they asked the oracle at...
Egypt
80 Hellas ...concerns Hesiod and Homer, is what I myself say. 54. But about the oracles in Hellas, and that one which is in Libya, the Egyptians give the following account. The...
Hellas
81 Bubastis ...and the sixth of Ares at Papremis. 60. When the people are on their way to Bubastis, they go by river, a great number in every boat, men and women together. Some...
Bubastis
78 31.51591,30.56826,0 Egypt ...pious for me to say who it is for whom they lament. [2] Carians who live in Egypt do even more than this, inasmuch as they cut their foreheads with knives; and...
Egypt
78 Egypt ...own lamps burning, and so they are alight not only at Saïs but throughout Egypt. A sacred tale is told showing why this night is lit up thus and honored...
Egypt
76 Elephantine ...the crocodiles are embalmed and buried in sacred coffins. [3] But around Elephantine they are not held sacred, and are even eaten. The Egyptians do not call them...
Elephantine
75 32.89066,24.08292,0 Hellas ...castor-berry, which they call kiki. They sow this plant, which grows wild in Hellas, on the banks of the rivers and lakes; [2] sown in Egypt, it produces abundant...
Hellas
79 Naucratis ...point and the town Cercasorus; but your voyage from the sea and Canobus to Naucratis will take you over the plain near the town of Anthylla and that which is called...
Naucratis
77 30.5925,30.89722,0 Egypt ...which was too shallow for his vessels. [3] After returning from there back to Egypt, he gathered a great army (according to the account of the priests) and marched...
Egypt
80 Egypt ...and it was they who were compelled to dig all the canals which are now in Egypt, and involuntarily made what had been a land of horses and carts empty of...
Egypt
76 Nile ...the country was this: [4] those Egyptians whose towns were not on the Nile, but inland from it, lacked water whenever the flood left their land, and drank...
Nile
72 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...the twelve divisions of the day, came to Hellas from Babylonia and not from Egypt. 110. Sesostris was the only Egyptian king who also ruled Ethiopia. To...
Egypt
78 Memphis ...and then brought him with Helen and all the wealth, and the suppliants too, to Memphis. [2] When all had arrived, Proteus asked Alexandrus who he was and whence he...
Memphis
81 31.254278,29.849667,0 Egypt ...for fifty-six years. 128. Thus, they reckon that for a hundred and six years Egypt was in great misery and the temples so long shut were never opened. The people...
Egypt
80 Egypt ...and brother of Sappho the poetess. [2] Thus Rhodopis lived as a free woman in Egypt, where, as she was very alluring, she acquired a lot of money—sufficient for...
Egypt
80 Nile ...the entrance, it stands on an island; for two channels approach it from the Nile without mixing with one another, running as far as the entryway of the temple...
Nile
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ethiopia ...was now fulfilled, after which he was to depart: [3] for when he was still in Ethiopia, the oracles that are consulted by the people of that country told him that he...
Ethiopia
80 38.721522,14.125005,0 Scythians ...then they drive them home again. 31. But regarding the feathers of which the Scythians say that the air is full, so thickly that no one can see or traverse the land...
Scythians
80 27.5,42.5,0 Delos ...35. In this way, then, these maidens are honored by the inhabitants of Delos. These same Delians relate that two virgins, Arge and Opis, came from the...
Delos
74 25.268194,37.397274,0 Libya ...together, and it appears to me to be wider beyond all comparison. [2] For Libya shows clearly that it is bounded by the sea, except where it borders on Asia...
Libya
76 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...they said (what some may believe, though I do not) that in sailing around Libya they had the sun on their right hand.22 43. Thus was the first knowledge of...
Libya
76 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Asia ...got possession. I know the man's name but deliberately omit it. 44. But as to Asia, most of it was discovered by Darius. There is a river, Indus, second of all...
Asia
81 Milesians ...hope, the Chians brought Histiaeus back to Miletus at his own request. But the Milesians were glad enough to be rid of Aristagoras himself, and they had no wish to...
Milesians
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...ministers will tend my Didyman4 shrine! ” [3] All this now came upon the Milesians, since most of their men were slain by the Persians, who wore long hair, and...
Milesians
75 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sicily ...from Hellas; [2] for he returned by the king's permission to Sicily and from Sicily back again to Darius, until in old age he ended his life in Persia in great...
Sicily
79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sparta ...of silver there in the camp, he was brought before a court and banished from Sparta, and his house was destroyed. He went into exile at Tegea and died in that...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...married by Leutychides. 72. But Leutychides also did not come to old age in Sparta; he was punished for his dealings with Demaratus as I will show. He led a...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...especially attached. This man's wife was by far the most beautiful woman in Sparta, but she who was now most beautiful had once been the ugliest. [3] Her nurse...
Sparta
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...will confront you.” 51. All this time Demaratus son of Ariston remained at Sparta and spread evil reports of Cleomenes. This Demaratus was also king of Sparta...
Sparta
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...of that prophecy.” 81. Then Cleomenes sent most of his army back to Sparta, while he himself took a thousand of the best warriors and went to the temple...
Sparta
71 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...you do the opposite. But I want to tell you the story of what happened at Sparta in the matter of a trust. [2] We Spartans say that three generations ago there...
Sparta
76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Delphi ...sent to the Chians. [2] Of a band of a hundred youths whom they had sent to Delphi only two returned, ninety-eight being caught and carried off by pestilence...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...of Pisistratus' rule and wanted to be away from it. He immediately set out for Delphi to ask the oracle if he should do what the Dolonci asked of him. 36. The...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...66. Disputes arose over it, so the Spartans resolved to ask the oracle at Delphi if Demaratus was the son of Ariston. [2] At Cleomenes' instigation this was...
Delphi
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...bear offspring as before. Crushed by hunger and childlessness, they sent to Delphi to ask for some release from their present ills. [2] The Pythian priestess...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Zancle ...rather than remain and be slaves of the Medes and Aeaces. [2] The people of Zancle5 in Sicily about this time sent messengers to Ionia inviting the Ionians to the...
Zancle
78 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Sparta ...in attacking the Athenians. Gladly laying hold of this pretext, they went to Sparta and there accused the Aeginetans of acting to betray Hellas. 50. Regarding...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartan ...his right mind, and on his return from exile a mad sickness fell upon him: any Spartan that he happened to meet he would hit in the face with his staff. [2] For doing...
Spartan
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartan ...they desire a strong drink they call for “a Scythian cup.” Such is the Spartan story of Cleomenes; but to my thinking it was for what he did to Demaratus that...
Spartan
73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartan ...is dead and another takes his office, this successor releases from debt any Spartan who owes a debt to the king or to the commonwealth. Among the Persians the king...
Spartan
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 the Chians ...war against Darius. [2] Crossing over to Chios, he was taken and bound by the Chians, because they judged him to have been sent by Darius to make trouble for them...
the Chians
76 26.053,38.414,0 the Chians ...next to the Myesians were the Teians with seventeen ships; next to these the Chians with a hundred; near these in the line were the Erythraeans, bringing eight...
the Chians
75 26.053,38.414,0 Chios ...by a Milesian. Since he was thrust out from his own city, he went back to Chios; when he could not persuade the Chians to give him ships, he then crossed over...
Chios
76 26.053,38.414,0 the Ionians ...to Athens. 42. In this year10 the Persians caused no further trouble for the Ionians, and at this same time certain things happened which greatly benefited the...
the Ionians
76 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Lade ...the Persians arrived at Miletus. 11. Then the Ionians who had gathered at Lade held assemblies; among those whom I suppose to have addressed them was...
Lade
77 27.25,37.75,0 Lade ...and gather as quickly as possible at Lade to fight for Miletus at sea. This Lade is a small island lying off the city of Miletus. 8. The Ionians then came...
Lade
78 27.25,37.75,0 Ionian ...6 This was the end of Aristagoras, after he had brought about the Ionian revolt. Histiaeus, the tyrant of Miletus, arrived in Sardis after he was let go...
Ionian
69 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionian ...entreating them to desert the Ionian alliance; seeing great disorder on the Ionian side, they consented to the message; moreover, it seemed impossible to them to...
Ionian
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionian ...had already sent them at the Persians' bidding, entreating them to desert the Ionian alliance; seeing great disorder on the Ionian side, they consented to the...
Ionian
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionian ...men met with such a fate. As for Dionysius the Phocaean, when he saw that the Ionian cause was lost, he sailed away with the three enemy ships that he had captured...
Ionian
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionian ...the Seven that democracy was best for Persia:12 Mardonius deposed all the Ionian tyrants and set up democracies in their cities. [4] He did this and hurried to...
Ionian
76 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Lesbians ...a pillar as brave men; this pillar now stands in their market-place. But the Lesbians, seeing their neighbors fleeing, did the same as the Samians; and most of the...
Lesbians
79 26.10052,39.20874,0 The Ionians ...Miletus at sea. This Lade is a small island lying off the city of Miletus. 8. The Ionians then came there with their ships manned, and with them the Aeolians who dwell...
The Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Scythians ...tombs are still to be seen, and having buried them left the land; and the Scythians came and took possession of the country left empty. 12. And to this day there...
Scythians
76 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...lake; and part of it stretches to the Tanaïs river. [2] North of the Royal Scythians live the Blackcloaks, who are of another and not a Scythian stock; and beyond...
Scythians
77 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...where the best and most numerous of the Scythians are, who consider all other Scythians their slaves; their territory stretches south to the Tauric land, and east to...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...the Greeks, too, from the Borysthenes port and the other ports of Pontus; such Scythians as visit them transact their business with seven interpreters and in seven...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...the Issedones. And, I think, even they say nothing; for if they did, then the Scythians, too, would have told, just as they tell of the one-eyed men. But Hesiod speaks...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...a tributary of this Tanaïs. 58. These are the rivers of note with which the Scythians are provided. For rearing cattle, the grass growing in Scythia is the most...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...river,30 which rises from a lake, and flowing through the midst of the nomadic Scythians flows out near the city of Carcine, bordering on its right the Woodland and the...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...lake, and the land between it and the Borysthenes is inhabited by the farming Scythians; it flows into the woodland country, after passing which it mingles with the...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...it is plain that it flows through desolate country to the land of the farming Scythians, who live beside it for a ten days' voyage. [5] This is the only river, besides...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...may be of the people) has sworn falsely by the king's hearth; [2] for when the Scythians will swear their mightiest oath, it is by the king's hearth that they are...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...follows. Begin to reckon from the day when you see me march away against the Scythians, and untie one knot each day: and if the days marked by the knots have all...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...way back is safe; for my fear has never been that we shall be overcome by the Scythians in the field, but rather that we may not be able to find them, and so go astray...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...best and finest water of all; and to them came, leading an army against the Scythians, the best and finest man of all, Darius son of Hystaspes, king of Persia and...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...I began to tell.36 83. While Darius was making preparations37 against the Scythians, and sending messengers to direct some to furnish infantry and some to furnish...
Scythians
77 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...inflict on those who add foreign customs to their own. 81. How numerous the Scythians are, I was not able to learn exactly, and the accounts that I heard did not...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...what they had seen. 80. After this Scyles rode off to his own place; but the Scythians rebelled against him, setting up his brother Octamasades, son of the daughter...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Argives ...and thus the calamity agreed with the oracle concerning Miletus. 19. When the Argives inquired at Delphi about the safety of their city, a common response was given...
Argives
81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...it was because he invaded Eleusis and laid waste the precinct of the gods. The Argives say it was because when Argives had taken refuge after the battle in their...
Argives
81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...the Lacedaemonians, leaving only a little space between the armies. There the Argives had no fear of fair fighting, but rather of being captured by a trick. [2] This...
Argives
80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...reappears at Argos, and from that place onwards the stream is called by the Argives Erasinus）—when Cleomenes came to this river he offered sacrifices to it. [2]...
Argives
78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...of two minae to be paid for every prisoner.) So Cleomenes invited about fifty Argives to come out one after another and murdered them. [2] Somehow the rest of the...
Argives
80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...way: whenever the Spartan herald signalled anything to the Lacedaemonians, the Argives did the same thing. 78. When Cleomenes saw that the Argives did whatever was...
Argives
81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...that time there was a long-lasting war between them, until with difficulty the Argives got the upper hand.31 84. The Argives say this was the reason Cleomenes went...
Argives
81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...asked for help from the Argives, as they had done before. But this time the Argives would not aid them, holding a grudge because ships of Aegina had been taken by...
Argives
78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Scythians ...tomb, they ride away. 73. This is the way they bury their kings. All other Scythians, when they die, are laid in wagons and carried about among their friends by...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...their king; “Scythians” is the name given them by Greeks. This, then, is the Scythians' account of their origin, 7. and they say that neither more nor less than a...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...as to masters, I acknowledge Zeus my forefather and Hestia queen of the Scythians only. As for you, instead of gifts of earth and water I shall send such as...
Scythians
74 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...creature. 130. The Persians thus gained very little in the war, for when the Scythians saw that the Persians were shaken, they formed a plan to have them remain...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...sovereign of the Chersonesites of the Hellespont, advised that they do as the Scythians said and set Ionia free. [2] But Histiaeus of Miletus advised the opposite. He...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...were horsemen and knew the short cuts, they went wide of each other, and the Scythians reached the bridge long before the Persians. [3] There, perceiving that the...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...part infantry and did not know the roads (which were not marked), while the Scythians were horsemen and knew the short cuts, they went wide of each other, and the...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...themselves deserted by the multitude, they brayed the louder for it; and the Scythians heard them and assumed that the Persians were in the place. 136. But when it...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...understood almost by reason alone how difficult it would be to deal with these Scythians; but when I came here, I understood even better, watching them toying with us...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...and the Budini and the Sauromatae were of one mind and promised to help the Scythians; but the kings of the Agathyrsi and Neuri and Maneaters and Black-cloaks and...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...only the rest of Thrace, but also our neighbors the Getae.” 119. After the Scythians had made this speech, the kings who had come from the nations deliberated, and...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...north into the desolate country. [6] But warned off by the Agathyrsi, the Scythians made no second attempt on that country, but led the Persians from the lands of...
Scythians
76 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...sent a herald to forbid them to set foot across their borders, warning the Scythians that if they tried to break through they would have to fight with the Agathyrsi...
Scythians
77 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...their neighbors fleeing panic-stricken at the Scythians' approach, before the Scythians could break into their land sent a herald to forbid them to set foot across...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...[4] But the Agathyrsi, seeing their neighbors fleeing panic-stricken at the Scythians' approach, before the Scythians could break into their land sent a herald to...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...the army over, and repaired the bridge. 142. Thus the Persians escaped. The Scythians sought the Persians, but missed them again. Their judgment of the Ionians is...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...seem to be doing something when in fact they were doing nothing, and that the Scythians not try to force their way across the bridge over the Ister; and to say while...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...of a similar kind that Tauris resembles.44 100. Beyond the Tauric country the Scythians begin, living north of the Tauri and beside the eastern sea, west of the...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...that they alone were not able to repel Darius' army in open warfare, the Scythians sent messengers to their neighbors, whose kings had already gathered and were...
Scythians
75 27.5,47.5,0 Medes ...which is called Red; beyond these to the north are the Medes, and beyond the Medes the Saspires, and beyond the Saspires the Colchians, whose country extends to...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...to the southern sea which is called Red; beyond these to the north are the Medes, and beyond the Medes the Saspires, and beyond the Saspires the Colchians...
Medes
77 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...the parts of Asia west of the Persians. But what is beyond the Persians, and Medes, and Saspires, and Colchians, east and toward the rising sun, this is bounded...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...we can name, and the majority of their kings cared nothing for the king of the Medes at the time of which I write, nor do they care for him now. [2] I have this...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Asia ...the Araxes river, which flows toward the sun's rising. [2] As far as India, Asia is an inhabited land; but thereafter, all to the east is desolation, nor can...
Asia
78 Asia ...of Prometheus;25 yet the Lydians claim a share in the latter name, saying that Asia was not named after Prometheus' wife Asia, but after Asies, the son of Cotys...
Asia
81 Scythian ...and we have taken it as true from the Scythians, and call these people by the Scythian name, Arimaspians; for in the Scythian tongue “arima” is one, and “spou” is the...
Scythian
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...and the Alazones; the name of it and of the place where it rises is in Scythian Exampaeus; in the Greek tongue, Sacred Ways. [4] The Tyras and the Hypanis draw...
Scythian
73 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...war awaited them. They found themselves opposed by a great force; for the Scythian women, when their husbands were away for so long, turned to their slaves...
Scythian
76 27.5,47.5,0 Greeks ...place, saying that they would lead them to a better; [2] and they brought the Greeks from Aziris and led them west, so calculating the hours of daylight that they...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...shore of Ocean near Gadira, outside the pillars of Heracles. As for Ocean, the Greeks say that it flows around the whole world from where the sun rises, but they...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...along the lake shore. [4] With what armor they equipped their maidens before Greeks came to live near them, I cannot say; but I suppose the armor was Egyptian; for...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Maeetian lake ...into the Pontus and not much smaller than the sea itself; it is called the Maeetian lake, and the mother of the Pontus. 87. After having viewed the Pontus, Darius...
Maeetian lake
77 35.862586,45.814417000000006,0 Maeetian lake ...the Tauri and beside the eastern sea, west of the Cimmerian Bosporus and the Maeetian lake, as far as the Tanaïs river, which empties into the end of that lake. [2] Now...
Maeetian lake
79 35.862586,45.814417000000006,0 Greek ...whole people choose the fairest maid, and arm her with a Corinthian helmet and Greek panoply, to be then mounted on a chariot and drawn all along the lake shore...
Greek
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...should any descendant of the Argo's crew take away the tripod, then a hundred Greek cities would be founded on the shores of the Tritonian lake. Hearing this (it...
Greek
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...name of it and of the place where it rises is in Scythian Exampaeus; in the Greek tongue, Sacred Ways. [4] The Tyras and the Hypanis draw near together in the...
Greek
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...river, besides the Nile, whose source I cannot identify; nor, I think, can any Greek. When the Borysthenes comes near the sea, the Hypanis mingles with it, running...
Greek
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...on the red-hot stones, where it smoulders and sends forth such fumes that no Greek vapor-bath could surpass it. [2] The Scythians howl in their joy at the...
Greek
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...lest any Scythian see him wearing this apparel), and in every way follow the Greek manner of life, and worship the gods according to Greek usage. [5] When he had...
Greek
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...of white marble by it, engraving on the one in Assyrian and on the other in Greek characters the names of all the nations that were in his army: all the nations...
Greek
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Pontus ...led his army. For we cannot show that any nation within the region of the Pontus has any cleverness, nor do we know of (overlooking the Scythian nation and...
Pontus
76 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Pontus ...Sindic region to Themiscura on the Thermodon river (the greatest width of the Pontus) it is a voyage of three days and two nights; that is, of three hundred and...
Pontus
80 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Pontus ...the Greeks say formerly moved; there, he sat on a headland and viewed the Pontus, a marvellous sight. [2] For it is the most wonderful sea of all. Its length is...
Pontus
76 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Pontus ...this place, the country fronting the same sea is hilly and projects into the Pontus; it is inhabited by the Tauric nation as far as what is called the Rough...
Pontus
79 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Araxes ...on the one hand by the Red Sea, and to the north by the Caspian Sea and the Araxes river, which flows toward the sun's rising. [2] As far as India, Asia is an...
Araxes
78 46.5,38.5,0 Ocean ...on the shore of Ocean near Gadira, outside the pillars of Heracles. As for Ocean, the Greeks say that it flows around the whole world from where the sun rises...
Ocean
77 Proconnesus ...there, dead or alive. But in the seventh year after that, Aristeas appeared at Proconnesus and made that poem which the Greeks now call the Arimaspea, after which he...
Proconnesus
81 27.55568,40.591686,0 Arimaspians ...to the sea. [2] Except for the Hyperboreans, all these nations (and first the Arimaspians) are always at war with their neighbors; the Issedones were pushed from their...
Arimaspians
80 62.5,32.5,0 Arimaspians ...it as true from the Scythians, and call these people by the Scythian name, Arimaspians; for in the Scythian tongue “arima” is one, and “spou” is the eye. 28. All the...
Arimaspians
77 62.5,32.5,0 Cimmerian ...and took possession of the country left empty. 12. And to this day there are Cimmerian walls in Scythia, and a Cimmerian ferry, and there is a country Cimmeria9 and a...
Cimmerian
80 36.2317044,45.0437458,0 Media ...been founded; and it is clear that the Scythians pursued them and invaded Media, missing their way; [3] for the Cimmerians always fled along the coast, and the...
Media
76 46.5,34.5,0 Issedones ...(and first the Arimaspians) are always at war with their neighbors; the Issedones were pushed from their lands by the Arimaspians, and the Scythians by the...
Issedones
74 92.5,37.5,0 Cyzicus ...come from the town of Artace,10 and said that he had met Aristeas going toward Cyzicus and spoken with him. While he argued vehemently, the relatives of the dead man...
Cyzicus
81 27.874127,40.389806,0 Metapontines ...as reckoning made at Proconnesus and Metapontum shows me: [2] Aristeas, so the Metapontines say, appeared in their country and told them to set up an altar to Apollo, and...
Metapontines
81 16.824063,40.383868,0 Cyzicus ...already said; I will tell the story that I heard about him at Proconnesus and Cyzicus. It is said that this Aristeas, who was as well-born as any of his townsfolk...
Cyzicus
80 27.874127,40.389806,0 Delphi ...that he was to be king in Libya. [3] For when he grew to adulthood, he went to Delphi to inquire about his voice; and the priestess in answer gave him this...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...of land; and while a great army was thus gathering, he made a journey to Delphi, to ask the oracle about his return. [2] The priestess gave him this answer...
Delphi
75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...at this time was ruled by Evelthon, who dedicated that marvellous censer at Delphi which stands in the treasury of the Corinthians. Pheretime came to him, asking...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Neuri ...and the Scythians broke into their lands, the Blackcloaks and Man-eaters and Neuri put up no resistance, but forgot their threats and fled panic-stricken north...
Neuri
79 Borysthenes ...a river called Panticapes,13 and north as far as an eleven days' voyage up the Borysthenes; and north of these the land is desolate for a long way; [3] after the...
Borysthenes
81 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Borysthenes ...Scythian dress and leave the city. He did this often; and he built a house in Borysthenes, and married a wife of the people of the country and brought her there...
Borysthenes
80 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Borysthenes ...a ten days' journey from the Ister to the Borysthenes, and the same from the Borysthenes to the Maeetian lake; and it is a twenty days' journey from the sea inland to...
Borysthenes
79 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Borystheneïtae ...Hippolaus' promontory; a temple of Demeter stands there. The settlement of the Borystheneïtae is beyond the temple, on the Hypanis. 54. This is the produce of these rivers...
Borystheneïtae
81 31.9056,46.69238,0 Olbiopolitae ...farmers, whom the Greek colonists on the Hypanis river (who call themselves Olbiopolitae) call Borystheneïtae. [2] These farming Scythians inhabit a land stretching...
Olbiopolitae
78 31.9056,46.69238,0 Woodlands ...Scythians, who plant nothing, nor plough; and all these lands except the Woodlands are bare of trees. These nomads inhabit a country to the east that stretches...
Woodlands
75 Tanaïs river ...of the Royal Scythians, and empties into the Hypacuris. 57. The eighth is the Tanaïs river;31 in its upper course, this begins by flowing out of a great lake, and enters...
Tanaïs river
81 40.7291755,47.5437096,0 Gerrus river ...inhabit a country to the east that stretches fourteen days' journey to the Gerrus river.14 20. Across the Gerrus are those lands called Royal, where the best and most...
Gerrus river
77 35.44448538716876,46.87699559686738,0 Tanaïs river ...port called The Cliffs15 on the Maeetian lake; and part of it stretches to the Tanaïs river. [2] North of the Royal Scythians live the Blackcloaks, who are of another and...
Tanaïs river
81 40.7291755,47.5437096,0 Sauromatae ...are used by the people to heal sicknesses of the womb. 110. About the Sauromatae, the story is as follows. When the Greeks were at war with the Amazons (whom...
Sauromatae
73 39.5,45.5,0 Sauromatae ...them; they go to war, and dress the same as the men. 117. The language of the Sauromatae is Scythian, but not spoken in its ancient purity, since the Amazons never...
Sauromatae
81 39.5,45.5,0 Budini ...inhabit a country thickly overgrown with trees of all kinds. 22. North of the Budini the land is uninhabited for seven days' journey; after this desolation, and...
Budini
81 Libyan ...the nomadic Libyans who live on the coast. Farther inland than these is that Libyan country which is haunted by wild beasts, and beyond this wild beasts' haunt...
Libyan
79 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...as cows. 187. Thus it is with this region. But west of the Tritonian lake the Libyans are not nomads; they do not follow the same customs, or treat their children as...
Libyans
81 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...Cyrene, and cut out great tracts of land from the territory of the neighboring Libyans. Robbed of their lands and treated violently by the Cyrenaeans, these then sent...
Libyans
81 26.5,31.5,0 Cimmerian Bosporus ...by pouring out water but by lighting a fire; the sea freezes, as does all the Cimmerian Bosporus; and the Scythians living on this side of the trench lead armies over the ice...
Cimmerian Bosporus
80 36.65,45.35,0 Libya ...departed, they neglected to obey the oracle, since they did not know where Libya was, and were afraid to send a colony out to an uncertain destination...
Libya
77 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...Libyans. [3] Arcesilaus pursued them until he came in his pursuit to Leucon in Libya, where the Libyans resolved to attack him; they engaged, and so wholly overcame...
Libya
81 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...the very name betrays that the attire of the statues of Pallas has come from Libya; for Libyan women wear the hairless tasselled “aegea” over their dress, colored...
Libya
79 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...and more wooded than the country of the nomads. [3] For the eastern region of Libya, which the nomads inhabit, is low-lying and sandy as far as the Triton river...
Libya
80 26.5,31.5,0 Eleans ...although the country is not cold, nor is there any evident cause. The Eleans themselves say that it is because of a curse that mules cannot be conceived...
Eleans
72 21.37493,37.89131,0 Elis ...was always the way of my history to investigate excurses) that in the whole of Elis no mules can be conceived although the country is not cold, nor is there any...
Elis
81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Adriatic sea ...nation in turn receives them from its neighbors until they are carried to the Adriatic sea, which is the most westerly limit of their journey; [2] from there, they are...
Adriatic sea
80 15.885196,42.7752864,0 Tenos ...after this, Andros is left out of their journey, for Carystians carry them to Tenos, and Tenians to Delos. [3] Thus (they say) these offerings come to Delos. But...
Tenos
80 25.167742,37.577564,0 Paeonian ...there is a custom like these offerings; namely, that when the Thracian and Paeonian women sacrifice to the Royal Artemis, they have straw with them while they...
Paeonian
77 21.75,41.75,0 Delos ...to the next; [5] and the offerings, it is said, come by this conveyance to Delos. I can say of my own knowledge that there is a custom like these offerings...
Delos
77 25.268194,37.397274,0 Ionians ...the land army with him had come to the Ister, and all had crossed, he had the Ionians break the bridge and follow him in his march across the mainland, together with...
Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...[3] There, perceiving that the Persians had not yet come, they said to the Ionians, who were in their ships, “Ionians, the days have exceeded the number, and you...
Ionians
77 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...deserve on our behalf and on your own.” 140. So the Scythians, trusting the Ionians' word once more, turned back to look for the Persians; but they missed the way...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...masters more, or desire less to escape. Thus have the Scythians taunted the Ionians. 143. Darius marched through Thrace to Sestos on the Chersonesus; from there...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Lycia ...calling upon their names and collecting gifts (this Olen, after coming from Lycia, also made the other and ancient hymns that are sung at Delos). [4]...
Lycia
78 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Ceos ...the temple of Artemis, looking east, nearest the refectory of the people of Ceos. 36. I have said this much of the Hyperboreans, and let it suffice; for I do...
Ceos
78 24.35666,37.6217,0 Persians ...much for the parts of Asia west of the Persians. But what is beyond the Persians, and Medes, and Saspires, and Colchians, east and toward the rising sun, this...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...there are just three nations. 40. So much for the parts of Asia west of the Persians. But what is beyond the Persians, and Medes, and Saspires, and Colchians, east...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the war; for if they did not of their own accord support the war against the Persians, they must be involved against their will; and after that, the division was to...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...toward the east and the Tanaïs river; [3] when the horsemen crossed this, the Persians crossed also, and pursued until they had marched through the land of the...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...burst into their land, agitating them; and from there, the Scythians led the Persians into the country of the Man-eaters, agitating them too; from there, they drew...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Agathyrsi, the Scythians made no second attempt on that country, but led the Persians from the lands of the Neuri into Scythia. 126. As this went on for a long time...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...fashion by night as well as by day. 129. Very strange to say, what aided the Persians and thwarted the Scythians in their attacks on Darius' army was the braying of...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...erect, never having heard a noise like it or seen a like creature. 130. The Persians thus gained very little in the war, for when the Scythians saw that the...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...meant themselves, if they were smart enough. 132. When they heard this, the Persians deliberated. Darius' judgment was that the Scythians were surrendering...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...he had only been told to give the gifts and then leave at once; he told the Persians to figure out what the presents meant themselves, if they were smart enough...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...He reasoned that the meaning of the gifts was, [3] “Unless you become birds, Persians, and fly up into the sky, or mice and hide in the earth, or frogs and leap into...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...reached the bridge long before the Persians. [3] There, perceiving that the Persians had not yet come, they said to the Ionians, who were in their ships, “Ionians...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...subjugated all the people of the Hellespont who did not take the side of the Persians. 145. At the same time that he was doing this, another great force was sent...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...like Megabazus than make all Hellas subject to him. [3] By speaking thus among Persians, the king honored Megabazus; and now he left him behind as his commander, at...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Europe ...and Europe; for the difference between them is great, seeing that in length Europe stretches along both the others together, and it appears to me to be wider...
Europe
78 Europe ...then, at those who have mapped out and divided the world into Libya, Asia, and Europe; for the difference between them is great, seeing that in length Europe...
Europe
81 Europe ...of the Ombrici, to flow into it; [3] for the Ister traverses the whole of Europe, rising among the Celts, who are the most westerly dwellers in Europe, except...
Europe
76 Saspires ...to the north are the Medes, and beyond the Medes the Saspires, and beyond the Saspires the Colchians, whose country extends to the northern sea21 into which the...
Saspires
80 Colchians ...of the Persians. But what is beyond the Persians, and Medes, and Saspires, and Colchians, east and toward the rising sun, this is bounded on the one hand by the Red...
Colchians
81 42.5,42.5,0 Phasis river ...the Colchians, whose country extends to the northern sea21 into which the Phasis river flows; so these four nations live between the one sea and the other. 38. But...
Phasis river
76 42.2161531,42.1237505,0 Hellespont ...five hundred stades wide and one thousand four hundred long; its outlet is the Hellespont, which is no wider than seven stades and four hundred long. The Hellespont...
Hellespont
81 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...other god but their own. 95. I understand from the Greeks who live beside the Hellespont and Pontus, that this Salmoxis was a man who was once a slave in Samos, his...
Hellespont
81 26.4,40.2,0 Phoenicia ...digging the canal which leads from the Nile to the Arabian Gulf, he sent Phoenicians in ships, instructing them to sail on their return voyage past the Pillars of...
Phoenicia
75 35.25,33.25,0 Myriandric gulf ...Troad; on the south side, the same peninsula has a seacoast beginning at the Myriandric gulf that is near Phoenicia, and stretching seaward as far as the Triopian headland...
Myriandric gulf
79 Egyptian ...were in great alarm lest the Ionians had abandoned them. 141. There was an Egyptian with Darius whose voice was the loudest in the world; Darius had this man stand...
Egyptian
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Scythian ...after the Ister, and the most productive, in our judgment, not only of the Scythian but of all rivers, except the Egyptian Nile, with which no other river can be...
Scythian
77 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...part to rear them in their country. 64. As to war, these are their customs. A Scythian drinks the blood of the first man whom he has taken down. He carries the heads...
Scythian
81 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...of the Agathyrsi, and Scyles inherited the kingship and his father's wife, a Scythian woman whose name was Opoea, and she bore Scyles a son, Oricus. [3] So Scyles...
Scythian
79 27.5,42.5,0 Scythia ...to march further. 99. Thrace runs farther out into the sea than Scythia; and Scythia begins where a bay is formed in its coast, and the mouth of the Ister, facing...
Scythia
80 27.5,42.5,0 Libya ...the same time that he was doing this, another great force was sent against Libya, for the reason that I shall give after I finish the story that I am going to...
Libya
77 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...of other matters, things impossible to do; you tell me to plant a colony in Libya; where shall I get the power or strength of hand for it?” Battus spoke thus...
Libya
78 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...called the Hill of the Graces. This hill is thickly wooded, while the rest of Libya of which I have spoken is bare of trees; it is twenty-five miles from the sea...
Libya
80 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Egypt ...this wild beasts' haunt runs a ridge of sand that stretches from Thebes of Egypt to the Pillars of Heracles.60 [2] At intervals of about ten days' journey along...
Egypt
77 32.5,32.5,0 Egypt ...As for the Barcaeans whom they had taken for slaves, they carried them from Egypt into banishment and brought them to the king, and Darius gave them a town of...
Egypt
78 32.5,32.5,0 Perinthus ...but Megabazus and the Persians overcame them by weight of numbers. [2] When Perinthus had been taken, Megabazus marched his army through Thrace, subduing to the...
Perinthus
78 27.95454,40.97089,0 Hellespont ...what happened. 23. Megabazus, bringing with him the Paeonians, came to the Hellespont, and after crossing it from there, he came to Sardis. Histiaeus the Milesian...
Hellespont
78 26.4,40.2,0 Sardis ...came to the Hellespont, and after crossing it from there, he came to Sardis. Histiaeus the Milesian was by this time fortifying the place which he hadasked...
Sardis
71 28.040278,38.488333,0 Hellas ...became very angry and thus replied: “Villain, you see me marching against Hellas myself, and taking with me my sons and brothers and relations and friends; do...
Hellas
76 Hellas ...beginning had spoken his mind freely and advised Xerxes not to march against Hellas. Marking how Xerxes wept, he questioned him and said, “O king, what a distance...
Hellas
79 Hellas ...and changed your name to Xerxes, leading the whole world with you to remove Hellas from its place? You could have done that without these means.” 57. When all...
Hellas
78 Hellas ...Artabanus who delivered the opinion that there should be no expedition against Hellas, Smerdomenes son of Otanes (these two latter were sons of Darius' brothers, and...
Hellas
81 Sardis ...the third who was captain with them, Pharnuches, had been left behind sick at Sardis. As they set forth from Sardis, an unwelcome mishap befell him: a dog ran under...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Hellas ...for Demaratus48 son of Ariston, who was on the expedition with him against Hellas. He summoned him and said, “Demaratus, it is now my pleasure to ask you what I...
Hellas
77 Hellas ...professed intent of the king's march was to attack Athens, but in truth all Hellas was his aim. This the Greeks had long since learned, but not all of them...
Hellas
78 Hellas ...the Athenians. All the Greeks who were concerned about the general welfare of Hellas met in conference and exchanged guarantees. They resolved in debate to make an...
Hellas
80 Sardis ...their quarrels, they first sent three men as spies into Asia. These came to Sardis and took note of the king's army. They were discovered, however, and after...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Hellas ...but must have the whole, it is high time that you hasten home and tell your Hellas that her year has lost its spring.” [2] The significance of this statement was...
Hellas
78 Hellas ...their horsemen. They therefore resolved, that they would meet the invader of Hellas here. Then, when they heard that the Persian was in Pieria, they broke up from...
Hellas
79 Artemisium ...he dove into the sea at Aphetae and never rose to the surface till he came to Artemisium, thus passing underneath the sea for about eighty furlongs. [3] There are many...
Artemisium
80 23.220954,39.017832,0 Euboea ...and not much greater than it. 14. These men, then, perished at the Hollows of Euboea. As for the barbarians at Aphetae, when to their great comfort the day dawned...
Euboea
81 23.87,38.53,0 Athens ...of the place and the later invasion of Mardonius. 4. When Mardonius came to Athens, he sent to Salamis a certain Murychides, a man from Hellespont, bearing the...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Attica ...purpose, he expected that they would abandon their stubbornness now that Attica was the captive of his spear and lay at his mercy. 5. For this reason he sent...
Attica
75 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...expected that the Peloponnesian army would come to their aid, they remained in Attica. But when the Peloponnesians took longer and longer to act and the invader was...
Attica
81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Salamis ...then conveyed all their goods out of harms way and themselves crossed over to Salamis. They also sent envoys to Lacedaemon, who were to upbraid the Lacedaemonians...
Salamis
80 23.51,37.93,0 Boeotia ...so that we may await the foreigner's onset in Attica; since we have lost Boeotia, in our own territory the most suitable place for a battle is the Thriasian...
Boeotia
75 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotia ...before the battle of Plataea. 17. So Mardonius was making his encampment in Boeotia. All the Greeks of that region who sided with the Persians furnished fighting...
Boeotia
79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Athens ...Persians furnished fighting men, and they joined with him in his attack upon Athens, with the exception of the Phocians; as for taking the Persian side, that they...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Boeotia ...joined with them at Eleusis. [3] When they came (as it is said) to Erythrae in Boeotia, they learned that the barbarians were encamped by the Asopus. Taking note of...
Boeotia
81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Attica ...the barbarian's ships brought certain Athenian captives, who had been left in Attica and taken by Xerxes' army, the Samians had set them all free and sent them away...
Attica
80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Athens ...taken by Xerxes' army, the Samians had set them all free and sent them away to Athens with provisions for the journey; for this reason in particular they were held...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Scythians ...and when they came on their way to the city of Ascalon in Syria, most of the Scythians passed by and did no harm, but a few remained behind and plundered the temple...
Scythians
79 28.5,44.5,0 Scythians ...who visit Scythian territory see among them the condition of those whom the Scythians call “Hermaphrodites”.40 106. The Scythians, then, ruled Asia for twenty-eight...
Scythians
78 28.5,44.5,0 Chians ...165. The Phocaeans would have bought the islands called Oenussae from the Chians;54 but the Chians would not sell them, because they feared that the islands...
Chians
77 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Ionians ...the war from his father and carried it on vigorously. [3] None of the Ionians helped to lighten this war for the Milesians, except the Chians: these lent...
Ionians
72 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Athenians ...and, saying that he accepted the prophecy, led his army against the enemy. The Athenians of the city had by this time had breakfast, and after breakfast some were...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...telling them to take heart and each to depart to his home. 64. The Athenians did, and by this means Pisistratus gained Athens for the third time, rooting...
Athenians
70 23.726464,37.971687,0 Naxos ...not leave the city at once, and placed these in Naxos. [2] (He had conquered Naxos too and put Lygdamis in charge.) And besides this, he purified the island of...
Naxos
79 25.37699,37.10595,0 Tegea ...were successful in all their other wars but met disaster only against the Tegeans. [2] Before this they had been the worst-governed of nearly all the Hellenes...
Tegea
76 22.429,37.464,0 Tegea ...The Pythia responded in hexameter to the messengers: [4] “There is a place Tegea in the smooth plain of Arcadia, Where two winds blow under strong...
Tegea
77 22.429,37.464,0 Arcadians ...[3] When the Lacedaemonians heard the oracle reported, they left the other Arcadians alone and marched on Tegea carrying chains, relying on the deceptive oracle...
Arcadians
77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedaemon ...but in the time of Croesus and the kingship of Anaxandrides and Ariston in Lacedaemon the Spartans had gained the upper hand. This is how: [2] when they kept being...
Lacedaemon
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Sardis ...he climbed up himself, and other Persians after him. Many ascended, and thus Sardis was taken and all the city sacked. 85. I will now relate what happened to...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Persians ...his own army, then to wait until the winter was over and march against the Persians at the beginning of spring. [4] With such an intention, as soon as he returned...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Telmessian interpreters ...thought it a portent, and so it was. [2] He at once sent to the homes of the Telmessian interpreters,26 to inquire concerning it; but though his messengers came and learned from...
Telmessian interpreters
79 29.105772,36.620899,0 Boeotia ...not only those of which I have spoken. There is a golden tripod at Thebes in Boeotia, which he dedicated to Apollo of Ismenus; at Ephesus29 there are the oxen of...
Boeotia
79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Assyria ...Ninus (how, I will describe in a later part of my history), and brought all Assyria except the province of Babylon under their rule. 107. Afterwards, Cyaxares...
Assyria
78 37.5,37.5,0 Median ...name was in the Greek language Cyno, in the Median Spako: for “spax” is the Median word for dog. [2] The foothills of the mountains where this cowherd pastured...
Median
78 46.5,34.5,0 Pirus ...Achaeans; Aegion; Rhype; Patrae; Phareae; and Olenus, where is the great river Pirus; Dyme and Tritaeae, the only inland city of all these—these were the twelve...
Pirus
81 21.75,38.25,0 Phareae ...fled when they were worsted in battle by the Achaeans; Aegion; Rhype; Patrae; Phareae; and Olenus, where is the great river Pirus; Dyme and Tritaeae, the only inland...
Phareae
80 21.717095,38.093144,0 Rhype ...the Ionians fled when they were worsted in battle by the Achaeans; Aegion; Rhype; Patrae; Phareae; and Olenus, where is the great river Pirus; Dyme and...
Rhype
77 22.01219,38.2198,0 Notion ...Aeolian: Cyme (called “Phriconian”),49 Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegaeae, Myrina, Gryneia.50 These are the ancient Aeolian...
Notion
79 27.1973,37.99162,0 Panionia ...there from their cities and keep the festival to which they gave the name of Panionia. [2] Not only the Ionian festivals, but all those of all the Greeks alike, end...
Panionia
79 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...Ionians who left their native lands, unable to endure slavery. The rest of the Ionians, except the Milesians, though they faced Harpagus in battle as did the exiles...
Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...is now honored as a hero by the Teians of Abdera. 169. These were the only Ionians who left their native lands, unable to endure slavery. The rest of the Ionians...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Xanthus ...were away from the city at that time, and thus survived. So Harpagus gained Xanthus, and Caunus too in a somewhat similar manner, the Caunians following for the...
Xanthus
78 29.31836,36.355934,0 Assyrians ...178. When Cyrus had made all the mainland submit to him, he attacked the Assyrians. In Assyria there are many other great cities, but the most famous and the...
Assyrians
76 37.5,37.5,0 Armenia ...half by a river named Euphrates, a wide, deep, and swift river, flowing from Armenia and issuing into the Red Sea. [2] The angles of the wall, then, on either side...
Armenia
79 42.5,37.5,0 Egyptians ...occurred to me, I inquired of both peoples; and the Colchians remembered the Egyptians better than the Egyptians remembered the Colchians; [2] the Egyptians said that...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...else about the Colchians, in which they are like the Egyptians: they and the Egyptians alone work linen and have the same way of working it, a way peculiar to...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...way. The reason why the king thus intersected the country was this: [4] those Egyptians whose towns were not on the Nile, but inland from it, lacked water whenever the...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...but that they were sure of what had happened in their own country. 120. The Egyptians' priests said this, and I myself believe their story about Helen, for I reason...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...say that Demeter and Dionysus are the rulers of the lower world.50 [2] The Egyptians were the first who maintained the following doctrine, too, that the human soul...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...great pyramid; each side of it measures one hundred and fifty feet. 127. The Egyptians said that this Kheops reigned for fifty years; at his death he was succeeded by...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...both came to Momemphis and were going to make trial of one another. 164. The Egyptians are divided into seven classes: priests, warriors, cowherds, swineherds...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...your business throughout the day, sitting on a celebrated throne; and thus the Egyptians would know that they are governed by a great man, and you would be better...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...[4] When Amasis learned what the townsfolk were doing, he called the Egyptians together and told them that the image had been made out of the washbowl, in...
Egyptians
71 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...of Saïs. [2] Now at first he was scorned and held in low regard by the Egyptians on the ground that he was a common man and of no high family; but presently he...
Egyptians
73 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...alive for a while in the palace and well treated by Amasis. But presently the Egyptians complained that there was no justice in keeping alive one who was their own and...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...effect: “Look at me, and believe.” 142. Thus far went the record given by the Egyptians and their priests; and they showed me that the time from the first king to that...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...fewest, and they are reckoned by the Egyptians at fifteen thousand. [3] The Egyptians claim to be sure of all this, since they have reckoned the years and chronicled...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...what I myself have seen. [2] After the reign of the priest of Hephaestus the Egyptians were made free. But they could never live without a king, so they divided Egypt...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...traders in it, the head is taken to the market and sold; where there are no Greeks, it is thrown into the river. [3] The imprecation which they utter over the...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...But nowhere in Egypt could I hear anything about the other Heracles, whom the Greeks know. [2] I have indeed a lot of other evidence that the name of Heracles did...
Greeks
80 Greeks ...come from Hellas to Egypt, but from Egypt to Hellas (and in Hellas to those Greeks who gave the name Heracles to the son of Amphitryon), besides this: that...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...but to the other bringing offerings as to a dead hero28. 45. And the Greeks say many other ill-considered things, too; among them, this is a silly story...
Greeks
72 Greeks ...but was familiar with this sacrifice. For Melampus was the one who taught the Greeks the name of Dionysus and the way of sacrificing to him and the phallic...
Greeks
80 Greeks ...what is done in Egypt in connection with the god and what is done among the Greeks originated independently: for they would then be of an Hellenic character and...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...handed it on to others. [2] For the Athenians were then already counted as Greeks when the Pelasgians came to live in the land with them and thereby began to be...
Greeks
77 Greeks ...all other peoples are less careful in this matter than are the Egyptians and Greeks, and consider a man to be like any other animal; [2] for beasts and birds (they...
Greeks
79 Greeks ...their seats for them when they approach. [2] But they are like none of the Greeks in this: passers-by do not address each other, but salute by lowering the hand...
Greeks
77 Greeks ...in proportion to the tax originally imposed. [3] From this, in my opinion, the Greeks learned the art of measuring land; the sunclock and the sundial, and the twelve...
Greeks
81 Greeks ...and knew from Menelaus himself. [2] After the rape of Helen, a great force of Greeks came to the Trojan land on Menelaus' behalf. After disembarking and disposing...
Greeks
80 Egyptians ...that this was not displeasing to him, for after being made king by the rebel Egyptians he prepared to march against Apries. [3] When Apries heard of it, he sent...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...counted on, and miserably starve: meaning that, if heaven send no rain for the Greeks and afflict them with drought, the Greeks will be overtaken by famine, for...
Greeks
81 Athenians ...and it is from them that the Samothracians take their rites. [4] The Athenians, then, were the first Greeks to make ithyphallic images of Hermes, and they did...
Athenians
71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...was formerly inhabited by those Pelasgians who came to live among the Athenians, and it is from them that the Samothracians take their rites. [4] The...
Athenians
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Dodona ...that a place of divination from Zeus must be made there; the people of Dodona understood that the message was divine, and therefore established the oracular...
Dodona
73 20.78784,39.54648,0 Dodonaean priestesses ...oracle of Ammon; this also is sacred to Zeus. Such was the story told by the Dodonaean priestesses, the eldest of whom was Promeneia and the next Timarete and the youngest...
Dodonaean priestesses
79 20.78784,39.54648,0 Memphis ...of what he thus cut off, he first founded in it that city which is now called Memphis (for even Memphis lies in the narrow part of Egypt), and outside of it he dug a...
Memphis
80 31.254278,29.849667,0 Memphis ...There is at Saïs another stone figure of like size, supine as is the figure at Memphis. It was Amasis, too, who built the great and most marvellous temple of Isis at...
Memphis
81 31.254278,29.849667,0 Memphis ...the southern bend of it, which begins about twelve and one half miles above Memphis, by damming the stream, thereby drying up the ancient channel, and carried the...
Memphis
78 31.254278,29.849667,0 Persians ...Arabia and Assyria, and at Marea facing Libya. [3] And still in my time the Persians hold these posts as they were held in the days of Psammetichus; there are...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Syria ...Syria borders on Egypt, and the Phoenicians, to whom Sidon belongs, dwell in Syria. 117. These verses and this passage prove most clearly that the Cyprian poems...
Syria
79 37.5,37.5,0 Ilion ...but of someone else. For the Cyprian poems relate that Alexandrus reached Ilion with Helen in three days from Sparta, having a fair wind and a smooth sea; but...
Ilion
76 26.23873,39.9577,0 Sidon ...wanderings to Egypt; for Syria borders on Egypt, and the Phoenicians, to whom Sidon belongs, dwell in Syria. 117. These verses and this passage prove most clearly...
Sidon
80 35.37564,33.55993,0 Nile mouth ...Menelaus. They laid this accusation before the priests and the warden of the Nile mouth, whose name was Thonis. 114. When Thonis heard it, he sent this message the...
Nile mouth
79 Samos ...labor and cost of this labyrinth. And yet the temple at Ephesus and the one on Samos are noteworthy. [3] Though the pyramids beggar description and each one of them...
Samos
81 26.84,37.73,0 Arabia ...into the Red Sea. Digging began in the part of the Egyptian plain nearest to Arabia; the mountains that extend to Memphis (the mountains where the stone quarries...
Arabia
79 42.5,27.5,0 Syria ...or Red Sea is from the Casian promontory, the boundary between Egypt and Syria, to the Arabian Gulf, and this is a distance of one hundred and twenty five...
Syria
75 37.5,37.5,0 Samians ...The Aeginetans made a precinct of their own, sacred to Zeus; and so did the Samians for Hera and the Milesians for Apollo. 179. Naucratis was in the past the only...
Samians
78 26.84,37.73,0 Cnidus ...cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene. [3] It is to...
Cnidus
79 27.37404,36.686188,0 Milesians ...precinct of their own, sacred to Zeus; and so did the Samians for Hera and the Milesians for Apollo. 179. Naucratis was in the past the only trading port in Egypt...
Milesians
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Phaselis ...and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene. [3] It is to these that the precinct belongs...
Phaselis
74 30.551573,36.524579,0 Memphis ...Such is the Ammonian tale about this army. 27. When Cambyses was back at Memphis, there appeared in Egypt that Apis13 whom the Greeks call Epaphus; at whose...
Memphis
76 31.254278,29.849667,0 Memphis ...of it, Psammenitus drank bull's blood7 and died. Such was his end. 16. From Memphis Cambyses went to the city Sais, anxious to do exactly what he did do. Entering...
Memphis
79 31.254278,29.849667,0 Serbonian marsh ...marsh, beside which the Casian promontory stretches seawards; [3] from this Serbonian marsh, where Typho is supposed to have been hidden,3 the country is Egypt. Now...
Serbonian marsh
78 33.25,31.25,0 Greece ...know. Earthen jars full of wine are brought into Egypt twice a year from all Greece and Phoenicia besides: yet one might safely say there is not a single empty...
Greece
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Ethiopia ...and sent the Greeks to sail away. 26. So fared the expedition against Ethiopia. As for those who were sent to march against the Ammonians, they set out and...
Ethiopia
73 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ammonians ...about fifty thousand men from his army, and directed them to enslave the Ammonians and burn the oracle of Zeus; and he himself went on towards Ethiopia with the...
Ammonians
75 25.54359,29.20514,0 Libya ...longest-lived people. 115. These then are the most distant lands in Asia and Libya. But concerning those in Europe that are the farthest away towards evening, I...
Libya
80 26.5,31.5,0 Cyrenaeans ...came from Cyrene and, displeased, I think, because it was so little—for the Cyrenaeans had sent five hundred silver minae—cast it with his own hands among his army...
Cyrenaeans
78 21.856169,32.818736,0 Sais ...blood7 and died. Such was his end. 16. From Memphis Cambyses went to the city Sais, anxious to do exactly what he did do. Entering the house of Amasis, he had the...
Sais
81 30.7695,30.96716,0 Carthaginians ...southern sea. [2] He decided after consideration to send his fleet against the Carthaginians and a part of his land army against the Ammonians; to Ethiopia he would first...
Carthaginians
81 10.327986,36.857569,0 Elephantine ...determined to send the spies, he sent for those Fish-eaters from the city of Elephantine who understood the Ethiopian language. [2] While they were fetching them, he...
Elephantine
79 32.89066,24.08292,0 Carthage ...[2] While they were fetching them, he ordered his fleet to sail against Carthage. But the Phoenicians said they would not do it; for they were bound, they said...
Carthage
74 10.327986,36.857569,0 Ethiopians ...as I do; but until then, to thank the gods who do not incite the sons of the Ethiopians to add other land to their own.’” 22. So speaking he unstrung the bow and gave...
Ethiopians
79 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopians ...to the Fish-eaters the wine—for in this, he said, the Persians excelled the Ethiopians. 23. The Fish-eaters then in turn asking of the Ethiopian length of life and...
Ethiopians
78 38.721522,14.125005,0 Greeks ...disaster. The result was that no one has ever heard of so great a slaughter of Greeks as that of the Tarentines and Rhegians; three thousand townsmen of the latter...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...ourselves.” These are the words of the men of Thessaly. 173. Thereupon the Greeks resolved that they would send a land army to Thessaly by sea to guard the pass...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...this was indeed the way by which Xerxes' army descended on Thessaly. The Greeks accordingly went down to their ships and made their way back to the Isthmus...
Greeks
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...to be most useful to the king. 175. When they had come to the Isthmus, the Greeks, taking into account what was said by Alexander, deliberated as a body how and...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...they had received the oracle, the Delphians first sent word of it to those Greeks who desired to be free; because of their dread of the barbarian, they were...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...surrendered themselves to the Persians. Such was the agreement sworn by the Greeks. 133. To Athens and Sparta Xerxes sent no heralds to demand earth, and this he...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Sparta ...the anger of Talthybius, Agamemnon's herald, fell upon the Lacedaemonians. At Sparta there is a shrine of Talthybius and descendants of Talthybius called...
Sparta
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...could have agreed with each other either to come home safely together to Sparta, since Leonidas had dismissed them from the camp and they were lying at Alpeni...
Sparta
75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...seer knew well his coming doom, But endured not to abandon the leaders of Sparta. ” [4] Except for the seer's inscription, the Amphictyons are the ones who...
Sparta
76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Greeks ...with Gelon the Greek envoys sailed away. Gelon, however, feared that the Greeks would not be able to overcome the barbarian, while believing it dreadful and...
Greeks
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...by Gelon and might have kept it. He nevertheless would not do so, but when the Greeks had prevailed in the sea-fight and Xerxes had headed home, Cadmus returned to...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...to you. But you, Mardonius son of Gobryas, cease your foolish words about the Greeks, for they do not deserve to be maligned. By slandering the Greeks you incite...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...opinion, you say that, while intending to abandon the expedition against the Greeks, you are haunted by a dream sent by some god, which forbids you to disband the...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Spartan ...Hellenes who awaited the Persians in that place were these: three hundred Spartan armed men; one thousand from Tegea and Mantinea, half from each place; one...
Spartan
76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...sent as a messenger to Thessaly. His name was Pantites. When he returned to Sparta, he was dishonored and hanged himself. 233. The Thebans, whose general was...
Sparta
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Persians ...have taken from the Phoenician rowers a number equal to the number of the Persians and cast them into the sea. No, the truth is that Xerxes did as I have already...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...for saving the king's life but cut off his head for being the death of many Persians. 119. This is the other tale of Xerxes' return; but I for my part believe...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...where some of the ships had wintered. The majority of their fighting men were Persians and Medes. [2] Mardontes son of Bagaeus and Artayntes son of Artachaees came to...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Hellas ...that to break the bridges would be the greatest harm that they could do to Hellas. [3] “For,” said he, “if the Persian is cut off and compelled to remain in...
Hellas
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...or else he offers to choose three hundred thousand men of the army and deliver Hellas to me enslaved, while I myself by his counsel march homeward with the rest of...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...of ours, and your territory was first the stake of that battle in which all Hellas is now engaged. [3] Apart from that, it is unbearable that not all this alone...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Persian ...they had great need of the others. This is clear, for when they had driven the Persian back and the battle was no longer for their territory but for his, they made a...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...they would give no money; they could do as the Thessalians did and take the Persian part, if for any cause they so wished, but they would not willingly betray the...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...of the safeguarding was that Xerxes should see that the Boeotians were on the Persian side. 35. So this part of the barbarian army marched as I have said, and...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...name with his father and city of residence. The presence of Ariaramnes, a Persian and a friend of the Ionians, contributed still more to this calamity of the...
Persian
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Hellas ...had suffered some damage. Now their counsel was to flee to the inner waters of Hellas 19. Themistocles thought that if the Ionian and Carian nations were removed...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...except the five cities whose names I previously mentioned. The farther into Hellas the Persian advanced, the more nations followed him. 67. All these came to...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Persians ...died, son of Darius and the brother of Xerxes. Many other famous men of the Persians and Medes and other allies also died, but only a few Hellenes, since they knew...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...your army away, even then I have another plan. [4] Do not, O king, make the Persians the laughing-stock of the Greeks, for if you have suffered harm, it is by no...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...advice that I should follow here and attack the Peloponnese, for the Persians, he says, and the land army are not to blame for our disaster; of that they...
Persians
71 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...and Parians, for these were informed that Andros was besieged for taking the Persian side and that Themistocles was of all the generals the most esteemed. This...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Thessalians' offer. The Phocians alone of all that region would not take the Persians' side, and that for no other reason (if I argue correctly) than their hatred of...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Thessaly ...to the Phocians, he spoke as follows to the Thessalians: [3] “I myself, men of Thessaly, am pressing on with all speed and diligence to march into Thrace, being...
Thessaly
81 22.2,39.6,0 Chalcidians ...of Critobulus of Torone and the Chalcidian people. It was in this way that the Chalcidians gained possession of Olynthus. 128. Having taken Olynthus, Artabazus dealt...
Chalcidians
81 23.6437183,39.9832624,0 Chalcidians ...zeal. The Corinthians furnished forty ships and the Megarians twenty; [2] the Chalcidians manned twenty, the Athenians furnishing the ships; the Aeginetans eighteen, the...
Chalcidians
80 23.6437183,39.9832624,0 Hellas ...minted and other, and silver drinking-cups, and send all this to all places in Hellas without stint, excepting none, but especially to the chief men in the cities of...
Hellas
81 Hellas ...a deed of surpassing greatness and glory; the god has granted to you in saving Hellas to have won greater renown than any Greek whom we know. But now you must finish...
Hellas
81 Hellas ...now, without any attempt of concealment, opened a passage for Mardonius into Hellas. 2. But when, in the course of its march, the army had come into Boeotia, the...
Hellas
79 Sardis ...happening and came to Sardis. 108. Now it happened that the king had been at Sardis ever since he came there in flight from Athens after his overthrow in the...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Perinthians ...whom Darius had left in Europe under the command of Megabazus, finding the Perinthians unwilling to be Darius' subjects, subdued them before any others of the people...
Perinthians
77 23.3278,40.1937,0 Egypt ...an alliance with the Lacedaemonians he had made one also with Amasis king of Egypt), and to send for the Babylonians also (for with these too he had made an...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Hellas ...money to the men who have power in their cities, and thereby you will divide Hellas against itself; after that, with your partisans to aid you, you will easily...
Hellas
79 Hellas ...that I have. [3] There is an oracle that Persians are fated to come to Hellas and all perish there after they have plundered the temple at Delphi. Since we...
Hellas
73 Hellas ...have been the duty of both ourselves and the Tegeans, who are faithful to Hellas, to aid you; but now, seeing that the whole brunt of their assault falls on us...
Hellas
76 Hellas ...fearing less for themselves than for the Greeks with Pausanias, that Hellas should stumble over Mardonius. But when the report sped among them, they grew...
Hellas
71 Eneti ...of the country. These men's borders, it is said, reach almost as far as the Eneti on the Adriatic Sea. [3] They call themselves colonists from Media. How this...
Eneti
78 12.3994439,45.5462452,0 Persia ...to show Darius that he was a man of influence in his own country as well as in Persia. 138. The Persians then put out from Croton; but their ships were wrecked on...
Persia
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...him and so be king, he sent Prexaspes, the most trusted of his Persians, to Persia to kill him. Prexaspes went up to Susa and killed Smerdis; some say that he...
Persia
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...and as he is no longer alive, necessity constrains me to charge you, men of Persia, in his place, with the last desire of my life. In the name of the gods of my...
Persia
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...her, or hated by Cambyses if he did not. Amasis, intimidated by the power of Persia and frightened, could neither give his daughter nor refuse her; for he knew...
Persia
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Egypt ...but were united to them by friendship, having given Cambyses passage into Egypt, which the Persians could not enter without the consent of the Arabians. [2]...
Egypt
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...on the Cilician and Syrian border by Amphilochus son of Amphiaraus, and Egypt; this paid three hundred and fifty talents; in this province was all Phoenicia...
Egypt
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...of Libya, and Cyrene and Barca, all of which were included in the province of Egypt. From here came seven hundred talents, besides the income in silver from the...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Arabians ...and cinnamon and gum-mastich. All these except myrrh are difficult for the Arabians to get. [2] They gather frankincense by burning that storax36 which Phoenicians...
Arabians
77 42.5,27.5,0 Arabians ...and so to come from Arabia to other lands. 112. But ledanon, which the Arabians call ladanon, is produced yet more strangely than this. For it is the most...
Arabians
74 42.5,27.5,0 Egypt ...since to my lifetime; for indeed there is no rain at all in the upper parts of Egypt; but at that time a drizzle of rain fell at Thebes .5 11. When the Persians...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...at him for leading a foreign army into Egypt. [2] Phanes had left sons in Egypt; these they brought to the camp, into their father's sight, and set a great...
Egypt
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...why they do not grow bald; for nowhere can one see so few bald heads as in Egypt. [4] Their skulls then are strong for this reason; while the Persian skulls are...
Egypt
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...another sister as well. It was the younger of these who had come with him to Egypt, and whom he now killed. 32. There are two tales of her death, as there are of...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...to pursue him. This eunuch caught him in Lycia but never brought him back to Egypt, for Phanes was too clever for him. [3] He made his guards drunk and so escaped...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Arabians ...into the sea called Red. [3] From this river (it is said) the king of the Arabians brought water by an aqueduct made of sewn oxhides and other hides and extensive...
Arabians
76 42.5,27.5,0 Cadytis ...is this. The road runs from Phoenicia as far as the borders of the city of Cadytis,2 which belongs to the so-called Syrians of Palestine. [2] From Cadytis (which...
Cadytis
77 34.46203,31.503959,0 Arabians ...should march; as to this, he advised Cambyses to send and ask the king of the Arabians for a safe passage. 5. Now the only apparent way of entry into Egypt is this...
Arabians
80 42.5,27.5,0 Egypt ...him up to Persia when Cyrus sent to Amasis asking for the best eye-doctor in Egypt. [2] Out of resentment, the Egyptian by his advice induced Cambyses to ask...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Sardis ...Cambyses was still ill, the following events occurred. The governor of Sardis appointed by Cyrus was Oroetes, a Persian. This man had an impious desire; for...
Sardis
73 28.040278,38.488333,0 Ienysus ...Ienysus the seaports belong to the Arabians; then they are Syrian again from Ienysus as far as the Serbonian marsh, beside which the Casian promontory stretches...
Ienysus
79 Serbonian marsh ...the country is Egypt. Now between Ienysus and the Casian mountain and the Serbonian marsh there lies a wide territory for as much as three days' journey, terribly arid...
Serbonian marsh
76 33.25,31.25,0 Palestine ...the borders of the city of Cadytis,2 which belongs to the so-called Syrians of Palestine. [2] From Cadytis (which, as I judge, is a city not much smaller than Sardis)...
Palestine
81 37.5,32.5,0 Memphis ...earthen pots from his own township and take them to Memphis, and the people of Memphis must fill them with water and carry them to those arid lands of Syria; so the...
Memphis
81 31.254278,29.849667,0 Memphis ...to invite the Egyptians to an accord. [2] But when they saw the boat coming to Memphis, they sallied out all together from their walls, destroyed the boat...
Memphis
81 31.254278,29.849667,0 Memphis ...his army. 14. On the tenth day after the surrender of the walled city of Memphis, Cambyses took Psammenitus king of Egypt, who had reigned for six months, and...
Memphis
76 31.254278,29.849667,0 Memphis ...out to be punished for those Mytileneans who had perished with their boat at Memphis; for such was the judgment of the royal judges, that every man's death be paid...
Memphis
79 31.254278,29.849667,0 Halicarnassus ...supply of water; and so Cambyses, hearing what was said by the stranger from Halicarnassus, sent messengers to the Arabian and asked and obtained safe conduct, giving to...
Halicarnassus
79 27.424112,37.037864,0 Greeks ...loss of many of his army; from Thebes he came down to Memphis, and sent the Greeks to sail away. 26. So fared the expedition against Ethiopia. As for those who...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...at such length of the Samians, because the three greatest works of all the Greeks were engineered by them. The first of these is the tunnel with a mouth at...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...to bear burdens besides. 103. I do not describe the camel's appearance to Greeks, for they know it; but I shall tell them something that they do not know...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...ate at the king's table; he had everything, except permission to return to the Greeks. [2] When the Egyptian physicians who until now had attended the king were...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...for his conquest being this: when Cambyses, son of Cyrus, invaded Egypt, many Greeks came with the army, some to trade, as was natural, and some to see the country...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Arabian ...They call Dionysus, Orotalt; and Aphrodite, Alilat.4 9. When, then, the Arabian had made the pledge to the messengers who had come from Cambyses, he devised...
Arabian
75 42.5,27.5,0 Greeks ...near the Egyptians intending to engage them, the Egyptian mercenaries, Greeks and Carians, devised a plan to punish Phanes, angered at him for leading a...
Greeks
73 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Pelusian ...10. Psammenitus, son of Amasis, was encamped by the mouth of the Nile called Pelusian, awaiting Cambyses. [2] For when Cambyses marched against Egypt, he found...
Pelusian
80 32.5824,31.062,0 Persian ...those killed on either side in this fight lying scattered separately (for the Persian bones lay in one place and the Egyptian in another, where the armies had first...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Libyan ...Persians at Papremis who were killed with Darius' son Achaemenes by Inaros the Libyan, and they were like the others. 13. After their rout in the battle the...
Libyan
81 26.5,31.5,0 Ammonians ...the Blest. [2] Thus far, it is said, the army came; after that, except for the Ammonians themselves and those who heard from them, no man can say anything of them; for...
Ammonians
81 25.54359,29.20514,0 Cyrene ...in all kindness the gifts of the Libyans; but he seized what came from Cyrene and, displeased, I think, because it was so little—for the Cyrenaeans had sent...
Cyrene
73 21.856169,32.818736,0 Libya ...and Cyprus. [2] The sixth province was Egypt and the neighboring parts of Libya, and Cyrene and Barca, all of which were included in the province of Egypt...
Libya
76 26.5,31.5,0 Ethiopia ...the Fish-eaters arrived from Elephantine at Cambyses' summons, he sent them to Ethiopia, with orders what to say, and bearing as gifts a red cloak and a twisted gold...
Ethiopia
81 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopia ...out of jealousy, because Smerdis alone could draw the bow brought from the Ethiopian by the Fish-eaters as far as two fingerbreadths, but no other Persian could...
Ethiopia
77 38.721522,14.125005,0 Carthaginians ...Phoenicians being unwilling, the rest were inadequate fighters. [3] Thus the Carthaginians escaped being enslaved by the Persians; for Cambyses would not use force with...
Carthaginians
79 10.327986,36.857569,0 Phoenicians ...sailed against their own progeny they would be doing an impious thing; and the Phoenicians being unwilling, the rest were inadequate fighters. [3] Thus the Carthaginians...
Phoenicians
81 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...This image of Hephaestus is most like the Phoenician Pataici,17 which the Phoenicians carry on the prows of their triremes. I will describe it for anyone who has not...
Phoenicians
76 35.25,33.25,0 Ethiopians ...been injured. Now, give him this bow, and this message: [3] ‘The King of the Ethiopians advises the King of the Persians to bring overwhelming odds to attack the...
Ethiopians
79 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopians ...they reported all this, Cambyses was angry, and marched at once against the Ethiopians, neither giving directions for any provision of food nor considering that he...
Ethiopians
78 38.721522,14.125005,0 Samians ...Aeginetans did this out of a grudge against the Samians; for previously the Samians, in the days when Amphicrates was king of Samos, sailing in force against...
Samians
78 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...of Athena in Aegina. [4] The Aeginetans did this out of a grudge against the Samians; for previously the Samians, in the days when Amphicrates was king of Samos...
Samians
79 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...were defeated in battle, and many of them were cut off from their town by the Samians; who presently exacted from them a hundred talents. 59. Then the Samians took...
Samians
80 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...Samians go, telling them to thank him that they were free; those who were not Samians, or were servants of Polycrates' followers, he kept for slaves. [4] And...
Samians
80 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...directing Cambyses not to send the men back. 45. Some say that these Samians who were sent never came to Egypt, but that when they had sailed as far as...
Samians
72 26.84,37.73,0 Aeschrionian ...that they came to the city of Oasis,12 inhabited by Samians said to be of the Aeschrionian tribe, seven days' march from Thebes across sandy desert; this place is called...
Aeschrionian
80 Indians ...and lies there, and no one notices whether he is sick or dies. 101. These Indians whom I have described have intercourse openly like cattle; they are all...
Indians
77 77.5,22.5,0 Indians ...the king, besides the tribute. 98. All this abundance of gold, from which the Indians send the aforementioned gold-dust to the king, they obtain in the following...
Indians
81 77.5,22.5,0 Indians ...like their skin, and resembles in this respect that of the Ethiopians. These Indians dwell far away from the Persians southwards, and were not subjects of King...
Indians
79 77.5,22.5,0 Indians ...north of the rest of India; these live like the Bactrians; they are of all Indians the most warlike, and it is they who are sent for the gold; for in these parts...
Indians
77 77.5,22.5,0 Indians ...they carry from the holes is full of gold. [3] It is for this sand that the Indians set forth into the desert. They harness three camels apiece, males on either...
Indians
78 77.5,22.5,0 Lydian ...offense, and buried them alive up to the neck. 36. For these acts Croesus the Lydian thought fit to take him to task, and addressed him thus: “Sire, do not...
Lydian
81 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Samos ...Corinthians also enthusiastically helped to further the expedition against Samos. For an outrage had been done them by the Samians a generation before this...
Samos
77 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...in Corcyra, to be made eunuchs. The Corinthians who brought the boys put in at Samos; and when the Samians heard why the boys were brought, first they instructed...
Samos
81 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...the water coming from an abundant spring is carried by pipes to the city of Samos. [3] The designer of this work was Eupalinus son of Naustrophus, a Megarian...
Samos
78 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...said to Oroetes, [3] “You are not to be reckoned a man; the island of Samos lies close to your province, yet you have not added it to the king's...
Samos
72 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...the temples alike. 148. Maeandrius sailed to Lacedaemon, escaping from Samos; and after he arrived there and brought up the possessions with which he had...
Samos
74 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...war upon Samos and upon Aeaces' son Polycrates, who had revolted and won Samos.20 [2] And first, dividing the city into three parts, he gave a share in the...
Samos
75 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...and request men from him. [2] At this message Cambyses very readily sent to Samos, asking Polycrates to send a fleet to aid him against Egypt. Polycrates chose...
Samos
78 26.84,37.73,0 Lacedaemon ...integrity in that he would not accept; but realizing that there were others in Lacedaemon from whom Maeandrius would get help by offering them the cups, he went to the...
Lacedaemon
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...ruling men and made a long speech to show the greatness of their need. But the Spartans at their first sitting answered that they had forgotten the beginning of the...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corcyra ...heir of his power. [7] The son consented to this; Periander got ready to go to Corcyra and Lycophron to go to Corinth; but when the Corcyraeans learned of all these...
Corcyra
81 19.92178,39.60733,0 Corcyra ...not be got around or overcome, he sent him away out of his sight in a ship to Corcyra; for Corcyra too was subject to him. [7] And when he had sent him away, he sent...
Corcyra
80 19.92178,39.60733,0 Corcyraeans ...come to their country. It was for this that Periander desired vengeance on the Corcyraeans. 54. The Lacedaemonians then came with a great army, and besieged Samos. They...
Corcyraeans
81 19.92178,39.60733,0 Corinthians ...three hundred boys, sons of notable men in Corcyra, to be made eunuchs. The Corinthians who brought the boys put in at Samos; and when the Samians heard why the boys...
Corinthians
78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Lindus ...It is the exact counterpart of that one which Amasis dedicated to Athena in Lindus. 48. The Corinthians also enthusiastically helped to further the expedition...
Lindus
78 28.15629,36.41451,0 Asia ...were the sixteenth, paying three hundred. 94. The Paricanii and Ethiopians of Asia, the seventeenth, paid four hundred; the Matieni, Saspiri, and Alarodii were...
Asia
81 Asia ...I take no account of figures less than ten. 96. This was Darius' revenue from Asia and a few parts of Libya. But as time went on he drew tribute also from the...
Asia
81 Siphnus ...force and a red herald.” ” At this time the market-place and town-hall of Siphnus were adorned with Parian marble. 58. They could not understand this oracle...
Siphnus
76 24.70109,36.9678,0 Siphnus ...whereupon the priestess gave them this answer: [4] ““When the prytaneum on Siphnus becomes white And white-browed the market, then indeed a shrewd man is...
Siphnus
77 24.70109,36.9678,0 Epidaurus ...since he was most to blame for his present troubles; and he took Epidaurus, captured Procles, and imprisoned him. 53. As time went on, Periander, now...
Epidaurus
67 23.079167,37.596111,0 Corinth ...he proposed that he should go to Corcyra, and that the boy should return to Corinth and be the heir of his power. [7] The son consented to this; Periander got...
Corinth
78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...their father's inducements. But he answered that he would never come to Corinth as long as he knew his father was alive. [6] When she brought this answer back...
Corinth
74 22.878721,37.906045,0 Epidaurus ...one eighteen years old. [2] Their mother's father, Procles, the sovereign of Epidaurus, sent for the boys and treated them affectionately, as was natural, seeing that...
Epidaurus
79 23.079167,37.596111,0 Siphnus ...who had brought an army against Polycrates sailed away too, and went to Siphnus; [2] for they were in need of money; and the Siphnians were at this time very...
Siphnus
74 24.70109,36.9678,0 Siphnians ...and this was what was meant by the warning given by the priestess to the Siphnians, to beware a wooden force and a red herald. [3] The messengers, then, demanded...
Siphnians
75 24.70109,36.9678,0 Siphnians ...refused them, the Samians set about ravaging their lands. [4] Hearing this the Siphnians came out at once to drive them off, but they were defeated in battle, and many...
Siphnians
81 24.70109,36.9678,0 Aeginetans ...and the shrine of Dictyna are the Samians' work; [3] but in the sixth year Aeginetans and Cretans came and defeated them in a sea-fight and made slaves of them...
Aeginetans
77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Parian ...At this time the market-place and town-hall of Siphnus were adorned with Parian marble. 58. They could not understand this oracle either when it was spoken or...
Parian
75 25.19093,37.03613,0 Samian ...the command given him at his departure by Darius not to kill or enslave any Samian but to deliver the island intact to Syloson; and he commanded his army to kill...
Samian
78 26.84,37.73,0 Samian ...the temples of which we know; its first builder was Rhoecus son of Philes, a Samian. It is for this cause that I have expounded at more than ordinary length of...
Samian
79 26.84,37.73,0 Cretans ...of Dictyna are the Samians' work; [3] but in the sixth year Aeginetans and Cretans came and defeated them in a sea-fight and made slaves of them; moreover they...
Cretans
77 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Aegina ...father at Croton; since he could not stand him, he left him and went to Aegina. Within the first year after settling there, he excelled the rest of the...
Aegina
74 23.42372,37.74991,0 Megarian ...of Samos. [3] The designer of this work was Eupalinus son of Naustrophus, a Megarian. This is one of the three works; the second is a breakwater in the sea...
Megarian
78 15.18273,37.2038,0 Median ...royal power, that Otanes and his descendants should receive a yearly gift of Median clothing and everything else that the Persians hold most valuable. The reason...
Median
79 46.5,34.5,0 Median ...than those of other lands, except the horses, which are smaller than the Median horses called Nesaean; moreover, the gold there, whether dug from the earth or...
Median
75 46.5,34.5,0 Median ...the Tarentines, out of sympathy for Democedes, took the steering gear off the Median ships and put the Persians under a guard, calling them spies. While they were...
Median
80 46.5,34.5,0 Mede ...own hands. [4] If then the dead can rise, you may expect to see Astyages the Mede rise up against you; but if things are as usual, assuredly no harm to you will...
Mede
79 46.5,34.5,0 Babylonians ...and I know all the issues of his plans.” This was what he said. 157. When the Babylonians saw the most well-respected man in Persia without his nose and ears and all...
Babylonians
81 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylonians ...as for the rest, he gave them back their city to live in. [2] Further, as the Babylonians, fearing for their food, had strangled their own women, as I described above...
Babylonians
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Persia ...him. 87. Some say that this was Oebares' plan; but there is another story in Persia besides this: that he rubbed this mare's vulva with his hand, which he then...
Persia
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Aparytae ...Wall of Memphis and their allies. [4] The Sattagydae, Gandarii, Dadicae, and Aparytae paid together a hundred and seventy talents; this was the seventh province; the...
Aparytae
79 67.5,32.5,0 Armenia ...these paid three hundred and sixty. The thirteenth, the Pactyic country and Armenia and the lands adjoining as far as the Euxine sea; these paid four hundred. [2]...
Armenia
78 42.5,37.5,0 Utii ...[2] The fourteenth province was made up of the Sagartii, Sarangeis, Thamanaei, Utii, Myci, and the inhabitants of those islands of the southern sea on which the...
Utii
81 Mares ...the appointed tribute. [2] The Moschi, Tibareni, Macrones, Mossynoeci, and Mares, the nineteenth province, were ordered to pay three hundred. The Indians made...
Mares
77 36.56717,36.1206,0 Sogdi ...were the fifteenth, paying two hundred and fifty. The Parthians, Chorasmians, Sogdi, and Arii were the sixteenth, paying three hundred. 94. The Paricanii and...
Sogdi
80 66.947223,39.656498,0 Saspiri ...and Ethiopians of Asia, the seventeenth, paid four hundred; the Matieni, Saspiri, and Alarodii were the eighteenth, and two hundred talents were the appointed...
Saspiri
75 Persian ...his purpose. 97. These were the governments and appointments of tribute. The Persian country is the only one which I have not recorded as tributary; for the...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Paricanii ...Sogdi, and Arii were the sixteenth, paying three hundred. 94. The Paricanii and Ethiopians of Asia, the seventeenth, paid four hundred; the Matieni...
Paricanii
69 Europe ...But as time went on he drew tribute also from the islands and the dwellers in Europe, as far as Thessaly. [2] The tribute is stored by the king in this fashion: he...
Europe
80 Caspatyrus ...were not subjects of King Darius. 102. Other Indians dwell near the town of Caspatyrus and the Pactyic country,34 north of the rest of India; these live like the...
Caspatyrus
79 71.73742,34.16783,0 India ...near the town of Caspatyrus and the Pactyic country,34 north of the rest of India; these live like the Bactrians; they are of all Indians the most warlike, and...
India
78 77.5,22.5,0 Dascyleium ...in this confusion killed two prominent Persians, Mitrobates, the governor from Dascyleium, who had taunted him about Polycrates, and Mitrobates' son Cranaspes; and on...
Dascyleium
81 28.05065,40.13271,0 Dascyleium ...and another Persian whose name was Mitrobates, governor of the province at Dascyleium, sat at the king's doors, they fell from talking to quarreling; and as they...
Dascyleium
77 28.05065,40.13271,0 Lydian ...at Magnesia which is above the river Maeander, sent Myrsus son of Gyges, a Lydian, with a message to Samos, having learned Polycrates' intention; [2] for...
Lydian
77 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Greek ...of Croton were well-respected [ [3] for at this time the best physicians in Greek countries were those of Croton, and next to them those of Cyrene. About the...
Greek
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...had attended the king were about to be impaled for being less skilful than a Greek, Democedes interceded with the king for them and saved them; and he saved an...
Greek
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...the doorkeeper brought word of this to the king, Darius asked “But to what Greek benefactor can I owe thanks? In the little time since I have been king hardly...
Greek
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Lydian ...Croesus, but if he should not repent nor wish Croesus back, then to kill the Lydian. [6] Not long after this Cambyses did wish Croesus back, and the attendants...
Lydian
79 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Tarentines ...parts they reached Tarentum in Italy. [2] There Aristophilides, king of the Tarentines, out of sympathy for Democedes, took the steering gear off the Median ships and...
Tarentines
78 17.228553,40.476034,0 Italy ...until having viewed the greater and most famous parts they reached Tarentum in Italy. [2] There Aristophilides, king of the Tarentines, out of sympathy for...
Italy
81 16.25,38.25,0 Babylon ...word and the birth from his own mule. 154. As soon as he thought that it was Babylon's fate to fall, he came and inquired of Darius if taking Babylon were very...
Babylon
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylon ...but now I have done it on my own. Now, then, if you do your part we shall take Babylon. I shall desert to the city as I am, and I shall say to them that I suffered...
Babylon
81 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylon ...Darius heard of this, he collected all his forces and led them against Babylon, and he marched up to the town and laid siege to it; but the Babylonians...
Babylon
73 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylons ...that he would rather Zopyrus were free of disfigurement than have twenty Babylons on top of the one he had. [2] He honored him very much; every year he sent him...
Babylons
75 44.42082,32.53617,0 Sparta ...he came to Arcadia and stirred up disorder, uniting the Arcadians against Sparta; among his methods of binding them by oath to follow him wherever he led was...
Sparta
76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...that Demaratus was not Ariston's son and that he was not rightly king of Sparta, bringing as witnesses the ephors who had been sitting beside Ariston and heard...
Sparta
75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...using the following affair as a pretext against him: Ariston, king of Sparta, had married twice but had no children. [2] He did not admit that he himself...
Sparta
72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...and whip him, and he performed the sacrifice. After doing this, he returned to Sparta. 82. But after his return his enemies brought him before the ephors, saying...
Sparta
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...when the Aeginetans were about to carry Leutychides away, a man of repute at Sparta, Theasides son of Leoprepes, said to them, “Men of Aegina, what are you...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Delphi ...renown increased. [2] When the Lydians from Sardis came from Croesus to the Delphic oracle, Alcmeon son of Megacles worked with them and zealously aided them...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...They were crushed in war by the Apsinthians, so they sent their kings to Delphi to inquire about the war. [2] The Pythia answered that they should bring to...
Delphi
75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...judgment that he was not. All this came to light later; Cobon was exiled from Delphi, and Periallus was deposed from her position. 67. So it was concerning...
Delphi
80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...agreed with the oracle concerning Miletus. 19. When the Argives inquired at Delphi about the safety of their city, a common response was given, one part regarding...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 the Ionians ...why he had so zealously ordered Aristagoras to revolt from the king and done the Ionians such great harm. He did not at all reveal the true reason to them, telling them...
the Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...meet us in battle, or if they do they shall be utterly vanquished.” 12. When the Ionians heard this, they put themselves in Dionysius' hands. He then each day put out...
the Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...ships in column. When they drew near and met each other in battle, which of the Ionians were brave men or cowards then in that sea-fight I cannot exactly say; for they...
the Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Chians ...most roughly handled of those that stood their ground in the sea-fight were the Chians, since they refused to be cowards and achieved deeds of renown. They brought a...
the Chians
78 26.053,38.414,0 the Ionians ...be a very favorable service, because Miltiades had declared his opinion among the Ionians that they should obey the Scythians in their demand to break the bridge of...
the Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Lade ...and to man their fleet to the last ship and gather as quickly as possible at Lade to fight for Miletus at sea. This Lade is a small island lying off the city of...
Lade
79 27.25,37.75,0 Scythians ...if in deliberation they thought this best. 121. Determined on this plan, the Scythians sent an advance guard of their best horsemen to meet Darius' army. As for the...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...about seven miles from one another. [2] While he was occupied with these, the Scythians whom he was pursuing doubled north and turned back into Scythia. Then, when...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...on their borders, intending to stop the invaders. When the Persians and the Scythians broke into their lands, the Blackcloaks and Man-eaters and Neuri put up no...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...who had refused their alliance, to the land of the Black-cloaks first. [3] The Scythians and Persians burst into their land, agitating them; and from there, the...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...too. [2] As to why I do not fight with you at once, I will tell you why. We Scythians have no towns or cultivated land, out of fear for which, that the one might be...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...and value this most; what lies at the bottom is less valued. This is why the Scythians blind all prisoners whom they take: for they do not cultivate the soil, but are...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...came to this land, which was then desolate, but is now inhabited by the Scythians. [2] Geryones lived west of the Pontus,7 settled in the island called by the...
Scythians
74 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...and the Cimmerians, living by the southern sea, were hard pressed by the Scythians and left their country. Thus Aristeas' story does not agree with the Scythian...
Scythians
75 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...and somewhat to the east live Scythians again, who revolted from the Royal Scythians and came to this country. 23. As for the countryside of these Scythians, all...
Scythians
77 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...performing these rites, shot an arrow at him and killed him. And now the Scythians, if they are asked about Anacharsis, say they have no knowledge of him; this is...
Scythians
75 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...For their king, whose name was Ariantas, desiring to know the census of the Scythians, commanded every Scythian to bring him the point from an arrow, threatening...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...him away, but Octamasades beheaded Scyles on the spot. This is how closely the Scythians guard their customs, and these are the penalties they inflict on those who add...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...lived among the Budini. It may be that these people are wizards; [2] for the Scythians, and the Greeks settled in Scythia, say that once a year every one of the Neuri...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...the pursuit stopped, to return and camp near them. This was the plan of the Scythians, for they desired that children be born of the women. The young men who were...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...the volume of the river appears always the same. 51. One of the rivers of the Scythians, then, is the Ister. The next is the Tyras;28 this comes from the north...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...and Heracles, and Ares. All the Scythians worship these as gods; the Scythians called Royal sacrifice to Poseidon also. [2] In the Scythian tongue, Hestia is...
Scythians
71 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...and enters a yet greater lake called the Maeetian, which divides the Royal Scythians from the Sauromatae; another river, called Hyrgis,32 is a tributary of this...
Scythians
77 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...for he who has most scalps for hand towels is judged the best man. [3] Many Scythians even make garments to wear out of these scalps, sewing them together like coats...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...Scythian that saw it gave chase. So there was confusion and shouting among the Scythians; Darius asked about the clamor among the enemy; and when he heard that they...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...water and a bird particularly like a horse; and the arrows signified that the Scythians surrendered their fighting power. [2] This was the opinion declared by Darius...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...for the Persians; but they missed the way by which their enemies returned. The Scythians themselves were to blame for this, because they had destroyed the horses'...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...them, punish them as they deserve on our behalf and on your own.” 140. So the Scythians, trusting the Ionians' word once more, turned back to look for the Persians...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...Histiaeus answered for them all, and said, “You have come with good advice, Scythians, and your urgency is timely: you guide us well and we do you a convenient...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Media ...desired to punish the Scythians for the wrong they had begun when they invaded Media first and defeated those who opposed them in battle. [2] For the Scythians, as...
Media
81 46.5,34.5,0 Scythians ...and sends forth such fumes that no Greek vapor-bath could surpass it. [2] The Scythians howl in their joy at the vapor-bath. This serves them instead of bathing, for...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Cimmerian ...left empty. 12. And to this day there are Cimmerian walls in Scythia, and a Cimmerian ferry, and there is a country Cimmeria9 and a strait named Cimmerian. [2]...
Cimmerian
79 36.2317044,45.0437458,0 Cimmerian ...begin, living north of the Tauri and beside the eastern sea, west of the Cimmerian Bosporus and the Maeetian lake, as far as the Tanaïs river, which empties into...
Cimmerian
75 36.2317044,45.0437458,0 Greek ...for he had consorted with Greeks, and moreover with one of the greatest Greek teachers, Pythagoras; [3] therefore he made a hall, where he entertained and...
Greek
74 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Pontus ...Mandrocles, crossed over to Europe; he had told the Ionians to sail into the Pontus as far as the Ister river, and when they got to the Ister, to wait there for...
Pontus
79 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Pontus ...than the sea itself; it is called the Maeetian lake, and the mother of the Pontus. 87. After having viewed the Pontus, Darius sailed back to the bridge, whose...
Pontus
77 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Pontus ...day. This alone his mother did for Scythes. This is what the Greek dwellers in Pontus say. 11. There is yet another story, to which account I myself especially...
Pontus
81 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Massagetae ...to have many wives; their intercourse with women is promiscuous, as among the Massagetae; a staff is placed before the dwelling, and then they have intercourse. When a...
Massagetae
80 62.5,37.5,0 Issedones ...whom I recently mentioned—even he did not claim to have gone beyond the Issedones, even though a poet; but he spoke by hearsay of what lay north, saying that the...
Issedones
74 92.5,37.5,0 Hyperboreans ...nearest the refectory of the people of Ceos. 36. I have said this much of the Hyperboreans, and let it suffice; for I do not tell the story of that Abaris, alleged to be...
Hyperboreans
81 77.5,32.5,0 Issedones ...the country east of the bald-heads is known for certain to be inhabited by the Issedones; however, of what lies north either of the bald-heads or the Issedones we have...
Issedones
81 92.5,37.5,0 Borysthenes ...There is the Ister, which has five mouths, and the Tyras, and Hypanis, and Borysthenes, and Panticapes, and Hypacuris, and Gerrhus, and Tanaïs. Their courses are as I...
Borysthenes
77 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Borysthenes ...Nile, whose source I cannot identify; nor, I think, can any Greek. When the Borysthenes comes near the sea, the Hypanis mingles with it, running into the same marsh...
Borysthenes
78 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Borysthenes ...kings are in the land of the Gerrhi, which is the end of the navigation of the Borysthenes. Whenever their king has died, the Scythians dig a great four-cornered pit in...
Borysthenes
81 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Borysthenes ...[2] But this much they let me see for myself: there is a region between the Borysthenes and Hypanis rivers, whose name is Exampaeus; this is the land that I mentioned...
Borysthenes
78 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Hypanis river ...the land is uninhabited so far as we know. 18. These are the tribes by the Hypanis river,12 west of the Borysthenes. But on the other side of the Borysthenes, the tribe...
Hypanis river
78 31.3343727,47.5349319,0 Budini ...were those of the Tauri, Agathyrsi, Neuri, Maneaters, Black-cloaks, Geloni, Budini, and Sauromatae. 103. Among these, the Tauri have the following customs: all...
Budini
78 Budini ...same language as the Geloni, nor is their manner of life the same. 109. The Budini are indigenous; they are nomads, and the only people in these parts that eat...
Budini
79 Budini ...the Budini; and they speak a language half Greek and half Scythian. But the Budini do not speak the same language as the Geloni, nor is their manner of life the...
Budini
78 Budini ...harm, as the land was dry and barren. But when they entered the country of the Budini, they found themselves before the wooden-walled town; the Budini had abandoned...
Budini
81 Sauromatae ...greater lake called the Maeetian, which divides the Royal Scythians from the Sauromatae; another river, called Hyrgis,32 is a tributary of this Tanaïs. 58. These are...
Sauromatae
79 39.5,45.5,0 Sauromatae ...was their decision that to one of their divisions, which Scopasis ruled, the Sauromatae be added; if the Persian marched that way, this group was to retire before him...
Sauromatae
79 39.5,45.5,0 Royal ...Maeetian lake; and part of it stretches to the Tanaïs river. [2] North of the Royal Scythians live the Blackcloaks, who are of another and not a Scythian stock...
Royal
80 33.5,45.5,0 Thyssagetae ...after this desolation, and somewhat more toward the east wind, live the Thyssagetae, a numerous and a separate nation, who live by hunting. [2] Adjoining these and...
Thyssagetae
74 Royal ...[2] Then those who receive the dead man on his arrival do the same as do the Royal Scythians: that is, they cut off a part of their ears, shave their heads, make...
Royal
79 33.5,45.5,0 Eleans ...the land they had won;48 most of these were in my time taken and sacked by the Eleans. As for the island Calliste, it was called Thera after its colonist. 149. But...
Eleans
81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Delians ...came with the gods themselves,20 and received honors of their own from the Delians. [3] For the women collected gifts for them, calling upon their names in the...
Delians
77 25.268194,37.397274,0 Hyperborean ...that they do this. The Delian girls and boys cut their hair in honor of these Hyperborean maidens, who died at Delos; the girls before their marriage cut off a tress and...
Hyperborean
80 77.5,32.5,0 Dodona ...the south, the people of Dodona being the first Greeks to receive them. From Dodona they come down to the Melian gulf, and are carried across to Euboea, and one...
Dodona
79 20.78784,39.54648,0 Delos ...for safe conduct, those who are now called Perpherees19 and greatly honored at Delos. [4] But when those whom they sent never returned, they took it amiss that they...
Delos
81 25.268194,37.397274,0 Euboea ...them. From Dodona they come down to the Melian gulf, and are carried across to Euboea, and one city sends them on to another until they come to Carystus; after this...
Euboea
81 23.87,38.53,0 Carystians ...they come to Carystus; after this, Andros is left out of their journey, for Carystians carry them to Tenos, and Tenians to Delos. [3] Thus (they say) these offerings...
Carystians
78 24.4204,38.0165,0 Delos ...to Tenos, and Tenians to Delos. [3] Thus (they say) these offerings come to Delos. But on the first journey, the Hyperboreans sent two maidens bearing the...
Delos
78 25.268194,37.397274,0 Persians ...gave this answer to the messengers: [2] “Had it not been you who wronged the Persians first and began the war, what you now ask would seem to us right, and we would...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...withdrawing before them; and then, making for the one Scythian division, the Persians held on in pursuit toward the east and the Tanaïs river; [3] when the horsemen...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...town; the Budini had abandoned it and left nothing in it, and the Persians burnt the town. [2] Then going forward still on the horsemen's track, they...
Persians
68 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Egyptians ...in circulation during this king's reign, they told me, a law was made for the Egyptians allowing a man to borrow on the security of his father's corpse; and the law...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...lived for fifty years on an island that he built of ashes and earth; for the Egyptians who were to bring him food without the Ethiopian's knowledge were instructed by...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...trees too, some yielding fruit and some not. [4] This is the story that the Egyptians tell to explain why the island moves: that on this island that did not move...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...[2] This lies in a deep and wide lake near the temple at Buto, and the Egyptians say that it floats. I never saw it float, or move at all, and I thought it a...
Egyptians
73 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...that they did: all Greeks from Elis or elsewhere might contend. [4] Then the Egyptians said that in establishing this rule they fell short of complete fairness: “For...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...Eleans came to Egypt and announced why they had come, Psammis assembled the Egyptians reputed to be wisest. These assembled and learned all that the Eleans were to...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...in this way he might be the more secure in his rule over the rest of the Egyptians. Bitterly angered by this, those who returned home and the friends of the slain...
Egyptians
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...lake they enact by night the story of the god's sufferings, a rite which the Egyptians call the Mysteries. I could say more about this, for I know the truth, but let...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...169. When Apries with his guards and Amasis with the whole force of Egyptians came to the town of Momemphis, they engaged; and though the foreigners fought...
Egyptians
71 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...have now said enough concerning creatures that are sacred. 77. Among the Egyptians themselves, those who live in the cultivated country are the most assiduous of...
Egyptians
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...the whole of it in bandages of fine linen cloth, anointed with gum, which the Egyptians mostly use instead of glue; [7] then they give the dead man back to his...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...have always sung this song; but in Egyptian Linus is called Maneros.39 [3] The Egyptians told me that Maneros was the only son of their first king, who died...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...country. Those who inhabit the marshes have the same customs as the rest of Egyptians, even that each man has one wife just like Greeks. They have, besides, devised...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Phrygian word ...and asked to what language the word “Bekos” belonged; he found it to be a Phrygian word, signifying bread. [5] Reasoning from this, the Egyptians acknowledged that the...
Phrygian word
76 29.75,38.75,0 Greeks ...their reckoning is, to my mind, a juster one than that of the Greeks; for the Greeks add an intercalary month every other year, so that the seasons agree; but the...
Greeks
80 Greeks ...they said). And their reckoning is, to my mind, a juster one than that of the Greeks; for the Greeks add an intercalary month every other year, so that the seasons...
Greeks
80 Greeks ...came to live in the land with them and thereby began to be considered as Greeks. Whoever has been initiated into the rites of the Cabeiri, which the...
Greeks
75 Greeks ...of these came from the Pelasgians, from whom the Athenians were the first Greeks to take it, and then handed it on to others. [2] For the Athenians were then...
Greeks
76 Greeks ...a name of its own for this, [2] but it happens to be the same song that the Greeks sing, and call Linus; so that of many things in Egypt that amaze me, one is...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...customs as the rest of Egyptians, even that each man has one wife just like Greeks. They have, besides, devised means to make their food less costly. [2] When the...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...Egyptians. 122. They said that later this king went down alive to what the Greeks call Hades and there played dice with Demeter, and after winning some and...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...about nine hundred years; and Pan the son of Penelope (for according to the Greeks Penelope and Hermes were the parents of Pan) was about eight hundred years...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...own citizens took part in the contests. The Eleans answered that they did: all Greeks from Elis or elsewhere might contend. [4] Then the Egyptians said that in...
Greeks
81 Greeks ...me preserve a discreet silence, too, concerning that rite of Demeter which the Greeks call Thesmophoria70 , except as much of it as I am not forbidden to mention...
Greeks
81 Egypt ...down to Perseus. [6] They told how he came to Khemmis, too, when he came to Egypt for the reason alleged by the Greeks as well—namely, to bring the Gorgon's head...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...city which is now called Memphis (for even Memphis lies in the narrow part of Egypt), and outside of it he dug a lake from the river to its north and west (for the...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...the Babylonian princess, Nitocris. She, to avenge her brother (he was king of Egypt and was slain by his subjects, who then gave Nitocris the sovereignty) put many...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...and sheets of sails are made fast outside the boat elsewhere, but inside it in Egypt. The Greeks write and calculate from left to right; the Egyptians do the...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...in this, the Egyptians are imitated by the Ammonians, who are colonists from Egypt and Ethiopia and speak a language compounded of the tongues of both countries...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...Egyptians than the name of Heracles. [4] But Heracles is a very ancient god in Egypt; as the Egyptians themselves say, the change of the eight gods to the twelve...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...but if their opinion is right, then it is plain that they and the rest of the Greeks cannot reckon truly, when they divide the whole earth into three parts, Europe...
Greeks
80 Egypt ...the wisest of all men, could not do better. [2] When the Eleans came to Egypt and announced why they had come, Psammis assembled the Egyptians reputed to be...
Egypt
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...wrong the stranger; if you wish in fact to make just rules and have come to Egypt for that reason, you should admit only strangers to the contest, and not...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...[2] But if we follow the belief of the Greeks, we shall consider all Egypt commencing from the Cataracts and the city of Elephantine12 to be divided into...
Egypt
71 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...to eat cows' meat, sent to Ammon saying that they had no part of or lot with Egypt: for they lived (they said) outside the Delta and did not consent to the ways...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...between the Arabian mountains and those that are called Libyan. Beyond this Egypt is a wide land again. Such is the nature of this country. 9. From Heliopolis...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...hills that run southward. [3] Beyond Heliopolis, there is no great distance—in Egypt, that is:8 the narrow land has a length of only fourteen days' journey up the...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Syria ...we know that the soil of Libya is redder and somewhat sandy, and Arabia and Syria are lands of clay and stones. 13. This, too, that the priests told me about...
Syria
78 37.5,37.5,0 Syria ...the Arabian gulf of which I shall speak, extended from the south towards Syria; the ends of these gulfs penetrated into the country near each other, and but a...
Syria
75 37.5,37.5,0 lake Moeris ...in my opinion, the Egyptians who inhabit the lands lower down the river than lake Moeris, and especially what is called the Delta—if this land of theirs rises in the...
lake Moeris
79 30.580833,29.453611,0 Delta ...Egyptians did not come into existence together with what the Ionians call the Delta, but have existed since the human race came into being; and as the land grew in...
Delta
80 Delta ...we have seen that (as the Egyptians themselves say, and as I myself judge) the Delta is alluvial land and but lately (so to speak) came into being. Then if there...
Delta
81 Libya ...divides at the apex of this Delta, so that this land must be between Asia and Libya. 17. We leave the Ionians' opinion aside, and our own judgment about the...
Libya
80 26.5,31.5,0 Delta ...the river that separates Asia and Libya; the Nile divides at the apex of this Delta, so that this land must be between Asia and Libya. 17. We leave the Ionians'...
Delta
80 Asia ...nor to Libya; for by their showing the Nile is not the river that separates Asia and Libya; the Nile divides at the apex of this Delta, so that this land must...
Asia
78 Assyrians ...king Sanacharib57 came against Egypt, with a great force of Arabians and Assyrians, the warrior Egyptians would not march against him. [3] The priest, in this...
Assyrians
75 37.5,37.5,0 Cercasorus ...divides Egypt into two parts as it flows to the sea. Now, as far as the city Cercasorus the Nile flows in one channel, but after that it parts into three. [4] One of...
Cercasorus
79 31.2187,30.09313,0 Elephantine ...we shall consider all Egypt commencing from the Cataracts and the city of Elephantine12 to be divided into two parts, and to claim both the names, the one a part of...
Elephantine
76 32.89066,24.08292,0 Nile ...into two parts as it flows to the sea. Now, as far as the city Cercasorus the Nile flows in one channel, but after that it parts into three. [4] One of these...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Delta ...the apex of the Delta, flows thereafter clean through the middle of the Delta into the sea; in this is seen the greatest and most famous part of its waters...
Delta
74 Nile ...priests or from any others. [2] Yet I was anxious to learn from them why the Nile comes down with a rising flood for a hundred days from the summer solstice; and...
Nile
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Apis ...was already formed about Egypt. [2] The men of the cities of Marea and Apis, in the part of Egypt bordering on Libya, believing themselves to be Libyans...
Apis
73 27.06176,31.38983,0 Nile ...from any of the Egyptians regarding this, when I asked them what power the Nile has to be contrary in nature to all other rivers. I wished to know this, and...
Nile
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Scythia ...from the Egyptians, I cannot confidently judge. I know that in Thrace and Scythia and Persia and Lydia and nearly all foreign countries, those who learn trades...
Scythia
76 27.5,47.5,0 Ister ...think that in its passage over all Europe it would have the same effect on the Ister as it now does on the Nile. 27. And as to why no breeze blows from the river...
Ister
81 29.647293,45.16291,0 Europe ...by the winter and the north wind, would pass over the inland parts of Europe as it now passes over Libya, and I think that in its passage over all Europe it...
Europe
72 Europe ...Europe as it now passes over Libya, and I think that in its passage over all Europe it would have the same effect on the Ister as it now does on the Nile. 27. And...
Europe
79 Saïs ...established; and now, defeated in battle and taken captive, he was brought to Saïs, to the royal dwelling which belonged to him once but now belonged to Amasis...
Saïs
80 30.7695,30.96716,0 Saïs ...the place where the coffin lies is within their doors. 170. There is also at Saïs the burial-place of one whose name I think it impious to mention in speaking of...
Saïs
80 30.7695,30.96716,0 Saïs ...Amasis became king; he was from a town called Siuph in the district of Saïs. [2] Now at first he was scorned and held in low regard by the Egyptians on the...
Saïs
73 30.7695,30.96716,0 Saïs ...from the city of Elephantine,73 twenty days' journey distant by river from Saïs. [3] But what I admire most of his works is this: he brought from Elephantine a...
Saïs
77 30.7695,30.96716,0 Saïs ...who is Demeter in the Greek language. [3] The third greatest festival is at Saïs in honor of Athena; the fourth is the festival of the sun at Heliopolis, the...
Saïs
78 30.7695,30.96716,0 Saïs ...sacrifice to keep their own lamps burning, and so they are alight not only at Saïs but throughout Egypt. A sacred tale is told showing why this night is lit up...
Saïs
80 30.7695,30.96716,0 Saïs ...and Ionians, thirty thousand of them, and his royal palace was in the city of Saïs, a great and marvellous palace. [2] Apries' men marched against the Egyptians...
Saïs
80 30.7695,30.96716,0 Thebaid ...had exact knowledge, but this was his story. Between the city of Syene in the Thebaid and Elephantine, there are two hills with sharp peaks, one called Crophi and...
Thebaid
80 32.65285,25.70247,0 Nile ...live nomadic Ethiopians. After crossing this, you come to the stream of the Nile, which empties into this lake. [5] Then you disembark and journey along the...
Nile
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Persian guards ...hold these posts as they were held in the days of Psammetichus; there are Persian guards at Elephantine and at Daphnae. Now the Egyptians had been on guard for three...
Persian guards
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Daphnae ...of Psammetichus, there were watchposts at Elephantine facing Ethiopia, at Daphnae of Pelusium facing Arabia and Assyria, and at Marea facing Libya. [3] And still...
Daphnae
76 32.17917,30.85806,0 Assyria ...at Elephantine facing Ethiopia, at Daphnae of Pelusium facing Arabia and Assyria, and at Marea facing Libya. [3] And still in my time the Persians hold these...
Assyria
75 37.5,37.5,0 Nasamonians ...source of it. Then Etearchus told them that once he had been visited by some Nasamonians. [2] These are a Libyan people, inhabiting the country of the Syrtis and a...
Nasamonians
79 20.5,30.5,0 Phoenicians ...of Thebes told me that two priestesses had been carried away from Thebes by Phoenicians; one, they said they had heard was taken away and sold in Libya, the other in...
Phoenicians
78 35.25,33.25,0 Libyans ...established the oracular shrine. [3] The dove which came to Libya told the Libyans (they say) to make an oracle of Ammon; this also is sacred to Zeus. Such was...
Libyans
77 26.5,31.5,0 Europe ...from the land of the Celts and the city of Pyrene through the very middle of Europe; now the Celts live beyond the Pillars of Heracles, being neighbors of the...
Europe
79 Pyrene ...Ister.18 [3] For the Ister flows from the land of the Celts and the city of Pyrene through the very middle of Europe; now the Celts live beyond the Pillars of...
Pyrene
78 9.411944,48.094722,0 Ammonian ...could be seen in it. 33. This is enough of the story told by Etearchus the Ammonian; except he said that the Nasamonians returned, as the men of Cyrene told me...
Ammonian
78 25.54359,29.20514,0 Greek knife ...a Greek, or taste the flesh of an unblemished bull that has been cut up with a Greek knife. [4] Cattle that die are dealt with in the following way. Cows are cast into...
Greek knife
81 Egyptian ...of all Egyptians is the same in all sacrifices; and from this ordinance no Egyptian will taste of the head of anything that had life. 40. But in regard to the...
Egyptian
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Thebans ...the Ammonians got their name, too; for the Egyptians call Zeus “Amon”. The Thebans, then, consider rams sacred for this reason, and do not sacrifice them. [6] But...
Thebans
77 32.65285,25.70247,0 Phoenicia ...Helen were carried off course, and wandered to, among other places, Sidon in Phoenicia. [3] This is in the story of the Prowess of Diomedes, where the verses run as...
Phoenicia
79 35.25,33.25,0 Ammonians ...of the tongues of both countries. [5] It was from this, I think, that the Ammonians got their name, too; for the Egyptians call Zeus “Amon”. The Thebans, then...
Ammonians
76 25.54359,29.20514,0 Hellas ...that the name of Heracles did not come from Hellas to Egypt, but from Egypt to Hellas (and in Hellas to those Greeks who gave the name Heracles to the son of...
Hellas
81 Phoenicia ...about this matter where it was possible so to do, I took ship for Tyre in Phoenicia, where I had learned by inquiry that there was a holy temple of Heracles.27 [2]...
Phoenicia
76 35.25,33.25,0 Boeotia ...of Tyre and those who came with Cadmus from Phoenicia to the land now called Boeotia. 50. In fact, the names of nearly all the gods came to Hellas from Egypt. For...
Boeotia
79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Athenians ...were the first Greeks to take it, and then handed it on to others. [2] For the Athenians were then already counted as Greeks when the Pelasgians came to live in the...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Pelasgians ...with the ithyphallic images of Hermes; the production of these came from the Pelasgians, from whom the Athenians were the first Greeks to take it, and then handed it...
Pelasgians
79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Samothracian mysteries ...Pelasgians told a certain sacred tale about this, which is set forth in the Samothracian mysteries. 52. Formerly, in all their sacrifices, the Pelasgians called upon gods...
Samothracian mysteries
78 25.5302283,40.5009431,0 Libya ...language, she taught divination; and she said that her sister had been sold in Libya by the same Phoenicians who sold her. 57. I expect that these women were...
Libya
81 26.5,31.5,0 Greek ...after the older Pan and Dionysus, the gods of antiquity; [2] but as it is, the Greek story has it that no sooner was Dionysus born than Zeus sewed him up in his...
Greek
81 Egyptian ...speech of men? The tale that the dove was black signifies that the woman was Egyptian30. [3] The fashions of divination at Thebes of Egypt and at Dodona are like...
Egyptian
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Carians ...in this the fulfillment of the oracle; he made friends with the Ionians and Carians, and promised them great rewards if they would join him and, having won them...
Carians
78 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...armed his guard and marched against the Egyptians; he had a bodyguard of Carians and Ionians, thirty thousand of them, and his royal palace was in the city of...
Carians
75 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...[5] There still remained in my day, in the places out of which the Ionians and Carians were turned, the winches64 for their ships and the ruins of their houses. This...
Carians
81 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Buto ...night is lit up thus and honored. 63. When the people go to Heliopolis and Buto, they offer sacrifice only. At Papremis sacrifice is offered and rites...
Buto
78 31.95395,30.87763,0 Egypt ...his father lying in it, and he conveys him encased to the temple of the Sun in Egypt. This is what they say this bird does. 74. Near Thebes there are sacred...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Papremis ...of the sun at Heliopolis, the fifth of Leto at Buto, and the sixth of Ares at Papremis. 60. When the people are on their way to Bubastis, they go by river, a great...
Papremis
80 30.52701,30.7765,0 Arabia ...temple of Zeus, to whom they are said to be sacred. 75. There is a place in Arabia not far from the town of Buto where I went to learn about the winged serpents...
Arabia
79 42.5,27.5,0 Papremis ...165. The Hermotubies are from the districts of Busiris, Saïs, Khemmis, and Papremis, the island called Prosopitis, and half of Natho—from all of these; their...
Papremis
78 30.52701,30.7765,0 Heliopolis ...the bird seldom comes into Egypt: once in five hundred years, as the people of Heliopolis say. [2] It is said that the phoenix comes when his father dies. If the picture...
Heliopolis
81 31.305179,30.129369,0 Buto ...the fourth is the festival of the sun at Heliopolis, the fifth of Leto at Buto, and the sixth of Ares at Papremis. 60. When the people are on their way to...
Buto
76 31.95395,30.87763,0 Arabia ...which adjoins the plain of Egypt. [3] Winged serpents are said to fly from Arabia at the beginning of spring, making for Egypt; but the ibis birds encounter the...
Arabia
77 42.5,27.5,0 Egyptian ...did the Egyptians get Linus? Plainly they have always sung this song; but in Egyptian Linus is called Maneros.39 [3] The Egyptians told me that Maneros was the only...
Egyptian
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Cercasorus ...though the course does not go by here,43 but by the Delta's point and the town Cercasorus; but your voyage from the sea and Canobus to Naucratis will take you over the...
Cercasorus
81 31.2187,30.09313,0 Cyrene ...they carry cargo are made of the acacia,41 which is most like the lotus of Cyrene in form, and its sap is gum. Of this tree they cut logs of four feet long and...
Cyrene
77 21.856169,32.818736,0 Egypt ...which is four feet long, keeps turning up, and that when it does turn up, all Egypt prospers. [4] This is what they say; and their doings in honor of Perseus are...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Memphis ...the current in; for were the Nile to burst its dikes and overflow here, all Memphis would be in danger of flooding. [4] Then, when this first king Min had made dry...
Memphis
78 31.254278,29.849667,0 Memphis ...This Proteus has a very attractive and well-appointed temple precinct at Memphis, south of the temple of Hephaestus. [2] Around the precinct live Phoenicians of...
Memphis
75 31.254278,29.849667,0 Memphis ...It was Amasis, too, who built the great and most marvellous temple of Isis at Memphis. 177. It is said that in the reign of Amasis Egypt attained to its greatest...
Memphis
80 31.254278,29.849667,0 Arkhandrus' town ...take you over the plain near the town of Anthylla and that which is called Arkhandrus' town. 98. Anthylla is a town of some reputation, and is especially assigned to the...
Arkhandrus' town
77 30.39934,31.02814,0 Libyan ...Nile by a dam. All the river had flowed close under the sandy mountains on the Libyan side, but Min made the southern bend of it, which begins about twelve and one...
Libyan
81 26.5,31.5,0 Ethiopian kings ...recited from a papyrus roll. In all these many generations there were eighteen Ethiopian kings, and one queen, native to the country; the rest were all Egyptian men. [2] The...
Ethiopian kings
81 38.721522,14.125005,0 Babylonian princess ...were all Egyptian men. [2] The name of the queen was the same as that of the Babylonian princess, Nitocris. She, to avenge her brother (he was king of Egypt and was slain by...
Babylonian princess
79 44.42082,32.53617,0 Colchians ...remembered the Colchians; [2] the Egyptians said that they considered the Colchians part of Sesostris' army. I myself guessed it, partly because they are...
Colchians
76 42.5,42.5,0 Colchians ...well as their neighbors the Macrones, say that they learned it lately from the Colchians. These are the only nations that circumcise, and it is seen that they do just...
Colchians
81 42.5,42.5,0 Colchians ...and do not circumcise their children. 105. Listen to something else about the Colchians, in which they are like the Egyptians: they and the Egyptians alone work linen...
Colchians
81 42.5,42.5,0 Sardonian ...their speech. Linen has two names: the Colchian kind is called by the Greeks Sardonian46 ; that which comes from Egypt is called Egyptian. 106. As to the pillars...
Sardonian
79 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Daphnae ...truth. 107. Now when this Egyptian Sesostris (so the priests said) reached Daphnae of Pelusium on his way home, leading many captives from the peoples whose lands...
Daphnae
78 32.17917,30.85806,0 Pelusium ...when this Egyptian Sesostris (so the priests said) reached Daphnae of Pelusium on his way home, leading many captives from the peoples whose lands he had...
Pelusium
72 32.540631,31.042265,0 Persian ...of Egypt, to provide her shoes. This has been done since Egypt has been under Persian dominion. [2] The other town, I think, is named after Arkhandrus son of Phthius...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Egypt ...whose lands he had subjugated, his brother, whom he had left in charge in Egypt, invited him and his sons to a banquet and then piled wood around the house and...
Egypt
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Aegean ...the towns are seen high and dry above the water, very like the islands in the Aegean sea. These alone stand out, the rest of Egypt being a sheet of water. So when...
Aegean
80 25.8829628235849,37.42245628773585,0 Sidon ...work of women of Sidon, whom godlike Alexandrus himself Brought from Sidon, crossing the broad sea, The same voyage on which he brought back Helen of...
Sidon
71 35.37564,33.55993,0 Egyptian ...such ingenious drugs, Good ones, which she had from Thon's wife, Polydamna, an Egyptian, Whose country's fertile plains bear the most drugs, Many mixed for good, many...
Egyptian
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Trojans ...spoke the truth—I am convinced and declare—the divine powers provided that the Trojans, perishing in utter destruction, should make this clear to all mankind: that...
Trojans
81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Thracian ...many years later than these kings who left the pyramids came Rhodopis, who was Thracian by birth, and a slave of Iadmon son of Hephaestopolis the Samian, and a...
Thracian
81 27.5,42.5,0 Egyptian characters ...all the base and the lowest part. [6] There are writings on53 the pyramid in Egyptian characters indicating how much was spent on radishes and onions and garlic for the...
Egyptian characters
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Samos ...standing in my time behind the doors in the great shrine. [2] The offerings in Samos were dedicated because of the friendship between Amasis and Polycrates,75 son...
Samos
81 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...Lindus, two stone images and a marvellous linen breast-plate; and to Hera in Samos, two wooden statues of himself that were still standing in my time behind the...
Samos
79 26.84,37.73,0 Mytilene ...than the other. [6] Kharaxus, after giving Rhodopis her freedom, returned to Mytilene. He is bitterly attacked by Sappho in one of her poems. This is enough about...
Mytilene
79 26.489422,39.05495,0 Delphi ...he was owned by Iadmon, too, as the following made crystal clear: [4] when the Delphians, obeying an oracle, issued many proclamations summoning anyone who wanted it...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...finished (as that which was formerly there burnt down by accident), it was the Delphians' lot to pay a fourth of the cost. [2] They went about from city to city...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Anysis, of the town of that name ...These were the acts of Asukhis. 137. After him reigned a blind man called Anysis, of the town of that name. In his reign Egypt was invaded by Sabacos king of Ethiopia and a great army of...
Anysis, of the town of that name
77 Egyptian ...distinguished himself for the following: [3] he would never put to death any Egyptian wrongdoer but sentenced all, according to the severity of their offenses, to...
Egyptian
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ninus ...the earth taken out of the passage dug by night to the Tigris, which runs past Ninus, until at last they accomplished their end. [4] This, I was told, had happened...
Ninus
81 43.1609,36.34773,0 Egyptian interpreters ...Greek, and from these, who learned the language, are descended the present-day Egyptian interpreters. [3] The Ionians and Carians lived for a long time in these places, which are...
Egyptian interpreters
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Pelusian ...in these places, which are near the sea, on the arm of the Nile called the Pelusian, a little way below the town of Bubastis. Long afterwards, king Amasis removed...
Pelusian
77 32.540631,31.042265,0 Azotus ...he spent before Azotus, a great city in Syria, besieging it until he took it. Azotus held out against a siege longer than any city of which we know...
Azotus
80 34.6215,31.77961,0 Azotus ...ruled Egypt for fifty-three years, twenty-nine of which he spent before Azotus, a great city in Syria, besieging it until he took it. Azotus held out against...
Azotus
74 34.6215,31.77961,0 Arabian Gulf ...then into a ravine, it bears southward out of the hill country towards the Arabian Gulf. [4] Now the shortest and most direct passage from the northern to the southern...
Arabian Gulf
77 50.9999999,27.0000001,0 Eleans ...and then asked the Eleans if their own citizens took part in the contests. The Eleans answered that they did: all Greeks from Elis or elsewhere might contend. [4]...
Eleans
81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Miletus ...great Syrian city of Cadytis67 after the battle. [3] He sent to Branchidae of Miletus and dedicated there to Apollo the garments in which he won these victories...
Miletus
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Cadytis ...met and defeated the Syrians at Magdolus,66 taking the great Syrian city of Cadytis67 after the battle. [3] He sent to Branchidae of Miletus and dedicated there to...
Cadytis
78 34.46203,31.503959,0 Magdolus ...ships when needed, and with his land army met and defeated the Syrians at Magdolus,66 taking the great Syrian city of Cadytis67 after the battle. [3] He sent to...
Magdolus
76 32.44456,30.97269,0 Momemphis ...his guards and Amasis with the whole force of Egyptians came to the town of Momemphis, they engaged; and though the foreigners fought well, they were vastly...
Momemphis
78 30.6005,30.79506,0 Mendes ...Kalasiries are from the districts of Thebes , Bubastis, Aphthis, Tanis, Mendes, Sebennys, Athribis, Pharbaïthis, Thmuis, Onuphis, Anytis, Myecphoris (this...
Mendes
74 31.51667,30.95833,0 Thrace ...have learned from the Egyptians, I cannot confidently judge. I know that in Thrace and Scythia and Persia and Lydia and nearly all foreign countries, those who...
Thrace
78 27.5,42.5,0 Sebennys ...are from the districts of Thebes , Bubastis, Aphthis, Tanis, Mendes, Sebennys, Athribis, Pharbaïthis, Thmuis, Onuphis, Anytis, Myecphoris (this last is in an...
Sebennys
71 31.239569,30.962841,0 Pelasgian women ...of Danaus were those who brought this rite out of Egypt and taught it to the Pelasgian women; afterwards, when the people of the Peloponnese were driven out by the Dorians...
Pelasgian women
79 22.719464,37.631561,0 tomb of Amasis ...the temple precinct all kings who were natives of their district. [5] The tomb of Amasis is farther from the sanctuary than the tomb of Apries and his ancestors; yet...
tomb of Amasis
76 Ionian cities ...visited precinct is that which is called the Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus...
Ionian cities
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Hellenion ...greatest and most famous and most visited precinct is that which is called the Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae...
Hellenion
81 Aeginetans ...any other cities advance claims, they claim what does not belong to them. The Aeginetans made a precinct of their own, sacred to Zeus; and so did the Samians for Hera...
Aeginetans
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Halicarnassus ...of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene. [3] It is to these that the...
Halicarnassus
80 27.424112,37.037864,0 Lindus ...was not out of friendship for anyone, but because the temple of Athena in Lindus is said to have been founded by the daughters of Danaus, when they landed there...
Lindus
76 28.15629,36.41451,0 Corcyreans ...either because he had his heart set on a Greek wife, or for the sake of the Corcyreans' friendship; [2] in any case, he married a certain Ladice, said by some to be...
Corcyreans
78 19.75,39.666667,0 Egyptians ...of the army; this man now went out before Psammenitus son of Amasis and the Egyptians confined in the outer part of the city. When Psammenitus saw him, he broke into...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...what Cambyses commanded was contrary to the custom of both peoples. [5] The Egyptians say, however, that it was not Amasis to whom this was done, but another...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...as they say it is wrong to give the dead body of a man to a god; while the Egyptians believe fire to be a living beast that devours all that it catches, and when...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...as I shall describe: [2] they cause the dead body to shrink, either as the Egyptians do or in some other way, then cover it with gypsum and paint it all as far as...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...in Egypt that Apis13 whom the Greeks call Epaphus; at whose epiphany the Egyptians put on their best clothing and held a festival. [2] Seeing the Egyptians so...
Egyptians
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ionian ...Histories Book 3 Cyrus' son Cambyses was leading an army of his subjects, Ionian and Aeolian Greeks among them,1 against this Amasis for the following reason...
Ionian
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Aeolians ...and always worked for their well-being. 90. The Ionians, Magnesians of Asia, Aeolians, Carians, Lycians, Milyans, and Pamphylians, on whom Darius laid one joint...
Aeolians
80 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Ionian ...a thousand Persian spearmen and being governor of the Phrygian and Lydian and Ionian province. [2] He had recourse, then, to the following expedient: having...
Ionian
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Persians ...nor returned back. [3] But this is what the Ammonians themselves say: when the Persians were crossing the sand from Oasis to attack them, and were about midway between...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...boy's father: [4] “It is plain, Prexaspes, that I am in my right mind and the Persians mad; now tell me: what man in the world did you ever see that shot so true to...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...of Cyrus' possessions and had won Egypt and the sea besides.” [5] So said the Persians; but Croesus, who was present, and was dissatisfied with their judgment, spoke...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...former saying also was a lie.” [4] For it is said that before this, while some Persians and Croesus were sitting with him, Cambyses asked what manner of man they...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...well.” [3] So he reported of the Persians. The king angrily replied: “If the Persians now say that it is my fondness for wine that drives me to frenzy and madness...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...governor of the Persians, arrived at Susa. When he came, then, the six Persians resolved to include Darius too. 71. The seven then met and gave each other...
Persians
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...death-bed of course remember the curse which he pronounced as he died on the Persians if they should not try to get back the kingship, although we did not believe...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...should receive a yearly gift of Median clothing and everything else that the Persians hold most valuable. The reason for this decision was that it was he who had...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and drive back as fast as possible; for the ants at once scent them out, the Persians say, and give chase. They say nothing is equal to them for speed, so that...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...in this respect that of the Ethiopians. These Indians dwell far away from the Persians southwards, and were not subjects of King Darius. 102. Other Indians dwell...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...by the Medes, [2] but, to the contrary, in this confusion killed two prominent Persians, Mitrobates, the governor from Dascyleium, who had taunted him about...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...an assembly of the most prominent Persians, he addressed them as follows: “Persians, which of you will promise to do this for me, not with force and numbers, but...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...other things, the keys of their gates; then it will depend on me and on the Persians to do what is necessary.” 156. Having given these instructions, he went to the...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the acropolis. 147. The Persian captain Otanes, seeing how big a loss the Persians had suffered, deliberately forgot the command given him at his departure by...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...man heard what was going on, and by peering through the dungeon window saw the Persians sitting there peaceably; [2] whereupon he cried with a loud voice that he...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and were not able to apply force. [4] This is what happened, and these Persians were the first who came from Asia into Hellas, and they came to view the...
Persians
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...They are certainly not unaware (for if any understand the customs of the Persians the Egyptians do) firstly, that it is not their custom for illegitimate...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...how to mind his own business, he would have regained Egypt to govern; for the Persians are inclined to honor kings' sons; even though kings revolt from them, they...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...strength from them. The Cyprians too had come of their own accord to aid the Persians against Egypt. 20. When the Fish-eaters arrived from Elephantine at Cambyses'...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...force with the Phoenicians, seeing that they had willingly surrendered to the Persians, and the whole fleet drew its strength from them. The Cyprians too had come of...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...subject to him, except the Arabians; these did not yield as of slaves to the Persians, but were united to them by friendship, having given Cambyses passage into...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and their allies; and Megabyzus' son was that Zopyrus who deserted from the Persians to Athens.
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...intent was to deceive them with his story of Smerdis' death, so that all Persia might be embroiled in a war against him. 67. So they believed that it was...
Persia
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greeks ...the foreigner was stirring up war against Hellas. When they learned that the Greeks would attempt to gain their aid against the Persian, they sent messengers to...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...they made no promise immediately and demanded no share, they later, when the Greeks were trying to obtain their support, did make the claim, because they knew that...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...he was to be under Lacedaemonian authority, Gelon would still have aided the Greeks had it not been for Terillus son of Crinippus, the tyrant of Himera. This man...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...the others to see which way the war should incline. They had no hope that the Greeks would prevail, but thought that the Persian would win a great victory and be...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...messengers to Delphi, inquiring if it would be to their advantage to help the Greeks. [2] The Pythia answered them, “Foolish men, was not the grief enough which...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...which made them late for the sea-fight. With such a plea they put the Greeks off. 169. But the Cretans, when the Greeks appointed to deal with them were...
Greeks
72 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...ships; they had scimitars and daggers, but the rest of their equipment was Greek. I have said in the beginning of my history45 what they were formerly called...
Greek
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...they did in the hope that since the danger threatened all Greeks alike, all of Greek blood might unite and work jointly for one common end. Now the power of Gelon...
Greek
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Delphi ...was this: that if they should be victorious, they would dedicate to the god of Delphi the possessions of all Greeks who had of free will surrendered themselves to...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...had crossed the Hellespont, he sent Cadmus son of Scythes,84 a man of Cos, to Delphi with three fifty-oared ships, bringing them money and messages of friendship...
Delphi
80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...the Greeks went their several ways to meet the enemy. In the meantime, the Delphians, who were afraid for themselves and for Hellas, consulted the god. They were...
Delphi
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Greek ...for their equipment, they had on their heads helmets very close to the Greek in style; they wore linen breastplates, and carried shields without rims, and...
Greek
73 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...Is there some fault with the numbers of my land army? Does it seem that the Greek army will be many times greater than ours? Or do you think that our navy will...
Greek
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...married a daughter of Darius. 74. The Lydian armor was most similar to the Greek. The Lydians were formerly called Meiones, until they changed their name and...
Greek
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...which were best disposed towards Hellas were assembled in council for the Greek cause. [2] To these the Thessalian messengers came and said, “Men of Hellas...
Greek
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...to sea a long time after all the rest, and it chanced that they sighted the Greek ships off Artemisium. Supposing these to be their own fleet, the barbarians...
Greek
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Athenian ...and became Athenians. When, however, Ion son of Xuthus was commander of the Athenian army, they were called after him Ionians. 45. The Megarians provided the same...
Athenian
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...50. While the generals from the Peloponnese considered this argument, an Athenian came with the message that the barbarians had reached Attica and were...
Athenian
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...the entire acropolis. 54. So it was that Xerxes took complete possession of Athens, and he sent a horseman to Susa to announce his present success to Artabanus...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...Artemis and Cynosura by the sea they bridge with ships, After sacking shiny Athens in mad hope, Divine Justice will extinguish mighty Greed the son of...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...his character, have come to believe that he was the best and most just man in Athens. [2] This man stood at the assembly and called Themistocles out, although he...
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...because of the sea-fight, and suspecting that he planned flight from Athens, thought that he would be punished for persuading the king to march against...
Athens
71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...is, however, another tale, which is this: when Xerxes came in his march from Athens to Eion on the Strymon, he travelled no farther than that by land, but...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...in this way by the Spartans, nor would you, sir, for all you are a man of Athens.” Such was the end of that business. 126. Artabazus son of Pharnaces, who was...
Athens
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...read whatever was said in the oracles, and presently he sent a messenger to Athens, Alexander, a Macedonian, son of Amyntas. Him he sent, partly because the...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...140A. Such was the lineage of Alexander son of Amyntas. When he came to Athens from Mardonius who had sent him, he spoke as follows : “This, Athenians, is...
Athens
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...The rest of Hellas bears them witness. 95. Aristides son of Lysimachus, the Athenian whom I mentioned a little before this as a valiant man, did this in the...
Athenian
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...think that it is an ignoble thing to be afraid, especially since we know the Athenian temper to be such that there is nowhere on earth such store of gold or such...
Athenian
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...to be false. [3] Know this now, if you knew it not before, that as long as one Athenian is left alive we will make no agreement with Xerxes. Nevertheless we thank you...
Athenian
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...with the same seven; these are Ionians. Next were the Ceans, Ionians from Athens, with the same ships as before. [3] The Naxians provided four ships. They had...
Athens
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persians ...account of that; they had always wanted to see the war, and they followed the Persians' march. For this reason, when all the six of them returned back scatheless...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...who would not say that the king would have bidden the men on deck (who were Persians and of the best blood of Persia) descend into the ship's hold, and would have...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...high sea and flood and the Persian disaster lay in the fact that those same Persians who now perished in the sea had profaned the temple and the image of Poseidon...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...126. Artabazus son of Pharnaces, who was already a notable man among the Persians and grew to be yet more so through the Plataean business, escorted the king as...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...was best to do. [2] When Artemisia came, Xerxes bade all others withdraw, both Persian councillors and guards, and said to her: “It is Mardonius' advice that I should...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...other eunuch. 106. Now while the king was at Sardis and preparing to lead his Persian army against Athens, Hermotimus came for some business down to the part of...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...aided the Greek side, then the Phocians would certainly have stood for the Persians. They replied to the offer of the Thessalians that they would give no money...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...provided four ships. They had been sent by their fellow citizens to the Persians, like the rest of the islanders, but they disregarded their orders and came to...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...Athenians, they were greatly afraid that the Athenians should agree with the Persian, and they straightway resolved that they would send envoys. [2] Moreover, it so...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...and granted much land. The king's benefactors are called “orosangae” in the Persian language. 86. Thus it was concerning them. But the majority of the ships at...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Hellas ...allies resisted, the Athenians waived their claim, considering the safety of Hellas of prime importance and seeing that if they quarrelled over the leadership...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Persian ...Mardonius, he was killed by Aeimnestus, a Spartan of note who long after the Persian business led three hundred men to battle at Stenyclerus against the whole army...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...all other Greeks likewise. [3] Now you, for your part, were strangers to the Persians, and I could readily pardon you for praising these fellows, who were in some...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...pretended to lead them into battle. As he came farther on his way, he saw the Persians already fleeing and accordingly led his men, no longer in the same array, but...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...the lands of that city. That was the westernmost place in Europe which this Persian army reached. 15. Presently there came a message to Mardonius that the Greeks...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...country he was. Thersander answered that he was from Orchomenus. Then said the Persian: “Since you have eaten at the board with me and drunk with me afterwards, I...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...his attack upon Athens, with the exception of the Phocians; as for taking the Persian side, that they did right away, though from necessity rather than willingly...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Lacedaemonians ...facing the Lacedaemonians. [2] Seeing that the Persians by far outnumbered the Lacedaemonians, they were arrayed in deeper ranks and their line ran opposite the Tegeans...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...he chose out the strongest part of the Persians to set it over against the Lacedaemonians, and posted the weaker by them facing the Tegeans; this he did being so...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...Pausanias, however, seeing their departure from the camp, gave orders to the Lacedaemonians to take up their arms likewise and follow the others who had gone ahead...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Persians ...for saying that Protesilaus had invaded the king's territory was that the Persians believe all Asia to belong to themselves and whoever is their king. So when the...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...last, however, even these failed them, and Artayctes and Oeobazus and all the Persians made their way down from the back part of the fortress, where the fewest of...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...that it was the strongest walled place in that region. Among them there was a Persian named Oeobazus from Cardia, and he had carried the equipment of the bridges...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...but have deserted us despite all your promises that you would withstand the Persian in Boeotia, and have permitted the barbarian to march into Attica. [2] For the...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Lacedaemonians ...for certain why it was that when Alexander the Macedonian came to Athens3 the Lacedaemonians insisted that the Athenians should not join the side of the Persian, yet now...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...not helping the Athenians to meet him in Boeotia; and who were to remind the Lacedaemonians of the promises which the Persian had made to Athens if she would change sides...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...themselves too to depart each one to his own place. When they arrived, “You Lacedaemonians,” they said, “remain where you are, observing your Hyacinthia and celebrating...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Persians ...Boeotians too yielded and they fled to Thebes, but not by the way which the Persians had fled and the multitude of the allies which had fought no fight to the end...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...secret from the Persians and the tyrant Theomestor son of Androdamas, whom the Persians had made tyrant of Samos. [2] When they came before the generals, Hegesistratus...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Milesians should be separate from the rest of their army. In such a manner the Persians safeguarded themselves from those Ionians who (they supposed) might turn...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...those others on the other wing were already fighting. [2] As long as the Persians' shields stood upright, they defended themselves and held their own in the...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Tigranes, the general of the land army, were killed fighting. 103. While the Persians still fought, the Lacedaemonians and their comrades came up and finished what...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the barbarians made no further defense, but took to flight, all save the Persians, [4] who gathered into bands of a few men and fought with whatever Greeks came...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...On that day (and none other) the king anoints his head and makes gifts to the Persians. Waiting for that day, Amestris then asked of Xerxes that Masistes' wife should...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Lacedaemonians ...For though Euryanax and Pausanias reasoned with Amompharetus, that the Lacedaemonians should not be endangered by remaining there alone, they could in no way prevail...
Lacedaemonians
73 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...for he supposed that Amompharetus would not stay behind when the rest of the Lacedaemonians left him; this was in fact exactly what happened. [2] The Athenians marshalled...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...Athenians marshalled themselves and marched, but not by the same way as the Lacedaemonians, who stayed close to the broken ground and the lower slopes of Cithaeron in...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...by the foe which was closest, they could at the time send no aid. [2] The Lacedaemonians and Tegeans accordingly stood alone, men-at-arms and light-armed together...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...the wooden wall, they managed to get up on the towers before the coming of the Lacedaemonians; then they strengthened the wall as best they could. When the Athenians...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...For Callicrates, who, when he came to the army, was the finest not only of the Lacedaemonians, but also of all the other Greeks, died away from the battle. Callicrates, who...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...proof is (for all these conquered the foes opposed to them) the fact that the Lacedaemonians fought with the strongest part of the army, and overcame it. According to my...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Peloponnesians ...best should fight with him in single combat on agreed conditions. [4] The Peloponnesians, resolving that this should be so, swore a compact that if Hyllus should...
Peloponnesians
76 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesians ...these were in fact the chief cause of their coming to the Hellespont. [2] The Peloponnesians then who were with Leutychides decided to sail away to Hellas, but the...
Peloponnesians
80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Lacedaemonians ...the Greeks, the Tegeans and Athenians conducted themselves nobly, but the Lacedaemonians excelled all in valor. [2] Of this my only clear proof is (for all these...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...at Plataea, buried each contingent of their dead in a separate place. The Lacedaemonians made three tombs; there they buried their “irens,”30 among whom were...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Thermopylae ...in Trachis in Malis and the Hellenes in the pass.103 This place is called Thermopylae by most of the Hellenes, but by the natives and their neighbors Pylae.104 Each...
Thermopylae
76 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thermopylae ...is fifteen furlongs away from the river Phoenix. [2] Between the river and Thermopylae there is a village named Anthele, past which the Asopus flows out into the sea...
Thermopylae
77 22.538294,38.796511,0 Sparta ...No one on earth save Tisamenus and his brother ever became citizens of Sparta. [2] Now the five victories were these: one, the first, this victory at...
Sparta
73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...supplicated him clasping his knees: [2] “Save me, your suppliant, O king of Sparta, from captive slavery, for you have aided me till now, by making an end of...
Sparta
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corinthians ...ground for a long time, but at last fled within their wall. The Athenians and Corinthians and Sicyonians and Troezenians, who were next to each other in the line...
Corinthians
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Sparta ...thousand, scarcely three thousand were left alive. Of the Lacedaemonians from Sparta ninety-one all together were killed in battle; of the Tegeans, seventeen and of...
Sparta
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Macedonia ...came near Pallene in his return (for Mardonius was wintering in Thessaly and Macedonia and making no haste to come to the rest of his army), he thought it right that...
Macedonia
79 21.75,41.25,0 Delphi ...statue of Alexander the Macedonian. 122. Having sent the first-fruits to Delphi, the Greeks, in the name of the country generally, made inquiry of the god...
Delphi
76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...[2] After that, they divided the spoils and sent the first-fruits of it to Delphi; of this was made a man's image twelve cubits high, holding in his hand the...
Delphi
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphians ...of Croesus son of Alyattes; so many had always spoken of them. 36. When the Delphians learned all this, they were very much afraid, and in their great fear they...
Delphians
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Macedonia ...Boeotia. Now the whole population of Boeotia took the Persian side, and men of Macedonia sent by Alexander safeguarded their towns, each in his appointed place; the...
Macedonia
81 21.75,41.25,0 Salamis ...This they thought because the Greeks had not pursued them when they fled from Salamis, but had been glad to be quit of them. In regard to the sea, the Persians were...
Salamis
80 23.51,37.93,0 Hellenes ...with their ships. [2] They launched their ships in this way so that the Hellenes would have no escape: they would be trapped at Salamis and pay the penalty for...
Hellenes
74 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...the Persians who were on that islet. 96. When the battle was broken off, the Hellenes towed to Salamis as many of the wrecks as were still there and kept ready for...
Hellenes
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Boeotia ...broke into the territory of Orchomenus in Boeotia. Now the whole population of Boeotia took the Persian side, and men of Macedonia sent by Alexander safeguarded their...
Boeotia
81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotia ...with Xerxes waited for a few days after the sea-fight and then marched away to Boeotia by the road by which they had come. Mardonius wanted to give the king safe...
Boeotia
81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Peloponnesians ...now called Doris by Herakles and the Malians. 44. These, then, were the Peloponnesians who took part in the war. From the mainland outside the Peloponnese came the...
Peloponnesians
75 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Hellenic ...the majority did not. [2] I can list the names of many captains who captured Hellenic ships, but I will mention none except Theomestor son of Androdamas and Phylacus...
Hellenic
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenic ...of a woman appeared to them, who cried commands loud enough for all the Hellenic fleet to hear, reproaching them first with, “Men possessed, how long will you...
Hellenic
74 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...the rest of the islanders, but they disregarded their orders and came to the Hellenes at the urging of Democritus, an esteemed man among the townsmen and at that...
Hellenes
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Peloponnese ...they were fortifying the Isthmus instead and considered the defense of the Peloponnese the most important thing, disregarding all the rest. When the Athenians learned...
Peloponnese
77 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...from him that they had resolved to sail to the Isthmus and fight for the Peloponnese, he said, [2] “If they depart from Salamis, you will no longer be fighting for...
Peloponnese
75 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...Peloponnese just as much as at the Isthmus, and you will not lead them to the Peloponnese, if you exercise good judgment. 60C. If what I expect happens and we win the...
Peloponnese
80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...food on this island, and it is not likely, if you lead your army against the Peloponnese, that those of them who have come from there will sit still, nor will they care...
Peloponnese
79 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...next day. [2] Fear and dread possessed the Hellenes, especially those from the Peloponnese. They were afraid because they were stationed in Salamis and were about to...
Peloponnese
81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...Olympian and Carnean festivals were now past. 73. Seven nations inhabit the Peloponnese. Two of these are aboriginal and are now settled in the land where they lived...
Peloponnese
79 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Aeginetans ...from Epidaurus, and their island was formerly called Oenone. [2] After the Aeginetans came the Chalcidians with their twenty ships from Artemisium, and the Eretrians...
Aeginetans
77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...[2] the Chalcidians manned twenty, the Athenians furnishing the ships; the Aeginetans eighteen, the Sicyonians twelve, the Lacedaemonians ten, the Epidaurians eight...
Aeginetans
77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...barbarians were routed and tried to flee by sailing out to Phalerum, but the Aeginetans lay in wait for them in the strait and then performed deeds worth telling. The...
Aeginetans
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...this battle the Hellenes with the reputation as most courageous were the Aeginetans, then the Athenians. Among individuals they were Polycritus the Aeginetan and...
Aeginetans
75 23.42372,37.74991,0 Peloponnesians ...of us will do our country more good. [4] I say that it is all the same for the Peloponnesians to speak much or little about sailing away from here, for I have seen with my...
Peloponnesians
81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesians ...the ones who marched out and feared for Hellas in her peril. The rest of the Peloponnesians cared nothing, though the Olympian and Carnean festivals were now past...
Peloponnesians
79 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...they could go ashore to their own lands. 50. While the generals from the Peloponnese considered this argument, an Athenian came with the message that the barbarians...
Peloponnese
76 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Megarians ...not stay and fight for a captured land; but the Athenians and Aeginetans and Megarians said they must stay and defend themselves. 75. When the Peloponnesians were...
Megarians
79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Aeginetans ...who are Dorians from Corinth, with three. 46. Of the islanders, the Aeginetans provided thirty ships. They had other manned ships, but they guarded their own...
Aeginetans
71 23.42372,37.74991,0 Megarians ...commander of the Athenian army, they were called after him Ionians. 45. The Megarians provided the same number as at Artemisium. The Ampraciots came to help with...
Megarians
79 15.18273,37.2038,0 Persians ...Agathyrsi mustered on their borders, intending to stop the invaders. When the Persians and the Scythians broke into their lands, the Blackcloaks and Man-eaters and...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...who had remained there came out with foot and horse and offered battle to the Persians. But when the Scythian ranks were set in order, a rabbit ran out between the...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...went wide of each other, and the Scythians reached the bridge long before the Persians. [3] There, perceiving that the Persians had not yet come, they said to the...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...that they, too, were heading for such places in their flight; but the Persians kept to their own former tracks, and so with much trouble they found the...
Persians
72 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the treaty held good no longer. 202. When they were delivered to her by the Persians, Pheretime took the most guilty of the Barcaeans and set them impaled around...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Europe ...and that from him the Asiad clan at Sardis also takes its name. [4] But as for Europe, no men have any knowledge whether it is bounded by seas or not, or where it...
Europe
81 Europe ...round as if fashioned by compasses, encircled by the Ocean river, and Asia and Europe of a like extent. For myself, I will in a few words indicate the extent of the...
Europe
81 Persians ...201. When much time had been spent and many on both sides (not less of the Persians than of their enemies) slain, Amasis the general of the foot soldiers devised a...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...there, a messenger from Aryandes came to the camp asking them to return. The Persians asked and received from the Cyrenaeans provisions for their march, after which...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...planned. [3] The Scythian horse always routed the Persian horse, and when the Persian cavalry would fall back in flight on their infantry, the infantry would come up...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...Scythian messengers came and laid everything before them, explaining how the Persian, now that the whole of the other continent was subject to him, had crossed over...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...alone. [4] We will give you a convincing proof of what we say: if indeed the Persian were marching against us alone, wanting vengeance for our former enslavement of...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Egyptian ...stand on the bank of the Ister and call to Histiaeus the Milesian. This the Egyptian did; Histiaeus heard and answered the first shout, and sent all the ships to...
Egyptian
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...Greeks came to live near them, I cannot say; but I suppose the armor was Egyptian; for I maintain that the Greeks took their shield and helmet from Egypt. [5] As...
Egyptian
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Athenians ...for Thessaly by the nearest way they could. Then Cleomenes, when he and the Athenians who desired freedom came into the city, drove the tyrants' family within the...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...must go further and return to the story which I began to tell, namely how the Athenians were freed from their tyrants. [2] Hippias, their tyrant, was growing ever more...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...formidable. 73. These men, then, were bound and put to death. After that, the Athenians sent to bring back Cleisthenes and the seven hundred households banished by...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Cleomenes and Isagoras and his partisans seized the acropolis. The rest of the Athenians united and besieged them for two days. On the third day as many of them as were...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...of Athens. 77. When this force then had been ingloriously scattered, the Athenians first marched against the Chalcidians to punish them. The Boeotians came to the...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...their own guests and friends from the country they dwelt in, and that the Athenians showed them no gratitude for their doing so. [2] Furthermore, they were spurred...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the end but would in the meantime both suffer and do many things. [3] When the Athenians heard this reported to them, they marked out for Aeacus that precinct which is...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...crossing over from Epidaurus to the island secretly. They then fell upon the Athenians unaware and cut them off from their ships. It was at this moment that the...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...at the entreaty of the Thebans without sending a herald. [3] While the Athenians were busy with the Boeotians, they descended on Attica in ships of war, and...
Athenians
73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and remembered their old feud with Athens, accordingly made war on the Athenians at the entreaty of the Thebans without sending a herald. [3] While the...
Athenians
73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...his own misfortune to his friend Melanippus. As for the Mytilenaeans and Athenians, however, peace was made between them by Periander son of Cypselus, to whose...
Athenians
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Alcaeus the poet took to flight and escaped, but his armor was taken by the Athenians and hung up in the temple of Athena at Sigeum. [2] Alcaeus wrote a poem about...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persian ...crossed over to Chios. [4] They were already in Chios, when a great host of Persian horsemen came after them in pursuit. Unable to overtake them, the Persians sent...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...disgracefully treated by Megabates. Aristagoras then went and pleaded with the Persian for Scylax, but since he obtained nothing that he requested, he went and...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...with a stroke of his curved sword. 113. It was in this way that Artybius the Persian general, together with his horse, fell. While the rest were still fighting...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Perinthians ...ordered the Paeonians from the Strymon to march against Perinthus, and if the Perinthians, who were encamped opposite them, should call to them, crying out their name...
Perinthians
80 27.95454,40.97089,0 Lacedaemonians ...they despatched envoys to Sardis, for they knew that they had provoked the Lacedaemonians and Cleomenes to war. [2] When the envoys came to Sardis and spoke as they had...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...them in the temple from where they were retrieved by Cleomenes. 91. Now the Lacedaemonians, when they regained the oracles and saw the Athenians increasing in power and...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...and men will dwell in the sea and fishes where men dwelt before, now that you, Lacedaemonians, are destroying the rule of equals and making ready to bring back tyranny into...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...speech of Socles and sided with the opinion of the Corinthians, entreating the Lacedaemonians not to harm a Greek city. 94. His plan, then, came to nothing, and Hippias was...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...may side with that which seems to him to deserve more credence. 46. Other Spartans too sailed with Dorieus to found his colony, namely, Thessalus, Paraebates...
Spartans
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...established themselves at Delphi and bribed the Pythian priestess to bid any Spartans who should come to inquire of her on a private or a public account to set...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Greek ...the opinion of the Corinthians, entreating the Lacedaemonians not to harm a Greek city. 94. His plan, then, came to nothing, and Hippias was forced to depart...
Greek
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...greatly troubled by factional strife, till the Parians, chosen out of all the Greeks by the Milesians for this purpose, made peace among them, 29. The Parians...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Lacedaemonian ...with the army. [3] So now at Eleusis, when the rest of the allies saw that the Lacedaemonian kings were not of one mind and that the Corinthians had left their host, they...
Lacedaemonian
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Persians ...at a run. The space between the armies was no less than eight stadia. [2] The Persians saw them running to attack and prepared to receive them, thinking the Athenians...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...them to do this, and he measured their lands by parasangs, which is the Persian name for a distance of thirty stadia, and ordered that each people should...
Persian
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...54. Thus have I traced their lineage according to the Greek story; but the Persian tale is that Perseus himself was an Assyrian, and became a Greek, which his...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...to a lion. In a few days she bore Xanthippus a son, Pericles. 132. After the Persian disaster at Marathon, the reputation of Miltiades, already great at Athens...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and they mourn during these days. 59. The Lacedaemonians also resemble the Persians in this: when one king is dead and another takes his office, this successor...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...advice. 101. So they saved themselves by crossing over to Oropus; the Persians sailed holding their course for Temenos and Choereae and Aegilea, all in...
Persians
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...of Euboea; others plotted treason in hope of winning advantages from the Persians. [3] When Aeschines son of Nothon, a leading man in Eretria, learned of both...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...corn of the Caicus plain. Now it chanced that in that region was Harpagus, a Persian, with no small force under him; when Histiaeus landed, Harpagus met him in...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...to have declared his opinion among the Seven that democracy was best for Persia:12 Mardonius deposed all the Ionian tyrants and set up democracies in their...
Persia
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Lacedaemonians ...give greater honor to the elder. When the priestess gave this response, the Lacedaemonians knew no better than before how to discover the elder child, and a man of...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...beginning of his reign forgives all cities their arrears of tribute. 60. The Lacedaemonians resemble the Egyptians in that their heralds and flute-players and cooks...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...put themselves under the protection of Cleomenes son of Anaxandrides and the Lacedaemonians, who happened to be there. But they did not accept them, saying, “We live too...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Greeks ...this story. But in what I write I follow the Greek report, and hold that the Greeks correctly recount these kings of the Dorians as far back as Perseus son of...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...descendants continued to do likewise. 53. The Lacedaemonians are the only Greeks who tell this story. But in what I write I follow the Greek report, and hold...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...he reached the belly, and cut it into strips; thus he died, as most of the Greeks say, because he persuaded the Pythian priestess to tell the tale of Demaratus...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...all their ships to Abdera. 48. Then Darius attempted to learn whether the Greeks intended to wage war against him or to surrender themselves. He sent heralds...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Lacedaemonians ...they truly were the ones who persuaded the Pythian priestess to signify to the Lacedaemonians that they should free Athens, as I have previously shown. 124. Perhaps out of...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Persians ...was not his affair. He made this second resolve and fell asleep; then (so the Persians say) in the night he saw this vision: It seemed to Xerxes that a tall and...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...since I have changed my mind about marching against Hellas.” 14. When the Persians heard that, they rejoiced and made obeisance to him. But when night came on...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...from you that stung me so much as that, when two opinions were laid before the Persians, one tending to the increase of pride, the other to its abatement, showing how...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Syrians were equipped like the Paphlagonians. These Syrians are called by the Persians Cappadocians. [2] Dotus son of Megasidrus was commander of the Paphlagonians...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...[3] The Phocians, assailed by thick showers of arrows and supposing that the Persians had set out against them from the start, fled to the top of the mountain and...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...over the mountain. 218. The Phocians learned in the following way that the Persians had climbed up: they had ascended without the Phocians' notice because the...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...where it is narrowest.114 217. This, then, was the nature of the pass. The Persians crossed the Asopus and travelled all night along this path, with the Oetaean...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...overtaken, they would turn to face the barbarians and overthrow innumerable Persians. A few of the Spartans themselves were also slain. When the Persians could gain...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...all day. 211. When the Medes had been roughly handled, they retired, and the Persians whom the king called Immortals, led by Hydarnes, attacked in turn. It was...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and slain. Such is their manner of fighting; they were marshalled with the Persians. 86. The Median cavalry were equipped like their infantry, and the Cissians...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...equal in numbers it would be hard for the Greeks to fight just against the Persians. [5] What you are talking about is found among us alone, and even then it is...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...would not so soon have learned the unspeakable greatness of his power, and the Persians would have done their enemy no great harm by putting three men to death. Xerxes...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...not fall short of my predecessors in this honor, and not add less power to the Persians; and my considerations persuade me that we may win not only renown, but a land...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Europe to Hellas, so I may punish the Athenians for what they have done to the Persians and to my father. [2] You saw that Darius my father was set on making an...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and Assyrians and many other great nations, for no wrong done to the Persians but of mere desire to add to our power, will not take vengeance on the Greeks...
Persians
71 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...commander was Anaphes son of Otanes. The Hyrcanians34 were armed like the Persians; their leader was Megapanus, who was afterwards the governor of Babylon...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...him there; for Cepheus had no male offspring; it was from this Perses that the Persians took their name.32 62. The Medes in the army were equipped like the Persians...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greek ...son of Danae—they make no mention of the god17 —and prove these kings to be Greek; for by that time they had come to be classified as Greeks. [2] I said as far...
Greek
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...are the only Greeks who tell this story. But in what I write I follow the Greek report, and hold that the Greeks correctly recount these kings of the Dorians...
Greek
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...and measures for the Peloponnesians53 and acted more arrogantly than any other Greek; he drove out the Elean contest-directors and held the contests at Olympia...
Greek
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Persians ...the fourth year the Egyptians, whom Cambyses had enslaved, revolted from the Persians; thereupon Darius was even more eager to send expeditions against both. 2. But...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Sparta ...will to make atonement to Xerxes for Darius' heralds who had been killed at Sparta. [3] Thereupon the Spartans sent these men to Media for execution. 135. Worthy...
Sparta
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...anger of Talthybius, in spite of the fact that Sperthias and Bulis returned to Sparta. Long after that, however, it rose up again in the war between the...
Sparta
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...at Camicus, while you helped them to avenge the stealing of that woman from Sparta by a barbarian?” When this was brought to the ears of the Cretans, they would...
Sparta
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...but once they had completed the festival, they intended to leave a garrison at Sparta and march out in full force with all speed. [2] The rest of the allies planned...
Sparta
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...[4] Rest assured that if you overcome these men and those remaining behind at Sparta, there is no one else on earth who will raise his hands to withstand you, my...
Sparta
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...hexameter verses running as follows: [4] “For you, inhabitants of wide-wayed Sparta, Either your great and glorious city must be wasted by Persian men, Or if not...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...and stayed behind. [2] Now if Aristodemus alone had been sick and returned to Sparta, or if they had both made the trip, I think the Spartans would not have been...
Sparta
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...anger towards Aristodemus. 230. Some say that Aristodemus came home safely to Sparta in this way and by this excuse. Others say that he had been sent out of the...
Sparta
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...you would like to know, I will tell you: there is in Lacedaemon a city called Sparta, a city of about eight thousand men, all of them equal to those who have fought...
Sparta
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Greeks ...upon Hellas; and second, they will meet you in battle even if all the other Greeks are on your side. [3] Do not ask me how many these men are who can do this...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...most gladly fight with one of those men who claim to be each a match for three Greeks. [4] So is it with the Lacedaemonians; fighting singly they are as brave as any...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...Hellas with the whole power of their fleet, ships and men, and with all other Greeks who were so minded. 145. These oracles, then, had been given to the Athenians...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...reason alleged for his command was this: had the spies been put to death, the Greeks would not so soon have learned the unspeakable greatness of his power, and the...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...about the Greeks, for they do not deserve to be maligned. By slandering the Greeks you incite the king to send this expedition; that is the end to which you press...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...abandonment of their cities; for the sun (they said) was the prophet of the Greeks, as the moon was their own. Xerxes rejoiced exceedingly to hear that and...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...studded with iron, and they wore linen breastplates. They are called by the Greeks Syrians, but the foreigners called them Assyrians. With them were the...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...The Pamphylians furnished a hundred ships: they were armed like the Greeks. These Pamphylians are descended from the Trojans of the diaspora who followed...
Greeks
70 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Spartans ...to Xerxes for Darius' heralds who had been killed at Sparta. [3] Thereupon the Spartans sent these men to Media for execution. 135. Worthy of admiration was these...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...he cried, “loudly would Agamemnon son of Pelops lament, when hearing that the Spartans had been bereft of their command by Gelon and his Syracusans! No, rather, put...
Spartans
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...apart one of these. ” Considering this and wishing to win distinction for the Spartans alone, he sent away the allies rather than have them leave in disorder because...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...himself extremely valiant, fell in that struggle and with him other famous Spartans, whose names I have learned by inquiry since they were worthy men. Indeed, I...
Spartans
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...a man of much wisdom among us, says about it that it would be better for the Spartans if Cythera were beneath the sea rather than above it. This he said because he...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Greeks ...that the priestess bade them remember, and so prevented them from aiding the Greeks as they were previously inclined. 172. The Thessalians had at first sided with...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...to the ears of the Cretans, they would have nothing to do with aiding the Greeks. 170. Now Minos, it is said, went to Sicania, which is now called Sicily, in...
Greeks
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...Very near the road is a village called Alpeni, and it is from here that the Greeks expected to obtain provisions. 177. These places, then, were thought by the...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...aground, leapt out and made their way through Thessaly to Athens. 183. The Greeks who were stationed at Artemisium were informed of these matters by beacons from...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Ethiopians ...but the ones from Libya have the woolliest hair of all men. [2] These Ethiopians of Asia were for the most part armed like the Indians; but they wore on their...
Ethiopians
72 38.721522,14.125005,0 Sacae ...to the Median, carrying their native reed bows and short spears. [2] The Sacae, who are Scythians, had on their heads tall caps, erect and stiff and tapering...
Sacae
75 72.5,37.5,0 Indians ...and Sacae was Hystaspes, son of Darius and Cyrus' daughter Atossa. 65. The Indians wore garments of tree-wool,35 and carried reed bows and iron-tipped reed...
Indians
78 77.5,22.5,0 Assyrians ...They are called by the Greeks Syrians, but the foreigners called them Assyrians. With them were the Chaldeans. Their commander was Otaspes son of Artachaees...
Assyrians
72 37.5,37.5,0 Aeolians ...reason as were the Ionians of the twelve cities,47 who came from Athens. The Aeolians furnished sixty ships and were equipped like Greeks; formerly they were called...
Aeolians
79 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Ister ...of entreating the Ionians, who had been charged to guard the bridges of the Ister, to destroy the way of passage.9 [2] If Histiaeus the tyrant of Miletus had...
Ister
78 29.647293,45.16291,0 Phrygians ...they changed their home to Asia, they changed their name also and were called Phrygians.38 The Armenians, who are settlers from Phrygia, were armed like the Phrygians...
Phrygians
80 29.75,38.75,0 Phrygian ...son of Darius and Artystone of the Mariandyni and Ligyes and Syrians. 73. The Phrygian equipment was very similar to the Paphlagonian, with only a small difference...
Phrygian
81 29.75,38.75,0 Trojan ...peoples. Then, in the third generation after Minos, the events surrounding the Trojan War, in which the Cretans bore themselves as bravely as any in the cause of...
Trojan
81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Mysians ...called Olympieni after the mountain Olympus. The commander of the Lydians and Mysians was that Artaphrenes son of Artaphrenes, who attacked Marathon with Datis...
Mysians
80 28.25,38.75,0 Trojan ...comparison; neither is the one of the Mysians and Teucrians which before the Trojan war crossed the Bosporus into Europe,13 subdued all the Thracians, and came...
Trojan
79 26.23873,39.9577,0 Troy ...in the cause of Menelaus, took place. [2] After this, when they returned from Troy, they and their flocks and herds were afflicted by famine and pestilence, until...
Troy
80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Peneus ...which was the way that led into Thessaly, he desired to view the mouth of the Peneus because he intended to march by the upper road through the highland people of...
Peneus
80 21.75,39.75,0 Peneus ...where it was. Great wonder took him when he came and viewed the mouth of the Peneus, and calling his guides, he asked them if it were possible to turn the river...
Peneus
79 21.75,39.75,0 Peneus ...of Tempe, which runs from the lower87 Macedonia into Thessaly along the river Peneus, between the mountains Olympus and Ossa. [2] There the Greeks were encamped...
Peneus
80 21.75,39.75,0 Peneus ...Phormus an Athenian was captain, ran aground in her flight at the mouth of the Peneus; the barbarians took her hull but not the crew, for the Athenians, as soon as...
Peneus
81 21.75,39.75,0 Athos ...Artachaees son of Artaeus, both Persians, were the overseers of the workmen. Athos is a great and famous mountain, running out into the sea and inhabited by men...
Athos
79 24.295147727272727,40.24683418181819,0 Thracians ...as far as we know, have never yet been subject to any man; they alone of the Thracians have continued living in freedom to this day; they dwell on high mountains...
Thracians
79 27.5,42.5,0 Dion ...warriors. [2] It is they who possess the place of divination sacred to Dionysus. This place is in their highest mountains; the Bessi, a clan of the Satrae...
Dion
73 22.491299,40.177012,0 Dion ...Persian now intended to make them into island and not mainland towns; they are Dion, Olophyxus, Acrothoum, Thyssus, and Cleonae. 23. These are the towns situated...
Dion
81 22.491299,40.177012,0 Thyssus ...them into island and not mainland towns; they are Dion, Olophyxus, Acrothoum, Thyssus, and Cleonae. 23. These are the towns situated on Athos. The foreigners dug as...
Thyssus
80 24.158674,40.288017,0 Phoenicians ...breadth at its mouth and at the bottom, this was bound to happen. [3] But the Phoenicians showed the same skill in this as in all else they do; taking in hand the...
Phoenicians
80 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...as soldiers on all the ships. The most seaworthy ships were furnished by the Phoenicians, and among them by the Sidonians. All of these, as with those who were...
Phoenicians
79 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...was consumed by this and was not seen any more. [2] Whether he vanished as the Phoenicians say, or in the manner related by the Carchedonians and Syracusans, sacrifice is...
Phoenicians
81 35.25,33.25,0 Strymon ...Ways in Edonian country,54 by the bridges which they found thrown across the Strymon. When they learned that Nine Ways was the name of the place, they buried alive...
Strymon
79 23.848889,40.785833,0 Hellas ...so that neither the army nor the beasts of burden would starve on the march to Hellas. [2] After making inquiry, he ordered them to store it in the most fitting...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Egyptians ...came with them to the war the newly subdued Cyprians, and the Cilicians and Egyptians. 7. These were coming to attack Miletus and the rest of Ionia. When the...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Samians ...22. Miletus then was left empty of Milesians. The men of property among the Samians were displeased by the dealings of their generals with the Medes, so after the...
Samians
79 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...whom he had made an agreement and exchanged oaths. [5] The price which the Samians agreed to give him was that Hippocrates should take for his share half of the...
Samians
77 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...them away to the city of Inyx. He betrayed the rest of the Zanclaeans to the Samians, with whom he had made an agreement and exchanged oaths. [5] The price which...
Samians
79 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...as slaves by Hippocrates himself; he gave three hundred chief men to the Samians to be put to death, but the Samians did not do so. 24. Scythes the monarch of...
Samians
75 26.84,37.73,0 Medes ...Demaratus' loss of the kingship, and from Sparta he went into exile among the Medes because of the following reproach: after he was deposed from the kingship, he...
Medes
80 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...advocating not fighting because they were too few to attack the army of the Medes; others, including Miltiades, advocating fighting. [2] Thus they were at odds...
Medes
78 46.5,34.5,0 Teians ...with twelve ships, and the Myesians with three; next to the Myesians were the Teians with seventeen ships; next to these the Chians with a hundred; near these in...
Teians
80 26.785014,38.177262,0 Asia ...[3] When Mardonius arrived in Ionia in his voyage along the coast of Asia, he did a thing which I here set down for the wonder of those Greeks who will...
Asia
71 Chersonese ...[2] The Hephaestians obeyed, but the Myrinaeans would not agree that the Chersonese was Attica and were besieged, until they too submitted. Thus did Miltiades and...
Chersonese
75 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...earlier in the following manner: the Thracian Dolonci held possession of this Chersonese. They were crushed in war by the Apsinthians, so they sent their kings to...
Chersonese
80 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Malene ...was taken prisoner in this way: the Greeks fought with the Persians at Malene in the country of Atarneus; the armies fought for a long time, until the...
Malene
73 26.804206,39.200303,0 Europe ...subdued by the Persians themselves from the mainland. These are the regions of Europe that belong to the Hellespont: the Chersonese, in which there are many cities...
Europe
81 Caicus plain ...crossed over to reap from Atarneus the corn there and the Mysian corn of the Caicus plain. Now it chanced that in that region was Harpagus, a Persian, with no small...
Caicus plain
79 27.0057354,38.9471678,0 Athens ...to be given up and carried to Aegina in requital for the men that were held at Athens. [2] But when the Aeginetans were about to carry Leutychides away, a man of...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...on his expedition, and appointed other generals to lead his armies against Athens and Eretria, Datis, a Mede by birth, and his own nephew Artaphrenes son of...
Athens
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...the Pythian priestess to signify to the Lacedaemonians that they should free Athens, as I have previously shown. 124. Perhaps out of some grudge against the...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athos ...sailed past and dealt very roughly with them, driving many of their ships upon Athos. [3] It is said that about three hundred ships were lost, and more than twenty...
Athos
81 24.295147727272727,40.24683418181819,0 Macedonians ...did not so much as lift up their hands against it; their land army added the Macedonians to the slaves that they had already, for all the nations nearer to them than...
Macedonians
79 21.75,41.25,0 Acanthus ...this. [2] Crossing over from Thasos they travelled near the land as far as Acanthus, and putting out from there they tried to round Athos. But a great and...
Acanthus
77 23.88504,40.39427,0 Aeginetans ...it was for what he did to Demaratus that he was punished thus. 85. When the Aeginetans heard that Cleomenes was dead, they sent messengers to Sparta to cry out...
Aeginetans
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...the Athenians, who were now celebrating a quinquennial festival at Sunium. The Aeginetans set an ambush and captured the sacred ship, with many leading Athenians on...
Aeginetans
81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...a man of repute at Sparta, Theasides son of Leoprepes, said to them, “Men of Aegina, what are you planning to do? To have the king of the Spartans given up to you...
Aegina
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...to the Aeginetans; and they condemned him to be given up and carried to Aegina in requital for the men that were held at Athens. [2] But when the Aeginetans...
Aegina
74 23.42372,37.74991,0 Corinthians ...the Athenians came to their aid. [5] As they were about to join battle, the Corinthians, who happened to be there, prevented them and brought about a reconciliation...
Corinthians
78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...were unwilling to be enrolled as Boeotian. After rendering this decision, the Corinthians departed. The Boeotians attacked the Athenians as they were leaving but were...
Corinthians
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...but were defeated in battle. [6] The Athenians went beyond the boundaries the Corinthians had made for the Plataeans, fixing the Asopus river as the boundary for the...
Corinthians
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Sicyon ...this marriage was born that Cleisthenes, named after his mother's father from Sicyon, who gave the Athenians their tribes and their democracy; [2] he and...
Sicyon
80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Corinthians ...did not have ships worthy to fight the Aeginetans. While they were asking the Corinthians to lend them ships, the affair was ruined. The Corinthians at that time were...
Corinthians
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Sicyon ...coast, where their crews landed with the Lacedaemonians; men from ships of Sicyon also took part in the same invasion. [2] The Argives laid on them the payment...
Sicyon
77 22.71135,37.98336,0 Delos ...taken. Learning from what temple it had come, he sailed in his own ship to Delos. [2] The Delians had now returned to their island, and Datis set the image in...
Delos
77 25.268194,37.397274,0 Chalcidian ...them for defenders the four thousand tenant farmers who held the land of the Chalcidian horse-breeders.38 But it seems that all the plans of the Eretrians were...
Chalcidian
79 23.602,38.464,0 Euboea ...which at that time was prosperous, came Lysanias; he was the only man from Euboea. From Thessaly came a Scopad, Diactorides of Crannon; and from the Molossians...
Euboea
77 23.87,38.53,0 Aegilea ...Oropus; the Persians sailed holding their course for Temenos and Choereae and Aegilea, all in Eretrian territory. Landing at these places, they immediately unloaded...
Aegilea
80 24.1749085,38.1771519,0 Plataeans ...the precinct of Heracles, the Plataeans came to help them in full force. The Plataeans had put themselves under the protection of the Athenians,42 and the Athenians...
Plataeans
79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataeans ...[6] The Athenians went beyond the boundaries the Corinthians had made for the Plataeans, fixing the Asopus river as the boundary for the Thebans in the direction of...
Plataeans
80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataeans ...as the boundary for the Thebans in the direction of Plataea and Hysiae. So the Plataeans had put themselves under the protection of the Athenians in the aforesaid...
Plataeans
81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataeans ...and the other tribes were numbered out in succession next to each other.46 The Plataeans were marshalled last, holding the left wing. [2] Ever since that battle, when...
Plataeans
81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Boeotians ...toward the Plataeans as wishing to cause trouble for the Athenians with the Boeotians. [4] So the Lacedaemonians gave this advice to the Plataeans, who did not...
Boeotians
78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotian ...the Thebans leave alone those Boeotians who were unwilling to be enrolled as Boeotian. After rendering this decision, the Corinthians departed. The Boeotians...
Boeotian
79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotians ...the boundaries of the country on condition that the Thebans leave alone those Boeotians who were unwilling to be enrolled as Boeotian. After rendering this decision...
Boeotians
80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotians ...as Boeotian. After rendering this decision, the Corinthians departed. The Boeotians attacked the Athenians as they were leaving but were defeated in battle. [6]...
Boeotians
76 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Marathon ...called Aegilia, and brought to anchor the ships that had put ashore at Marathon, then marshalled the foreigners who had disembarked onto land. [3] As he was...
Marathon
73 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Lacedaemonians ...that as it may, the anger of Talthybius, Agamemnon's herald, fell upon the Lacedaemonians. At Sparta there is a shrine of Talthybius and descendants of Talthybius called...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...was the Argives who invited the Persian into Hellas, because the war with the Lacedaemonians was going badly, and they would prefer anything to their present distresses...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...you to command it, we would not do so, for the command of the fleet, which the Lacedaemonians do not desire for themselves, is ours. If they should desire to lead it, we...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...men-at-arms altogether, and the cavalry was there as well. The general of the Lacedaemonians was Euaenetus son of Carenus, chosen from among the Polemarchs, yet not of the...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...have turned out no differently than you foretold. Now, tell me this: how many Lacedaemonians are left, and how many of them are warriors like these? or is it so with them...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...enough to think for themselves, and we similarly for ourselves. As for the Lacedaemonians, if they meet the Persians in the field, they will in no way repair their most...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...return now to that place in my history where it earlier left off.118 The Lacedaemonians were the first to be informed that the king was equipping himself to attack...
Lacedaemonians
75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Egypt ...from there and now inhabit the seacoast of Syria. This part of Syria as far as Egypt is all called Palestine. [3] The Egyptians furnished two hundred ships. They...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...tunics; each had two javelins and a sword very close in style to the knives of Egypt. These Cilicians were formerly called Hypachaei, and took their name from Cilix...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Susa ...with axes.” 136. This was their answer to Hydarnes. From there they came to Susa, into the king's presence, and when the guards commanded and would have...
Susa
79 48.24854,32.19202,0 Susa ...him, though they had previously been close friends. Now he had arrived at Susa with the Pisistratidae, and whenever he came into the king's presence they used...
Susa
76 48.24854,32.19202,0 Egyptian ...fashion not easy to describe. They carried shields and spears and daggers of Egyptian fashion, and also wooden clubs studded with iron, and they wore linen...
Egyptian
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Lacedaemonia ...time Demaratus son of Ariston had come up to Susa, in voluntary exile from Lacedaemonia after he had lost the kingship of Sparta. [2] Learning of the contention...
Lacedaemonia
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Hellas ...matter undecided; nevertheless, Themistocles was lauded, and throughout all of Hellas was deemed the wisest man by far of the Greeks. [2] However, because he had not...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...counsel, for it is not to be lightly regarded by you who are the only men in Hellas whose offenses the great king is ready to forgive and whose friend he would...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...have been sent by the Lacedaemonians to entreat you to do nothing harmful to Hellas and accept no offer from the barbarian. [2] That would be unjust and...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...that the gift of it should win us to take the Persian part and enslave Hellas. [2] For there are many great reasons why we should not do this, even if we so...
Hellas
73 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Athenians ...9 When Alexander returned and told him what he had heard from the Athenians, Mardonius set forth from Thessaly and led his army with all zeal against...
Athenians
69 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...next, over the Messenians at Ithome; lastly, the victory at Tanagra over the Athenians and Argives, which was the last won of the five victories.18 36. This...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the Lacedaemonians left him; this was in fact exactly what happened. [2] The Athenians marshalled themselves and marched, but not by the same way as the...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...as for departure, to do as they did. 56. The messenger then went back to the Athenians. When dawn found the dispute still continuing, Pausanias, who had up to this...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the only man left behind of all the Lacedaemonians and Tegeans. As for the Athenians, they stood unmoved at their post, well aware that the purposes and the...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...men, it is said, the bravest was Mardonius. Among the Greeks, the Tegeans and Athenians conducted themselves nobly, but the Lacedaemonians excelled all in valor. [2]...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persians ...preparations and invited Mardonius with fifty who were the most notable of the Persians to be his guests at a banquet. They came as they were bidden; the dinner was...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...wall was not yet built and they were working at this in great fear of the Persians. 9. The nature of their response was as follows: on the day before the final...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...his encampment in Boeotia. All the Greeks of that region who sided with the Persians furnished fighting men, and they joined with him in his attack upon Athens...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...“We, too,” the Athenians answered, “even from the moment when we saw the Persians posted opposite you, had it in mind to make that suggestion which now has first...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...a device. 75. There is yet another glorious deed which Sophanes did; when the Athenians were besieging Aegina, he challenged and killed Eurybates the Argive, a victor...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the god for the treasure that I took from his temple. I will also pay to the Athenians two hundred talents for myself and my son, if they spare us.” [4] But...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...morning came, the people of the Chersonese signified from their towers to the Athenians what had happened, and opened their gates. The greater part of the Athenians...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebans ...risk the event of a battle. [4] This opinion of his was the same as the Thebans, inasmuch as he too had special foreknowledge. Mardonius' counsel, however, was...
Thebans
74 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...with this purpose on the eleventh day after the battle and laid siege to the Thebans, demanding the surrender of the men. When the Thebans refused this surrender...
Thebans
79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...be tried by them.” This seemed to be said well and at the right time, and the Thebans immediately sent a herald to Pausanias, offering to surrender the men. 88. On...
Thebans
80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athens ...to the king at Sardis by a line of beacons across the islands that he held Athens. [2] When he came to Attica, however, he found the city as unpopulated as...
Athens
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Plataea ...Sparta. [2] Now the five victories were these: one, the first, this victory at Plataea; next, that which was won at Tegea over the Tegeans and Argives; after that...
Plataea
81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...mentioned, received none. 72. These won the most renown of all who fought at Plataea. For Callicrates, who, when he came to the army, was the finest not only of the...
Plataea
80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...with dead; but as for the rest of the states whose tombs are to be seen at Plataeae, their tombs are but empty barrows that they built for the sake of men that...
Plataea
77 23.273866,38.221019,0 Spartans ...thirty-five thousand light-armed helots, seven appointed for each man. [3] The Spartans chose the Tegeans for their neighbors in the battle, both to do them honor, and...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...now driven into dire straits, the Argives consented to that also. 35. The Spartans too were so eagerly desirous of winning Tisamenus that they granted everything...
Spartans
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...manner of fighting while we have no experience or knowledge of those men. We Spartans have experience of the Boeotians and Thessalians, but not one of us has...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...there was a general discussion about who had borne himself most bravely, those Spartans who were there judged that Aristodemus, who plainly wished to die because of...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...anyone else who is pleased by such acts. It is enough for me if I please the Spartans by righteous deeds and speech. As for Leonidas, whom you would have me avenge...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartan ...son of Lysimachus. 29. All these, except the seven appointed to attend each Spartan, were men-at-arms, and the whole sum of them was thirty-eight thousand and...
Spartan
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...a word to the envoys who had come from the cities, they ordered five thousand Spartans to march before dawn. Seven helots were appointed to attend each of them, and...
Spartans
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Salamis ...they returned to the camp. 42. When those from Artemisium had put in at Salamis, the rest of the Hellenic fleet learned of this and streamed in from Troezen...
Salamis
75 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...provided these alone, since the Plataeans did not fight with the Athenians at Salamis for this reason: when the Hellenes departed from Artemisium and were off...
Salamis
80 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...by fencing the acropolis with doors and logs. They had not withdrawn to Salamis not only because of poverty but also because they thought they had discovered...
Salamis
74 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...business concerning the Athenian acropolis was announced to the Hellenes at Salamis, some of the Peloponnesian generals became so alarmed that they did not even...
Salamis
78 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...to Eurybiades nothing of what he had said before, how if they put out from Salamis they would flee different ways, for it would be unbecoming for him to accuse...
Salamis
77 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...order, and we shall gain an advantage by the survival of Megara, Aegina, and Salamis, where it is prophesied that we will prevail against our enemies. Men usually...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...this skirmish of words, since Eurybiades had so resolved, the men at Salamis prepared to fight where they were. At sunrise on the next day there was an...
Salamis
71 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...the Greeks. [2] However, because he had not received from those that fought at Salamis the honor due to his preeminence, he immediately afterwards went to Lacedaemon...
Salamis
81 23.51,37.93,0 Thessaly ...way back to the Isthmus. 174. This was the course of their expedition into Thessaly, while the king was planning to cross into Europe from Asia and was already at...
Thessaly
78 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...the pass of Thermopylae, for they saw that it was narrower than the pass into Thessaly and nearer home. [2] The pass, then, which brought about the fall of those...
Thessaly
80 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...Athamas' descendants alike in reverence.99 198. These were Xerxes' actions in Thessaly and Achaea. From here he came into Malis along a gulf of the sea, in which the...
Thessaly
81 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...things happened that helped him to persuade Xerxes. [2] Messengers came from Thessaly from the Aleuadae (who were princes of Thessaly) and invited the king into...
Thessaly
79 22.2,39.6,0 Macedonia ...out that there was another pass leading into Thessaly by the hill country of Macedonia through the country of the Perrhaebi, near the town of Gonnus; this was indeed...
Macedonia
79 21.75,41.25,0 Salamis ...Persian, deserted to the Greeks, and for that the Athenians gave him land in Salamis. 12. When darkness came on, the season being then midsummer, there was...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Hellespont ...this he prepared to march to Abydos; meanwhile his men were bridging the Hellespont from Asia to Europe. On the Chersonese, which is on the Hellespont, between the...
Hellespont
75 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...sea receive these punishments and that the overseers of the bridge over the Hellespont be beheaded. 36. So this was done by those who were appointed to the thankless...
Hellespont
78 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...35. When Xerxes heard of this, he was very angry and commanded that the Hellespont be whipped with three hundred lashes, and a pair of fetters be thrown into the...
Hellespont
75 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...he reached its farthest borders. After the prayer, he cast the phial into the Hellespont, and along with it a golden bowl, and a Persian sword which they call...
Hellespont
80 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...this march, governors had been appointed everywhere in Thrace and on the Hellespont. [2] All of these in Thrace and the Hellespont, except the governor of...
Hellespont
75 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...at Abydos and saw ships laden with corn sailing out of the Pontus through the Hellespont on their way to Aegina and the Peloponnese. His counsellors, perceiving that...
Hellespont
80 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...instead. [2] As soon as he was informed that the Persian had crossed the Hellespont, he sent Cadmus son of Scythes,84 a man of Cos, to Delphi with three...
Hellespont
75 26.4,40.2,0 Peloponnese ...labors but still were full of dread, fearing not for themselves but for the Peloponnese. [2] For a time each man talked quietly to his neighbor, wondering at...
Peloponnese
78 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Hypanis ...which wild, white horses graze. This lake is truly called the mother of the Hypanis. [2] Here, then, the Hypanis rises; for five days' journey its waters are...
Hypanis
78 31.3343727,47.5349319,0 Hypanis ...there. The settlement of the Borystheneïtae is beyond the temple, on the Hypanis. 54. This is the produce of these rivers, and after these there is a fifth...
Hypanis
75 31.3343727,47.5349319,0 Tyras ...it rises is in Scythian Exampaeus; in the Greek tongue, Sacred Ways. [4] The Tyras and the Hypanis draw near together in the Alazones' country; after that they...
Tyras
79 29.613982,46.8329732,0 Tiarantus ...river called by Scythians Porata and by Greeks Pyretus,26 and besides this the Tiarantus, the Ararus, the Naparis, and the Ordessus. [3] The first-named of these rivers...
Tiarantus
81 20.2732883,46.847661,0 Agathyrsi ...of the Neuri and, agitating them also, fled to the Agathyrsi. [4] But the Agathyrsi, seeing their neighbors fleeing panic-stricken at the Scythians' approach...
Agathyrsi
76 27.5,47.5,0 Agathyrsi ...drew off into the country of the Neuri and, agitating them also, fled to the Agathyrsi. [4] But the Agathyrsi, seeing their neighbors fleeing panic-stricken at the...
Agathyrsi
79 27.5,47.5,0 Naparis ...and by Greeks Pyretus,26 and besides this the Tiarantus, the Ararus, the Naparis, and the Ordessus. [3] The first-named of these rivers is a great stream...
Naparis
75 27.5,44.5,0 Thrace ...what had happened concerning him and the reason why it had happened, fled into Thrace; and when Octamasades heard this he led his army there. But when he was beside...
Thrace
81 27.5,42.5,0 Thrace ...Thus have the Scythians taunted the Ionians. 143. Darius marched through Thrace to Sestos on the Chersonesus; from there, he crossed over with his ships to...
Thrace
76 27.5,42.5,0 Athrys ...great rivers that pour into it, flow north from the heights of Haemus.27 The Athrys, the Noes, and the Artanes flow into the Ister from the country of the Crobyzi...
Athrys
79 25.605924,43.062716,0 Noes ...that pour into it, flow north from the heights of Haemus.27 The Athrys, the Noes, and the Artanes flow into the Ister from the country of the Crobyzi in Thrace...
Noes
78 Haemus ...three other great rivers that pour into it, flow north from the heights of Haemus.27 The Athrys, the Noes, and the Artanes flow into the Ister from the country...
Haemus
77 24.91728,42.7168715,0 Crobyzi ...Athrys, the Noes, and the Artanes flow into the Ister from the country of the Crobyzi in Thrace; the Cius river, which cuts through the middle of Haemus, from the...
Crobyzi
80 30.5,47.5,0 Sacred Ways ...and of the place where it rises is in Scythian Exampaeus; in the Greek tongue, Sacred Ways. [4] The Tyras and the Hypanis draw near together in the Alazones' country...
Sacred Ways
81 Woodland ...Scythians flows out near the city of Carcine, bordering on its right the Woodland and the region called the Racecourse of Achilles. 56. The seventh river, the...
Woodland
75 32.5,46.5,0 Bosporus ...which the bridge was thrown, is about one hundred and twenty stades long. The Bosporus reaches as far as to the Propontis; [4] and the Propontis is five hundred...
Bosporus
80 29.075278,41.119444,0 Bosporus ...thousand three hundred stades. [4] Thus have I measured the Pontus and the Bosporus and Hellespont, and they are as I have said. Furthermore, a lake is seen...
Bosporus
77 29.075278,41.119444,0 Bosporus ...this up in the temple of Hera, with this inscription: [2] ““After bridging the Bosporus that teems with fish, Mandrocles dedicated a memorial of the floating bridge to...
Bosporus
81 29.075278,41.119444,0 Bosporus ...Now if my reckoning is correct, the place where king Darius bridged the Bosporus was midway between Byzantium and the temple at the entrance of the sea...
Bosporus
74 29.075278,41.119444,0 Calchedon ...in his march from Susa where the Bosporus was bridged in the territory of Calchedon, went aboard ship and sailed to the Dark Rocks38 (as they are called), which...
Calchedon
76 29.025789,40.983393,0 Bosporus ...85. But Darius, when he came to that place in his march from Susa where the Bosporus was bridged in the territory of Calchedon, went aboard ship and sailed to the...
Bosporus
79 29.075278,41.119444,0 Tearus ...one from Apollonia on the Euxine sea; each is a two days' journey. This Tearus is a tributary of the Contadesdus river, and that of the Agrianes, and that of...
Tearus
74 27.75,41.75,0 Samian ...away for longer than the agreed time, and Corobius had no provisions left, a Samian ship sailing for Egypt, whose captain was Colaeus, was driven off her course to...
Samian
79 26.84,37.73,0 Byzantium ...correct, the place where king Darius bridged the Bosporus was midway between Byzantium and the temple at the entrance of the sea. 88. After this, being pleased with...
Byzantium
79 28.975926,41.012379,0 Assyrian ...to build the altar of Orthosian41 Artemis, except for one column covered with Assyrian writing that was left beside the temple of Dionysus at Byzantium. Now if my...
Assyrian
80 37.5,37.5,0 Byzantium ...covered with Assyrian writing that was left beside the temple of Dionysus at Byzantium. Now if my reckoning is correct, the place where king Darius bridged the...
Byzantium
79 28.975926,41.012379,0 Getae ...to whether there was a man called Salmoxis or this is some deity native to the Getae, let the question be dismissed. 97. Such were the ways of the Getae, who were...
Getae
81 25.5,44.5,0 Getae ...he holds in subjection not only the rest of Thrace, but also our neighbors the Getae.” 119. After the Scythians had made this speech, the kings who had come from...
Getae
81 25.5,44.5,0 Ionia ...of the Hellespont, advised that they do as the Scythians said and set Ionia free. [2] But Histiaeus of Miletus advised the opposite. He said, “It is owing...
Ionia
72 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Lesbos ...was very pleased with this advice, and he answered Cöes thus: “My friend from Lesbos, do not fail to show yourself to me when I return to my house safe, so that I...
Lesbos
80 26.10052,39.20874,0 Getae ...called Cyrmianae and Nipsaei, surrendered without a fight to Darius; but the Getae resisted stubbornly, and were enslaved at once, the bravest and most just...
Getae
79 25.5,44.5,0 Nipsaei ...above the towns of Apollonia and Mesambria, who are called Cyrmianae and Nipsaei, surrendered without a fight to Darius; but the Getae resisted stubbornly, and...
Nipsaei
75 Black-cloaks ...of their own; of all these, they are the only people that eat men. 107. The Black-cloaks all wear black clothing, from which they get their name; their customs are...
Black-cloaks
79 Tauris ...of these two countries, but there are many others of a similar kind that Tauris resembles.44 100. Beyond the Tauric country the Scythians begin, living north...
Tauris
75 34.27150174333333,44.883441823333335,0 Black-cloaks ...by the Agathyrsi, next by the Neuri, next by the Man-eaters, and last by the Black-cloaks. 101. Scythia, then, is a four-sided country, two of whose sides are...
Black-cloaks
79 Amazons ...by the Maeetian lake; this place is in the country of the free Scythians. The Amazons landed there, and set out on their journey to the inhabited country, and...
Amazons
80 Amazons ...ships as many Amazons as they had been able to take alive; and out at sea the Amazons attacked the crews and killed them. [2] But they knew nothing about ships, or...
Amazons
80 Amazons ...of the Sauromatae is Scythian, but not spoken in its ancient purity, since the Amazons never learned it correctly. In regard to marriage, it is the custom that no...
Amazons
81 Maeetians ...Thyssagetae; four great rivers flow from their country through the land of the Maeetians, and issue into the lake called the Maeetian; their names are Lycus, Oarus...
Maeetians
81 35.862586,45.814417000000006,0 Oarus ...came into the desolate country, he halted in his pursuit and camped on the Oarus river, where he built eight great forts, the ruins of which were standing even...
Oarus
77 lake Maeetis ...three days' journey east from the river, and a three days' journey north from lake Maeetis; and when they came to the region in which they now live, they settled there...
lake Maeetis
80 35.862586,45.814417000000006,0 Lycus ...of the Maeetians, and issue into the lake called the Maeetian; their names are Lycus, Oarus, Tanaïs, Syrgis. 124. When Darius came into the desolate country, he...
Lycus
81 37.5,47.5,0 Thera ...time taken and sacked by the Eleans. As for the island Calliste, it was called Thera after its colonist. 149. But as Theras' son would not sail with him, his...
Thera
81 25.478129,36.36399,0 Nudium ...and established the cities of Lepreum, Macistus, Phrixae, Pyrgus, Epium, and Nudium in the land they had won;48 most of these were in my time taken and sacked by...
Nudium
79 Theraean ...of the Aegidae at Thera. 150. So far in the story the Lacedaemonian and Theraean records agree; for the rest, we have only the word of the Theraeans. [2]...
Theraean
75 25.478129,36.36399,0 Pillars of Heracles ...Phoenicians in ships, instructing them to sail on their return voyage past the Pillars of Heracles until they came into the northern sea and so to Egypt. [3] So the Phoenicians...
Pillars of Heracles
81 -5.384583,35.9358335,0 Pillars of Heracles ...no farther than that. But I know this, that the ridge reaches as far as the Pillars of Heracles and beyond them. [2] There is a mine of salt on it every ten days' journey, and...
Pillars of Heracles
78 -5.384583,35.9358335,0 Tartessus ...There are also weasels found in the silphium, very like to the weasels of Tartessus. So many are the wild creatures of the nomads' country, as far as by our utmost...
Tartessus
76 -6.4119,36.93672,0 Aegina ...brought back from it the greatest profit on their wares except Sostratus of Aegina, son of Laodamas; no one could compete with him. [4] The Samians took six...
Aegina
78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Samians ...Sostratus of Aegina, son of Laodamas; no one could compete with him. [4] The Samians took six talents, a tenth of their profit, and made a bronze vessel with it...
Samians
79 26.84,37.73,0 Thestes spring ...and sent it against Cyrene; the Cyrenaeans marched out to Irasa and the Thestes spring, and there fought with the Egyptians and beat them; [6] for the Egyptians had...
Thestes spring
74 Barce ...of the fleet. [2] But before despatching the troops, Aryandes sent a herald to Barce to ask who it was who had killed Arcesilaus. The Barcaeans answered that it was...
Barce
81 20.892778,32.498333,0 Barcaeans ...were delivered to her by the Persians, Pheretime took the most guilty of the Barcaeans and set them impaled around the top of the wall; the breasts of their women she...
Barcaeans
79 20.892778,32.498333,0 Egypt ...was Egyptian; for I maintain that the Greeks took their shield and helmet from Egypt. [5] As for Athena, they say that she was daughter of Poseidon and the...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Adyrmachidae ...nothing for Darius. 168. Now, concerning the lands inhabited by Libyans, the Adyrmachidae are the people that live nearest to Egypt; they follow Egyptian customs for the...
Adyrmachidae
80 26.5,31.5,0 Cinyps ...is on either side; in war they carry shields made of ostrich skins. [2] The Cinyps river empties into their sea through their country from a hill called the Hill...
Cinyps
78 14.5,32.5,0 Garamantes ...and many fruit-bearing palms, as at the other places; men live there called Garamantes, an exceedingly great nation, who sow in earth which they have laid on the...
Garamantes
78 13.5,27.5,0 Macae ...is bare of trees; it is twenty-five miles from the sea. 176. Next to these Macae are the Gindanes, where every woman wears many leather anklets, because (so it...
Macae
78 13.5,31.5,0 Psylli ...and lick it up. 173. On the borders of the Nasamones is the country of the Psylli, who perished in this way: the force of the south wind dried up their...
Psylli
78 17.5,30.5,0 Thebes ...and beyond this wild beasts' haunt runs a ridge of sand that stretches from Thebes of Egypt to the Pillars of Heracles.60 [2] At intervals of about ten days'...
Thebes
78 32.65285,25.70247,0 Ammonians ...the Ammonians along the sandy ridge, there is a hill of salt like that of the Ammonians, and springs of water, where men live; this place is called Augila; it is to...
Ammonians
80 25.54359,29.20514,0 Thebes ...distant from there, are the Ammonians, who follow the worship of the Zeus of Thebes ; for, as I have said before, the image of Zeus at Thebes has the head of a...
Thebes
79 32.65285,25.70247,0 Auseans ...shores of the Tritonian lake. The Machlyes wear their hair long behind, the Auseans in front. [2] They celebrate a yearly festival of Athena, where their maidens...
Auseans
78 Triton ...to these Machlyes are the Auseans; these and the Machlyes, separated by the Triton, live on the shores of the Tritonian lake. The Machlyes wear their hair long...
Triton
78 Carthaginians ...was the first knowledge of Libya gained. The next story is that of the Carthaginians: for as for Sataspes son of Teaspes, an Achaemenid, he did not sail around...
Carthaginians
73 10.327986,36.857569,0 Carthaginians ...and eat apes, with which their mountains swarm. 195. Off their coast (the Carthaginians say) lies an island called Cyrauis, twenty-five miles long and narrow across...
Carthaginians
77 10.327986,36.857569,0 Gyzantes ...Zauekes, whose women drive their chariots to war. 194. Next to these are the Gyzantes, where much honey is made by bees, and much more yet (so it is said) by...
Gyzantes
80 Bactria ...in. They gave this town the name Barce, and it remained an inhabited place in Bactria until my own lifetime. 205. But Pheretime did not end well, either. For as...
Bactria
80 67.5,37.5,0 Paeonians ...roughly handled by the Paeonians. [2] For the oracle of the god ordered the Paeonians from the Strymon to march against Perinthus, and if the Perinthians, who were...
Paeonians
78 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...as it fell out, saw a sight which put it in his mind to bid Megabazus take the Paeonians and take them from their homes out of Europe into Asia. There were two...
Paeonians
81 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...Paeonians and that she was their sister. [2] “But who,” he answered, “are the Paeonians, and where do they dwell, and with what intent have you come to Sardis?” They...
Paeonians
80 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...that the Persians would attempt to attack them by that way. [2] So the Paeonians were ready to withstand the onset of Megabazus' army, but the Persians...
Paeonians
73 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...safely to your own land, but afterwards we will take care of you.” [3] The Paeonians were very glad when they heard that, and although some of them remained where...
Paeonians
77 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...them, the Persians sent to Chios, commanding the Paeonians to go back. The Paeonians would not consent to this, but were brought from Chios by the Chians to Lesbos...
Paeonians
77 21.75,41.75,0 Thrace ...Darius wrote a letter to Megabazus, whom he had left as his general in Thrace, bidding him take the Paeonians from their houses, and bring them to him, men...
Thrace
73 27.5,42.5,0 Thracians ...however, there is no way or means to bring this about, they are weak. [2] The Thracians have many names, each tribe according to its region, but they are very similar...
Thracians
80 27.5,42.5,0 Thracians ...by the Thracians, he and his army, as he was besieging a town, even though the Thracians were ready to depart from it under treaty.
Thracians
81 27.5,42.5,0 Strymon ...him, that they had come to be his men, that the towns of Paeonia lay on the Strymon, a river not far from the Hellespont, and that they were colonists from the...
Strymon
78 23.848889,40.785833,0 Strymon ...He sent a man into Phrygia, to the Paeonians who had been led captive from the Strymon by Megabazus, and now dwelt in a Phrygian territory and village by themselves...
Strymon
81 23.848889,40.785833,0 Strymon ...by the Paeonians. [2] For the oracle of the god ordered the Paeonians from the Strymon to march against Perinthus, and if the Perinthians, who were encamped opposite...
Strymon
81 23.848889,40.785833,0 Asia ...lived as far as the Prasiad lake were taken away from their homes and led into Asia. 16. But those near the Pangaean6 mountains and the country of the Doberes and...
Asia
81 Paeonia ...carried by the Lesbians to Doriscus, from where they made their way by land to Paeonia. 99. The Athenians came with their twenty ships as well as five triremes of...
Paeonia
81 21.75,41.75,0 Troy ...far from the Hellespont, and that they were colonists from the Teucrians of Troy. [3] So they told him all this, and the king asked them if all the women of...
Troy
78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Argive ...Greeks and not for foreigners. Alexander, however, proving himself to be an Argive, was judged to be a Greek. He accordingly competed in the furlong race and tied...
Argive
78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lamponium ...governorship. He captured Byzantium, Calchedon, Antandrus in the Troad, and Lamponium, and with ships he had taken from the Lesbians, he took Lemnos and Imbros, both...
Lamponium
78 26.421229,39.538105,0 Ionians ...by this Pactolus and were forced to defend themselves there. [3] When the Ionians saw some of their enemies defending themselves and a great multitude of others...
Ionians
76 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...in the games and been greatly praised by Simonides of Ceos. Those of the Ionians who escaped from the battle fled, each to his city. 103. This, then is how...
Ionians
75 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...Despite the fact that they had been deprived of their Athenian allies, the Ionians fervently continued their war against the king (for they remained committed by...
Ionians
77 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...this, Onesilus sent heralds all through Ionia to summon the people, and the Ionians, after no long deliberation, came with a great force. So the Ionians were in...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...Miletus, to show you the way to deliverance, if you are disposed to obey. All Ionia is now in revolt against the king, and it is possible for you to win your own...
Ionia
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...to engage the Phoenicians, do so, but whichever you choose, see to it that Ionia and Cyprus become free.” [3] To this the Ionians answered, “We were sent by the...
Ionia
77 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...free.” [3] To this the Ionians answered, “We were sent by the common voice of Ionia to guard the seas, not to deliver our ships to men of Cyprus and encounter the...
Ionia
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...had handed over to their former king Gorgus, were besieged, they sailed off to Ionia without delay. [2] Soli was the Cyprian city which withstood siege longest; the...
Ionia
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Naxians ...This man, then, will, I think, do whatever we desire.” [6] Hearing this, the Naxians left the matter for Aristagoras to deal with as best he could, asking him to...
Naxians
79 25.52001,37.127,0 Naxians ...when the Naxians, who had been his guests and friends, arrived. [3] When the Naxians came to Miletus, they asked Aristagoras if he could give them enough power to...
Naxians
79 25.52001,37.127,0 Naxians ...Megabates,13 bringing Aristagoras from Miletus, the Ionian army, and the Naxians, pretended to be sailing to the Hellespont, but when he came to Chios, he put...
Naxians
75 25.52001,37.127,0 Naxians ...he might cross with a north wind to Naxos. [2] Since it was not fated that the Naxians were to be destroyed by this force, the following things took place. As...
Naxians
81 25.52001,37.127,0 Naxos ...should furnish that. Furthermore, you will win new dominions for the king, Naxos itself and the islands which are its dependents, Paros, Andros, and the rest of...
Naxos
77 25.52001,37.127,0 Naxos ...those tyrants whom he had taken out of the ships that sailed with him against Naxos, he handed them each over to their respective cities, which he wished to...
Naxos
80 25.52001,37.127,0 Ionians ...all of them Persian generals and married to daughters of Darius, pursued those Ionians who had marched to Sardis, and drove them to their ships. After this victory...
Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...Parius, news came to him that the Carians had made common cause with the Ionians and revolted from the Persians. For this reason he turned aside from the...
Ionians
75 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Carchedonians ...but in the third year he was driven out by the Macae, the Libyans and the Carchedonians and returned to the Peloponnesus. 43. There Antichares, a man of Eleon,17...
Carchedonians
76 10.327986,36.857569,0 Eleon ...and returned to the Peloponnesus. 43. There Antichares, a man of Eleon,17 advised him, on the basis of the oracles of Laius, to plant a colony at...
Eleon
68 23.479833,38.355639,0 Crotoniats ...is the story which the Sybarites tell of Dorieus and his companions, but the Crotoniats say that they were aided by no stranger in their war with Sybaris with the...
Crotoniats
79 17.205128,39.028864,0 Croton ...Sybarites say, they and their king Telys were making ready to march against Croton, and the men of Croton, who were very much afraid, entreated Dorieus to come to...
Croton
78 17.205128,39.028864,0 Egestans ...the fairest Greek of his day. [2] For his physical beauty he received from the Egestans honors accorded to no one else. They built a hero's shrine by his grave and...
Egestans
81 12.839871,37.939199,0 Lydians ...dwell lie next to each other, as I shall show: next to the Ionians are the Lydians, who inhabit a good land and have great store of silver.” (This he said...
Lydians
77 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Selinus ...and took Minoa, the colony from Selinus, and aided in freeing the people of Selinus from their monarch Pithagoras. After deposing this man, he himself attempted to...
Selinus
78 12.8249,37.58406,0 Lydians ...map of the earth which he had brought engraved on the tablet.) “Next to the Lydians,” said Aristagoras, “you see the Phrygians to the east, men that of all known...
Lydians
78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Selinus ...[2] He mustered the remnant of his army and took Minoa, the colony from Selinus, and aided in freeing the people of Selinus from their monarch Pithagoras...
Selinus
74 12.8249,37.58406,0 Minoa ...that survived this disaster. [2] He mustered the remnant of his army and took Minoa, the colony from Selinus, and aided in freeing the people of Selinus from their...
Minoa
80 16.67048,40.21973,0 Arcadians ...that fight with with Messenians, who are matched in strength with you, and Arcadians and Argives, men who have nothing in the way of gold or silver (for which...
Arcadians
77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Messenians ...your war, then, for strips of land of no great worth—for that fight with with Messenians, who are matched in strength with you, and Arcadians and Argives, men who have...
Messenians
80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Gephyraeans ...of mention here. 58. These Phoenicians who came with Cadmus and of whom the Gephyraeans were a part brought with them to Hellas, among many other kinds of learning...
Gephyraeans
79 36.352594,36.249652,0 Thessaly ...and more than forty men were slain. Those who were left alive made off for Thessaly by the nearest way they could. Then Cleomenes, when he and the Athenians who...
Thessaly
77 22.2,39.6,0 Sicyon ...of Talaus, the hero whose shrine stood then as now in the very marketplace of Sicyon because he was an Argive. [2] He went then to Delphi, and asked the oracle if...
Sicyon
80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sicyon ...cast Adrastus out, but the priestess said in response: “Adrastus is king of Sicyon, and you but a stone thrower.” When the god would not permit him to do as he...
Sicyon
78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sicyonians ...the kingship to him. [5] Besides other honors paid to Adrastus by the Sicyonians, they celebrated his lamentable fate with tragic choruses in honor not of...
Sicyonians
72 22.71135,37.98336,0 Chalcidians ...of the Eretrians in the war against Chalcis, when the Samians came to aid the Chalcidians against the Eretrians and Milesians). When these, then, and the rest of the...
Chalcidians
80 23.602,38.464,0 Aeginetans ...their agreement with the Athenians. 83. Now at this time, as before it, the Aeginetans were in all matters still subject to the Epidaurians and even crossed to...
Aeginetans
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...therefore sent to Aegina and demanded that the images be restored, but the Aeginetans answered that they had nothing to do with the Athenians. 85. The Athenians...
Aeginetans
77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...the aid of the Boeotians, remembering the matter of the images. [2] While the Aeginetans were laying waste to the seaboard of Attica, the Athenians were setting out to...
Aeginetans
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...no better opinion before them than this, they sent straightaway to entreat the Aeginetans and invite their aid, since this was the oracle's bidding, and the Aeginetans...
Aeginetans
81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...dealt the Athenians a very shrewd blow. 82. This was the beginning of the Aeginetans' long-standing debt of enmity against the Athenians. The Epidaurians' land bore...
Aeginetans
77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...them to restrain themselves for thirty years after the wrongdoing of the Aeginetans, and in the thirty-first to mark out a precinct for Aeacus and begin the war...
Aeginetans
75 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...Aeginetans and invite their aid, since this was the oracle's bidding, and the Aeginetans were their nearest. These replied to their demand that they were sending the...
Aeginetans
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Ionian ...truth of the matter, however, is that this form of dress is not in its origin Ionian, but Carian, for in ancient times all women in Greece wore the costume now...
Ionian
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Corinth ...was in some way made known to the Bacchiadae. The earlier oracle sent to Corinth had not been understood by them, despite the fact that its meaning was the same...
Corinth
75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...Corinthians, You who dwell by lovely Pirene and the overhanging heights of Corinth. ” 92C. This earlier prophecy had been unintelligible to the Bacchiadae, but...
Corinth
77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...however, had decreed that Eetion's offspring should be the source of ills for Corinth, for Labda, standing close to this door, heard all this. Fearing that they...
Corinth
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...meaning was given him at Delphi. Putting faith in this, he made an attempt on Corinth and won it. [2] The oracle was as follows: “That man is fortunate who steps...
Corinth
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Pirene ...many will it loose. This consider well, Corinthians, You who dwell by lovely Pirene and the overhanging heights of Corinth. ” 92C. This earlier prophecy had been...
Pirene
79 Tmolus ...Pactolus, which flows through the marketplace carrying down gold dust from Tmolus and issues into the river Hermus, which in turn issues into the sea. They...
Tmolus
77 28.101929,38.3233025,0 Salamis ...Onesilus' cause was lost and that the cities of Cyprus, with the exception of Salamis which the Salaminians had handed over to their former king Gorgus, were...
Salamis
80 33.90294,35.17926,0 Medians ...valiant men, remembering what you suffered when you were enslaved by the Medians.” 110. This was the Ionians' response, and when the Persian army afterwards...
Medians
75 46.5,34.5,0 Amathusians ...the following events took place. When Onesilus of Salamis was besieging the Amathusians, news was brought him that Artybius, a Persian, was thought to be coming to...
Amathusians
78 33.1438299,34.712174,0 Cyprian ...and when the Persian army afterwards arrived on the plain of Salamis, the Cyprian kings ordered their battle line. They drew up the best of the Salaminians and...
Cyprian
76 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Amathusians ...entered it and filled it with their honeycomb. [2] In consequence of this the Amathusians, who had inquired concerning the matter, received an oracle which stated that...
Amathusians
80 33.1438299,34.712174,0 Amathusians ...to a hero. If they did this, things would go better for them. 115. This the Amathusians did, and have done to this day. When, however, the Ionians engaged in the...
Amathusians
79 33.1438299,34.712174,0 Lampsacus ...made for the cities of the Hellespont and took Dardanus, Abydus, Percote, Lampsacus, and Paesus, each in a single day. Then as he marched from Paesus against...
Lampsacus
76 26.68998,40.34869,0 Marsyas ...heard, they mustered at the place called the White Pillars by the river Marsyas56 which flows from the region of Idria and issues into the Maeander. [2] When...
Marsyas
74 27.75,37.75,0 Labraunda ...Those of them who escaped were driven into the precinct of Zeus of Armies at Labraunda,57 a large and a holy grove of plane-trees. (The Carians are the only people...
Labraunda
79 27.819967,37.418971,0 Percote ...made for the cities of the Hellespont and took Dardanus, Abydus, Percote, Lampsacus, and Paesus, each in a single day. Then as he marched from Paesus...
Percote
67 26.588806,40.273913,0 ancient Trojans ...who dwell in the territory of Ilium, and of the Gergithae, a remnant of the ancient Trojans. While he was conquering these nations, however, Hymaees himself died of a...
ancient Trojans
78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Clazomenae ...the army against Ionia and the Aeolian territory on its borders. They took Clazomenae in Ionia, and Cyme in Aeolia. 124. Aristagoras the Milesian, as he clearly...
Clazomenae
77 26.78715,38.37322,0 Edonia ...he should lead them from there to a settlement in Sardo, or Myrcinus in Edonia, which Histiaeus had received as a gift from Darius and fortified...
Edonia
74 23.848889,40.785833,0 Mylasas ...fell also Myrsus, son of Gyges. The leader of this ambush was Heraclides of Mylasas, son of Ibanollis. 122. This, then, is how these Persians perished. Hymaees...
Mylasas
78 27.789697,37.316871,0 Hermus ...the marketplace carrying down gold dust from Tmolus and issues into the river Hermus, which in turn issues into the sea. They assembled in the marketplace by this...
Hermus
80 28.1112899,38.5178164,0 sea ...the plan, if Aristagoras desired to lead them a three months' journey from the sea. 51. Cleomenes went to his house after this exchange, but Aristagoras took a...
sea
81 25.8829628235849,37.42245628773585,0 Phoenicians ...Aeolians against Thasos. While he was besieging Thasos a message came that the Phoenicians were putting out to sea from Miletus to attack the rest of Ionia. When he...
Phoenicians
81 35.25,33.25,0 Ionia ...always in danger while the Peloponnese is securely established, and nowhere in Ionia are the same men seen continuing in possession of wealth. [5] Considering and...
Ionia
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Sardo ...the next night to the sea, for he had deceived Darius by promising to subdue Sardo, the greatest of the islands, while secretly intending to make himself leader...
Sardo
79 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Susa ...arrived in Sardis after he was let go by Darius. When he came there from Susa, Artaphrenes, the governor of Sardis, asked him for what reason he supposed the...
Susa
75 48.24854,32.19202,0 Myesians ...eighty ships; next to them were the Prieneans with twelve ships, and the Myesians with three; next to the Myesians were the Teians with seventeen ships; next to...
Myesians
75 27.42788,37.59716,0 Egyptians ...had no bond of kinship with Perseus, and they indeed were, as the Greeks say, Egyptians. 55. Enough of these matters. Why and for what achievements these men, being...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Europe ...Mysians and Teucrians which before the Trojan war crossed the Bosporus into Europe,13 subdued all the Thracians, and came down to the Ionian sea, marching...
Europe
78 Europe ...Macedonians say, these Phrygians were called Briges as long as they dwelt in Europe, where they were neighbors of the Macedonians; but when they changed their home...
Europe
79 Europe ...Aleuadae; as soon as they heard that the Persian was about to cross over into Europe, they sent messengers to the Isthmus, where men chosen from the cities which...
Europe
80 Medes ...bidding them take them prisoner and bring them into his presence. [2] The Medes bore down upon the Hellenes and attacked. Many fell, but others attacked in...
Medes
76 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...Medes, saying that their Trachinian foreigner brought them good news. If the Medes hid the sun, they could fight them in the shade instead of in the sun. This...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...one to the seer: “This is a monument to the renowned Megistias, Slain by the Medes who crossed the Spercheius river. The seer knew well his coming doom, But...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...it was from this Perses that the Persians took their name.32 62. The Medes in the army were equipped like the Persians; indeed, that fashion of armor is...
Medes
72 46.5,34.5,0 Ionians ...the Scythians. At that time the Scythians used every means of entreating the Ionians, who had been charged to guard the bridges of the Ister, to destroy the way of...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Scythians ...You, O king, are proposing to lead your armies against far better men than the Scythians—men who are said to be excellent warriors by sea and land. It is right that I...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...Cambyses' against the Ethiopians, and I myself marched with Darius against the Scythians. [3] Knowing this, I judged that you had only to remain in peace for all men to...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...of all expeditions that we know of. The one that Darius led against the Scythians is nothing compared to it; neither is the Scythian expedition when they burst...
Scythians
74 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...I advised Darius, your father and my brother, not to lead his army against the Scythians, who have no cities anywhere to dwell in. But he hoped to subdue the nomadic...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Thracian ...disaster once almost overtook us, when your father, making a highway over the Thracian Bosporus and bridging the river Ister, crossed over to attack the Scythians. At...
Thracian
80 27.5,42.5,0 Media ...command of Pharnazathres son of Artabates. 66. The Arians were equipped with Median bows, but in all else like the Bactrians; their commander was Sisamnes son of...
Media
80 46.5,34.5,0 Media ...to Acanthus, he declared the Acanthians his guests and friends, and gave them Median clothing, praising them for the zeal with which he saw them furthering his...
Media
80 46.5,34.5,0 Torone ...of level ground or little hills, from the sea by Acanthus to the sea opposite Torone. [3] On this isthmus which is at the end of Athos, there stands a Greek town...
Torone
80 23.9008123,39.9770534,0 Chersonese ...preparations had been underway there. Triremes were anchored off Elaeus in the Chersonese; with these for their headquarters, all sorts of men in the army were compelled...
Chersonese
81 26.5,40.33333,0 Athenians ...than any other of their guests, learned from the ephors all that the Athenians had said. [2] Upon hearing this he, as the tale goes, said to the ephors...
Athenians
71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the Megarians by holding the post. All the others did not want to, but the Athenians took it upon themselves, that is three hundred picked men of Athens, whose...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...it threw Masistius, [2] who when he fell, was straightaway set upon by the Athenians. His horse they took then and there, and he himself was killed fighting. They...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Quite apart from that feat which we have related, we are worthier than the Athenians to hold that post, [7] for we have fought many battles which turned out...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...be valiant men. Command us then, knowing that we will obey.” 28. This was the Athenians' response, and the whole army shouted aloud that the Athenians were worthier to...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Alexander the Macedonian came to Athens3 the Lacedaemonians insisted that the Athenians should not join the side of the Persian, yet now took no account of that; it...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Hellas ...guard the passage; the Greeks were ordered to give the barbarian no entry into Hellas, and the Persians to destroy the Greek host and win the strait. 16. So when...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...do wrongly to fight against the land of your fathers and bring slavery upon Hellas. [2] It would best for you to join yourselves to us, but if that should be...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...left behind. [2] The Athenians, while the Pelasgians ruled what is now called Hellas, were Pelasgians, bearing the name of Cranai. When Cecrops was their king they...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...and Hermioneans. These were the ones who marched out and feared for Hellas in her peril. The rest of the Peloponnesians cared nothing, though the Olympian...
Hellas
70 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Corinthians ...the war: from the Peloponnese, the Lacedaemonians provided sixteen ships; the Corinthians the same number as at Artemisium; the Sicyonians furnished fifteen ships, the...
Corinthians
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...sailing away from here, for I have seen with my own eyes that even if the Corinthians and Eurybiades himself wanted to, they would not be able to escape. We are...
Corinthians
76 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...struck with bewilderment and terror, hoisted his sails and fled away. When the Corinthians saw their flagship fleeing, they departed in the same way, [2] but when in...
Corinthians
81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Sardis ...our country, if we may infer from what they have done already, for they burnt Sardis and marched into Asia. [3] It is not possible for either of us to turn back: to...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...task, all the land force had been mustered and was marching with Xerxes to Sardis, setting forth from Critalla in Cappadocia, which was the place appointed for...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...the son of Otanes, a Persian. 41. In this way Xerxes rode out from Sardis; but whenever the thought took him he would alight from the chariot into a...
Sardis
70 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...Scamander, which was the first river after the beginning of their march from Sardis that fell short of their needs and was not sufficient for the army and the...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Hellas ...the Persians to this day. 108. From Doriscus Xerxes went on his way towards Hellas, compelling all that he met to go with his army. As I have shown earlier, all...
Hellas
79 Hellas ...to the Perrhaebian country. Now it was that the heralds who had been sent to Hellas to demand earth, some empty-handed, some bearing earth and water, returned...
Hellas
79 Hellas ...the war with Aegina. [2] This was in fact the war the outbreak of which saved Hellas by compelling the Athenians to become seamen. The ships were not used for the...
Hellas
80 Hellas ...him before the Lacedaemonian could speak. “King of the Syracusans,” he said, “Hellas sends us to you to ask not for a leader but for an army. You however, say no...
Hellas
80 Artemisium ...seven fifty-oared barks to their aid. 2. These are the forces which came to Artemisium for battle, and I have now shown how they individually furnished the whole sum...
Artemisium
79 23.220954,39.017832,0 Euboea ...is how the night dealt with them. To those who were appointed to sail round Euboea, however, that same night was still more cruel since it caught them on the open...
Euboea
78 23.87,38.53,0 Euboea ...when the storm and the rain came on them in their course off the Hollows of Euboea, they were driven by the wind in an unknown direction and were driven onto the...
Euboea
78 23.87,38.53,0 Artemisium ...ordered their battle and advanced, the Greeks remained in their station off Artemisium, and the barbarians made a half circle of their ships striving to encircle and...
Artemisium
78 23.220954,39.017832,0 Artemisium ...have said, there came to them their lookout from Trachis. There was a scout at Artemisium, one Polyas, a native of Anticyra, who was charged (and had a rowing boat...
Artemisium
81 23.220954,39.017832,0 Artemisium ...called after him Ionians. 45. The Megarians provided the same number as at Artemisium. The Ampraciots came to help with seven ships, and the Leucadians, who are...
Artemisium
78 23.220954,39.017832,0 Artemisium ...[2] Those killed by the storm, at Thermopylae, and in the naval battles at Artemisium, I offset with those who did not yet follow the king: the Melians and Dorians...
Artemisium
77 23.220954,39.017832,0 Artemisium ...they would be trapped at Salamis and pay the penalty for the battles at Artemisium. The purpose of their landing Persians on the islet called Psyttalea was this...
Artemisium
74 23.220954,39.017832,0 Euboea ...as it did. Yet they were brave that day, much more brave than they had been at Euboea, for they all showed zeal out of fear of Xerxes, each one thinking that the...
Euboea
81 23.87,38.53,0 Attica ...a line of beacons across the islands that he held Athens. [2] When he came to Attica, however, he found the city as unpopulated as before, for, as he learned, the...
Attica
80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Salamis ...the later invasion of Mardonius. 4. When Mardonius came to Athens, he sent to Salamis a certain Murychides, a man from Hellespont, bearing the same offer as...
Salamis
81 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Salamis ...of his spear and lay at his mercy. 5. For this reason he sent Murychides to Salamis who came before the council and conveyed to them Mardonius message. Then...
Salamis
79 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Athens ...to remind the Lacedaemonians of the promises which the Persian had made to Athens if she would change sides, and warn them that the Athenians would devise some...
Athens
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Boeotia ...deserted us despite all your promises that you would withstand the Persian in Boeotia, and have permitted the barbarian to march into Attica. [2] For the present...
Boeotia
80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Attica ...thought they had no more need of the Athenians, whereas when Alexander came to Attica, their wall was not yet built and they were working at this in great fear of...
Attica
81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Athens ...swiftest runner of long distances whom they could find. [2] When he came to Athens, he spoke to Mardonius in the following manner: “I have been sent by the...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Boeotia ...beasts of burden, and lamenting loudly; the sound of this was heard over all Boeotia, for a man was dead who, next to Mardonius, was most esteemed by all Persia and...
Boeotia
79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Athens ...the Egyptians were not appointed to serve in the land army which Xerxes led to Athens. Of the barbarians, then, there were three hundred thousand, as I have already...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Hellespont ...of Thebes, but to Phocis, so that he might make his way with all haste to the Hellespont. 67. So Artabazus and his army turned that way. All the rest of the Greeks who...
Hellespont
80 26.4,40.2,0 Attica ...when the sons of Tyndarus were trying to recover Helen,26 after breaking into Attica with a great host, they turned the towns upside down because they did not know...
Attica
80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Hellespont ...and barbarians alike were eager for battle, seeing that the islands and the Hellespont were the prizes of victory. 102. As for the Athenians and those whose place...
Hellespont
78 26.4,40.2,0 Athens ...a wicked one; witness the deceit that he practised on the king in his march to Athens, how he stole away from Elaeus the treasure of Protesilaus39 son of Iphiclus...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lemnos ...who had been king of Samos. [2] This Lycaretus met his end while ruling in Lemnos because he tried to enslave and subdue all the people, accusing some of...
Lemnos
77 25.25,39.916667,0 Sardis ...and eleven. So many resting-stages, then, are there in the journey up from Sardis to Susa. If I have accurately counted the parasangs of the royal road, and the...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Miletus ...after they were freed and before Ionia revolted from Darius and Aristagoras of Miletus came to Athens to ask help of its people, of these I will first give an...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Olympia ...I will now relate. There was an Athenian named Cylon, who had been a winner at Olympia. This man put on the air of one who aimed at tyranny, and gathering a company...
Olympia
81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Hellespont ...all this, they sent to bring Pisistratus' son Hippias from Sigeum on the Hellespont, the Pisistratidae's place of refuge. [2] When Hippias arrived, the Spartans...
Hellespont
75 26.4,40.2,0 Miletus ...but after he had held converse by messenger with Thrasybulus the tyrant of Miletus, he became much more bloodthirsty than Cypselus. [2] He had sent a herald to...
Miletus
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...and foreigners. 98. Aristagoras sailed before the rest, and when he came to Miletus, he devised a plan from which no advantage was to accrue to the Ionians (nor...
Miletus
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sardis ...and the rest of the allies had arrived, Aristagoras planned a march against Sardis. [2] He himself did not go with the army but remained at Miletus, and appointed...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...from where they departed to their ships at nightfall. 102. In the fire at Sardis,48 a temple of Cybebe,49 the goddess of that country, was burnt, and the...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...and married to daughters of Darius, pursued those Ionians who had marched to Sardis, and drove them to their ships. After this victory they divided the cities...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...who had been one of those who went in pursuit of the Ionians who marched on Sardis, now turned towards the Propontis, and there took Cius in Mysia. [2] When he...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...in the Troad. 123. This is how he met his end, and Artaphrenes, viceroy of Sardis, and Otanes, the third general, were appointed to lead the army against Ionia...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Miletus ...Histiaeus. 6. Such were the doings of Histiaeus and the Mytilenaeans. Against Miletus itself a great fleet and army were expected, for the Persian generals had...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Ionia ...gathered as many of these men as were with them and said to them: [3] “Men of Ionia, let each one of you now show that he has done good service to the king's...
Ionia
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...the Phoenicians were putting out to sea from Miletus to attack the rest of Ionia. When he learned this, he left Thasos unsacked, and hastened instead with all...
Ionia
77 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...and now twice in a row by the Persians. 33. Then the fleet departed from Ionia and captured everything which lies to the left of one sailing up the...
Ionia
76 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Miletus ...bring their ships to Abdera. [2] Since they had been besieged by Histiaeus of Miletus and had great revenues, the Thasians had used their wealth to build ships of...
Miletus
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Ionia ...is much talk about your justice throughout all the rest of Hellas, and even in Ionia, I considered the fact that Ionia is always in danger while the Peloponnese is...
Ionia
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Marathon ...107. So they waited for the full moon, while the foreigners were guided to Marathon by Hippias son of Pisistratus. The previous night Hippias had a dream in which...
Marathon
78 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Sunium ...as a signal once the Persians were in their ships. 116. They sailed around Sunium, but the Athenians marched back to defend the city as fast as their feet could...
Sunium
78 Cynosarges ...Heracles in Marathon, they pitched camp in the sacred precinct of Heracles in Cynosarges. The foreigners lay at anchor off Phalerum, the Athenian naval port at that...
Cynosarges
80 Asia ...port at that time. After riding anchor there, they sailed their ships back to Asia. 117. In the battle at Marathon about six thousand four hundred men of the...
Asia
80 22.283,37.405,0 Athens ...the Athenian people they betrayed their country. But there were no others at Athens more esteemed or more honored than they; [2] therefore plain reason forbids...
Athens
79 Marathon ...days she bore Xanthippus a son, Pericles. 132. After the Persian disaster at Marathon, the reputation of Miltiades, already great at Athens, very much increased. He...
Marathon
80 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Marathon ...brought this on themselves by first sending triremes with the Persian fleet to Marathon. Such was the pretext of his argument, but he had a grudge against the Parians...
Marathon
81 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Marathon Herodotus The Histories Book 7 When the message concerning the fight at Marathon came to Darius son of Hystaspes, already greatly angry against the Athenians...
Marathon
75 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Ethiopia ...born than Zeus sewed him up in his thigh and carried him away to Nysa in Ethiopia beyond Egypt; and as for Pan, the Greeks do not know what became of him after...
Ethiopia
75 38.721522,14.125005,0 Nile ...(for the country here is exceedingly arid) but brought by a channel from the Nile; six months it flows into the lake, and six back into the river. [5] For the...
Nile
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Memphis ...master of all Egypt, he made the southern outer court of Hephaestus' temple at Memphis, and built facing this a court for Apis, where Apis is kept and fed whenever he...
Memphis
81 31.254278,29.849667,0 Bubastis ...on the arm of the Nile called the Pelusian, a little way below the town of Bubastis. Long afterwards, king Amasis removed them and settled them at Memphis to be...
Bubastis
77 31.51591,30.56826,0 Memphis ...the part of the Egyptian plain nearest to Arabia; the mountains that extend to Memphis (the mountains where the stone quarries are) come close to this plain; [3] the...
Memphis
81 31.254278,29.849667,0 Elephantine ...brought from the stone quarries of Memphis; the largest came from the city of Elephantine,73 twenty days' journey distant by river from Saïs. [3] But what I admire most...
Elephantine
80 32.89066,24.08292,0 Memphis ...temples of note, the huge image that lies supine before Hephaestus' temple at Memphis; this image is seventy-five feet in length; there stand on the same base, on...
Memphis
80 31.254278,29.849667,0 Egypt ...temple of Isis at Memphis. 177. It is said that in the reign of Amasis Egypt attained to its greatest prosperity, in respect of what the river did for the...
Egypt
74 Egypt ...[2] They went about from city to city collecting gifts, and got most from Egypt; for Amasis gave them a thousand talents' weight of astringent earth,74 and the...
Egypt
76 Egypt ...a thousand talents' weight of astringent earth,74 and the Greek settlers in Egypt twenty minae. 181. Amasis made friends and allies of the people of Cyrene. And...
Egypt
78 Phoenicia ...5. Now the only apparent way of entry into Egypt is this. The road runs from Phoenicia as far as the borders of the city of Cadytis,2 which belongs to the so-called...
Phoenicia
80 37.5,32.5,0 Egypt ...already been taken there. 7. Now as soon as the Persians took possession of Egypt, they became the caretakers of the entryway into it, having it provisioned with...
Egypt
79 Arabia ...the less credible tale also, since they tell it. There is a great river in Arabia called Corys, emptying into the sea called Red. [3] From this river (it is...
Arabia
77 32.5,27.5,0 Arabia ...burn so often as incense. 113. Enough of marvels, and yet the land of Arabia gives off a scent as sweet as if divine. They have besides two marvellous kinds...
Arabia
73 32.5,27.5,0 Scythia ...and the Scythians could gain no advantage; at last one of them said, “Men of Scythia, look at what we are doing! We are fighting our own slaves; they kill us, and...
Scythia
79 Scythia ...prove that this is so. [3] Heracles came from there to the country now called Scythia, where, encountering wintry and frosty weather, he drew his lion's skin over...
Scythia
80 Scythia ...land. [3] From Scythes son of Heracles comes the whole line of the kings of Scythia; and it is because of the vessel that the Scythians carry vessels on their...
Scythia
78 Scythia ...of the port of the Borysthenites,11 which lies midway along the coast of Scythia, the first inhabitants are the Callippidae, who are Scythian Greeks; and beyond...
Scythia
75 Scythian ...eat grain, onions, garlic, lentils, and millet. [2] Above the Alazones live Scythian farmers, who plant grain not to eat but to sell; north of these, the Neuri...
Scythian
78 Scythians ...Gerrus are those lands called Royal, where the best and most numerous of the Scythians are, who consider all other Scythians their slaves; their territory stretches...
Scythians
79 27.5,42.5,0 Scythians ...Royal Scythians and came to this country. 23. As for the countryside of these Scythians, all the land mentioned up to this point is level and its soil deep; but...
Scythians
81 27.5,42.5,0 Scythians ...of the country and the nations on the near side of them; for some of the Scythians make their way to them, from whom it is easy to get knowledge, and from some of...
Scythians
75 27.5,42.5,0 Scythians ...lighting a fire; the sea freezes, as does all the Cimmerian Bosporus; and the Scythians living on this side of the trench lead armies over the ice, and drive their...
Scythians
80 27.5,42.5,0 Hellas ...much as five generations before the birth of Heracles the son of Amphitryon in Hellas. [5] Therefore, what I have discovered by inquiry plainly shows that Heracles...
Hellas
81 Egypt ...a discerning man, and that, besides many other things which he learned from Egypt, he also taught the Greeks things concerning Dionysus, altering few of them...
Egypt
78 Egypt ...Dionysus, altering few of them; for I will not say that what is done in Egypt in connection with the god and what is done among the Greeks originated...
Egypt
74 Egypt ...of Dodona say: that two black doves had come flying from Thebes in Egypt, one to Libya and one to Dodona; [2] the latter settled on an oak tree, and...
Egypt
69 Dodona ...sold her. 57. I expect that these women were called “doves” by the people of Dodona because they spoke a strange language, and the people thought it like the cries...
Dodona
80 20.78784,39.54648,0 Egypt ...are sacred in the district of Papremis, but not elsewhere in Egypt. They present the following appearance: four-footed, with cloven hooves like...
Egypt
63 Nile ...and the fox-goose35 among birds, are said to be sacred to the god of the Nile. 73. There is another sacred bird, too, whose name is phoenix. I myself have...
Nile
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Thebes ...temple of the Sun in Egypt. This is what they say this bird does. 74. Near Thebes there are sacred snakes, harmless to men, small in size, and bearing two horns...
Thebes
78 32.65285,25.70247,0 Egypt ...serpents are said to fly from Arabia at the beginning of spring, making for Egypt; but the ibis birds encounter the invaders in this pass and kill them. [4] The...
Egypt
78 Nile ...as they can, I suppose lest the current make them miss their way. [5] When the Nile begins to rise, hollow and marshy places near the river are the first to begin...
Nile
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...very like the islands in the Aegean sea. These alone stand out, the rest of Egypt being a sheet of water. So when this happens, folk are not ferried, as usual...
Egypt
78 Egypt ...reputation, and is especially assigned to the consort of the reigning king of Egypt, to provide her shoes. This has been done since Egypt has been under Persian...
Egypt
80 Egypt ...from Egypt is called Egyptian. 106. As to the pillars that Sesostris, king of Egypt, set up in the countries, most of them are no longer to be seen. But I myself...
Egypt
81 Ethiopia ...and not from Egypt. 110. Sesostris was the only Egyptian king who also ruled Ethiopia. To commemorate his name, he set before the temple of Hephaestus two stone...
Ethiopia
80 38.721522,14.125005,0 Nile ...king waged no wars, and chanced to become blind, for the following reason: the Nile came down in such a flood as there had never been, rising to a height of thirty...
Nile
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...says to Telemachus: “I was eager to return here, but the gods still held me in Egypt, Since I had not sacrificed entire hecatombs to them. ” Hom. Od. 4...
Egypt
81 Memphis ...himself to Proteus. 119. Menelaus then went to Egypt and up the river to Memphis; there, relating the truth of the matter, he met with great hospitality and got...
Memphis
76 31.254278,29.849667,0 Egypt ...their own; I know their names, but do not record them. 124. They said that Egypt until the time of King Rhampsinitus was altogether well-governed and prospered...
Egypt
78 Nile ...the task of dragging stones from the quarries in the Arabian mountains to the Nile; and after the stones were ferried across the river in boats, he organized...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...Ethiopians.56 [2] The blind man fled to the marshes, and the Ethiopian ruled Egypt for fifty years, during which he distinguished himself for the following: [3]...
Egypt
79 Scythian ...is considered a portent in Scythia. [4] Horses have the endurance to bear the Scythian winter; mules and asses cannot bear it at all; and yet in other lands, while...
Scythian
80 Scythia ...in straw are brought from the Hyperboreans to Scythia; when these have passed Scythia, each nation in turn receives them from its neighbors until they are carried to...
Scythia
80 Asia ...in this peninsula there are just three nations. 40. So much for the parts of Asia west of the Persians. But what is beyond the Persians, and Medes, and Saspires...
Asia
80 Egypt ...its extent. But Libya is on this second peninsula; for Libya comes next after Egypt. The Egyptian part of this peninsula is narrow; for from our sea to the Red Sea...
Egypt
80 32.5,32.5,0 Libya ...a thousand stades; but after this narrow part, the peninsula which is called Libya is very broad. 42. I wonder, then, at those who have mapped out and divided...
Libya
79 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Egypt ...it was in the third that they rounded the pillars of Heracles and came to Egypt. There they said (what some may believe, though I do not) that in sailing...
Egypt
76 32.5,32.5,0 Libya ...they had the sun on their right hand.22 43. Thus was the first knowledge of Libya gained. The next story is that of the Carthaginians: for as for Sataspes son of...
Libya
79 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...which the Egyptian king sent the above-mentioned Phoenicians to sail around Libya. [3] After this circumnavigation, Darius subjugated the Indians and made use of...
Libya
78 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Euxine Pontus ...established by custom. 46. Nowhere are men so ignorant as in the lands by the Euxine Pontus (excluding the Scythian nation) into which Darius led his army. For we cannot...
Euxine Pontus
81 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Scythians ...five flowing through the Scythian country, are these: the river called by Scythians Porata and by Greeks Pyretus,26 and besides this the Tiarantus, the Ararus, the...
Scythians
76 27.5,42.5,0 Scythians ...their skin becomes clear and shining. 76. But as regards foreign customs, the Scythians (like others) very much shun practising those of any other country, and...
Scythians
81 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian country ...Anacharsis and also of Scyles. [2] For when Anacharsis was coming back to the Scythian country after having seen much of the world in his travels and given many examples of...
Scythian country
80 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...know no justice and obey no law. They are nomads, wearing a costume like the Scythian, but speaking a language of their own; of all these, they are the only people...
Scythian
79 27.5,42.5,0 Scythia ...were fleeing toward the west. 125. But when he came by forced marches into Scythia, he met the two divisions of the Scythians, and pursued them, who always kept a...
Scythia
78 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...with your master, bringing gifts of earth and water.” 127. Idanthyrsus the Scythian king replied: “It is like this with me, Persian: I never ran from any man...
Scythian
78 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...to act upon it in the following way: to break as much of the bridge on the Scythian side as a bowshot from there carried, so that they seem to be doing something...
Scythian
77 27.5,42.5,0 Egypt ...agreed time, and Corobius had no provisions left, a Samian ship sailing for Egypt, whose captain was Colaeus, was driven off her course to Platea, where the...
Egypt
78 32.5,32.5,0 Libya ...that they would fare better if they helped Battus plant a colony at Cyrene in Libya. Then the Theraeans sent Battus with two fifty-oared ships; these sailed to...
Libya
80 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...back again; for the god would not let them do anything short of colonizing Libya itself; [3] and having come to the island and taken aboard the one whom they...
Libya
77 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Babylon ...part of Libya). Its yield of grain is of the same measure as in the land of Babylon. [3] The land inhabited by the Euhesperitae is also good; it yields at the most...
Babylon
78 44.42082,32.53617,0 Egypt ...of these matters, then. 200. Now when the Persians that Aryandes sent from Egypt to avenge Pheretime came to Barce,67 they laid siege to the city, demanding the...
Egypt
78 32.5,32.5,0 Hellespont ...to be Darius' subjects, subdued them before any others of the people of the Hellespont. These Perinthians had already been roughly handled by the Paeonians. [2] For...
Hellespont
78 26.4,40.2,0 Miletus ...and come to Sardis,4 he remembered the good service done him by Histiaeus of Miletus and the counsel of Coes the Mytilenaean, and after sending for them to come to...
Miletus
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Persia ...daggers. These he brought in, and said to the Persians, [4] “I believe, men of Persia, that you have feasted to your hearts' content. All that we had and all besides...
Persia
81 Sardis ...and proud, moreover, that he would be the king's counsellor, Histiaeus came to Sardis. [3] When he had come, Darius said to him, “Histiaeus, I will tell you the...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Phoenicians ...of her own accord. [3] These are the stories of the Persians and the Phoenicians. For my part, I shall not say that this or that story is true, but I shall...
Phoenicians
72 35.25,33.25,0 Egyptian ...(for there too a woman sleeps in the temple of Theban Zeus,65 and neither the Egyptian nor the Babylonian woman, it is said, has intercourse with men), and as does...
Egyptian
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...at once began to make long voyages. Among other places to which they carried Egyptian and Assyrian merchandise, they came to Argos, [2] which was at that time...
Egyptian
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Assyrian ...the money, he must say, “I invite you in the name of Mylitta” (that is the Assyrian name for Aphrodite). [4] It does not matter what sum the money is; the woman...
Assyrian
77 37.5,37.5,0 Lydian ...power. [2] But while he was preparing to march against the Persians, a certain Lydian, who was already held to be a wise man, and who, from the advice which he now...
Lydian
81 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 the Lacedaemonians ...in my day, hanging up at the temple of Athena Alea. 67. In the previous war the Lacedaemonians continually fought unsuccessfully against the Tegeans, but in the time of...
the Lacedaemonians
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 the Lacedaemonians ...by certain benefits which they had received before from the king. [4] For the Lacedaemonians had sent to Sardis to buy gold, intending to use it for the statue of Apollo...
the Lacedaemonians
76 22.42454,37.08149,0 the Lacedaemonians ...in accordance with their treaty [2] (for before making an alliance with the Lacedaemonians he had made one also with Amasis king of Egypt), and to send for the...
the Lacedaemonians
74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...say that the Pythia also declared to him the constitution that now exists at Sparta, but the Lacedaemonians themselves say that Lycurgus brought it from Crete when...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...the lone survivor of the three hundred, was ashamed, it is said, to return to Sparta after all the men of his company had been killed, and killed himself on the...
Sparta
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...Ionians' lead. 152. So when the envoys of the Ionians and Aeolians came to Sparta (for they set about this in haste) they chose a Phocaean, whose name was...
Sparta
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Persians ...this victory he became sovereign of all Asia. 131. As to the customs of the Persians, I know them to be these. It is not their custom to make and set up statues and...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Ninus ...against the Assyrians; that is, against those of the Assyrians who held Ninus. These had formerly been rulers of all; but now their allies had deserted them...
Ninus
74 43.1609,36.34773,0 Persians ...not much dessert is set before them: were this too given to Greeks (the Persians say) they would never stop eating. [3] They are very partial to wine. No one...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...honor; for the nation kept advancing its rule and dominion.45 135. But the Persians more than all men welcome foreign customs. They wear the Median dress, thinking...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the dainties that follow many, and not all served together. This is why the Persians say of Greeks that they rise from table still hungry, because not much dessert...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...has leprosy or the white sickness may not come into town or mingle with other Persians. They say that he is so afflicted because he has sinned in some way against the...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Caria ...a long beard. This had happened to them thrice. These were the only men near Caria who held out for long against Harpagus, and they gave him the most trouble...
Caria
79 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Panionion ...to Sparta, to ask help for the Ionians. 142. Now these Ionians possessed the Panionion, and of all men whom we know, they happened to found their cities in places...
Panionion
80 27.329993,37.703924,0 Caria ...among them, and next to it come Myus and Priene; these are settlements in Caria, and they have a common language; Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae...
Caria
76 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Teos ...he advised that the Ionians have one place of deliberation, and that it be in Teos (for that was the center of Ionia), and that the other cities be considered no...
Teos
80 26.785014,38.177262,0 Erythrae ...cities, two of them situated on the islands of Samos and Chios, and one, Erythrae, on the mainland; the Chians and Erythraeans speak alike, but the Samians have...
Erythrae
75 26.48103,38.38122,0 Triopian temple ...of the “Six Cities”—forbid admitting any of the neighboring Dorians to the Triopian temple, and even barred from using it those of their own group who had broken the...
Triopian temple
77 27.493021,36.684805,0 Lindus ...away, nailed it to the wall of his own house. For this offense the five cities—Lindus, Ialysus, Camirus, Cos, and Cnidus—forbade the sixth city—Halicarnassus—to...
Lindus
81 28.15629,36.41451,0 Ionia ...the north of them nor to the south does the land effect the same thing as in Ionia [nor to the east nor to the west], affected here by the cold and wet, there by...
Ionia
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionian ...[3] These were the first whom Croesus attacked; afterwards he made war on the Ionian and Aeolian cities in turn, upon different pretexts: he found graver charges...
Ionian
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionian ...mainland. [2] These Aeolians had settled where the land was better than the Ionian territory, but the climate was not so good. 150. Now this is how the Aeolians...
Ionian
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionian ...as they are called. [3] The men of Lesbos and Tenedos, then, like the Ionian islanders, had nothing to fear. The rest of the cities deliberated together and...
Ionian
72 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionian ...twelve cities; for it would be foolishness to say that these are more truly Ionian or better born than the other Ionians; since not the least part of them are...
Ionian
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Abantes ...or better born than the other Ionians; since not the least part of them are Abantes from Euboea, who are not Ionians even in name, and there are mingled with them...
Abantes
78 23.75,38.75,0 Patrae ...Ionians fled when they were worsted in battle by the Achaeans; Aegion; Rhype; Patrae; Phareae; and Olenus, where is the great river Pirus; Dyme and Tritaeae, the...
Patrae
80 21.738518,38.243265,0 Dryopians ...even in name, and there are mingled with them Minyans of Orchomenus, Cadmeans, Dryopians, Phocian renegades from their nation, Molossians, Pelasgian Arcadians, Dorians...
Dryopians
81 20.75,39.25,0 Phocian ...and there are mingled with them Minyans of Orchomenus, Cadmeans, Dryopians, Phocian renegades from their nation, Molossians, Pelasgian Arcadians, Dorians of...
Phocian
78 22.25,38.25,0 Cyme ...they changed their whole way of life. [3] After this, he sent messengers to Cyme demanding that Pactyes be surrendered. The Cymaeans resolved to make the god at...
Cyme
78 26.936283,38.75953,0 Neon Teichos ...cities, and these are the Aeolian: Cyme (called “Phriconian”),49 Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegaeae, Myrina, Gryneia.50 These...
Neon Teichos
76 Cyme ...of the Persians. 149. Those are the Ionian cities, and these are the Aeolian: Cyme (called “Phriconian”),49 Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion...
Cyme
81 26.936283,38.75953,0 Lesbos ...situated on Ida and are separate. [2] Among those on the islands, five divide Lesbos among them (there was a sixth on Lesbos, Arisba, but its people were enslaved...
Lesbos
80 26.10052,39.20874,0 Smyrna ...into the town. These Colophonian exiles waited for the time when the men of Smyrna were holding a festival to Dionysus outside the walls; then they shut the gates...
Smyrna
78 27.1383,38.41905,0 Cilla ...are the Aeolian: Cyme (called “Phriconian”),49 Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegaeae, Myrina, Gryneia.50 These are the ancient...
Cilla
80 Lesbos ...the Cymaeans learned what the Mytilenaeans were about, they sent a ship to Lesbos and took Pactyes away to Chios. From there he was dragged out of the temple of...
Lesbos
77 26.10052,39.20874,0 Lesbos ...than the Ister. It is reported that there are many islands in it as big as Lesbos, and men on them who in summer live on roots of all kinds that they dig up, and...
Lesbos
77 26.10052,39.20874,0 Phocaean ...and Aeolians came to Sparta (for they set about this in haste) they chose a Phocaean, whose name was Pythennos, to speak for all. He then put on a purple cloak, so...
Phocaean
78 26.75261,38.6684,0 Tenedos ...but its people were enslaved by their kinfolk of Methymna); there is one on Tenedos, and one again in the “Hundred Isles,”51 as they are called. [3] The men of...
Tenedos
78 26.0497905,39.8278355,0 Greek territory ...to Cyrus a proclamation of the Lacedaemonians, that he was to harm no city on Greek territory, or else the Lacedaemonians would punish him. 153. When the herald had...
Greek territory
80 Mede ...of whom the mother was better and the father inferior: [6] for she was a Mede and the daughter of Astyages king of the Medes; but he was a Persian and a...
Mede
75 46.5,34.5,0 Mede ...event another and not you had to possess the royal power, then in justice some Mede should have had it, not a Persian: but now you have made the Medes, who did you...
Mede
81 46.5,34.5,0 Persians ...all the Greeks, because they have markets and buy and sell there; for the Persians themselves were not used to resorting to markets at all, nor do they even have...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to the gods; and the oracle replied that they must surrender Pactyes to the Persians. [2] When this answer came back to them, they set about surrendering him. But...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Tyrrhenia ...to make long sea-voyages, and it was they who discovered the Adriatic Sea, and Tyrrhenia, and Iberia, and Tartessus,52 [2] not sailing in round freightships but in...
Tyrrhenia
81 11.752744124826158,42.42102874792005,0 Alalia ...to Cyrnus,55 where at the command of an oracle they had built a city called Alalia twenty years before. [2] Arganthonius was by this time dead. While getting...
Alalia
78 9.509064,42.10268,0 Tyrrhenians ...But they harassed and plundered all their neighbors, as a result of which the Tyrrhenians and Carthaginians made common cause against them, and sailed to attack them...
Tyrrhenians
80 11.752744124826158,42.42102874792005,0 Persians ...or painting, and then embarked themselves and set sail for Chios; and the Persians took Phocaea, left thus uninhabited. 165. The Phocaeans would have bought the...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Carthaginians ...and plundered all their neighbors, as a result of which the Tyrrhenians and Carthaginians made common cause against them, and sailed to attack them with sixty ships...
Carthaginians
78 10.327986,36.857569,0 Phocaeans ...would become a market and so their own island be cut off from trade: so the Phocaeans prepared to sail to Cyrnus,55 where at the command of an oracle they had built...
Phocaeans
78 26.75261,38.6684,0 Oenussae ...thus uninhabited. 165. The Phocaeans would have bought the islands called Oenussae from the Chians;54 but the Chians would not sell them, because they feared that...
Oenussae
77 26.26478,38.49869,0 Tyrrhenians ...ships, the Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians drew lots for them, and of the Tyrrhenians the Agyllaioi57 were allotted by far the majority and these they led out and...
Tyrrhenians
74 11.752744124826158,42.42102874792005,0 Carthaginians ...they sailed to Rhegium. 167. As for the crews of the disabled ships, the Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians drew lots for them, and of the Tyrrhenians the Agyllaioi57 were...
Carthaginians
76 10.327986,36.857569,0 Phocaeans ...rites and games and horse-races. [3] Such was the end of this part of the Phocaeans. Those of them who fled to Rhegium set out from there and gained possession of...
Phocaeans
76 26.75261,38.6684,0 Phocaeans ...But afterwards, everything from Agylla that passed the place where the stoned Phocaeans lay, whether sheep or beasts of burden or men, became distorted and crippled...
Phocaeans
80 26.75261,38.6684,0 Agylla ...their offense; and the Pythian priestess told them to do what the people of Agylla do to this day: for they pay great honors to the Phocaeans, with religious...
Agylla
78 12.10541,42.007707,0 Hyele ...gained possession of that city in the Oenotrian58 country which is now called Hyele;59 [4] they founded this because they learned from a man of Posidonia that the...
Hyele
80 15.15732,40.160423,0 Ionian ...ordained was the hero, and not the island. 168. Thus, then, it went with the Ionian Phocaea. The Teians did the same things as the Phocaeans: when Harpagus had...
Ionian
80 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Teians ...was driven out by the Thracians. This Timesius is now honored as a hero by the Teians of Abdera. 169. These were the only Ionians who left their native lands...
Teians
81 26.785014,38.177262,0 Ionia ...they would be rid of slavery and have prosperity; but if they stayed in Ionia he could see (he said) no hope of freedom for them. [3] This was the advice...
Ionia
74 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...second time: and when Harpagus had conquered the Ionians of the mainland, the Ionians of the islands, fearing the same fate, surrendered to Cyrus. 170. When the...
Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...I have already said, made a treaty with Cyrus himself and struck no blow. Thus Ionia was enslaved for the second time: and when Harpagus had conquered the Ionians...
Ionia
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...of the islands, fearing the same fate, surrendered to Cyrus. 170. When the Ionians, despite their evil plight, nonetheless assembled at the Panionion, Bias of...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Phoenician ...of the Ionians; and that given before the destruction by Thales of Miletus, a Phoenician by descent, was good too; he advised that the Ionians have one place of...
Phoenician
80 35.25,33.25,0 Milyan ...the Milyan land in Asia. What is now possessed by the Lycians was in the past Milyan, and the Milyans were then called Solymi. [3] For a while Sarpedon ruled them...
Milyan
80 29.75,36.75,0 gulf of Ceramicus ...territory is washed by the sea [3] (for it is bounded on the north by the gulf of Ceramicus, and on the south by the sea off Syme and Rhodes). Now while Harpagus was...
gulf of Ceramicus
76 27.8785015,36.9358039,0 Cnidians ...an island, if he had wanted to.” ” [6] At this answer from the priestess, the Cnidians stopped their digging, and when Harpagus came against them with his army they...
Cnidians
80 27.37404,36.686188,0 Lide ...Harpagus, and they gave him the most trouble; they fortified a hill called Lide. 176. The Pedaseans were at length taken, and when Harpagus led his army into...
Lide
77 27.50331,37.07435,0 Assyria ...Cyrus had made all the mainland submit to him, he attacked the Assyrians. In Assyria there are many other great cities, but the most famous and the strongest was...
Assyria
79 37.5,37.5,0 Babylonians ...he had made one also with Amasis king of Egypt), and to send for the Babylonians also (for with these too he had made an alliance, Labynetus at this time being...
Babylonians
71 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylonians ...had now sunk to a depth of about the middle of a man's thigh. [5] Now if the Babylonians had known beforehand or learned what Cyrus was up to, they would have let the...
Babylonians
79 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylonians ...this in some parts of Cyprus. 200. These are established customs among the Babylonians. Furthermore, there are three tribes in the country that eat nothing but fish...
Babylonians
78 44.42082,32.53617,0 Assyria ...son, who inherited the name of his father Labynetus and the sovereignty of Assyria. Now when the Great King campaigns, he marches well provided with food and...
Assyria
77 37.5,37.5,0 Ardericca ...three times; the village which is so approached by the Euphrates is called Ardericca. And now those who travel from our sea to Babylon must spend three days as they...
Ardericca
77 44.5,31.5,0 Babylon ...because of the many windings that broke its force, and that the passages to Babylon might be crooked, and that right after them should come also the long circuit...
Babylon
78 44.42082,32.53617,0 Massagetae ...whom was the son of Tomyris the queen, Spargapises by name, the leader of the Massagetae. 212. When Tomyris heard what had happened to her army and her son, she sent a...
Massagetae
80 62.5,37.5,0 Persia ...should not go well. With these instructions, he sent the two back to Persia, and he and his army crossed the river. 209. After he had crossed the Araxes...
Persia
71 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...done; it is nothing to be proud of if, by the fruit of the vine—with which you Persians fill yourselves and rage so violently that evil words rise in a flood to your...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Ephesians ...years of age, came to the throne10. The first Greeks whom he attacked were the Ephesians. [2] These, besieged by him, dedicated their city to Artemis; they did this by...
Ephesians
81 27.339722,37.941944,0 Egyptians ...home and weave; and whereas in weaving all others push the woof upwards, the Egyptians push it downwards. [3] Men carry burdens on their heads, women on their...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...so that the names of these gods would have been even better known to the Egyptians than the name of Heracles. [4] But Heracles is a very ancient god in Egypt; as...
Egyptians
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...the parents of this Heracles, were both Egyptian by descent26 ; and that the Egyptians deny knowing the names Poseidon and the Dioscuri, nor are these gods reckoned...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...him to take away. [2] The rest of the festival of Dionysus is observed by the Egyptians much as it is by the Greeks, except for the dances; but in place of the...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...about the Greeks was true enough. But now let me show the prospect for the Egyptians themselves: if, as I have already said, the country below Memphis (for it is...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...about the matter is this: Egypt is all that country which is inhabited by Egyptians, just as Cilicia and Assyria are the countries inhabited by Cilicians and...
Egyptians
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...line (rightly so called) below Asia and Libya except the borders of the Egyptians. [2] But if we follow the belief of the Greeks, we shall consider all Egypt...
Egyptians
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...by Ethiopians: half the people of the island are Ethiopians, and half Egyptians. Near the island is a great lake, on whose shores live nomadic Ethiopians...
Egyptians
72 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ionians ...the language, are descended the present-day Egyptian interpreters. [3] The Ionians and Carians lived for a long time in these places, which are near the sea, on...
Ionians
77 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...his guard and marched against the Egyptians; he had a bodyguard of Carians and Ionians, thirty thousand of them, and his royal palace was in the city of Saïs, a great...
Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...in the past called Egypt. 16. If, then, our judgment of this is right, the Ionians are in error concerning Egypt; but if their opinion is right, then it is plain...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Egyptians ...since other peoples are, too; but my better proof was that the Colchians and Egyptians and Ethiopians are the only nations that have from the first practised...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...and stayed by the Phasis. 104. For it is plain to see that the Colchians are Egyptians; and what I say, I myself noted before I heard it from others. When it occurred...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...ships straight to Libya, hated and hunted; and where he went from there, the Egyptians could not say. The priests told me that they had learned some of this by...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...in this history is that I record what is said by all as I have heard it. The Egyptians say that Demeter and Dionysus are the rulers of the lower world.50 [2] The...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...he set two statues here forty-one feet high; the northernmost of these the Egyptians call Summer, and the southernmost Winter; the one that they call Summer they...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...temples, so that no one could sacrifice there; and next, he compelled all the Egyptians to work for him. [2] To some, he assigned the task of dragging stones from the...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...it, clothed as he is; and in the second place, swineherds, though native born Egyptians, are alone of all men forbidden to enter any Egyptian temple; nor will any give...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...character and not recently introduced. [3] Nor again will I say that the Egyptians took either this or any other custom from the Greeks. But I believe that...
Egyptians
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...say. 54. But about the oracles in Hellas, and that one which is in Libya, the Egyptians give the following account. The priests of Zeus of Thebes told me that two...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...[3] But around Elephantine they are not held sacred, and are even eaten. The Egyptians do not call them crocodiles, but khampsae. The Ionians named them crocodiles...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Persians ...whose city and temples were not burnt. [2] After Miletus was captured, the Persians at once gained possession of Caria. Some of the towns submitted voluntarily...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...were stubborn and would have no part of the treachery, each thinking that the Persians made this offer to them alone. This happened immediately after the Persians...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...that place and consulted, they resolved not to collect a land army to meet the Persians, but to leave the Milesians to defend their walls themselves, and to man their...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the river Tigris flows as it issues into the sea. Of the Milesian land the Persians themselves held what was nearest to the city, and the plain, giving the hill...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Sparta ...of the prospective journey. He then bade his Milesian guest depart from Sparta before sunset, for never, he said, would the Lacedaemonians listen to the plan...
Sparta
74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...their minds and departed. Later Demaratus son of Ariston, the other king of Sparta, did likewise, despite the fact that he had come with Cleomenes from Lacedaemon...
Sparta
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...they had had no knowledge of these oracles but now Cleomenes brought them to Sparta, and the Lacedaemonians learned their contents. It was from the Athenian...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corinthian ...for true), immediately after the message he made a proclamation that all the Corinthian women should come out into the temple of Hera. They then came out as to a...
Corinthian
79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthian ...you would be more prudent advisers concerning it than you are now.” 92B. The Corinthian state was ordered in such manner as I will show. There was an oligarchy, and...
Corinthian
79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Athenians ...86. When Leutychides came to Athens and demanded back the hostages, the Athenians were unwilling to give them back and made excuses, saying that two kings had...
Athenians
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...summoned the Milesian strangers and gave them back their money. But hear now, Athenians, why I began to tell you this story: there is today no descendant of Glaucus...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...to the door-handles. 92. Thus the Aeginetans dealt with each other. When the Athenians came, they fought them at sea with seventy ships; the Aeginetans were defeated...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and deeming themselves wronged, they prepared to take vengeance on the Athenians, who were now celebrating a quinquennial festival at Sunium. The Aeginetans set...
Athenians
73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...[3] Most of these never returned, meeting their death at the hands of the Athenians in Aegina; Eurybates himself, their captain, fought in single combat and thus...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...it seems that all the plans of the Eretrians were unsound; they sent to the Athenians for aid, but their counsels were divided. [2] Some of them planned to leave the...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...away to the land of Attica, pressing ahead in expectation of doing to the Athenians exactly what they had done to the Eretrians. Marathon39 was the place in Attica...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the Athenians why they paid him no attention, though he was of goodwill to the Athenians, had often been of service to them, and would be in the future. [3] The...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...his calling. As Philippides himself said when he brought the message to the Athenians, when he was in the Parthenian mountain above Tegea he encountered Pan. [2] Pan...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...that Cleisthenes, named after his mother's father from Sicyon, who gave the Athenians their tribes and their democracy; [2] he and Hippocrates were born to Megacles...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Megacles son of Alcmeon do I betroth my daughter Agariste, by the laws of the Athenians.” Megacles accepted the betrothal, and Cleisthenes brought the marriage to...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...carry away an abundance of gold; so he said when he asked for the ships. The Athenians were induced by these promises and granted his request. 133. Miltiades took...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...of Miltiades, already great at Athens, very much increased. He asked the Athenians for seventy ships, an army, and money, not revealing against what country he...
Athenians
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...land, and so drove the Pelasgians out on this and no other pretext. But the Athenians themselves say that their reason for expelling the Pelasgians was just. [3] The...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Pelasgians dwelt at that time in Lemnos and desired vengeance on the Athenians. Since they well knew the time of the Athenian festivals, they acquired...
Athenians
71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...finally they were caught in the act of planning to attack Athens. [4] The Athenians were much better men than the Pelasgians, since when they could have killed...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...from their present ills. [2] The Pythian priestess ordered them to pay the Athenians whatever penalty the Athenians themselves judged. The Pelasgians went to Athens...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the wings together to fight those who had broken through the center. The Athenians prevailed, then followed the fleeing Persians and struck them down. When they...
Athenians
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the Persians were in their ships. 116. They sailed around Sunium, but the Athenians marched back to defend the city as fast as their feet could carry them and got...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...four hundred men of the foreigners were killed, and one hundred and ninety-two Athenians; that many fell on each side. [2] The following marvel happened there: an...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...the polemarch Callimachus commanding the right wing, since it was then the Athenian custom for the polemarch to hold the right wing. He led, and the other tribes...
Athenian
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...was Athenian. Philaeus son of Ajax was the first of that house to be an Athenian. [2] Miltiades was sitting on his porch when he saw the Dolonci go by with...
Athenian
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...in the city, the generals first sent to Sparta the herald Philippides, an Athenian and a long-distance runner who made that his calling. As Philippides himself...
Athenian
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...his earliest descent to Aeacus and Aegina, though his later ancestry was Athenian. Philaeus son of Ajax was the first of that house to be an Athenian. [2]...
Athenian
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persian ...boys and maidens, children of the local people. [2] To bury people alive is a Persian custom; I have learned by inquiry that when Xerxes' wife Amestris reached old...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...force. If you will not send it, be assured that we will make terms with the Persian, for it is not right that we should be left to stand guard alone and so perish...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...nearest to Xerxes had apples of gold. After the ten thousand came ten thousand Persian horsemen in array. After these there was a space of two stadia, and then the...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...Scythians can bear witness. They had the power to destroy or to save the whole Persian army, and they gave proof of their justice and faithfulness, with no evil...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athens ...for the same reason as were the Ionians of the twelve cities,47 who came from Athens. The Aeolians furnished sixty ships and were equipped like Greeks; formerly...
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...they were like the Greeks. These are their tribes:43 some are from Salamis and Athens, some from Arcadia, some from Cythnus, some from Phoenice, and some from...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...to the Persians. Such was the agreement sworn by the Greeks. 133. To Athens and Sparta Xerxes sent no heralds to demand earth, and this he did for the...
Athens
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persia ...as were most favorable, telling how the Hellespont must be bridged by a man of Persia and describing the expedition. [5] So he brought his oracles to bear, while the...
Persia
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...carriage. Behind him came a thousand spearmen of the best and noblest blood of Persia, carrying their spears in the customary manner; after them a thousand picked...
Persia
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...though many tried. For this reason gifts are sent by the successive kings of Persia. 107. The only one of those who were driven out by the Greeks whom king Xerxes...
Persia
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...for he later picked up many gold and silver cups cast up on shore, found the Persian treasures, and acquired other untold riches. Although he became very rich from...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...what he said: that he had been born when Darius was already king and ruler of Persia, but Artobazanes when Darius was yet a subject; [3] therefore it was neither...
Persia
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...isthmus, while the king was master of the seas. [5] As it is, to say that the Athenians were the saviors of Hellas is to hit the truth. It was the Athenians who held...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...stood firm and had the courage to meet the invader of their country. 140. The Athenians had sent messages to Delphi asking that an oracle be given them, and when they...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...each man was to receive ten drachmae for his share, Themistocles persuaded the Athenians to make no such division but to use the money to build two hundred ships for...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the whole of the oracle and reasoned that if the verse really pertained to the Athenians, it would have been formulated in less mild language, calling Salamis “cruel”...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...others that were in course at that time, the greatest was the war between the Athenians and the Aeginetans. [2] Presently, learning that Xerxes was at Sardis with his...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the Hellespont and lead my army through Europe to Hellas, so I may punish the Athenians for what they have done to the Persians and to my father. [2] You saw that...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and it was not granted to him to punish either the revolted Egyptians or the Athenians. 5. After Darius' death, the royal power descended to his son Xerxes. Now...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...from the sanctuary. Have courage to lighten your evil.67 ” 141. When the Athenian messengers heard that, they were very greatly dismayed, and gave themselves up...
Athenian
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...tale of a thing which happened many years afterwards. It happened that while Athenian envoys, Callias son of Hipponicus, and the rest who had come up with him, were...
Athenian
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...armies.82 We accordingly cannot be reproached for what we now say. ” 162. “My Athenian friend,” Gelon answered, “it would seem that you have many who lead, but none...
Athenian
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Greeks ...in the Greeks in their midst. [2] Now all the Ionians who were friendly to the Greeks came unwillingly to the war and were distressed to see the Greeks surrounded...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...was to hold the Euripus while Leonidas' men strove to guard the passage; the Greeks were ordered to give the barbarian no entry into Hellas, and the Persians to...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...Ionian and Carian nations were removed from the forces of the barbarians, the Greeks might be strong enough to prevail over the rest. Now it was the custom of the...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...over and went about viewing the dead. All of them supposed that the fallen Greeks were all Lacedaemonians and Thespians, though helots were also there for them...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...than the Strymon and Eion, where they say that he took ship. 121. As for the Greeks, not being able to take Andros, they went to Carystus. When they had laid it...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...supposed that it had been sent for that purpose by the Athenians. 6. So the Greeks remained in Euboea and fought there; this came about as I will now reveal...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Athenians ...for alliance, there had been talk of entrusting the command at sea to the Athenians. However, when the allies resisted, the Athenians waived their claim...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the fleet to put in at Salamis. 41. While the others put in at Salamis, the Athenians landed in their own country. When they arrived, they made a proclamation that...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...ships. They provided these alone, since the Plataeans did not fight with the Athenians at Salamis for this reason: when the Hellenes departed from Artemisium and were...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and when Erechtheus succeeded to the rule, they changed their name and became Athenians. When, however, Ion son of Xuthus was commander of the Athenian army, they were...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...when the land of Attica was being laid waste by Xerxes' army and there were no Athenians in the country, he was with Demaratus the Lacedaemonian on the Thriasian plain...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...But the majority of the ships at Salamis were sunk, some destroyed by the Athenians, some by the Aeginetans. Since the Hellenes fought in an orderly fashion by...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...earlier, and the others whose ships survived were also in Phalerum. 94. The Athenians say that when the ships joined battle, the Corinthian general Adeimantus...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...of Sparta, save the seven named first after Leutychides. The general of the Athenians was Xanthippus son of Ariphron. 132. When all the ships had arrived at Aegina...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...him because he learned that Alexander was a protector and benefactor to the Athenians. [2] It was thus that he supposed he could best gain the Athenians for his...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...nor will we consent. [2] Now carry this answer back to Mardonius from the Athenians, that as long as the sun holds the course by which he now goes, we will make no...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedaemonians ...about viewing the dead. All of them supposed that the fallen Greeks were all Lacedaemonians and Thespians, though helots were also there for them to see. [2] For all that...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...in Thessaly, came into Xerxes' presence, and spoke as follows: [2] “The Lacedaemonians and the Heraclidae of Sparta demand of you, king of the Medes, that you pay the...
Lacedaemonians
74 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...I had been a man of Belbina I would not have been honored in this way by the Spartans, nor would you, sir, for all you are a man of Athens.” Such was the end of that...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Red ...of the dispute. These (they say) came to our seas from the sea which is called Red,1 and having settled in the country which they still occupy, at once began to...
Red
81 39.5,19.0,0 Greeks ...them, was the first wrong that was done. Next, according to their story, some Greeks (they cannot say who) landed at Tyre in Phoenicia and carried off the king's...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...landed at Tyre in Phoenicia and carried off the king's daughter Europa. These Greeks must, I suppose, have been Cretans. So far, then, the account between them was...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...in their opinion, it was the taking of Troy which began their hatred of the Greeks. [2] But the Phoenicians do not tell the same story about Io as the Persians...
Greeks
78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...[2] This Croesus was the first foreigner whom we know who subjugated some Greeks and took tribute from them, and won the friendship of others: the former being...
Greeks
76 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...Croesus, called the Mermnadae, in the following way. [2] Candaules, whom the Greeks call Myrsilus, was the ruler of Sardis; he was descended from Alcaeus, son of...
Greeks
79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...them, than to catch Lydians on the seas, so as to be revenged on you for the Greeks who dwell on the mainland, whom you enslaved?” [5] Croesus was quite pleased...
Greeks
79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...should devise such a plan to deceive Athenians, said to be the subtlest of the Greeks. [4] There was in the Paeanian deme20 a woman called Phya, three fingers short...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...bridges which were there then, as I maintain; but the general belief of the Greeks is that Thales of Miletus got the army across. [4] The story is that, as...
Greeks
78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...according to what they themselves say, the games now in use among them and the Greeks were invented by the Lydians: these, they say, were invented among them at the...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...in this respect, that they tie the fruit of the palm called male by the Greeks to the date-bearing palm, so that the gall-fly may enter the dates and cause...
Greeks
74 22.5,37.5,0 Colchian king ...for which they came, they carried off the king's daughter Medea. [3] When the Colchian king sent a herald to demand reparation for the robbery and restitution of his...
Colchian king
80 42.5,42.5,0 Persians ...them especially the daughter of the king, whose name was Io (according to Persians and Greeks alike), the daughter of Inachus. [4] As these stood about the stern...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greeks ...the daughter of the king, whose name was Io (according to Persians and Greeks alike), the daughter of Inachus. [4] As these stood about the stern of the ship...
Greeks
73 22.5,37.5,0 Greek people ...Asia for their own, and the foreign peoples that inhabit it; Europe and the Greek people they consider to be separate from them. 5. Such is the Persian account; in...
Greek people
78 22.5,37.5,0 Ionians ...themselves mariners. [2] But those of Asia were cut off from the rest of the Ionians only in the way that I shall show. The whole Hellenic stock was then small, and...
Ionians
79 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...Ionians; since not the least part of them are Abantes from Euboea, who are not Ionians even in name, and there are mingled with them Minyans of Orchomenus, Cadmeans...
Ionians
81 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...to say that these are more truly Ionian or better born than the other Ionians; since not the least part of them are Abantes from Euboea, who are not Ionians...
Ionians
72 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...from which the river in Italy took its name; Bura and Helice, where the Ionians fled when they were worsted in battle by the Achaeans; Aegion; Rhype; Patrae...
Ionians
74 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...let it be granted that those of pure birth are Ionians; [2] and all are Ionians who are of Athenian descent and keep the feast Apaturia.48 All do keep it...
Ionians
74 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...and some both. Yet since they set more store by the name than the rest of the Ionians, let it be granted that those of pure birth are Ionians; [2] and all are...
Ionians
80 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...All do keep it, except the men of Ephesus and Colophon; these are the only Ionians who do not keep it, and these because, they say, of a certain pretext of...
Ionians
77 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...north; it was set apart for Poseidon of Helicon by the joint will of the Ionians. Mykale is a western promontory of the mainland opposite Samos; the Ionians...
Ionians
75 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...to Ecbatana, taking Croesus with him, and at first taking no notice of the Ionians. [4] For he had Babylon on his hands and the Bactrian nation and the Sacae and...
Ionians
77 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...and, heeding him, stopped building ships. Thus he made friends with the Ionians inhabiting the islands. 28. As time went on, Croesus subjugated almost all the...
Ionians
74 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...the name of them all to Sparta, to ask help for the Ionians. 142. Now these Ionians possessed the Panionion, and of all men whom we know, they happened to found...
Ionians
79 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Aeolians ...from them, and won the friendship of others: the former being the Ionians, the Aeolians, and the Dorians of Asia, and the latter the Lacedaemonians. [3] Before the...
Aeolians
81 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Dorians ...fact did any except the men of Smyrna ask to be admitted); 144. just as the Dorians of what is now the country of the “Five Cities”—formerly the country of the...
Dorians
79 Dorians ...[5] Then, a long time afterwards, the Carians were driven from the islands by Dorians and Ionians and so came to the mainland. This is the Cretan story about the...
Dorians
80 Pythian priestess ...[2] The oracle did so ordain, and Gyges thus became king. However, the Pythian priestess declared that the Heraclidae would have vengeance on Gyges' posterity in the...
Pythian priestess
73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lydian district ...before Agron were descendants of Lydus, son of Atys, from whom this whole Lydian district got its name; before that it was called the land of the Meii. [4] The...
Lydian district
76 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Scythians ...brother-in-law: and this is how he came to be so. [3] A tribe of wandering Scythians separated itself from the rest, and escaped into Median territory. This was...
Scythians
77 28.5,44.5,0 Scythians ...way, keeping the Caucasian mountains on their right. There, the Medes met the Scythians, who defeated them in battle, deprived them of their rule, and made themselves...
Scythians
80 28.5,44.5,0 Scythians ...these is to be in Media. [2] Nevertheless, it was not by this way that the Scythians entered; they turned aside and came by the upper and much longer way, keeping...
Scythians
77 28.5,44.5,0 Scythians ...and twenty-eight years,42 from which must be subtracted the time when the Scythians held sway. [2] At a later time they repented of what they now did, and rebelled...
Scythians
76 28.5,44.5,0 Pythian priestess ...they learned from a man of Posidonia that the Cyrnus whose establishment the Pythian priestess ordained was the hero, and not the island. 168. Thus, then, it went with the...
Pythian priestess
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pythian priestess ...devices he had sent to Delphi to inquire of the oracle concerning him. [2] The Pythian priestess answered him thus: ““Lydian, king of many, greatly foolish Croesus, Wish not to...
Pythian priestess
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Cimmerians ...the country of Miletus; and it was while he was monarch of Sardis that the Cimmerians, driven from their homes by the nomad Scythians, came into Asia, and took...
Cimmerians
77 24.93869,41.14788,0 Athena of Assesos ...set in the crops, blown by a strong wind, caught the temple of Athena called Athena of Assesos,6 and the temple burned to the ground. [2] For the present no notice was taken...
Athena of Assesos
79 23.031507,40.821019,0 Chians ...was dragged out of the temple of City-guarding Athena and delivered up by the Chians, [4] who received in return Atarneus, which is a district in Mysia opposite...
Chians
80 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Corinthians ...money there he wanted to come back to Corinth. [2] Trusting none more than the Corinthians, he hired a Corinthian vessel to carry him from Tarentum.8 But when they were...
Corinthians
81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Lycians ...after subjugating Ionia, made an expedition against the Carians, Caunians, and Lycians, taking Ionians and Aeolians with him. [2] Of these, the Carians have come to...
Lycians
81 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Lycians ...join Sarpedon in the land of the Termilae, they came in time to be called Lycians after Lycus. [4] Their customs are partly Cretan and partly Carian. But they...
Lycians
76 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Mysians ...Mysian Olympus, who would come off that mountain and ravage the fields of the Mysians. The Mysians had gone up against him often; but they never did him any harm but...
Mysians
80 28.25,38.75,0 Paphlagonians ...him. These were the Lydians, Phrygians, Mysians, Mariandynians, Chalybes, Paphlagonians, the Thracian Thynians and Bithynians, Carians, Ionians, Dorians, Aeolians, and...
Paphlagonians
76 33.23855021666667,41.44846296666666,0 Chalybes ...subject under him. These were the Lydians, Phrygians, Mysians, Mariandynians, Chalybes, Paphlagonians, the Thracian Thynians and Bithynians, Carians, Ionians...
Chalybes
80 36.5,41.5,0 Athenian ...Sardis, which was at the height of its property; and among them came Solon the Athenian, who, after making laws for the Athenians at their request, went abroad for ten...
Athenian
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Carians ...of Car), are admitted, but not those who spoke the same language as the Carians but were of another people. 172. I think the Caunians are aborigines of the...
Carians
74 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...the neck and over the left shoulder.60 [5] Then, a long time afterwards, the Carians were driven from the islands by Dorians and Ionians and so came to the...
Carians
79 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...invented three things in which they were followed by the Greeks: it was the Carians who originated wearing crests on their helmets and devices on their shields...
Carians
78 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Argives ...last, only three out of the six hundred were left, Alcenor and Chromios of the Argives, Othryades of the Lacedaemonians: these three were left alive at nightfall. [5]...
Argives
81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...(All the land towards the west, as far as Malea, belonged then to the Argives, and not only the mainland, but the island of Cythera and the other islands.)...
Argives
72 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athenian guest ...everything and had thought about it, Croesus found the opportunity to say, “My Athenian guest, we have heard a lot about you because of your wisdom and of your wanderings...
Athenian guest
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argives ...the temple and went to sleep and never rose again; death held them there. The Argives made and dedicated at Delphi statues of them as being the best of men.”...
Argives
80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Mysian Olympus ...Croesus' house. About this same time a great monster of a boar appeared on the Mysian Olympus, who would come off that mountain and ravage the fields of the Mysians. The...
Mysian Olympus
81 29.2215753,40.0710098,0 Clazomenians ...weighs eight and a half talents and twelve minae,14 is in the treasury of the Clazomenians, and the silver bowl at the corner of the forecourt of the temple. This bowl...
Clazomenians
80 26.78715,38.37322,0 Delphian god ...had obtained a true answer. 50. After this, he tried to win the favor of the Delphian god with great sacrifices. He offered up three thousand beasts from all the kinds...
Delphian god
80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedaemonians ...whose name I know but do not mention, out of his desire to please the Lacedaemonians. The figure of a boy, through whose hand the water runs, is indeed a...
Lacedaemonians
72 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Medes ...Scythians to Cyaxares at his demand, there was war between the Lydians and the Medes for five years; each won many victories over the other, and once they fought a...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...inferior: [6] for she was a Mede and the daughter of Astyages king of the Medes; but he was a Persian and a subject of the Medes and although in all respects...
Medes
76 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...had done to Harpagus, and appointed him to command the army. [3] So when the Medes marched out and engaged with the Persians, those who were not in on the plan...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...had persuaded him to let Cyrus go free, and impaled them; then he armed the Medes who were left in the city, the very young and very old men. [3] Leading these...
Medes
78 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...command; this is the Harpagus who was entertained by Astyages the king of the Medes at that unnatural feast, and who helped win the kingship for Cyrus. [2] This...
Medes
80 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...duration. To this the Pythian priestess answered as follows: [2] ““When the Medes have a mule as king, Just then, tender-footed Lydian, by the stone-strewn...
Medes
78 46.5,34.5,0 Dorian ...Doric, and the Athenians among those of Ionic stock. These races, Ionian and Dorian, were the foremost in ancient time, the first a Pelasgian and the second a...
Dorian
79 Persians ...wisdom deserves. And now he asks you whether he is to send an army against the Persians, and whether he is to add an army of allies.” [3] Such was their inquiry; and...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Pelasgians ...afterwards took a different name: if, as I said, one may judge by these, the Pelasgians spoke a language which was not Greek. [3] If, then, all the Pelasgian stock...
Pelasgians
79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Hellenic ...was so exceptionally foolish that it is strange (since from old times the Hellenic stock has always been distinguished from foreign by its greater cleverness and...
Hellenic
76 Hellenic ...off from the rest of the Ionians only in the way that I shall show. The whole Hellenic stock was then small, and the last of all its branches and the least regarded...
Hellenic
80 Hellenic people ...were the foremost in ancient time, the first a Pelasgian and the second a Hellenic people. The Pelasgian race has never yet left its home; the Hellenic has wandered...
Hellenic people
76 Scylace ...now is called Thessalian— [2] and of the Pelasgians who inhabited Placia and Scylace on the Hellespont, who came to live among the Athenians, and by other towns too...
Scylace
79 28.388808,40.387037,0 Paeanian deme ...deceive Athenians, said to be the subtlest of the Greeks. [4] There was in the Paeanian deme20 a woman called Phya, three fingers short of six feet, four inches in height...
Paeanian deme
81 23.844008,37.974635,0 Naxos ...from the Peloponnese, and there joined them on his own initiative a man of Naxos called Lygdamis, who was most keen in their cause and brought them money and...
Naxos
77 25.37699,37.10595,0 Acarnanian ...them. [4] There (by the providence of heaven) Pisistratus met Amphilytus the Acarnanian, a diviner, who came to him and prophesied as follows in hexameter verses...
Acarnanian
79 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Tegea ...heard the oracle reported, they left the other Arcadians alone and marched on Tegea carrying chains, relying on the deceptive oracle. They were confident they...
Tegea
80 22.429,37.464,0 Lacedaemonians ...also declared to him the constitution that now exists at Sparta, but the Lacedaemonians themselves say that Lycurgus brought it from Crete when he was guardian of his...
Lacedaemonians
75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Tegea ...that the Lacedaemonians had escaped from the great evils and had mastered the Tegeans in war. In the kingship of Leon and Hegesicles at Sparta, the Lacedaemonians...
Tegea
80 22.429,37.464,0 Tegeans ...to Delphi to ask which god they should propitiate to prevail against the Tegeans in war. The Pythia responded that they should bring back the bones of Orestes...
Tegeans
75 22.429,37.464,0 Spartans ...time of Croesus and the kingship of Anaxandrides and Ariston in Lacedaemon the Spartans had gained the upper hand. This is how: [2] when they kept being defeated by...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...they looked everywhere. Finally it was found by Lichas, who was one of the Spartans who are called “doers of good deeds.”. These men are those citizens who retire...
Spartans
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...whenever they met each other in battle. By the time of Croesus' inquiry, the Spartans had subdued most of the Peloponnese. 69. Croesus, then, aware of all this...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Cappadocian Syrians ...the other hand; then, passing these and still flowing north, it separates the Cappadocian Syrians on the right from the Paphlagonians on the left. [3] Thus the Halys river cuts...
Cappadocian Syrians
80 37.5,37.5,0 Matieni ...from the Armenian mountains first through Cilicia and afterwards between the Matieni on the right and the Phrygians on the other hand; then, passing these and still...
Matieni
79 46.5,36.5,0 Cappadocia ...about the bowl. 71. Croesus, mistaking the meaning of the oracle, invaded Cappadocia, expecting to destroy Cyrus and the Persian power. [2] But while he was...
Cappadocia
77 37.5,37.5,0 Syrians ...city of the Pterians, and took all the places around it also, and drove the Syrians from their homes, though they had done him no harm. Cyrus, mustering his army...
Syrians
78 37.5,37.5,0 Media ...his cattle are north of Ecbatana, towards the Euxine sea; for the rest of Media is everywhere a level plain, but here, on the side of the Saspires,41 the land...
Media
76 46.5,34.5,0 Media ...such monuments as I shall record; and moreover, seeing that the kingdom of Media was great and restless and Ninus itself among other cities had fallen to it...
Media
77 46.5,34.5,0 Media ...it. Already a notable man in his own town (one of the many towns into which Media was divided), he began to profess and practice justice more constantly and...
Media
78 46.5,34.5,0 Media ...and held him in subjection. [2] Now Astyages, son of Cyaxares and the king of Media, was Croesus' brother-in-law: and this is how he came to be so. [3] A tribe of...
Media
80 46.5,34.5,0 Pteria ...over with his army, Croesus then came to the part of Cappadocia called Pteria (it is the strongest part of this country and lies on the line of the city of...
Pteria
73 35.108768,41.321531,0 Egyptians ...not try attacking again, he marched away to Sardis, intending to summon the Egyptians in accordance with their treaty [2] (for before making an alliance with the...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Sinope ...(it is the strongest part of this country and lies on the line of the city of Sinope on the Euxine sea), where he encamped and devastated the farms of the Syrians...
Sinope
80 35.14885,42.0206,0 Pterian ...was already taken. 79. When Croesus marched away after the battle in the Pterian country, Cyrus, learning that Croesus had gone intending to disband his army...
Pterian
76 35.108768,41.321531,0 Telmessians ...king of Sardis had not carried the lion which his concubine had borne him, the Telmessians having declared that if this lion were carried around the walls, Sardis could...
Telmessians
81 29.105772,36.620899,0 Hyllus ...armies met in the plain, wide and bare, that is before the city of Sardis: the Hyllus and other rivers flow across it and run violently together into the greatest of...
Hyllus
81 28.25,38.75,0 Malea ...had cut off and occupied. (All the land towards the west, as far as Malea, belonged then to the Argives, and not only the mainland, but the island of...
Malea
70 22.168781,37.327556,0 Lacedaemonians ...called Thyrea; [2] for this was a part of the Argive territory which the Lacedaemonians had cut off and occupied. (All the land towards the west, as far as Malea...
Lacedaemonians
75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Argive dead ...victors, ran to Argos; but Othryades the Lacedaemonian, after stripping the Argive dead and taking the arms to his camp, waited at his position. On the second day both...
Argive dead
78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argive ...their heads ever after and made a law, with a curse added to it, that no Argive grow his hair, and no Argive woman wear gold, until they recovered Thyreae; [8]...
Argive
75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Persians ...note of this and considered it. [5] And now he climbed up himself, and other Persians after him. Many ascended, and thus Sardis was taken and all the city sacked...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and after that for all the rest of his life he had power of speech. 86. The Persians gained Sardis and took Croesus prisoner. Croesus had ruled fourteen years and...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Tmolus ...was sheer and defied attack. It is on the side of the city which faces towards Tmolus. [4] The day before, then, Hyroeades, this Mardian, had seen one of the Lydians...
Tmolus
81 28.101929,38.3233025,0 tomb ...husbands; and they themselves offer themselves in marriage. [5] Now this tomb has a circumference of thirteen hundred and ninety yards, and its breadth is...
tomb
75 28.04514,38.57236,0 Carian ...a son of Alyattes, and half-brother of Croesus: Croesus was Alyattes' son by a Carian and Pantaleon by an Ionian mother. [4] So when Croesus gained the sovereignty...
Carian
81 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Gygaean lake ...tomb, which, the Lydians say, is fed by ever-flowing springs; it is called the Gygaean lake. Such then is this tomb. 94. The customs of the Lydians are like those of the...
Gygaean lake
81 27.983474,38.614377,0 tomb ...is above four hundred and forty yards; and there is a great lake hard by the tomb, which, the Lydians say, is fed by ever-flowing springs; it is called the...
tomb
79 28.04514,38.57236,0 Persians ...to inquire who this Cyrus was who took down the power of Croesus, and how the Persians came to be the rulers of Asia. I mean then to be guided in what I write by some...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Ecbatana ...take charge of the gold of Croesus and the Lydians, he himself marched away to Ecbatana, taking Croesus with him, and at first taking no notice of the Ionians. [4] For...
Ecbatana
81 48.51696,34.80523,0 Persians ...in this way to make the story of his salvation seem more marvellous to the Persians. 123. This then was the beginning of that legend. But as Cyrus grew up to be...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Pasargadae ...of them that Cyrus assembled and persuaded to revolt from the Medes were the Pasargadae, the Maraphii, and the Maspii. On these all the other Persians depend. The...
Pasargadae
79 53.17334,30.1985,0 Persia ...of the Persian armies. “Now,” he said in his speech, “I command you, men of Persia, to come, each provided with a sickle.” This is what Cyrus said. [3] Now there...
Persia
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia, ...as ordered, Cyrus commanded them to reclaim in one day a thorny tract of Persia, of two and one quarter or two and one half miles each way in extent. [2] The...
Persia,
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Derusiaei ...royal house of Persia. [4] The other Persian tribes are the Panthialaei, the Derusiaei, and the Germanii, all tillers of the soil, and the Dai, the Mardi, the...
Derusiaei
79 Persians ...providing also wine and all the foods that were most suitable. [3] When the Persians came on the next day he had them sit and feast in a meadow. After dinner he...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...else. All this is true; therefore revolt from Astyages quickly now!” 127. The Persians had long been discontent that the Medes ruled them, and now having got a...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...city, the very young and very old men. [3] Leading these out, and engaging the Persians, he was beaten: Astyages himself was taken prisoner, and lost the Median army...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and brought back into subjection. But now, in Astyages' time, Cyrus and the Persians rose in revolt against the Medes, and from this time ruled Asia. [3] As for...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Pamphylians ...90. The Ionians, Magnesians of Asia, Aeolians, Carians, Lycians, Milyans, and Pamphylians, on whom Darius laid one joint tribute, paid a revenue of four hundred talents...
Pamphylians
81 32.5,37.5,0 Mysians ...hundred talents of silver. This was established as his first province. The Mysians, Lydians, Lasonians, Cabalians, and Hytennians paid five hundred talents; this...
Mysians
77 27.184419878077563,39.13112815791898,0 Phrygians ...comprised the Hellespontians on the right of the entrance of the straits, the Phrygians, Thracians of Asia, Paphlagonians, Mariandynians, and Syrians; these paid three...
Phrygians
80 29.75,38.75,0 Assyria ...country, paying three hundred talents. 92. From Babylon and the rest of Assyria came to Darius a thousand talents of silver and five hundred castrated boys...
Assyria
75 37.5,37.5,0 Media ...hundred castrated boys; this was the ninth province; Ecbatana and the rest of Media, with the Paricanians and Orthocorybantians, paid four hundred and fifty...
Media
80 46.5,34.5,0 Cissian ...this was the seventh province; the eighth was Susa and the rest of the Cissian country, paying three hundred talents. 92. From Babylon and the rest of...
Cissian
73 Pantimathi ...and was the tenth province. [2] The eleventh comprised the Caspii, Pausicae, Pantimathi, and Daritae, paying jointly two hundred; 93. The twelfth, the Bactrians as...
Pantimathi
79 Caucasus mountains ...Gifts were also required of the Colchians and their neighbors as far as the Caucasus mountains (which is as far as the Persian rule reaches, the country north of the Caucasus...
Caucasus mountains
78 42.4378759,43.3525468,0 Ethiopians ...about the holy Nysa,31 where Dionysus is the god of their festivals. These Ethiopians and their neighbors use the same seed as the Indian Callantiae, and they live...
Ethiopians
77 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopian ...a gift of two choenixes32 of unrefined gold, two hundred blocks of ebony, five Ethiopian boys, and twenty great elephants' tusks. [4] Gifts were also required of the...
Ethiopian
81 38.721522,14.125005,0 Indian ...eastern side of India all is desolate because of the sand. [3] There are many Indian nations, none speaking the same language; some of them are nomads, some not...
Indian
80 77.5,22.5,0 Hellas ...to the hour of market-closing. Through these hours it is much hotter than in Hellas at noon, so that men are said to sprinkle themselves with water at this time...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...laden with all good things; and when everything was ready they set sail for Hellas, where they surveyed and mapped the coasts to which they came; until having...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...is what happened, and these Persians were the first who came from Asia into Hellas, and they came to view the country for this reason. 139. After this, King...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...They gather frankincense by burning that storax36 which Phoenicians carry to Hellas; they burn this and so get the frankincense; for the spice-bearing trees are...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Tin Islands ...sea, where our amber is said to come from, nor do I have any knowledge of Tin Islands, where our tin is brought from. [2] The very name Eridanus betrays itself as...
Tin Islands
76 Croton ...that fell from the bowls. 131. Now this is how Democedes had come from Croton to live with Polycrates: he was oppressed by a harsh-tempered father at Croton...
Croton
74 17.205128,39.028864,0 Croton ...own country. 137. The Persians sailed from Tarentum and pursued Democedes to Croton, where they found him in the marketplace and tried to seize him. [2] Some...
Croton
80 17.205128,39.028864,0 Tarentum ...Iapygia, and they were made slaves in the country until Gillus, an exile from Tarentum, released and restored them to Darius, who was ready to give him whatever he...
Tarentum
80 17.228553,40.476034,0 Milesians ...referred to by that oracle which the Pythian priestess gave to the Argives and Milesians in common, which ran thus: “When the female defeats the male29 And drives him...
Milesians
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sicily ...instead, sunk some merchant ships, took a lot of money, and sailed to Sicily; from this base he set himself up as a pirate, robbing Carthaginians and...
Sicily
72 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...their journey a thing happened to them such as I will show. As they voyaged to Sicily, the Samians came to the country of the Epizephyrian6 Locrians at a time when...
Sicily
81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Lesbos ...came there with their ships manned, and with them the Aeolians who dwell in Lesbos. This was their order of battle: The Milesians themselves had the eastern wing...
Lesbos
78 26.10052,39.20874,0 Spartan ...enemies' herald, and they performed their resolve in this way: whenever the Spartan herald signalled anything to the Lacedaemonians, the Argives did the same...
Spartan
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Chios ...were mastered by Histiaeus with his Lesbians, setting out from Polichne in Chios. 27. It is common for some sign to be given when great ills threaten cities or...
Chios
77 26.053,38.414,0 Chios ...to sea in the next year easily subdued the islands that lie off the mainland, Chios and Lesbos and Tenedos. Whenever they took an island, the foreigners would...
Chios
80 26.053,38.414,0 Thessaly ...that time was prosperous, came Lysanias; he was the only man from Euboea. From Thessaly came a Scopad, Diactorides of Crannon; and from the Molossians, Alcon...
Thessaly
81 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...for his dealings with Demaratus as I will show. He led a Lacedaemonian army to Thessaly,25 and when he could have subdued all the country he took a great bribe. [2]...
Thessaly
81 22.2,39.6,0 Argives ...carried his men on shipboard to the region of Tiryns and to Nauplia. 77. The Argives heard of this and came to the coast to do battle with him. When they had come...
Argives
80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...the Argives did the same thing. 78. When Cleomenes saw that the Argives did whatever was signalled by his herald, he commanded that when the herald...
Argives
67 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...the Aeginetans were defeated in the sea-fight and asked for help from the Argives, as they had done before. But this time the Argives would not aid them, holding...
Argives
76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Ionian ...their land power was present, the Persian generals, learning the number of the Ionian ships, feared they would be too weak to overcome the Greeks. If they did not...
Ionian
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionian ...to Bactra, and hand over their land to others.” 10. So they spoke; the Ionian tyrants sent their messages by night, each to his own countrymen. But the...
Ionian
74 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionian ...to Ionia inviting the Ionians to the Fair Coast, desiring there to found an Ionian city. This Fair Coast, as it is called, is in Sicily, in that part which looks...
Ionian
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionian ...he was deposed from his rule by Aristagoras of Miletus, just like the other Ionian tyrants. 14. Now when the Phoenician fleet came sailing against them, the...
Ionian
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionian ...this happened so. Histiaeus the Milesian was at Byzantium, seizing the Ionian merchant ships as they sailed out of the Euxine, when he had news of the...
Ionian
73 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Argives ...the safety of their city, a common response was given, one part regarding the Argives themselves, but there was an additional response for the Milesians. [2] I will...
Argives
80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Cimmerians ...the country which the Scythians now inhabit is said to have belonged to the Cimmerians before), [2] and the Cimmerians, at the advance of the Scythians, deliberated...
Cimmerians
78 36.2317044,45.0437458,0 Cimmerians ...their lands by the Arimaspians, and the Scythians by the Issedones, and the Cimmerians, living by the southern sea, were hard pressed by the Scythians and left their...
Cimmerians
78 36.2317044,45.0437458,0 Asia ...them in battle. [2] For the Scythians, as I have said before, ruled upper Asia1 for twenty-eight years; they invaded Asia in their pursuit of the Cimmerians...
Asia
76 Asia ...of the Cimmerians, and ended the power of the Medes, who were the rulers of Asia before the Scythians came. [3] But when the Scythians had been away from their...
Asia
78 Asia ...before then nameless like the rest. [5] But it is plain that this woman was of Asiatic birth, and never came to this land which the Greeks now call Europe, but...
Asia
81 Asia ...in the latter name, saying that Asia was not named after Prometheus' wife Asia, but after Asies, the son of Cotys, who was the son of Manes, and that from him...
Asia
76 Medes ...her, on the plea that her son had been killed for allying himself with the Medes. 166. This Aryandes had been appointed viceroy of Egypt by Cambyses; at a...
Medes
77 46.5,34.5,0 Scythian ...north, flowing at first out of a great lake, which is the boundary between the Scythian and the Neurian countries; at the mouth of the river there is a settlement of...
Scythian
81 27.5,47.5,0 Median ...returned to their country after so long an absence, as much trouble as their Median war awaited them. They found themselves opposed by a great force; for the...
Median
79 46.5,34.5,0 Scythian ...carrying a small drum and hanging images about himself. [5] Then some Scythian saw him doing this and told the king, Saulius; who, coming to the place himself...
Scythian
72 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...Greek usage. [5] When he had spent a month or more like this, he would put on Scythian dress and leave the city. He did this often; and he built a house in...
Scythian
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...himself, entering within the walls and shutting the gates, would take off his Scythian apparel and put on Greek dress; and in it he would go among the townsfolk...
Scythian
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...men hold us in deep contempt; and I think now that Gobryas' opinion of the Scythian gifts was true. Since, then, my own judgment agrees with his, we need to...
Scythian
77 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...Ister; and to say while they were breaking the portion of the bridge on the Scythian side, that they would do all that the Scythians desired. [2] This was the plan...
Scythian
78 27.5,47.5,0 Cardia ...34. The Phoenicians subdued all the cities in the Chersonese except Cardia. Miltiades son of Cimon son of Stesagoras was tyrant there. Miltiades son of...
Cardia
71 21.338432,38.546722,0 Greeks ...say about themselves and the country north of them. But the story told by the Greeks who live in Pontus is as follows. Heracles, driving the cattle of Geryones...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...year after that, Aristeas appeared at Proconnesus and made that poem which the Greeks now call the Arimaspea, after which he vanished once again. 15. Such is the...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...solemn sacrifice yearly. Every son does this for his father, just like the Greeks in their festivals in honor of the dead. In other respects, these are said to...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...aboard ship and sailed to the Dark Rocks38 (as they are called), which the Greeks say formerly moved; there, he sat on a headland and viewed the Pontus, a...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...every two years with festivals and revelry. For the Geloni are by their origin Greeks, who left their trading ports to settle among the Budini; and they speak a...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...of the womb. 110. About the Sauromatae, the story is as follows. When the Greeks were at war with the Amazons (whom the Scythians call Oiorpata, a name...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...the Greeks to what is called the Fountain of Apollo, and said to them: “Here, Greeks, it is suitable for you to live; for here the sky is torn.”54 159. Now in the...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...at night, lest the Greeks see it in their journey. [3] Then they brought the Greeks to what is called the Fountain of Apollo, and said to them: “Here, Greeks, it...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...Egyptians and beat them; [6] for the Egyptians had as yet had no experience of Greeks, and despised their enemy; as a result of which, they were so utterly destroyed...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...I cannot say; but I suppose the armor was Egyptian; for I maintain that the Greeks took their shield and helmet from Egypt. [5] As for Athena, they say that she...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...of that country chant very tunefully. And it is from the Libyans that the Greeks have learned to drive four-horse chariots. 190. The dead are buried by the...
Greeks
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Borysthenes river ...they flow apart, the intervening space growing wider. 53. The fourth is the Borysthenes river. This is the next greatest after the Ister, and the most productive, in our...
Borysthenes river
79 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Maeetian lake ...dug by the sons of the blind men, and to the port called The Cliffs15 on the Maeetian lake; and part of it stretches to the Tanaïs river. [2] North of the Royal Scythians...
Maeetian lake
79 35.862586,45.814417000000006,0 Maeetian lake ...from the Ister to the Borysthenes, and the same from the Borysthenes to the Maeetian lake; and it is a twenty days' journey from the sea inland to the country of the...
Maeetian lake
78 35.862586,45.814417000000006,0 Pontus ...and the country north of them. But the story told by the Greeks who live in Pontus is as follows. Heracles, driving the cattle of Geryones, came to this land...
Pontus
78 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Arimaspians ...by Phoebus, visited the Issedones; beyond these (he said) live the one-eyed Arimaspians, beyond whom are the griffins that guard gold, and beyond these again the...
Arimaspians
78 62.5,32.5,0 Arimaspians ...at war with their neighbors; the Issedones were pushed from their lands by the Arimaspians, and the Scythians by the Issedones, and the Cimmerians, living by the southern...
Arimaspians
81 62.5,32.5,0 Tyras river ...all killed by each other's hands; then the Cimmerian people buried them by the Tyras river, where their tombs are still to be seen, and having buried them left the land...
Tyras river
81 29.613982,46.8329732,0 Sinope ...into Asia also made a colony on the peninsula where the Greek city of Sinope has since been founded; and it is clear that the Scythians pursued them and...
Sinope
72 35.14885,42.0206,0 Delphi ...all the trees in the island except one withered. The Theraeans inquired at Delphi again, and the priestess mentioned the colony they should send to Libya. [2]...
Delphi
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Neuri ...plant grain not to eat but to sell; north of these, the Neuri; north of the Neuri, the land is uninhabited so far as we know. 18. These are the tribes by the...
Neuri
78 Borysthenites ...this is what he would do: he would lead the Scythian army to the city of the Borysthenites (who say that they are Milesians), and when he arrived there would leave his...
Borysthenites
79 31.9056,46.69238,0 Neuri ...Scythian farmers, who plant grain not to eat but to sell; north of these, the Neuri; north of the Neuri, the land is uninhabited so far as we know. 18. These are...
Neuri
80 Callippidae ...Scythian Greeks; and beyond them another tribe called Alazones; these and the Callippidae, though in other ways they live like the Scythians, plant and eat grain...
Callippidae
80 Man-eaters ...convince me; but they tell it nonetheless, and swear to its truth. 106. The Man-eaters are the most savage of all men in their way of life; they know no justice and...
Man-eaters
79 Man-eaters ...is desolate for a long way; [3] after the desolation is the country of the Man-eaters, who are a nation apart and by no means Scythian; and beyond them is true...
Man-eaters
77 Panticapes ...inhabit a land stretching east a three days' journey to a river called Panticapes,13 and north as far as an eleven days' voyage up the Borysthenes; and north of...
Panticapes
73 32.5,46.5,0 Tanaïs river ...sea, west of the Cimmerian Bosporus and the Maeetian lake, as far as the Tanaïs river, which empties into the end of that lake. [2] Now it has been seen that on its...
Tanaïs river
75 40.7291755,47.5437096,0 Tauric land ...all other Scythians their slaves; their territory stretches south to the Tauric land, and east to the trench that was dug by the sons of the blind men, and to the...
Tauric land
75 34.27150174333333,44.883441823333335,0 Blackcloaks ...the invaders. When the Persians and the Scythians broke into their lands, the Blackcloaks and Man-eaters and Neuri put up no resistance, but forgot their threats and...
Blackcloaks
80 Libyan ...be founded on the shores of the Tritonian lake. Hearing this (it is said) the Libyan people of the country hid the tripod. 180. Next to these Machlyes are the...
Libyan
80 26.5,31.5,0 Libyan ...name betrays that the attire of the statues of Pallas has come from Libya; for Libyan women wear the hairless tasselled “aegea” over their dress, colored with...
Libyan
81 26.5,31.5,0 Libyan ...of Athena were copied by the Greeks from the Libyan women; for except that Libyan women dress in leather, and that the tassels of their goatskin cloaks are not...
Libyan
77 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...Then the Theraeans sent Battus with two fifty-oared ships; these sailed to Libya, but, not knowing what else to do, presently returned to Thera. [3] There, the...
Libya
77 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...off for that. [2] Then the priestess gave them this reply: ““If you know Libya nurse of sheep better than I, Though I have been there and you have not, then I...
Libya
75 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...aboard the one whom they had left there, they made a settlement at a place in Libya itself, opposite the island which was called Aziris. This is a place enclosed...
Libya
80 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...is both white and purple. Beyond this ridge, the southern and inland parts of Libya are desolate and waterless: there are no wild beasts, no rain, no forests; this...
Libya
80 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...nor is it harmed by drinking excessive showers (there is rain in this part of Libya). Its yield of grain is of the same measure as in the land of Babylon. [3] The...
Libya
80 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...and is now called Barce; and while they were founding it, they persuaded the Libyans to revolt from the Cyrenaeans. [2] Then Arcesilaus led an army into the country...
Libyans
79 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...the people into three tribes;56 of which the Theraeans and dispossessed Libyans were one, the Peloponnesians and Cretans the second, and all the islanders the...
Libyans
74 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...to Egypt; they follow Egyptian customs for the most part, but dress like other Libyans. Their women wear twisted bronze ornaments on both legs; their hair is long...
Libyans
81 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...191. West of the Triton river and next to the Aseans begins the country of Libyans who cultivate the soil and possess houses; they are called Maxyes; they wear...
Libyans
78 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...from the people except cattle. [6] As to his not sailing completely around Libya, the reason (he said) was that the ship could move no farther, but was stopped...
Libya
77 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...one side of it. 158. Here they dwelt for six years; but in the seventh, the Libyans got them to leave the place, saying that they would lead them to a better; [2]...
Libyans
79 26.5,31.5,0 Ionians ...Darius, after rewarding Mandrocles, crossed over to Europe; he had told the Ionians to sail into the Pontus as far as the Ister river, and when they got to the...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...Sauromatae were attached, and which was led by Scopasis, to speak with those Ionians guarding the bridge over the Ister; as for those of the Scythians who remained...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...a way that he will never lead an army against anyone again.” 137. Then the Ionians held a council. Miltiades the Athenian, general and sovereign of the...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Delian ...an olive-tree, on the left hand of the entrance of the temple of Artemis); the Delian boys twine some of their hair around a green stalk, and lay it on the tomb...
Delian
81 25.268194,37.397274,0 Colchians ...are the Medes, and beyond the Medes the Saspires, and beyond the Saspires the Colchians, whose country extends to the northern sea21 into which the Phasis river flows...
Colchians
80 42.5,42.5,0 Sigeum ...Phasis and stretches seaward along the Pontus and the Hellespont, as far as Sigeum in the Troad; on the south side, the same peninsula has a seacoast beginning at...
Sigeum
78 26.18372,39.98975,0 Hellespont ...peninsulas begins at the Phasis and stretches seaward along the Pontus and the Hellespont, as far as Sigeum in the Troad; on the south side, the same peninsula has a...
Hellespont
81 26.4,40.2,0 Phasis ...by night. [2] This being granted, seeing that from the Pontus' mouth to the Phasis (which is the greatest length of the sea) it is a voyage of nine days and eight...
Phasis
78 42.2161531,42.1237505,0 Phasis ...I will now describe. [2] On the north side one of the peninsulas begins at the Phasis and stretches seaward along the Pontus and the Hellespont, as far as Sigeum in...
Phasis
81 42.2161531,42.1237505,0 Phoenicia ...Persian country to Phoenicia there is a wide and vast tract of land; and from Phoenicia this peninsula runs beside our sea by way of the Syrian Palestine and Egypt...
Phoenicia
80 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicia ...of Heracles until they came into the northern sea and so to Egypt. [3] So the Phoenicians set out from the Red Sea and sailed the southern sea; whenever autumn came...
Phoenicia
80 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicia ...month to that place from which the Egyptian king sent the above-mentioned Phoenicians to sail around Libya. [3] After this circumnavigation, Darius subjugated the...
Phoenicia
76 35.25,33.25,0 Egyptians ...of Apries, the king of that country. [5] Apries mustered a great force of Egyptians and sent it against Cyrene; the Cyrenaeans marched out to Irasa and the Thestes...
Egyptians
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...Libyans are nomads that eat meat and drink milk; for the same reason as the Egyptians too profess, they will not touch the flesh of cows; and they rear no swine. [2]...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Red Sea ...into the northern sea and so to Egypt. [3] So the Phoenicians set out from the Red Sea and sailed the southern sea; whenever autumn came they would put in and plant...
Red Sea
81 39.5,19.0,0 Red Sea ...the first peninsula. But the second, beginning with Persia, stretches to the Red Sea, and is Persian land; and next, the neighboring land of Assyria; and after...
Red Sea
79 39.5,19.0,0 Arabia ...is Persian land; and next, the neighboring land of Assyria; and after Assyria, Arabia; this peninsula ends (not truly but only by common consent) at the Arabian...
Arabia
81 42.5,27.5,0 Persians ...as well as with all the envoys themselves. [2] No long time afterwards the Persians made a great search for these men, but Alexander had cunning enough to put an...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...delay. [2] Soli was the Cyprian city which withstood siege longest; the Persians took it in the fifth month by digging a mine under its walls. 116. So the...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...deliberation, came with a great force. So the Ionians were in Cyprus when the Persians, crossing from Cilicia, marched to Salamis by land, and the Phoenicians were...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...was Heraclides of Mylasas, son of Ibanollis. 122. This, then, is how these Persians perished. Hymaees, who had been one of those who went in pursuit of the Ionians...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to save themselves, whether it would be better for them to surrender to the Persians or to depart from Asia. 120. While they took counsel, the Milesians and their...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...that the Carians had made common cause with the Ionians and revolted from the Persians. For this reason he turned aside from the Hellespont and marched his army to...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...spoke to the same effect as at Sparta, of the good things of Asia, and how the Persians carried neither shield nor spear in war and could easily be overcome. [2] This...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athens ...from there by the Argives,25 and these Gephyraeans were forced to go to Athens after being expelled in turn by the Boeotians. The Athenians received them as...
Athens
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...64. After this the Lacedaemonians sent out a greater army to attack Athens, appointing as its general their king Cleomenes son of Anaxandrides. This army...
Athens
71 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...one of all was left, who returned by himself to Phalerum. 86. This is the Athenian version of the matter, but the Aeginetans say that the Athenians came not in...
Athenian
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...Argives, however, say that he escaped after they had destroyed the rest of the Athenian force, while the Athenians claim that the whole thing was to be attributed to...
Athenian
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...of earnest entreaty. Despite the fact that they had been deprived of their Athenian allies, the Ionians fervently continued their war against the king (for they...
Athenian
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...but perished in the following manner. It would seem that he made his way to Athens and told of the mishap. When the wives of the men who had gone to attack Aegina...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...cities, namely that uniting our counsels and our power, we may bring him to Athens and restore that which we took away.” 92. These were the words of the...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the sky, praying as he sent it aloft, [2] “O Zeus, grant me vengeance on the Athenians.” Then he ordered one of his servants to say to him three times whenever dinner...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedaemonians ...army. Then the horsemen charged and slew Anchimolius and many more of the Lacedaemonians, and drove those that survived to their ships. Accordingly, the first...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...of her on a private or a public account to set Athens free. [2] Then the Lacedaemonians, when the same command was ever revealed to them, sent Anchimolius the son of...
Lacedaemonians
75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Thessaly ...him all the people to whose countries he came along the way. The rulers of Thessaly did not repent of what they had already done and were readier than before to...
Thessaly
77 22.2,39.6,0 Lydia ...there which is much the greatest of all, except those of Egypt and Babylon. In Lydia is the tomb of Alyattes, the father of Croesus, the base of which is made of...
Lydia
81 27.5,37.5,0 Euxine ...where this cowherd pastured his cattle are north of Ecbatana, towards the Euxine sea; for the rest of Media is everywhere a level plain, but here, on the side...
Euxine
76 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Egypt ...2. In this way, the Persians say (and not as the Greeks), was how Io came to Egypt, and this, according to them, was the first wrong that was done. Next...
Egypt
80 Tyre ...Next, according to their story, some Greeks (they cannot say who) landed at Tyre in Phoenicia and carried off the king's daughter Europa. These Greeks must, I...
Tyre
78 35.209358,33.268071,0 Halys ...by birth, son of Alyattes, and sovereign of all the nations west of the river Halys, which flows from the south between Syria and Paphlagonia and empties into the...
Halys
80 35.9295291,41.6767598,0 Paphlagonia ...nations west of the river Halys, which flows from the south between Syria and Paphlagonia and empties into the sea called Euxine. [2] This Croesus was the first...
Paphlagonia
80 32.5,42.5,0 Phrygia ...first foreigner whom we know who placed offerings at Delphi after the king of Phrygia, Midas son of Gordias. [3] For Midas too made an offering: namely, the royal...
Phrygia
80 32.5,37.5,0 Asia ...that the Cimmerians, driven from their homes by the nomad Scythians, came into Asia, and took Sardis, all but the acropolis. 16. Ardys reigned for forty-nine...
Asia
81 Sardis ...driven from their homes by the nomad Scythians, came into Asia, and took Sardis, all but the acropolis. 16. Ardys reigned for forty-nine years and was...
Sardis
75 28.040278,38.488333,0 Miletus ...Milesians which his father had begun. This was how he attacked and beseiged Miletus: he sent his army, marching to the sound of pipes and harps and bass and treble...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Assesos ...priestess would not answer them before they restored the temple of Athena at Assesos in the Milesian territory, which they had burnt. 20. I know this much to be so...
Assesos
79 26.337061,39.490601,0 Assesos ...be friends and allies, and Alyattes built not one but two temples of Athena at Assesos, and recovered from his illness. That is the story of Alyattes' war against...
Assesos
81 26.337061,39.490601,0 Corinth ...whom we know to compose and name the dithyramb7 which he afterwards taught at Corinth. 24. They say that this Arion, who spent most of his time with Periander...
Corinth
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...took Arion on his back and bore him to Taenarus. Landing there, he went to Corinth in his regalia, and when he arrived, he related all that had happened. [7]...
Corinth
77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Delphi ...of a great silver bowl on a stand of welded iron. Among all the offerings at Delphi, this is the most worth seeing, and is the work of Glaucus the Chian, the only...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Priene ...[2] but when his preparations for shipbuilding were underway, either Bias of Priene or Pittacus of Mytilene (the story is told of both) came to Sardis and, asked...
Priene
79 27.298333,37.66,0 Lydians ...29. and after these were subdued and subject to Croesus in addition to the Lydians, all the sages from Hellas who were living at that time, coming in different...
Lydians
78 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...and Lycians, all the rest Croesus held subject under him. These were the Lydians, Phrygians, Mysians, Mariandynians, Chalybes, Paphlagonians, the Thracian...
Lydians
75 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...his worst enemy in the man whom he had sent as a protector. 45. Soon the Lydians came, bearing the corpse, with the murderer following after. He then came and...
Lydians
76 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...that Croesus advised; further, to enslave all the others who had joined the Lydians in attacking Sardis; and as for Pactyes himself, by all means to bring him into...
Lydians
78 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...they turned to flight, and all Croesus' hope was lost. [6] Nevertheless the Lydians were no cowards; when they saw what was happening, they leaped from their...
Lydians
78 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...and empties into the sea near the city of Phocaea). [2] When Cyrus saw the Lydians maneuvering their battle-lines here, he was afraid of their cavalry, and...
Lydians
77 27.5,37.5,0 Syria ...of all the nations west of the river Halys, which flows from the south between Syria and Paphlagonia and empties into the sea called Euxine. [2] This Croesus was...
Syria
81 37.5,37.5,0 Persian ...not allow the king himself to slay any one for a single offense, or any other Persian to do incurable harm to one of his servants for one offense. Not until an...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...two oracles was the same: namely, that if he should send an army against the Persians he would destroy a great empire. And they advised him to discover the...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...he did not persuade Croesus. Indeed, before they conquered the Lydians, the Persians had no luxury and no comforts. 72. Now the Cappadocians are called by the...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...she was a Mede and the daughter of Astyages king of the Medes; but he was a Persian and a subject of the Medes and although in all respects her inferior he married...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...who is a Persian, and so we Medes are enslaved and held of no account by the Persians, as we are of another blood, but while you, our countryman, are established...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...and the Ionians sigma; you will find, if you search, that not some but all Persian names alike end in this letter. 140. So much I can say of them from my own...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...to give her to any Mede worthy to marry into his family, but married her to a Persian called Cambyses, a man whom he knew to be wellborn and of a quiet temper: for...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Milesians ...of a man riding upon a dolphin. 25. Alyattes the Lydian, his war with the Milesians finished, died after a reign of fifty-seven years. [2] He was the second of his...
Milesians
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...native lands, unable to endure slavery. The rest of the Ionians, except the Milesians, though they faced Harpagus in battle as did the exiles, and conducted...
Milesians
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Lesbians ...longer deny what was proved against them. [8] This is what the Corinthians and Lesbians say, and there is a little bronze memorial of Arion on Taenarus, the figure of...
Lesbians
81 26.10052,39.20874,0 Athenians ...and among them came Solon the Athenian, who, after making laws for the Athenians at their request, went abroad for ten years, sailing forth to see the world, he...
Athenians
73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...who inhabited Placia and Scylace on the Hellespont, who came to live among the Athenians, and by other towns too which were once Pelasgian and afterwards took a...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Arcadia ...ask me for Arcadia? You ask too much; I grant it not. There are many men in Arcadia, eaters of acorns, Who will hinder you. But I grudge you not. I will give you...
Arcadia
78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Egypt ...18. The response of oracle of Ammon in fact bears witness to my opinion, that Egypt is of such an extent as I have argued; I learned this by inquiry after my...
Egypt
81 Nile ...all foods. [3] But the god forbade them: all the land, he said, watered by the Nile in its course was Egypt, and all who lived lower down than the city Elephantine...
Nile
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Elephantine ...the Nile in its course was Egypt, and all who lived lower down than the city Elephantine and drank the river's water were Egyptians. Such was the oracle given to them...
Elephantine
79 32.89066,24.08292,0 Nile ...winds14 are the cause of the river being in flood, because they hinder the Nile from emptying into the sea. But there are many times when the Etesian winds do...
Nile
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Libya ...they have a weaker current. Yet there are many rivers in Syria and many in Libya, and they behave nothing like the Nile. 21. The second opinion is less...
Libya
77 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Ethiopia ...Nile flows from where snows melt; but it flows from Libya through the midst of Ethiopia, and comes out into Egypt. [2] How can it flow from snow, then, seeing that it...
Ethiopia
81 38.721522,14.125005,0 Nile ...all Europe it would have the same effect on the Ister as it now does on the Nile. 27. And as to why no breeze blows from the river, this is my opinion: it is...
Nile
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Syene ...said that he had exact knowledge, but this was his story. Between the city of Syene in the Thebaid and Elephantine, there are two hills with sharp peaks, one...
Syene
80 32.89066,24.08292,0 Egypt ...the other half south towards Ethiopia. [4] He said that Psammetichus king of Egypt had put to the test whether the springs are bottomless: for he had a rope of...
Egypt
79 Elephantine ...you make a journey by water equal in distance to that by which you came from Elephantine to the capital city of Ethiopia, and you come to the land of the Deserters...
Elephantine
79 32.89066,24.08292,0 Libya ...at Daphnae of Pelusium facing Arabia and Assyria, and at Marea facing Libya. [3] And still in my time the Persians hold these posts as they were held in...
Libya
72 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Nile ...of the Ammonians, and that from other subjects the conversation turned to the Nile, how no one knows the source of it. Then Etearchus told them that once he had...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...everything that I could learn by inquiry; and it issues into Egypt. Now Egypt lies about opposite to the mountainous part of Cilicia; [2] from there, it is a...
Egypt
74 Sinope ...[2] from there, it is a straight five days' journey for an unencumbered man to Sinope on the Euxine; and Sinope lies opposite the place where the Ister falls into...
Sinope
81 35.14885,42.0206,0 Sinope ...five days' journey for an unencumbered man to Sinope on the Euxine; and Sinope lies opposite the place where the Ister falls into the sea. Thus I suppose the...
Sinope
74 35.14885,42.0206,0 Araxes ...Persia, and he and his army crossed the river. 209. After he had crossed the Araxes, he dreamed that night while sleeping in the country of the Massagetae that he...
Araxes
80 67.18936939999999,39.556608266666665,0 country of the Massagetae ...he had crossed the Araxes, he dreamed that night while sleeping in the country of the Massagetae that he saw the eldest of Hystapes' sons with wings on his shoulders, the one...
country of the Massagetae
73 62.5,37.5,0 Europe ...with wings on his shoulders, the one wing overshadowing Asia and the other Europe. [2] Hystaspes son of Arsames was an Achaemenid, and Darius was the eldest of...
Europe
77 Araxes ...to watch his son for Cyrus; and Cyrus, advancing a day's journey from the Araxes, acted according to Croesus' advice. [2] Cyrus and the sound portion of the...
Araxes
76 46.5,38.5,0 Heliopolis ...in conversation with the priests of Hephaestus;3 and I visited Thebes and Heliopolis, too, for this very purpose, because I wished to know if the people of those...
Heliopolis
76 31.305179,30.129369,0 Heliopolis ...would tell me the same story as the priests at Memphis; for the people of Heliopolis are said to be the most learned of the Egyptians. [2] Now, such stories as I...
Heliopolis
76 31.305179,30.129369,0 Egypt ...a man has not heard it before, he can readily see, if he has sense, that that Egypt to which the Greeks sail is land deposited for the Egyptians, the river's...
Egypt
80 Athens ...than two miles, will be found between these two journeys; for the journey from Athens to Pisa is two miles short of two hundred, which is the number of miles between...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Heliopolis ...is the number of miles between the sea and Heliopolis. 8. Beyond and above Heliopolis, Egypt is a narrow land. For it is bounded on the one side by the mountains of...
Heliopolis
78 31.305179,30.129369,0 Memphis ...these mountains are the quarries that were hewn out for making the pyramids at Memphis. This way, then, the mountains run, and end in the places of which I have...
Memphis
81 31.254278,29.849667,0 Egypt ...say it, and myself very much believe it to be the case; for I have seen that Egypt projects into the sea beyond the neighboring land, and shells are exposed to...
Egypt
79 Memphis ...pyramids show it, and the only sandy mountain in Egypt is that which is above Memphis; [2] besides, Egypt is like neither the neighboring land of Arabia nor Libya...
Memphis
80 31.254278,29.849667,0 Libya ...Memphis; [2] besides, Egypt is like neither the neighboring land of Arabia nor Libya, not even like Syria (for Syrians inhabit the seaboard of Arabia); it is a land...
Libya
81 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Egypt ...are lands of clay and stones. 13. This, too, that the priests told me about Egypt, is a strong proof: when Moeris was king, if the river rose as much as thirteen...
Egypt
79 Memphis ...for the Egyptians themselves: if, as I have already said, the country below Memphis (for it is this which rises) should increase in height in the same proportion...
Memphis
78 31.254278,29.849667,0 Egypt ...the Ionians' opinion aside, and our own judgment about the matter is this: Egypt is all that country which is inhabited by Egyptians, just as Cilicia and...
Egypt
77 Smyrna ...to allow no other Ionians to use it (nor in fact did any except the men of Smyrna ask to be admitted); 144. just as the Dorians of what is now the country of...
Smyrna
77 27.1383,38.41905,0 Sardis ...coming to Phocaea, sent Lacrines, who was the most esteemed among them, to Sardis, to repeat there to Cyrus a proclamation of the Lacedaemonians, that he was to...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Babylon ...Croesus with him, and at first taking no notice of the Ionians. [4] For he had Babylon on his hands and the Bactrian nation and the Sacae and Egyptians; he meant to...
Babylon
81 44.42082,32.53617,0 Miletus ...all the Ionians and Aeolians used to consult; the place is in the land of Miletus, above the harbor of Panormus. 158. The men of Cyme, then, sent to Branchidae...
Miletus
76 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Asia ...part the example of the Lycians. 177. Harpagus, then, made havoc of lower Asia; in the upper country, Cyrus himself vanquished every nation, leaving none...
Asia
77 Egypt ...is accustomed to visit the shrine and rest on the couch, as in Thebes of Egypt, as the Egyptians say [2] (for there too a woman sleeps in the temple of Theban...
Egypt
75 Babylon ...by the Euphrates is called Ardericca. And now those who travel from our sea to Babylon must spend three days as they float down the Euphrates coming three times to...
Babylon
81 44.42082,32.53617,0 Euphrates ...travel from our sea to Babylon must spend three days as they float down the Euphrates coming three times to the same village. [3] Such was this work; and she built...
Euphrates
78 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Babylon ...the river, marvellous for its greatness and height. [4] Then a long way above Babylon she dug the reservoir of a lake, a little way off from the river, always...
Babylon
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Choaspes ...he marches well provided with food and flocks from home; and water from the Choaspes river that flows past Susa is carried with him, the only river from which the...
Choaspes
78 70.12808435,29.059230300000003,0 Gyndes ...following the king wherever he goes at any time. 189. When Cyrus reached the Gyndes river on his march to Babylon,68 which rises in the mountains of the Matieni...
Gyndes
80 Babylon ...he goes at any time. 189. When Cyrus reached the Gyndes river on his march to Babylon,68 which rises in the mountains of the Matieni and flows through the Dardanean...
Babylon
81 44.42082,32.53617,0 Opis ...country into another river, the Tigris, that again passes the city of Opis and empties into the Red Sea—when, I say, Cyrus tried to cross the Gyndes...
Opis
72 44.70127,33.18405,0 Babylon ...their knees. [3] After uttering this threat, he paused in his march against Babylon, and, dividing his army into two parts, drew lines planning out a hundred and...
Babylon
78 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylon ...by dividing it among the three hundred and sixty canals, he marched against Babylon at last. The Babylonians sallied out and awaited him; and when he came near...
Babylon
78 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylon ...to provision him and his army, and pays tribute besides: now the territory of Babylon feeds him for four of the twelve months in the year, the whole of the rest of...
Babylon
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylon ...boat, or more than one in the larger. [4] So when they have floated down to Babylon and disposed of their cargo, they sell the framework of the boat and all the...
Babylon
78 44.42082,32.53617,0 Armenia ...reeds; the hides are set on the backs of asses, which are then driven back to Armenia, [5] for it is not by any means possible to go upstream by water, because of...
Armenia
80 42.5,37.5,0 Babylon ...that the women not be wronged or taken to another city]; since the conquest of Babylon made them afflicted and poor, everyone of the people that lacks a livelihood...
Babylon
81 44.42082,32.53617,0 Atlantic ...the Greeks sail, and the sea beyond the pillars of Heracles, which they call Atlantic, and the Red Sea, are all one: 203. but the Caspian is separate and by itself...
Atlantic
79 -7.072833872807018,42.97665274736841,0 Caspian ...say) have intercourse openly, like beasts of the flock. 204. This sea called Caspian is hemmed in to the west by the Caucasus: towards the east and the sunrise...
Caspian
80 49.98680535,42.6759567125,0 Massagetae ...Cyrus undertook to attack could escape from him. 205. Now at this time the Massagetae were ruled by a queen called Tomyris, whose husband was dead. Cyrus sent a...
Massagetae
78 62.5,37.5,0 Araxes ...of the Massagetae. [2] So when guile was of no avail, Cyrus marched to the Araxes and openly prepared to attack the Massagetae; he bridged the river for his army...
Araxes
77 Araxes ...work of bridging the river, and let us withdraw three days' journey from the Araxes; and when that is done, cross into our country. [3] Or if you prefer to receive...
Araxes
79 46.5,38.5,0 Halys ...28. As time went on, Croesus subjugated almost all the nations west of the Halys; for except the Cilicians and Lycians, all the rest Croesus held subject under...
Halys
78 35.9295291,41.6767598,0 Delphi ...inquiries of the Greek and Libyan oracles, sending messengers separately to Delphi, to Abae in Phocia, and to Dodona, while others were despatched to Amphiaraus...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Branchidae ...while others were despatched to Amphiaraus and Trophonius,13 and others to Branchidae in the Milesian country. [3] These are the Greek oracles to which Croesus sent...
Branchidae
77 27.256115,37.384829,0 Delphi ...of a lion made of refined gold, weighing ten talents. When the temple of Delphi was burnt, this lion fell from the ingots which were the base on which it...
Delphi
75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Olympus ...the land of Phthia, then the country called Histiaean, under Ossa and Olympus, in the time of Dorus son of Hellen; driven from this Histiaean country by the...
Olympus
72 22.3584897,40.0862269,0 Pindus ...Hellen; driven from this Histiaean country by the Cadmeans, it settled about Pindus in the territory called Macedonian; from there again it migrated to Dryopia...
Pindus
79 20.9247272,40.0891647,0 Delphi ...but, confident that they were stronger than the Arcadians, asked the oracle at Delphi about gaining all the Arcadian land. [2] She replied in hexameter: “You ask me...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lydia ...having instructed them what to say. They came and said: [2] “Croesus, King of Lydia and other nations, has sent us with this message: ‘Lacedaemonians, the god has...
Lydia
80 27.5,37.5,0 Sardis ...after that, to make their way with all speed to Alyattes son of Sadyattes at Sardis. All this they did. [6] Cyaxares and the guests who ate with him dined on the...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Delphi ...favor you may ever ask me.” [4] When Croesus heard this, he sent Lydians to Delphi, telling them to lay his chains on the doorstep of the temple, and to ask the...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Sardis ...in, he did accomplish his wish and favor Croesus: for he delayed the taking of Sardis for three years. And let Croesus know this: that although he is now taken, it...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Egypt ...building to be seen there which is much the greatest of all, except those of Egypt and Babylon. In Lydia is the tomb of Alyattes, the father of Croesus, the base...
Egypt
79 Ister ...[2] So the fleet passed between the Dark Rocks and sailed straight for the Ister and, after a two days' voyage up the river from the sea, set about bridging the...
Ister
77 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...and Scythia begins where a bay is formed in its coast, and the mouth of the Ister, facing southeast, is in that country. [2] Now I am going to describe the coast...
Ister
78 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...was led by Scopasis, to speak with those Ionians guarding the bridge over the Ister; as for those of the Scythians who remained behind, it was decided that they...
Ister
80 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...them as are famous and can be entered from the sea, I shall name. There is the Ister, which has five mouths, and the Tyras, and Hypanis, and Borysthenes, and...
Ister
81 29.647293,45.16291,0 Carpis ...Brongus into the Ister, which receives these two great rivers into itself. The Carpis and another river called Alpis also flow northward, from the country north of...
Carpis
81 Alpis ...these two great rivers into itself. The Carpis and another river called Alpis also flow northward, from the country north of the Ombrici, to flow into it...
Alpis
74 Lacedaemonians ...and there camped on Teügetum and kindled a fire. [3] Seeing it, the Lacedaemonians sent a messenger to inquire who they were and where they came from. They...
Lacedaemonians
70 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...[2] So when the Minyae escaped from prison and camped on Teügetum, and the Lacedaemonians were planning to put them to death, Theras interceded for their lives, that...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...great Tritonian lake, in which is an island called Phla. It is said that the Lacedaemonians were told by an oracle to plant a settlement on this island. 179. The...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Thracians ...the message. [4] Furthermore, when there is thunder and lightning these same Thracians shoot arrows skyward as a threat to the god, believing in no other god but...
Thracians
79 27.5,42.5,0 Milesians ...lead the Scythian army to the city of the Borysthenites (who say that they are Milesians), and when he arrived there would leave his army in the suburb of the city, [4]...
Milesians
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Istria ...was one of the sons born to Ariapithes, king of Scythia; but his mother was of Istria,34 and not native-born; and she taught him to speak and read Greek. [2] As time...
Istria
81 28.71667,44.56667,0 Samos ...death escaped to Samos, with a great hoard of wealth, of which a man of Samos got possession. I know the man's name but deliberately omit it. 44. But as to...
Samos
74 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...had a eunuch, who as soon as he heard of his master's death escaped to Samos, with a great hoard of wealth, of which a man of Samos got possession. I know...
Samos
73 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...the priestess to Arcesilaus. 164. But he returned to Cyrene with the men from Samos, and having made himself master of it he forgot the oracle, and demanded...
Samos
81 26.84,37.73,0 Sindic ...and ten thousand orguiai, which make eleven thousand stades. [3] From the Sindic region to Themiscura on the Thermodon river (the greatest width of the Pontus)...
Sindic
76 36.75,45.25,0 Perinthus ...rock. [2] There are two roads to the place, one from the town of Heraeum near Perinthus, one from Apollonia on the Euxine sea; each is a two days' journey. This Tearus...
Perinthus
80 27.95454,40.97089,0 Hebrus ...tributary of the Contadesdus river, and that of the Agrianes, and that of the Hebrus, which empties into the sea near the city of Aenus. 91. Having come to this...
Hebrus
80 26.029778,40.738634,0 Odrysae ...came to another river called Artescus, which flows through the country of the Odrysae; and having reached this river, he pointed out a spot to the army, and told...
Odrysae
80 25.33686355,42.61977194999999,0 Artescus ...inscription. 92. From there, Darius set out and came to another river called Artescus, which flows through the country of the Odrysae; and having reached this river...
Artescus
80 Tauri ...100. Beyond the Tauric country the Scythians begin, living north of the Tauri and beside the eastern sea, west of the Cimmerian Bosporus and the Maeetian...
Tauri
75 34.27150174333333,44.883441823333335,0 Tauri ...Black-cloaks, Geloni, Budini, and Sauromatae. 103. Among these, the Tauri have the following customs: all ship-wrecked men, and any Greeks whom they...
Tauri
71 34.27150174333333,44.883441823333335,0 Attic ...Tauri inhabit a part of Scythia like Attica, as though some other people, not Attic, were to inhabit the heights of Sunium from Thoricus to the town of...
Attic
80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Tauric ...are many others of a similar kind that Tauris resembles.44 100. Beyond the Tauric country the Scythians begin, living north of the Tauri and beside the eastern...
Tauric
78 34.27150174333333,44.883441823333335,0 Peloponnesians ...killed Anacharsis. 77. It is true that I have heard another story told by the Peloponnesians; namely, that Anacharsis had been sent by the king of Scythia and had been a...
Peloponnesians
81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Miletus ...city; if Darius' power is overthrown, we shall no longer be able to rule, I in Miletus or any of you elsewhere; for all the cities will choose democracy rather than...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...Strattis of Chios, Aiaces of Samos, Laodamas of Phocaea, and Histiaeus of Miletus who opposed the plan of Miltiades. As for the Aeolians, their only notable man...
Miletus
76 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Minyae ...allotted pieces of land. [5] The Lacedaemonians were happy to receive the Minyae46 on the terms which their guests desired; the chief cause of their consenting...
Minyae
76 Minyae ...not drive them out but claim them as in fact his own people. [2] So when the Minyae escaped from prison and camped on Teügetum, and the Lacedaemonians were...
Minyae
79 Teügetum ...of women dressed in women's clothing; and thus escaping, once more camped on Teügetum. 147. Now, about this same time, Theras, a descendant of Polynices through...
Teügetum
79 22.3503405,36.9528148,0 Lacedaemon ...dwelt on the island of Calliste for eight generations before Theras came from Lacedaemon. 148. It was these that Theras was preparing to join, taking with him a...
Lacedaemon
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Laconia ...Minyae, the Lacedaemonians sent a second time and asked why they had come into Laconia and kindled a fire. They replied that, having been expelled by the Pelasgians...
Laconia
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Theraeans ...fare better if they helped Battus plant a colony at Cyrene in Libya. Then the Theraeans sent Battus with two fifty-oared ships; these sailed to Libya, but, not knowing...
Theraeans
80 25.478129,36.36399,0 Thera ...an island there called Platea.51 [3] They hired this man to come with them to Thera; from there, just a few men were sent aboard ship to spy out the land first...
Thera
80 25.478129,36.36399,0 Thera ...we have only the word of the Theraeans. [2] Grinnus son of Aesanius, king of Thera, a descendant of this same Theras, came to Delphi bringing a hecatomb from his...
Thera
79 25.478129,36.36399,0 Thera ...him, a descendant of Euphemus of the Minyan clan. [3] When Grinnus king of Thera asked the oracle about other matters, the priestess' answer was that he should...
Thera
77 25.478129,36.36399,0 Cyrenaeans ...the Libyans resolved to attack him; they engaged, and so wholly overcame the Cyrenaeans that seven thousand Cyrenaean soldiers were killed there. [4] After this...
Cyrenaeans
79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaeans ...the priestess told them bring a mediator from Mantinea in Arcadia. When the Cyrenaeans sent their request, the Mantineans gave them their most valued citizen, whose...
Cyrenaeans
78 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaeans ...to Cnidus, where the Cnidians saved them and sent them to Thera. Others of the Cyrenaeans fled for refuge into a great tower that belonged to one Aglomachus, a private...
Cyrenaeans
81 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaeans ...is the harbor called Menelaus, and the Aziris which was a settlement of the Cyrenaeans. Here the country of silphium begins, [2] which reaches from the island of...
Cyrenaeans
78 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaeans ...in when the earliest are already spent by way of food and drink. Thus the Cyrenaeans have a harvest lasting eight months. Enough of these matters, then. 200. Now...
Cyrenaeans
76 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...next people west of the Giligamae are the Asbystae, who live inland of Cyrene, not coming down to the coast, for that is Cyrenaean territory. These drive...
Cyrene
73 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...country; their customs are the same as those of the dwellers inland of Cyrene. 172. Next west of these Auschisae is the populous country of the Nasamones...
Cyrene
73 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...eight generations of men, Loxias grants to your house the kingship of Cyrene; more than this he advises you not even to try. [3] But you, return to your...
Cyrene
72 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...his own destruction, his mother Pheretime held her son's prerogative at Cyrene, where she administered all his business and sat with others in council. [2]...
Cyrene
74 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaeans ...and while they were founding it, they persuaded the Libyans to revolt from the Cyrenaeans. [2] Then Arcesilaus led an army into the country of the Libyans who had...
Cyrenaeans
81 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...had done was the beginning of a close friendship between them and the men of Cyrene and Thera. 153. As for the Theraeans, when they came to Thera after leaving...
Cyrene
79 21.856169,32.818736,0 islanders ...Libyans were one, the Peloponnesians and Cretans the second, and all the islanders the third; furthermore, he set apart certain domains and priesthoods for their...
islanders
75 Platea ...to the west as far as the island of Aphrodisias; in between lies the island of Platea, which the Cyrenaeans colonized, and on the mainland is the harbor called...
Platea
81 26.2322965,35.8634532,0 Nasamones ...of war, nor know how to defend themselves. 175. These live inland of the Nasamones; the neighboring seaboard to the west is the country of the Macae, who shave...
Nasamones
76 20.5,30.5,0 Auschisae ...imitate most of the Cyrenaean customs. 171. Next west of the Asbystae are the Auschisae, dwelling inland of Barce, and touching the coast at Euhesperidae. About the...
Auschisae
81 20.5,32.5,0 Barcaean ...the Isis of Egypt; and they even honor her with fasts and festivals; and the Barcaean women refuse to eat swine too, as well as cows. 187. Thus it is with this...
Barcaean
79 20.892778,32.498333,0 Auschisae ...the same as those of the dwellers inland of Cyrene. 172. Next west of these Auschisae is the populous country of the Nasamones, who in summer leave their flocks by...
Auschisae
79 20.5,32.5,0 Tritonian lake ...him away to Libya; and before he saw land, he came into the shallows of the Tritonian lake. There, while he could find no way out yet, Triton (the story goes) appeared to...
Tritonian lake
78 8.5,33.5,0 Tritonian lake ...that is, this is the practice of the whole nation; but the dwellers by the Tritonian lake sacrifice to Athena chiefly, and next to Triton and Poseidon. 189. It would...
Tritonian lake
77 8.5,33.5,0 Lotus Eaters ...of a mastich-berry: it has a sweet taste like the fruit of a date-palm; the Lotus Eaters not only eat it, but make wine of it. 178. Next to these along the coast are...
Lotus Eaters
78 10.5,33.5,0 Pelion ...also told: it is said that Jason, when the Argo had been built at the foot of Pelion, put aboard besides a hecatomb a bronze tripod, and set out to sail around the...
Pelion
80 20.959876,40.641298,0 Machlyes ...separated by the Triton, live on the shores of the Tritonian lake. The Machlyes wear their hair long behind, the Auseans in front. [2] They celebrate a yearly...
Machlyes
73 Carthaginians ...the Libyan coast is like the truth, too. 196. Another story is told by the Carthaginians. There is a place in Libya, they say, where men live beyond the Pillars of...
Carthaginians
78 10.327986,36.857569,0 Cyrauis ...swarm. 195. Off their coast (the Carthaginians say) lies an island called Cyrauis, twenty-five miles long and narrow across, accessible from the mainland; it is...
Cyrauis
77 Euhesperitae ...of the same measure as in the land of Babylon. [3] The land inhabited by the Euhesperitae is also good; it yields at the most a hundredfold; but the land of the Cinyps...
Euhesperitae
79 Ister ...none can tell with certainty what men dwell there, but what lies beyond the Ister is a desolate and infinitely large tract of land. I can learn of no men...
Ister
78 29.647293,45.16291,0 Thracian ...in coming here, I make you this proposal. Leave Miletus and your newly founded Thracian city and follow me to Susa, where you will have all that is mine, sharing my...
Thracian
81 27.5,42.5,0 Indians ...by Darius. 3. The Thracians are the biggest nation in the world, next to the Indians. If they were under one ruler, or united, they would, in my judgment, be...
Indians
80 77.5,22.5,0 Cyprians ...their lead, and the Persians accordingly gained the upper hand over the Cyprians. [2] So the army was routed, and many were slain, among them Onesilus, son of...
Cyprians
74 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Mytilenaeans ...In it he relates his own misfortune to his friend Melanippus. As for the Mytilenaeans and Athenians, however, peace was made between them by Periander son of...
Mytilenaeans
75 26.489422,39.05495,0 Mytilenaeans ...time45 between the Athenians at Sigeum and the Mytilenaeans at Achilleum. The Mytilenaeans were demanding the place back, and the Athenians, bringing proof to show that...
Mytilenaeans
80 26.489422,39.05495,0 Sardis ...parasang is of thirty furlongs' length, which assuredly it is, then between Sardis and the king's abode called Memnonian22 there are thirteen thousand and five...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Myrcinus ...asked them whether he should lead them from there to a settlement in Sardo, or Myrcinus in Edonia, which Histiaeus had received as a gift from Darius and fortified...
Myrcinus
81 23.819776,40.901252,0 Miletus ...people, went in exile to Miletus. [2] Now it chanced that the deputy ruling Miletus was Aristagoras son of Molpagoras, son-in-law and cousin of that Histiaeus son...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sardis ...to aid the Lydians. [2] It chanced that they found the Ionians no longer at Sardis, but following on their tracks, they caught them at Ephesus. There the Ionians...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Mytilene ...temple of Athena at Sigeum. [2] Alcaeus wrote a poem about this and sent it to Mytilene. In it he relates his own misfortune to his friend Melanippus. As for the...
Mytilene
81 26.55529,39.10772,0 Asia ...Megabazus take the Paeonians and take them from their homes out of Europe into Asia. There were two Paeonians, Pigres and Mantyes, who themselves desired to be...
Asia
81 Paeoplae ...themselves to the Persians. Thus of the Paeonians the Siriopaeones and Paeoplae and all who lived as far as the Prasiad lake were taken away from their homes...
Paeoplae
73 Argive ...shrine stood then as now in the very marketplace of Sicyon because he was an Argive. [2] He went then to Delphi, and asked the oracle if he should cast Adrastus...
Argive
79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argive ...While the rest were still fighting, Stesenor the ruler of Curium, allegedly an Argive settlement, played the traitor with great company of men under him. The...
Argive
81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Milesians ...of giving up his tyranny and gave Miletus equality of government so that the Milesians might readily join in his revolt. Then he proceeded to do the same things in...
Milesians
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Susa ...navigable river, the Choaspes, on the banks of which stands the city of Susa. 53. Thus the sum total of stages is one hundred and eleven. So many...
Susa
74 48.24854,32.19202,0 Susa ...gave his consent and let him go, charging Histiaeus to appear before him at Susa when he had achieved what he promised. 108. Now while the message concerning...
Susa
78 48.24854,32.19202,0 Hellas ...day betrothed to himself, since it was his wish to possess the sovereignty of Hellas. After appointing Megabates general, Artaphrenes sent his army away to...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...are the leaders of Hellas. [3] Now, therefore, we entreat you by the gods of Hellas to save your Ionian kinsmen from slavery. This is a thing which you can easily...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Milesian ...had been taken and burnt by the Athenians and Ionians and that Aristagoras the Milesian had been leader of the conspiracy for the making of this plan, he at first, it...
Milesian
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesian ...They took Clazomenae in Ionia, and Cyme in Aeolia. 124. Aristagoras the Milesian, as he clearly demonstrated, was a man of little courage, for after he had...
Milesian
75 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...by factional strife, till the Parians, chosen out of all the Greeks by the Milesians for this purpose, made peace among them, 29. The Parians reconciled them in...
Milesians
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Cyprus ...news was brought him that Artybius, a Persian, was thought to be coming to Cyprus with a great Persian host. [2] Upon hearing this, Onesilus sent heralds all...
Cyprus
77 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Cyprus ...son of Philocyprus, that Philocyprus whom Solon of Athens, when he came to Cyprus, extolled in a poem above all other tyrants. 114. As for Onesilus, the...
Cyprus
77 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Chios ...to face the onset of war. When their enemies had brought their ships over from Chios to Naxos, it was a fortified city that they attacked, and for four months they...
Chios
81 26.053,38.414,0 Chios ...to go back. The Paeonians would not consent to this, but were brought from Chios by the Chians to Lesbos and carried by the Lesbians to Doriscus, from where...
Chios
77 26.053,38.414,0 Delphi ...belonged to his descendants. When Dorieus heard that, he went away to Delphi to enquire of the oracle if he should seize the place to which he was preparing...
Delphi
72 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedaemon ...it is easier to deceive many than one, for he could not deceive Cleomenes of Lacedaemon, one single man, but thirty thousand46 Athenians he could. [3] The Athenians...
Lacedaemon
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Libya ...nor did anything else that was customary but set sail in great anger for Libya, with men of Thera to guide him. [3] When he arrived there, he settled by the...
Libya
75 26.5,31.5,0 Cyme ...of Tymnes; Coes son of Erxandrus, to whom Darius gave Mytilene; Aristagoras of Cyme, son of Heraclides; and many others besides. Then Aristagoras revolted openly...
Cyme
81 26.936283,38.75953,0 Delphi ...of people whom he took away as colonists. He neither inquired of the oracle at Delphi in what land he should establish his settlement, nor did anything else that was...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Elis ...show many plots of land which had been set apart for and given to Callias of Elis and on which Callias' posterity dwelt even to my time but show no gift to...
Elis
79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Phoenicians ...to these characters the name of Phoenician, as was quite fair seeing that the Phoenicians had brought them into Greece.26 [3] The Ionians have also from ancient times...
Phoenicians
80 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...we Cyprians offer you the choice of engaging either the Persians or the Phoenicians. [2] If you want to draw up your army on land and try your strength against the...
Phoenicians
74 35.25,33.25,0 Cappadocians ...richest in flocks and in the fruits of the earth. [6] Close by them are the Cappadocians, whom we call Syrians, and their neighbors are the Cilicians, whose land...
Cappadocians
78 37.5,37.5,0 Cilicians ...did not prevail, and it was decided instead that the Persians and not the Cilicians should have the Maeander at their back, the intent being that if the Persians...
Cilicians
76 33.25,36.25,0 Armenians ...nor flowing from the same source. The first-mentioned of them flows from the Armenians and the second from the Matieni. [5] The fourth river is called Gyndes, that...
Armenians
79 40.5,39.5,0 Memnonian ...the rest. [2] So, then, from the Greek sea to Susa, which is the city called Memnonian, it is a journey of fourteen thousand and forty stages, for there are five...
Memnonian
79 48.24854,32.19202,0 Argos ...was seeking divination at Delphi, the oracle responded that he would take Argos. When he came with Spartans to the river Erasinus, which is said to flow from...
Argos
76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...and reasonable, and he far outdistanced the pursuit of his accusers. 83. But Argos was so wholly deprived of men that their slaves took possession of all affairs...
Argos
80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Boeotians ...Encheleis. The Gephyraeans were left behind but were later compelled by the Boeotians to withdraw to Athens. They have certain set forms of worship at Athens in...
Boeotians
78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Eretria ...which the slayers of Hipparchus were members, claim to have come at first from Eretria, but my own enquiry shows that they were among the Phoenicians24 who came with...
Eretria
81 22.607216,39.290562,0 Tanagra ...“nearest,” they said, “If this is so, our nearest neighbors are the men of Tanagra and Coronea and Thespiae. These are always our comrades in battle and zealously...
Tanagra
77 23.587064,38.309371,0 Ionian ...of Boeotia engraved on certain tripods and for the most part looking like Ionian letters. On one of the tripods there is this inscription: “Amphitryon dedicated...
Ionian
76 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Phalerum ...were enemies. At last only one of all was left, who returned by himself to Phalerum. 86. This is the Athenian version of the matter, but the Aeginetans say that...
Phalerum
77 23.7062,37.9373,0 Parian ...whereas they had agreed to build the temple of tufa, they made its front of Parian marble. 63. These men, as the Athenians say, established themselves at Delphi...
Parian
78 25.19093,37.03613,0 Sigeum ...master. Perceiving all this, they sent to bring Pisistratus' son Hippias from Sigeum on the Hellespont, the Pisistratidae's place of refuge. [2] When Hippias...
Sigeum
80 26.18372,39.98975,0 Sigeum ...and the Thessalians Iolcus, but he would have neither. He withdrew to Sigeum, which Pisistratus had taken at the spear's point from the Mytilenaeans and...
Sigeum
72 26.18372,39.98975,0 Carians ...husband of the daughter of Syennesis, king of Cilicia. He proposed that the Carians should cross the Maeander and fight with the river at their back, so that being...
Carians
78 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Argives ...contests at Sicyon by reason of the Homeric poems, in which it is the Argives and Argos which are primarily the theme of the songs. Furthermore, he conceived...
Argives
72 22.719464,37.631561,0 Sicyonians ...by Sicyonians and Argives. In this especially he made a laughing-stock of the Sicyonians, for he gave the tribes names derived from the words ‘donkey’ and ‘pig’...
Sicyonians
80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Dorian ...their dress to the Ionian fashion. Until then the Athenian women had worn Dorian dress, which is very like the Corinthian. It was changed, therefore, to the...
Dorian
76 Dorian ...Eleusis with his following of Peloponnesians. This was accordingly the fourth Dorian invasion of Athens. 77. When this force then had been ingloriously scattered...
Dorian
80 Aegina ...said: “I think that I perceive what the oracle is trying to tell us. Thebe and Aegina, it is said, were daughters of Asopus and sisters. The god's answer is, I...
Aegina
81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...and told of the mishap. When the wives of the men who had gone to attack Aegina heard this, they were very angry that he alone should be safe. They gathered...
Aegina
75 23.42372,37.74991,0 Epidaurians ...pay yearly sacred dues to Athena, the city's goddess, and to Erechtheus. The Epidaurians agreed to this condition, and their request was granted. When they set up...
Epidaurians
79 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurians ...and Auxesia,39 saying that if they so did their luck would be better. The Epidaurians then asked in addition whether they should make the images of bronze or of...
Epidaurians
76 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurians ...agreement with the Athenians. Then the Athenians sent an angry message to the Epidaurians who pleaded in turn that they were doing no wrong. “For as long,” they said...
Epidaurians
80 23.079167,37.596111,0 Phaleron ...busy with the Boeotians, they descended on Attica in ships of war, and ravaged Phaleron and many other seaboard townships. By so doing they dealt the Athenians a very...
Phaleron
81 23.7062,37.9373,0 Aegina ...were soundly beaten by the Athenians. Thereupon they sent a second message to Aegina, giving back the sons of Aeacus and asking for some men instead. [2] The...
Aegina
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Petra ...marry her, she was wedded to Eetion son of Echecrates, of the township of Petra, a Lapith by lineage and of the posterity of Caeneus. [2] When no sons were...
Petra
76 Eretrians ...war against Chalcis, when the Samians came to aid the Chalcidians against the Eretrians and Milesians). When these, then, and the rest of the allies had arrived...
Eretrians
80 22.607216,39.290562,0 Doriscus ...were brought from Chios by the Chians to Lesbos and carried by the Lesbians to Doriscus, from where they made their way by land to Paeonia. 99. The Athenians came...
Doriscus
81 26.164008,40.873623,0 Phoenicians ...years before the matters that now engaged him. 41. But now, learning that the Phoenicians were in Tenedos, he sailed away to Athens with five triremes loaded with the...
Phoenicians
81 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...four of his ships to Imbros, but the fifth was pursued and overtaken by the Phoenicians. It happened that the captain of this ship was Metiochus, the eldest son of...
Phoenicians
78 35.25,33.25,0 Milesian ...the god and to do the deed had the same effect. 86D. So Glaucus summoned the Milesian strangers and gave them back their money. But hear now, Athenians, why I began...
Milesian
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Euxine ...was at Byzantium, seizing the Ionian merchant ships as they sailed out of the Euxine, when he had news of the business of Miletus. Leaving all matters concerning...
Euxine
80 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Euxine ...the attack of the Phoenicians, but left their own land and fled away into the Euxine, and there settled in the city of Mesambria. The Phoenicians burnt the...
Euxine
80 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Atarneus ...in this way: the Greeks fought with the Persians at Malene in the country of Atarneus; the armies fought for a long time, until the Persian cavalry charged and fell...
Atarneus
79 26.92073,39.09127,0 Phoenician ...who with Thasos colonized this island, which is now called after that Phoenician Thasos. [2] These Phoenician mines are between the place called Aenyra and...
Phoenician
72 35.25,33.25,0 Mytilenaeans ...consented to serve Histiaeus. 6. Such were the doings of Histiaeus and the Mytilenaeans. Against Miletus itself a great fleet and army were expected, for the Persian...
Mytilenaeans
78 26.489422,39.05495,0 Phocaean ...minds and launched out into folly, committing ourselves into the hands of this Phocaean braggart, who brings but three ships; and having got us he afflicts us with...
Phocaean
81 26.75261,38.6684,0 Samos ...the message, was the son of Syloson son of Aeaces, and had been tyrant of Samos until he was deposed from his rule by Aristagoras of Miletus, just like the...
Samos
76 26.84,37.73,0 Phoenicia ...it would be enslaved with the rest of Ionia; he right away sailed straight to Phoenicia instead, sunk some merchant ships, took a lot of money, and sailed to Sicily...
Phoenicia
80 35.25,33.25,0 Didyma ...hair, and their women and children were accounted as slaves, and the temple at Didyma with its shrine and place of divination was plundered and burnt. Of the wealth...
Didyma
81 27.256115,37.384829,0 Fair Coast ...in Sicily about this time sent messengers to Ionia inviting the Ionians to the Fair Coast, desiring there to found an Ionian city. This Fair Coast, as it is called, is...
Fair Coast
81 14.440957,38.024241,0 Laus ...the hands of the Persians, the Sybarites (who had lost their city and dwelt in Laus and Scidrus) did not give them equal return for what they had done. When...
Laus
81 15.83176,39.766,0 Hellas ...him or to surrender themselves. He sent heralds this way and that throughout Hellas, bidding them demand a gift of earth and water for the king. [2] He despatched...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...and Xerxes son of Darius and Artaxerxes son of Xerxes,37 more ills happened to Hellas than in twenty generations before Darius; some coming from the Persians, some...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...at the hands of the foreigners. Even now Eretria has been enslaved, and Hellas has become weaker by an important city.” [3] He told them what he had been...
Hellas
74 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...husbands who were Thoas' companions, a “Lemnian crime” has been a proverb in Hellas for any deed of cruelty. 139. But when the Pelasgians had murdered their own...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellespont ...with the rest of his ships, while other captains led the land army to the Hellespont. [3] When Mardonius arrived in Ionia in his voyage along the coast of Asia, he...
Hellespont
76 26.4,40.2,0 Abydos ...Leaving all matters concerning the Hellespont in charge of Bisaltes of Abydos, son of Apollophanes, he himself sailed with the Lesbians to Chios and, when...
Abydos
73 26.41122,40.19406,0 Thrace ...and his land army, while they were encamped in Macedonia, the Brygi of Thrace attacked them by night and killed many of them, wounding Mardonius himself. But...
Thrace
73 27.5,42.5,0 Thrace ...held their course not by the mainland and straight towards the Hellespont and Thrace, but setting forth from Samos they sailed by the Icarian sea and from island to...
Thrace
80 27.5,42.5,0 Dolonci ...who offered them hospitality after they left the sacred precinct. But as the Dolonci passed through Phocis and Boeotia, going along the Sacred Way,7 no one invited...
Dolonci
79 Cyzicus ...had not destroyed at their former landing. [3] But they did not sail against Cyzicus at all; the Cyzicenes had already made themselves the king's subjects before...
Cyzicus
79 27.874127,40.389806,0 Thrace ...in which there are many cities; Perinthus, and the forts that lie towards Thrace, and Selymbria and Byzantium. [2] The Byzantines and the Calchedonians beyond...
Thrace
76 27.5,42.5,0 Lampsacenes ...they did not do so, he threatened to cut them down like a pine tree. [2] The Lampsacenes went astray in their counsels as to what the utterance meant which Croesus had...
Lampsacenes
79 26.68998,40.34869,0 Lydian ...took him prisoner. However, Miltiades stood high in the opinion of Croesus the Lydian, and when Croesus heard what had happened, he sent to the Lampsacenes and...
Lydian
81 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Lampsacenes ...sends out any shoots; it is utterly destroyed. So out of fear of Croesus the Lampsacenes released Miltiades and let him go. 38. So he escaped by the intervention of...
Lampsacenes
79 26.68998,40.34869,0 Eretria ...them no hostages and refused to join them against neighboring cities, meaning Eretria and Athens; the Persians besieged them and laid waste their land, until the...
Eretria
80 22.607216,39.290562,0 Eretria ...enslaved the townspeople, according to Darius' command. 102. After subduing Eretria, the Persians waited a few days and then sailed away to the land of Attica...
Eretria
79 22.607216,39.290562,0 Eretrians ...of the Chalcidian horse-breeders.38 But it seems that all the plans of the Eretrians were unsound; they sent to the Athenians for aid, but their counsels were...
Eretrians
77 22.607216,39.290562,0 Cilicia ...coast at the head of a very great army and fleet. [2] When Mardonius reached Cilicia at the head of this army, he himself embarked on shipboard and sailed with the...
Cilicia
79 35.75,38.25,0 Assyrian ...to the Greek story; but the Persian tale is that Perseus himself was an Assyrian, and became a Greek, which his forebears had not been; the Persians say that...
Assyrian
74 37.5,37.5,0 Spartans ...all Lacedaemon, besides the Spartans. [6] When these and the helots and the Spartans themselves have assembled in one place to the number of many thousands...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...other Greek; he drove out the Elean contest-directors and held the contests at Olympia himself. This man's son now came, and Amiantus, an Arcadian from Trapezus, son...
Olympia
81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Nonacris ...wherever he led was his zeal to bring the chief men of Arcadia to the city of Nonacris and make them swear by the water of the Styx.26 [2] Near this city is said to...
Nonacris
80 22.241203,38.014421,0 Arcadian ...them swear by the water of the Styx.26 [2] Near this city is said to be the Arcadian water of the Styx, and this is its nature: it is a stream of small appearance...
Arcadian
78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Olympia ...and by conferring on the state the victory in a chariot-race he had won at Olympia; he was the only king of Sparta who did this. 71. Leutychides son of Menares...
Olympia
77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Spartans ...at Delphi, the oracle responded that he would take Argos. When he came with Spartans to the river Erasinus, which is said to flow from the Stymphalian28 lake (this...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phasis ...agreed that the Scythians would attempt to invade Media by way of the river Phasis, and they urged the Spartans to set out and march inland from Ephesus and meet...
Phasis
78 42.2161531,42.1237505,0 Peloponnese ...for all men; and Onomastus from Elis, son of Agaeus. [4] These came from the Peloponnese itself; from Athens Megacles, son of that Alcmeon who visited Croesus, and also...
Peloponnese
79 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Scythian ...as they themselves say, whenever they desire a strong drink they call for “a Scythian cup.” Such is the Spartan story of Cleomenes; but to my thinking it was for...
Scythian
79 27.5,47.5,0 Delians ...now to your homes and dwell on your island.” He made this proclamation to the Delians, and then piled up three hundred talents of frankincense on the altar and burnt...
Delians
80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Delians ...anchor not off Delos, but across the water off Rhenaea. Learning where the Delians were, he sent a herald to them with this proclamation: [2] “Holy men, why have...
Delians
77 25.268194,37.397274,0 Naxos ...they approached Naxos from the Icarian sea and came to land (for it was Naxos which the Persians intended to attack first), the Naxians, remembering what had...
Naxos
74 25.52001,37.127,0 Delians ...doing this, they set sail for the other islands. 97. While they did this, the Delians also left Delos and fled away to Tenos. As his expedition was sailing...
Delians
81 25.268194,37.397274,0 Naxians ...to land (for it was Naxos which the Persians intended to attack first), the Naxians, remembering what had happened before,35 fled away to the mountains instead of...
Naxians
78 25.52001,37.127,0 Attica ...obeyed, but the Myrinaeans would not agree that the Chersonese was Attica and were besieged, until they too submitted. Thus did Miltiades and the...
Attica
69 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Acropolis ...they became prosperous they established a sacred precinct of Pan beneath the Acropolis. Ever since that message they propitiate him with annual sacrifices and a...
Acropolis
79 23.726166,37.971421,0 Athens ...106. This Philippides was in Sparta on the day after leaving the city of Athens,40 that time when he was sent by the generals and said that Pan had appeared to...
Athens
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Eretria ...Thus he reckoned from the dream. Then as guide he unloaded the slaves from Eretria onto the island of the Styrians called Aegilia, and brought to anchor the ships...
Eretria
77 22.607216,39.290562,0 Sparta ...him with annual sacrifices and a torch-race. 106. This Philippides was in Sparta on the day after leaving the city of Athens,40 that time when he was sent by...
Sparta
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Median ...to use running against the enemy. They are also the first to endure looking at Median dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes...
Median
81 46.5,34.5,0 Hysiae ...Asopus river as the boundary for the Thebans in the direction of Plataea and Hysiae. So the Plataeans had put themselves under the protection of the Athenians in...
Hysiae
79 23.362766,37.974359,0 Plataea ...fixing the Asopus river as the boundary for the Thebans in the direction of Plataea and Hysiae. So the Plataeans had put themselves under the protection of the...
Plataea
78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Asia ...be compared with this single one. For what nation did Xerxes not lead from Asia against Hellas? What water did not fail when being drunk up, except only the...
Asia
77 Asia ...they were neighbors of the Macedonians; but when they changed their home to Asia, they changed their name also and were called Phrygians.38 The Armenians, who...
Asia
78 Asia ...you and your children. ” [4] “Await not the host of horse and foot coming from Asia, Nor be still, but turn your back and withdraw from the foe. Truly a day will...
Asia
81 Asia ...and having composed their quarrels, they first sent three men as spies into Asia. These came to Sardis and took note of the king's army. They were discovered...
Asia
78 Hellas ...messages for three years,1 as the best men were enrolled for service against Hellas and made preparations. [3] In the fourth year the Egyptians, whom Cambyses had...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...the power of Gelon was said to be very great, surpassing by far any power in Hellas. 146. Being so resolved and having composed their quarrels, they first sent...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...be for nothing, then, that we possess the greatest number of seafaring men in Hellas, if we Athenians yield our command to Syracusans,—we who can demonstrate the...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...but thought that the Persian would win a great victory and be lord of all Hellas. [3] Their course of action, therefore, had been planned with a view to being...
Hellas
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...the Greek cause. [2] To these the Thessalian messengers came and said, “Men of Hellas, the pass of Olympus must be guarded so that Thessaly and all Hellas may be...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...“Men of Hellas, the pass of Olympus must be guarded so that Thessaly and all Hellas may be sheltered from the war. Now we are ready to guard it with you, but you...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...from being overrun by your armies; furthermore, the enslavement of the rest of Hellas must weaken Laconia if it is left to stand alone. [4] If, however, you do not...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...is acquired as the fruit of wisdom and strong law; by use of this courage Hellas defends herself from poverty and tyranny. [2] Now I praise all the Greeks who...
Hellas
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...I find it a great marvel that a woman went on the expedition against Hellas: after her husband died, she took over his tyranny, though she had a young son...
Hellas
71 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Persian ...among others what was the cause of their waging war on each other. The Persian learned men say that the Phoenicians were the cause of the dispute. These (they...
Persian
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Hellas ...story is told of both) came to Sardis and, asked by Croesus for news about Hellas, put an end to the shipbuilding by giving the following answer: [3] “O King...
Hellas
77 22.5,37.5,0 Hellas ...son of Priam, who had heard this tale, decided to get himself a wife from Hellas by capture; for he was confident that he would not suffer punishment. [2] So he...
Hellas
76 22.5,37.5,0 Babylonian ...of a Babylonian talent; those that paid in gold, of a Euboic talent; the Babylonian talent being equal to seventy-eight Euboic minae. [3] In the reigns of Cyrus...
Babylonian
75 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylonian ...told those who had seen it to tell no one; [2] then reflecting he recalled the Babylonian's word at the beginning of the siege—that the city would be taken when mules...
Babylonian
81 44.42082,32.53617,0 Caspii ...and fifty talents, and was the tenth province. [2] The eleventh comprised the Caspii, Pausicae, Pantimathi, and Daritae, paying jointly two hundred; 93. The...
Caspii
80 Daritae ...province. [2] The eleventh comprised the Caspii, Pausicae, Pantimathi, and Daritae, paying jointly two hundred; 93. The twelfth, the Bactrians as far as the land...
Daritae
77 Aegli ...jointly two hundred; 93. The twelfth, the Bactrians as far as the land of the Aegli; these paid three hundred and sixty. The thirteenth, the Pactyic country and...
Aegli
81 Bactrians ...Pantimathi, and Daritae, paying jointly two hundred; 93. The twelfth, the Bactrians as far as the land of the Aegli; these paid three hundred and sixty. The...
Bactrians
77 67.5,37.5,0 Sacae ...people;30 these together paid a tribute of six hundred talents. [3] The Sacae and Caspii were the fifteenth, paying two hundred and fifty. The Parthians...
Sacae
74 72.5,37.5,0 Alarodii ...of Asia, the seventeenth, paid four hundred; the Matieni, Saspiri, and Alarodii were the eighteenth, and two hundred talents were the appointed tribute. [2]...
Alarodii
73 42.5,38.5,0 Europe ...then are the most distant lands in Asia and Libya. But concerning those in Europe that are the farthest away towards evening, I cannot speak with assurance; for...
Europe
77 Chorasmians ...by mountains through which there are five passes.37 This plain was once the Chorasmians', being at the boundaries of the Chorasmians, the Hyrcanians, Parthians...
Chorasmians
78 Colchians ...boys, and twenty great elephants' tusks. [4] Gifts were also required of the Colchians and their neighbors as far as the Caucasus mountains (which is as far as the...
Colchians
79 42.5,42.5,0 Ethiopians ...have intercourse openly like cattle; they are all black-skinned, like the Ethiopians. [2] Their semen too, which they ejaculate into the women, is not white like...
Ethiopians
76 38.721522,14.125005,0 Greece ...ants live underground, digging out the sand in the same way as the ants in Greece, to which they are very similar in shape, and the sand which they carry from...
Greece
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Ethiopians ...men's, but black like their skin, and resembles in this respect that of the Ethiopians. These Indians dwell far away from the Persians southwards, and were not...
Ethiopians
78 38.721522,14.125005,0 Persian ...and their neighbors as far as the Caucasus mountains (which is as far as the Persian rule reaches, the country north of the Caucasus paying no regard to the...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Cnossus ...whom we know to aim at the mastery of the sea, leaving out of account Minos of Cnossus and any others who before him may have ruled the sea; of what may be called the...
Cnossus
81 25.163106,35.297847,0 Persian ...him, for the following reason, most people say. [2] As Oroetes and another Persian whose name was Mitrobates, governor of the province at Dascyleium, sat at the...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greek ...that there would be no avenger for him. [3] For saying this, according to the Greek story, she was killed by Cambyses. But the Egyptian tale is that as the two sat...
Greek
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Croton ...Croton to live with Polycrates: he was oppressed by a harsh-tempered father at Croton; since he could not stand him, he left him and went to Aegina. Within the first...
Croton
81 17.205128,39.028864,0 Babylon ...when mules gave birth—and having this utterance in mind he conceived that Babylon might be taken; for the hand of heaven, he supposed, was in the man's word and...
Babylon
76 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylon ...and slaughtered them. And when he had done this, Zopyrus was the one man for Babylon: he was made the commander of their armies and guard of the walls. 158. So...
Babylon
79 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylon ...in position, until they too discovered how they had been betrayed. 159. Thus Babylon was taken a second time, and when Darius was master of the Babylonians, he...
Babylon
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Milesians ...the performance of that play forever. 22. Miletus then was left empty of Milesians. The men of property among the Samians were displeased by the dealings of their...
Milesians
76 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Carthaginians ...and sailed to Sicily; from this base he set himself up as a pirate, robbing Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians, but no Greeks. 18. When the Persians had conquered the...
Carthaginians
78 10.327986,36.857569,0 Lesbos ...the next year easily subdued the islands that lie off the mainland, Chios and Lesbos and Tenedos. Whenever they took an island, the foreigners would (net) the...
Lesbos
80 26.10052,39.20874,0 Lesbos ...this, he left Thasos unsacked, and hastened instead with all his army to Lesbos. [2] From there, since his army suffered from hunger, he crossed over to reap...
Lesbos
75 26.10052,39.20874,0 Plataea ...river, covered the ground from Erythrae past Hysiae and up to the lands of Plataea. I do not mean to say that the walled camp which he made was of this size; each...
Plataea
77 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...sent his horsemen to the outlet of the pass over Cithaeron which leads towards Plataea. This pass the Boeotians call the Three Heads, and the Athenians the Oak's...
Plataea
81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...gold-mines. 76. Immediately after the Greeks had devastated the barbarians at Plataea, a woman, who was the concubine of Pharandates a Persian, son of Teaspis...
Plataea
81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...burden. [2] How much was set apart and given to those who had fought best at Plataea, no man says. I think that they also received gifts, but tenfold of every kind...
Plataea
79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...of Mardonius' burial. 85. But the Greeks, when they had divided the spoils at Plataea, buried each contingent of their dead in a separate place. The Lacedaemonians...
Plataea
81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...him concerning the rest of the army, knowing nothing of what had happened at Plataea. [2] Artabazus understood that if he told them the whole truth about the...
Plataea
79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...the son of Pharnaces was by now far on his way in his flight from Plataea. The Thessalians, when he came among them, entertained him hospitably and...
Plataea
68 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...the men to Corinth, where he put them to death. This is what happened at Plataea and Thebes. 89. Artabazus the son of Pharnaces was by now far on his way in...
Plataea
75 23.273866,38.221019,0 Spartans ...set up their shields for a fence, and shot showers of arrows). Since the Spartans were being hard-pressed and their sacrifices were of no avail, Pausanias lifted...
Spartans
75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...out singly and in tens or in groups great or small, hurling themselves on the Spartans and so perishing. 63. Where Mardonius was himself, riding a white horse in the...
Spartans
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartan ...he demanded. When they had granted him this also, Tisamenus of Elis, now a Spartan, engaged in divination for them and aided them to win five very great...
Spartan
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corinthians ...they heard this, they set forth in no ordered array, those who were with the Corinthians keeping to the spurs of the mountain and the hill country, by the road that led...
Corinthians
79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Hellenes ...did those who had marched out there rest from their work. 72. These were the Hellenes who marched out in a body to the Isthmus: the Lacedaemonians and all the...
Hellenes
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...He is on the king's side and prefers that your affairs prevail, not the Hellenes'. I am to tell you that the Hellenes are terrified and plan flight, and you can...
Hellenes
74 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...and reached Phalerum under cover of the land army. 93. In this battle the Hellenes with the reputation as most courageous were the Aeginetans, then the Athenians...
Hellenes
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...so he resolved on flight. He did not want to be detected either by the Hellenes or by his own men, so he attempted to build a dike across to Salamis, and...
Hellenes
73 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenic ...and had barely made it past the blockade when he sailed out, since all the Hellenic camp was surrounded by Xerxes' ships. He advised them to prepare to defend...
Hellenic
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Boeotia ...descended upon them and killed a great number. The survivors fled straight to Boeotia. Those of the barbarians who returned said (as I have been told) that they had...
Boeotia
80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Peloponnesians ...used to prevent the barbarians from invading by the mainland. As soon as the Peloponnesians learned that Leonidas and his men at Thermopylae were dead, they ran together...
Peloponnesians
79 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Tyras ...51. One of the rivers of the Scythians, then, is the Ister. The next is the Tyras;28 this comes from the north, flowing at first out of a great lake, which is...
Tyras
79 29.613982,46.8329732,0 Gerrhus ...and the region called the Racecourse of Achilles. 56. The seventh river, the Gerrhus, separates from the Borysthenes at about the place which is the end of our...
Gerrhus
80 35.44448538716876,46.87699559686738,0 Gerrhus ...the Tyras, and Hypanis, and Borysthenes, and Panticapes, and Hypacuris, and Gerrhus, and Tanaïs. Their courses are as I shall indicate. 48. The Ister, the...
Gerrhus
78 35.44448538716876,46.87699559686738,0 Porata ...flowing through the Scythian country, are these: the river called by Scythians Porata and by Greeks Pyretus,26 and besides this the Tiarantus, the Ararus, the...
Porata
81 15.077231233333334,47.11498303333334,0 Pyretus ...country, are these: the river called by Scythians Porata and by Greeks Pyretus,26 and besides this the Tiarantus, the Ararus, the Naparis, and the Ordessus...
Pyretus
73 15.077231233333334,47.11498303333334,0 Hypanis ...is a settlement of Greeks, who are called Tyritae. 52. The third river is the Hypanis; this comes from Scythia, flowing out of a great lake, around which wild, white...
Hypanis
81 31.3343727,47.5349319,0 Hypanis ...into it so bitter that although its volume is small its admixture taints the Hypanis, one of the few great rivers of the world. This spring is on the border between...
Hypanis
79 31.3343727,47.5349319,0 Atlas ...Maris river, which commingles with the Ister, flows from the Agathyrsi. The Atlas, Auras, and Tibisis, three other great rivers that pour into it, flow north...
Atlas
78 Scythia ...attempt on that country, but led the Persians from the lands of the Neuri into Scythia. 126. As this went on for a long time and did not stop, Darius sent a horseman...
Scythia
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythia ...asses and the appearance of the mules. [2] For, as I have before indicated, Scythia produces no asses or mules; and there is not in most of Scythia an ass or a...
Scythia
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythia ...the Persians were shaken, they formed a plan to have them remain longer in Scythia and, remaining, be distressed by lack of necessities: they would leave some of...
Scythia
77 27.5,47.5,0 Scythia ...it has been seen that on its northern and inland side, running from the Ister, Scythia is bounded first by the Agathyrsi, next by the Neuri, next by the Man-eaters...
Scythia
81 27.5,47.5,0 Illyria ...and the mountain range of Rhodope. [2] The Angrus river flows north from Illyria into the Triballic plain and the Brongus river, and the Brongus into the Ister...
Illyria
75 19.5,41.5,0 Bosporus ...had crossed over to their continent by a bridge thrown across the neck of the Bosporus, and how having crossed it and subjugated the Thracians he was now bridging the...
Bosporus
80 29.075278,41.119444,0 Thracians ...underground chamber. When this was finished, he vanished from the sight of the Thracians, and went down into the underground chamber, where he lived for three years...
Thracians
81 27.5,42.5,0 Mytilenaeans ...bridge and do Darius' bidding; but Cöes son of Erxander, the general of the Mytilenaeans, after first asking if Darius were willing to listen to advice from one who...
Mytilenaeans
78 26.489422,39.05495,0 Mesambria ...Thracians of Salmydessus and of the country above the towns of Apollonia and Mesambria, who are called Cyrmianae and Nipsaei, surrendered without a fight to Darius...
Mesambria
79 25.63855,40.86333,0 Ionian ...98. After saying this, he tied sixty knots in a thong, and summoning the Ionian sovereigns to an audience said to them: [2] “Gentlemen of Ionia, I take back...
Ionian
76 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Tauric ...the same sea is hilly and projects into the Pontus; it is inhabited by the Tauric nation as far as what is called the Rough Peninsula; and this ends in the...
Tauric
77 34.27150174333333,44.883441823333335,0 Cliffs ...men dead, they were at the mercy of waves and winds, until they came to the Cliffs by the Maeetian lake; this place is in the country of the free Scythians. The...
Cliffs
78 35.841144,46.672101,0 Theraeans ...was no rain in Thera; all the trees in the island except one withered. The Theraeans inquired at Delphi again, and the priestess mentioned the colony they should...
Theraeans
77 25.478129,36.36399,0 Theraeans ...156. But afterward things turned out badly for Battus and the rest of the Theraeans; and when, ignorant of the cause of their misfortunes, they sent to Delphi to...
Theraeans
77 25.478129,36.36399,0 Theraeans ...manned two fifty-oared ships and sent them to Platea. 154. This is what the Theraeans say; and now begins the part in which the Theraean and Cyrenaean stories agree...
Theraeans
79 25.478129,36.36399,0 Crete ...which the Greeks now call Europe, but only from Phoenicia to Crete and from Crete to Lycia. Thus much I have said of these matters, and let it suffice; we will...
Crete
78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Cretan ...there was no remedy for their ills, they sent messengers to Crete to find any Cretan or traveller there who had travelled to Libya. In their travels about the...
Cretan
80 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Crete ...[2] So, since there was no remedy for their ills, they sent messengers to Crete to find any Cretan or traveller there who had travelled to Libya. In their...
Crete
76 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Barce ...people were accessory to the deed, would not yield. [2] The Persians besieged Barce for nine months, digging underground passages leading to the walls, and making...
Barce
80 20.892778,32.498333,0 Barce ...of Alazir king of the Barcaeans, and Arcesilaus went to Alazir; but men of Barce and some of the exiles from Cyrene were aware of him and killed him as he...
Barce
77 20.892778,32.498333,0 Irasa ...force of Egyptians and sent it against Cyrene; the Cyrenaeans marched out to Irasa and the Thestes spring, and there fought with the Egyptians and beat them; [6]...
Irasa
79 Irasa ...that they led the Greeks past the fairest place in their country, called Irasa, at night, lest the Greeks see it in their journey. [3] Then they brought the...
Irasa
75 Syrtis ...dried up their water-tanks, and all their country, lying in the region of the Syrtis, was waterless. After deliberating together, they marched south (I tell the...
Syrtis
80 18.0,31.5,0 Menelaus ...which the Cyrenaeans colonized, and on the mainland is the harbor called Menelaus, and the Aziris which was a settlement of the Cyrenaeans. Here the country of...
Menelaus
75 24.892773,31.967385,0 Cinyps ...or Europe, except in the region which is called by the same name as its river, Cinyps. [2] But this region is a match for the most fertile farmland in the world, nor...
Cinyps
81 14.5,32.5,0 Hill of the Graces ...river empties into their sea through their country from a hill called the Hill of the Graces. This hill is thickly wooded, while the rest of Libya of which I have spoken is...
Hill of the Graces
76 Machlyes ...only eat it, but make wine of it. 178. Next to these along the coast are the Machlyes, who also use the lotus, but less than the aforesaid people. Their country...
Machlyes
80 Carthaginians ...lay down gold to pay for the cargo, and withdraw from the wares. [2] Then the Carthaginians disembark and examine the gold; if it seems to them a fair price for their...
Carthaginians
80 10.327986,36.857569,0 Maxyes ...as far as by our utmost enquiry we have been able to learn. 193. Next to the Maxyes of Libya are the Zauekes, whose women drive their chariots to war. 194. Next...
Maxyes
80 Atarantes ...the only men whom we know who have no names; for the whole people are called Atarantes, but no man has a name of his own. [2] When the sun is high, they curse and...
Atarantes
79 Aseans ...Such are the Libyan customs. 191. West of the Triton river and next to the Aseans begins the country of Libyans who cultivate the soil and possess houses; they...
Aseans
78 Crestonaeans ...has achieved a state of complete blessedness. 5. Those who dwell above the Crestonaeans have yet other practices. Each man has many wives, and at his death there is...
Crestonaeans
78 22.75,40.75,0 Sardis ...the Paeonians, and where do they dwell, and with what intent have you come to Sardis?” They told him, that they had come to be his men, that the towns of Paeonia...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Mytilenaean ...the good service done him by Histiaeus of Miletus and the counsel of Coes the Mytilenaean, and after sending for them to come to Sardis, he offered them a choice of...
Mytilenaean
80 26.489422,39.05495,0 Miletus ...surpassed all the other islands in prosperity, and at about the same time Miletus, at the height of her fortunes, was the glory of Ionia. Two generations before...
Miletus
76 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Mytilenaeans ...war over a long period of time45 between the Athenians at Sigeum and the Mytilenaeans at Achilleum. The Mytilenaeans were demanding the place back, and the...
Mytilenaeans
75 26.489422,39.05495,0 Macedonian ...[2] After dinner, the Persians said to Amyntas as they sat drinking together, “Macedonian, our host, it is our custom in Persia to bring in also the concubines and...
Macedonian
81 21.75,41.25,0 Doberes ...into Asia. 16. But those near the Pangaean6 mountains and the country of the Doberes and the Agrianes and the Odomanti and the Prasiad lake itself were never...
Doberes
80 Orbelus ...another method of setting them. The men bring the piles from a mountain called Orbelus,8 and every man plants three for each of the three women that he weds. [3] Each...
Orbelus
81 23.6206555,41.3770418,0 Macedonia ...Then Megabazus, having made the Paeonians captive, sent as messengers into Macedonia9 the seven Persians who (after himself) were the most honorable in his army...
Macedonia
77 21.75,41.25,0 Dysorum ...and when a person has passed the mine, he need only cross the mountain called Dysorum10 to be in Macedonia. 18. The Persians who had been sent as envoys came to...
Dysorum
80 23.1397204,41.1241606,0 Susa ...Artaphrenes, his father's son, to be viceroy of Sardis, he rode away to Susa, taking Histiaeus with him. First, however, he made Otanes governor of the...
Susa
74 48.24854,32.19202,0 Susa ...So many resting-stages, then, are there in the journey up from Sardis to Susa. If I have accurately counted the parasangs of the royal road, and the parasang...
Susa
75 48.24854,32.19202,0 Hellas ...more at your words to us. We entreat you earnestly in the name of the gods of Hellas not to establish tyranny in the cities, but if you do not cease from so doing...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...and the Persians afterwards made this their pretext for burning the temples of Hellas. At this time, the Persians of the provinces this side50 of the Halys, on...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Milesian ...them in the following manner. Their best men came to Miletus, and seeing the Milesian households sadly wasted, they said that they desired to go about the country...
Milesian
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Scythia ...the Scythians and others of plundering Darius' army on its way back from Scythia. 28. All this Otanes achieved when he had been made governor. After only a...
Scythia
75 27.5,47.5,0 Troad ...conquering these nations, however, Hymaees himself died of a sickness in the Troad. 123. This is how he met his end, and Artaphrenes, viceroy of Sardis, and...
Troad
79 26.341361553099542,39.82696158473712,0 Delphi ...The Epidaurians' land bore no produce. For this reason they inquired at Delphi concerning this calamity, and the priestess bade them set up images of Damia...
Delphi
74 22.501169,38.482289,0 Libya ...When he arrived there, he settled by the Cinyps river in the fairest part of Libya, but in the third year he was driven out by the Macae, the Libyans and the...
Libya
79 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...that it should be so, and he took with him the company that he had led to Libya and went to Italy. 44. Now at this time,19 as the Sybarites say, they and...
Libya
76 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...part of Libya, but in the third year he was driven out by the Macae, the Libyans and the Carchedonians and returned to the Peloponnesus. 43. There Antichares...
Libyans
75 26.5,31.5,0 Choaspes ...and forty-two and a half parasangs, as far as yet another navigable river, the Choaspes, on the banks of which stands the city of Susa. 53. Thus the sum total of...
Choaspes
81 47.5259884,33.0958458,0 Selinus ...Pithagoras. After deposing this man, he himself attempted to become tyrant of Selinus but was monarch there for only a little while since the people of the place...
Selinus
80 12.8249,37.58406,0 Phrygians ...engraved on the tablet.) “Next to the Lydians,” said Aristagoras, “you see the Phrygians to the east, men that of all known to me are the richest in flocks and in the...
Phrygians
81 29.75,38.75,0 Memnonian ...length, which assuredly it is, then between Sardis and the king's abode called Memnonian22 there are thirteen thousand and five hundred furlongs, the number of...
Memnonian
81 48.24854,32.19202,0 Cappadocia ...river can be crossed and a great fortress to guard it. After the passage into Cappadocia, the road in that land as far as the borders of Cilicia is of twenty-eight...
Cappadocia
80 37.5,37.5,0 Gyndes ...and the second from the Matieni. [5] The fourth river is called Gyndes, that Gyndes which Cyrus parted once into three hundred and sixty channels.21 [6] When this...
Gyndes
79 Matienian ...half parasangs. Here too there is a fortress. From Armenia the road enters the Matienian land, in which there are thirty-four stages and one hundred and thirty-seven...
Matienian
81 46.5,36.5,0 Armenia ...and Armenia is a navigable river, the name of which is the Euphrates. In Armenia there are fifteen resting-stages and fifty-six and a half parasangs. Here too...
Armenia
75 42.5,37.5,0 Arabians ...later to sacrifice to the “heavenly”44 Aphrodite from the Assyrians and Arabians. She is called by the Assyrians Mylitta, by the Arabians Alilat, by the...
Arabians
74 39.5,37.5,0 Assyrians ...“heavenly”44 Aphrodite from the Assyrians and Arabians. She is called by the Assyrians Mylitta, by the Arabians Alilat, by the Persians Mitra. 132. And this is their...
Assyrians
79 37.5,37.5,0 Ninus ...is beyond the river Halys. Collecting all his subjects, he marched against Ninus, wanting to avenge his father and to destroy the city. [3] He defeated the...
Ninus
77 43.1609,36.34773,0 Panionion ...in this name, and founded a holy place for themselves which they called the Panionion, and agreed among themselves to allow no other Ionians to use it (nor in fact...
Panionion
78 27.329993,37.703924,0 Panionion ...in their cities, they fortified themselves with walls, and assembled in the Panionion,47 all except the Milesians, with whom alone Cyrus made a treaty on the same...
Panionion
78 27.329993,37.703924,0 Ialysus ...it to the wall of his own house. For this offense the five cities—Lindus, Ialysus, Camirus, Cos, and Cnidus—forbade the sixth city—Halicarnassus—to share in the...
Ialysus
76 28.15629,36.41451,0 Aegion ...where the Ionians fled when they were worsted in battle by the Achaeans; Aegion; Rhype; Patrae; Phareae; and Olenus, where is the great river Pirus; Dyme and...
Aegion
75 22.081952,38.252707,0 Achaeans ...and Helice, where the Ionians fled when they were worsted in battle by the Achaeans; Aegion; Rhype; Patrae; Phareae; and Olenus, where is the great river Pirus...
Achaeans
77 22.224585911364017,38.102121472776034,0 Dyme ...Aegion; Rhype; Patrae; Phareae; and Olenus, where is the great river Pirus; Dyme and Tritaeae, the only inland city of all these—these were the twelve divisions...
Dyme
78 21.551425,38.144625,0 Lesbos ...and one again in the “Hundred Isles,”51 as they are called. [3] The men of Lesbos and Tenedos, then, like the Ionian islanders, had nothing to fear. The rest of...
Lesbos
77 26.10052,39.20874,0 Hundred Isles ...by their kinfolk of Methymna); there is one on Tenedos, and one again in the “Hundred Isles,”51 as they are called. [3] The men of Lesbos and Tenedos, then, like the...
Hundred Isles
80 26.53922,39.32644,0 Tenedos ...again in the “Hundred Isles,”51 as they are called. [3] The men of Lesbos and Tenedos, then, like the Ionian islanders, had nothing to fear. The rest of the cities...
Tenedos
80 26.0497905,39.8278355,0 Mede ...he was afraid of their cavalry, and therefore at the urging of one Harpagus, a Mede, he did as I shall describe. Assembling all the camels that followed his army...
Mede
81 46.5,34.5,0 Ionians ...should take; for there was an ancient place of divination there, which all the Ionians and Aeolians used to consult; the place is in the land of Miletus, above the...
Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Mede ...against him was approaching, was frightened and fled to Cyme. [2] Mazares the Mede, when he came to Sardis with the part that he had of Cyrus' host and found...
Mede
80 46.5,34.5,0 Agylla ...and these they led out and stoned to death. But afterwards, everything from Agylla that passed the place where the stoned Phocaeans lay, whether sheep or beasts...
Agylla
78 12.10541,42.007707,0 Agyllaioi ...Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians drew lots for them, and of the Tyrrhenians the Agyllaioi57 were allotted by far the majority and these they led out and stoned to death...
Agyllaioi
79 12.10541,42.007707,0 Agyllaeans ...or beasts of burden or men, became distorted and crippled and palsied. [2] The Agyllaeans sent to Delphi, wanting to mend their offense; and the Pythian priestess told...
Agyllaeans
81 12.10541,42.007707,0 Abdera ...embarked aboard ship and sailed away for Thrace. There they founded a city, Abdera, which before this had been founded by Timesius of Clazomenae; yet he got no...
Abdera
78 24.97363,40.93119,0 Phocaeans ...then, it went with the Ionian Phocaea. The Teians did the same things as the Phocaeans: when Harpagus had taken their walled city by building an earthwork, they all...
Phocaeans
79 26.75261,38.6684,0 Ionians ...long time afterwards, the Carians were driven from the islands by Dorians and Ionians and so came to the mainland. This is the Cretan story about the Carians; but...
Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Cretan story ...the islands by Dorians and Ionians and so came to the mainland. This is the Cretan story about the Carians; but the Carians themselves do not subscribe to it, but...
Cretan story
78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Caunians ...the same language as the Carians but were of another people. 172. I think the Caunians are aborigines of the soil, but they say that they came from Crete. Their...
Caunians
81 28.621536,36.825909,0 Syme ...bounded on the north by the gulf of Ceramicus, and on the south by the sea off Syme and Rhodes). Now while Harpagus was conquering Ionia, the Cnidians dug a trench...
Syme
81 27.843425,36.61839,0 Cnidians ...and less naturally than usual, some in other ways, but most in the eyes, the Cnidians sent envoys to Delphi to inquire what it was that opposed them. [5] Then, as...
Cnidians
79 27.37404,36.686188,0 Carian ...be called Lycians after Lycus. [4] Their customs are partly Cretan and partly Carian. But they have one which is their own and shared by no other men: they take...
Carian
80 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Cretan ...came in time to be called Lycians after Lycus. [4] Their customs are partly Cretan and partly Carian. But they have one which is their own and shared by no other...
Cretan
78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Chaldeans ...nurslings may be sacrificed on the golden altar, but on the greater altar the Chaldeans even offer a thousand talents' weight of frankincense yearly, when they keep...
Chaldeans
80 Lycia ...intercourse with men), and as does the prophetess of the god66 at Patara in Lycia, whenever she is appointed; for there is not always a place of divination...
Lycia
78 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Babylonian ...he came to the lake, Cyrus dealt with it and with the river just as had the Babylonian queen: drawing off the river by a canal into the lake, which was a marsh, he...
Babylonian
78 44.42082,32.53617,0 Assyria ...grain to fullness. In Egypt, the river itself rises and floods the fields; in Assyria, they are watered by hand and by swinging beams.70 [2] For the whole land of...
Assyria
80 37.5,37.5,0 Araxes ...fish, and their customary dress sealskins. [4] The one remaining stream of the Araxes flows in a clear channel into the Caspian sea. This is a sea by itself, not...
Araxes
81 46.5,38.5,0 Indian dogs ...stallion servicing twenty mares. [4] Moreover he kept so great a number of Indian dogs that four great villages of the plain were appointed to provide food for the...
Indian dogs
77 77.5,22.5,0 Assyria ...the next most attractive, selling all the maidens as lawful wives. Rich men of Assyria who desired to marry would outbid each other for the fairest; the ordinary...
Assyria
81 37.5,37.5,0 Egyptians ...day, and wine of grapes is given to them, too. They may not eat fish. [5] The Egyptians sow no beans in their country; if any grow, they will not eat them either raw...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...at other times, but after a death they let their hair and beard grow. [2] The Egyptians are the only people who keep their animals with them in the house. Whereas all...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...[5] It was from this, I think, that the Ammonians got their name, too; for the Egyptians call Zeus “Amon”. The Thebans, then, consider rams sacred for this reason, and...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ionians ...rather, that the Egyptians did not come into existence together with what the Ionians call the Delta, but have existed since the human race came into being; and as...
Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...onwards. [5] There still remained in my day, in the places out of which the Ionians and Carians were turned, the winches64 for their ships and the ruins of their...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Egyptians ...as to human affairs, this was the account in which they all agreed: the Egyptians, they said, were the first men who reckoned by years and made the year consist...
Egyptians
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greek subjects ...and prepared an expedition against Egypt, taking with him some of these Greek subjects besides others whom he ruled. 2. Now before Psammetichus became king of...
Greek subjects
74 Egypt ...the fleece of a ram which he had flayed and beheaded. It is from this that the Egyptian images of Zeus have a ram's head; and in this, the Egyptians are imitated by...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...and how he had heard the name of Khemmis from his mother before he came to Egypt. It was at his bidding, they said, that they celebrated the games. 92. All...
Egypt
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...I myself have seen. [2] The priests told me that Min was the first king of Egypt, and that first he separated Memphis from the Nile by a dam. All the river had...
Egypt
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...at birth, a cycle which it completes in three thousand years. [3] There are Greeks who have used this doctrine, some earlier and some later, as if it were their...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...king of Egypt. Osiris is, in the Greek language, Dionysus. 145. Among the Greeks, Heracles, Dionysus, and Pan are held to be the youngest of the gods. But in...
Greeks
77 Greeks ...know what became of him after his birth. It is therefore plain to me that the Greeks learned the names of these two gods later than the names of all the others, and...
Greeks
80 Greeks ...and carried him away to Nysa in Ethiopia beyond Egypt; and as for Pan, the Greeks do not know what became of him after his birth. It is therefore plain to me...
Greeks
77 Greeks ...in Egypt (the first of foreign speech to settle in that country) that we Greeks have exact knowledge of the history of Egypt from the reign of Psammetichus...
Greeks
75 Greeks ...honored. [2] This much is certain: that this opinion, which is held by all Greeks and particularly by the Lacedaemonians, is of foreign origin. It is in Corinth...
Greeks
77 Egypt ...were yet further raised in the reign of the Ethiopian. [5] Of the towns in Egypt that were raised, in my opinion, Bubastis is especially prominent, where there...
Egypt
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...(where, as in all the temples, they used to assemble) would be king of all Egypt. 148. Moreover, they decided to preserve the memory of their names by a common...
Egypt
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...were made free. But they could never live without a king, so they divided Egypt into twelve districts and set up twelve kings. [3] These kings intermarried...
Egypt
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...He sent to inquire in the town of Buto, where the most infallible oracle in Egypt is; the oracle answered that he would have vengeance when he saw men of bronze...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...the Egyptians. [4] It is a result of our communication with these settlers in Egypt (the first of foreign speech to settle in that country) that we Greeks have...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...except the borders of the Egyptians. [2] But if we follow the belief of the Greeks, we shall consider all Egypt commencing from the Cataracts and the city of...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...of sails are made fast outside the boat elsewhere, but inside it in Egypt. The Greeks write and calculate from left to right; the Egyptians do the opposite; yet they...
Greeks
81 Greeks ...he resisted and killed them all. [2] Now it seems to me that by this story the Greeks show themselves altogether ignorant of the character and customs of the...
Greeks
81 Greeks ...will I say that the Egyptians took either this or any other custom from the Greeks. But I believe that Melampus learned the worship of Dionysus chiefly from...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...people to establish solemn assemblies, and processions, and services; the Greeks learned all that from them. I consider this proved, because the Egyptian...
Greeks
76 Greeks ...was their earliest and their only chant. 80. There is a custom, too, which no Greeks except the Lacedaemonians have in common with the Egyptians: younger men...
Greeks
81 Greeks ...and in their speech. Linen has two names: the Colchian kind is called by the Greeks Sardonian46 ; that which comes from Egypt is called Egyptian. 106. As to the...
Greeks
79 Egypt ...a very ancient custom. That the others learned it through traffic with Egypt, I consider clearly proved by this: that Phoenicians who traffic with Hellas...
Egypt
73 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...schoeni. [2] This, then, is a full statement of all the distances in Egypt: the seaboard is four hundred and fifty miles long; and I will now declare the...
Egypt
71 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...that, if heaven send no rain for the Greeks and afflict them with drought, the Greeks will be overtaken by famine, for there is no other source of water for them...
Greeks
81 Scythia ...every year to these places to winter there, flying from the wintry weather of Scythia. Now, were there but the least fall of snow in this country through which the...
Scythia
80 27.5,47.5,0 Nile ...the sea. But there are many times when the Etesian winds do not blow, yet the Nile does the same as before. [3] And further, if the Etesian winds were the cause...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Arabian ...in flood, it overflows not only the Delta but also the lands called Libyan and Arabian, as far as two days' journey from either bank in places, and sometimes more...
Arabian
81 42.5,27.5,0 Ocean ...about Ocean is grounded in obscurity and needs no disproof; for I know of no Ocean river; and I suppose that Homer or some older poet invented this name and...
Ocean
79 Ethiopians ...certain Ethiopians with whom he was feuding, and occupy their land. These Ethiopians then learned Egyptian customs and have become milder-mannered by intermixture...
Ethiopians
76 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopians ...left hand of the king”. [2] These once revolted and joined themselves to the Ethiopians, two hundred and forty thousand Egyptians of fighting age. The reason was as...
Ethiopians
79 38.721522,14.125005,0 Maeander ...river is a four days' journey by boat, and the Nile here is twisty just as the Maeander; a distance of twelve schoeni must be passed in the foregoing manner. After...
Maeander
81 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Daphnae ...in the days of Psammetichus; there are Persian guards at Elephantine and at Daphnae. Now the Egyptians had been on guard for three years, and no one came to...
Daphnae
78 32.17917,30.85806,0 Nasamonians ...is enough of the story told by Etearchus the Ammonian; except he said that the Nasamonians returned, as the men of Cyrene told me, and that the people to whose country...
Nasamonians
81 20.5,30.5,0 Nasamonians ...did not know these men's language nor did the escort know the language of the Nasamonians. [7] The men led them across great marshes, after crossing which they came to a...
Nasamonians
80 20.5,30.5,0 Nile ...city, Etearchus guessed it to be the Nile; and reason proves as much. For the Nile flows from Libya, right through the middle of it; and as I guess, reasoning...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ister ...signs, it rises proportionally as far away as does the Ister.18 [3] For the Ister flows from the land of the Celts and the city of Pyrene through the very middle...
Ister
78 29.647293,45.16291,0 Celts ...of the Celts and the city of Pyrene through the very middle of Europe; now the Celts live beyond the Pillars of Heracles, being neighbors of the Cynesii, who are...
Celts
81 Prosopitis ...from the districts of Busiris, Saïs, Khemmis, and Papremis, the island called Prosopitis, and half of Natho—from all of these; their number, at its greatest, attained...
Prosopitis
80 30.75,30.25,0 Thasos ...I saw yet another temple of the so-called Thasian Heracles. [4] Then I went to Thasos, too, where I found a temple of Heracles built by the Phoenicians, who made a...
Thasos
81 24.717535,40.78201,0 Egyptian language ...that there should be great mourning in all the Mendesian district. [4] In the Egyptian language Mendes is the name both for the he-goat and for Pan. In my lifetime a strange...
Egyptian language
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Mendesians ...the Egyptians of whom I have spoken sacrifice no goats, male or female: the Mendesians reckon Pan among the eight gods who, they say, were before the twelve gods. [2]...
Mendesians
78 31.51667,30.95833,0 Libya ...by Phoenicians; one, they said they had heard was taken away and sold in Libya, the other in Hellas; these women, they said, were the first founders of places...
Libya
75 26.5,31.5,0 Greek language ...Delta, and there is in it a very great temple of Isis, who is Demeter in the Greek language. [3] The third greatest festival is at Saïs in honor of Athena; the fourth is...
Greek language
79 Buto ...said to be sacred. 75. There is a place in Arabia not far from the town of Buto where I went to learn about the winged serpents. When I arrived there, I saw...
Buto
78 31.95395,30.87763,0 Buto ...Artemis, Ares, and Zeus, and of Leto (the most honored of all) in the town of Buto. Nevertheless, they have several ways of divination, not just one. 84. The...
Buto
80 31.95395,30.87763,0 Buto ...following happened next to this king: an oracle came to him from the city of Buto, announcing that he had just six years to live and was to die in the seventh...
Buto
79 31.95395,30.87763,0 Buto ...called Khemmis. [2] This lies in a deep and wide lake near the temple at Buto, and the Egyptians say that it floats. I never saw it float, or move at all...
Buto
75 31.95395,30.87763,0 Greek ...of Homer and the Cyprian poems. But, when I asked the priests whether the Greek account of what happened at Troy were idle or not, they gave me the following...
Greek
76 Greek ...hero, but declaring each figure to be a “Piromis” the son of a “Piromis”; in Greek, one who is in all respects a good man. 144. Thus they showed that all those...
Greek
79 Bubastis ...Onuphis, Anytis, Myecphoris (this last is in an island opposite the city of Bubastis）— [2] from all of these; their number, at its greatest, attained to two hundred...
Bubastis
78 31.51591,30.56826,0 New City ...this, there is a great city called Khemmis, in the Theban district, near the New City. [2] In this city is a square temple of Perseus son of Danae, in a grove of...
New City
79 Memphis ...Thonis heard it, he sent this message the quickest way to Proteus at Memphis: [2] “A stranger has come, a Trojan, who has committed an impiety in Hellas...
Memphis
71 31.254278,29.849667,0 Egyptian chronicles ...record of my own autopsy and judgment and inquiry. Henceforth I will record Egyptian chronicles, according to what I have heard, adding something of what I myself have seen...
Egyptian chronicles
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Persians ...a channel so that it flowed midway between the hills. [3] And to this day the Persians keep careful watch on this bend of the river, strengthening its dam every year...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Colchians ...for nothing, since other peoples are, too; but my better proof was that the Colchians and Egyptians and Ethiopians are the only nations that have from the first...
Colchians
78 42.5,42.5,0 Egyptian sacred characters ...right across the breast from one shoulder to the other a text is cut in the Egyptian sacred characters, saying: “I myself won this land with the strength of my shoulders.” There is...
Egyptian sacred characters
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian king ...came to Hellas from Babylonia and not from Egypt. 110. Sesostris was the only Egyptian king who also ruled Ethiopia. To commemorate his name, he set before the temple of...
Egyptian king
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ethiopian ...left, and the rest of his equipment proportional; for it is both Egyptian and Ethiopian; [4] and right across the breast from one shoulder to the other a text is cut...
Ethiopian
80 38.721522,14.125005,0 Egyptian ...they are Memnon, but they are far indeed from the truth. 107. Now when this Egyptian Sesostris (so the priests said) reached Daphnae of Pelusium on his way home...
Egyptian
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Canopic mouth ...the wind did not let up) he came to Egypt, to the mouth of the Nile called the Canopic mouth, and to the Salters'. [2] Now there was (and still is) on the coast a temple of...
Canopic mouth
81 29.75,31.25,0 Samian ...of a hundred Egyptian cubits each way, the Egyptian cubit being equal to the Samian. [2] These lands were set apart for all; it was never the same men who...
Samian
79 26.84,37.73,0 Samian ...who was Thracian by birth, and a slave of Iadmon son of Hephaestopolis the Samian, and a fellow-slave of Aesop the story-writer. For he was owned by Iadmon, too...
Samian
77 26.84,37.73,0 Mytilene ...of Samos, but upon her arrival was freed for a lot of money by Kharaxus of Mytilene, son of Scamandronymus and brother of Sappho the poetess. [2] Thus Rhodopis...
Mytilene
77 26.489422,39.05495,0 Samos ...too, was Iadmon's. 135. Rhodopis came to Egypt to work, brought by Xanthes of Samos, but upon her arrival was freed for a lot of money by Kharaxus of Mytilene, son...
Samos
81 26.84,37.73,0 lake Moeris ...names by a common memorial, and so they made a labyrinth62 a little way beyond lake Moeris and near the place called the City of Crocodiles. I have seen it myself, and...
lake Moeris
81 30.580833,29.453611,0 Syria ...with the rest of Egypt. 152. This Psammetichus had formerly been in exile in Syria, where he had fled from Sabacos the Ethiopian, who killed his father Necos...
Syria
80 37.5,37.5,0 Egyptian lake ...last they accomplished their end. [4] This, I was told, had happened when the Egyptian lake was dug, except that the work went on not by night but by day. The Egyptians...
Egyptian lake
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian boys ...and besides this, he paid them all that he had promised. [2] Moreover, he put Egyptian boys in their hands to be taught Greek, and from these, who learned the language...
Egyptian boys
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Elis ...took part in the contests. The Eleans answered that they did: all Greeks from Elis or elsewhere might contend. [4] Then the Egyptians said that in establishing...
Elis
80 21.25,37.75,0 Egyptian ...came up with the Egyptians, he exhorted them to desist; but as he spoke an Egyptian came behind him and put a helmet on his head, saying it was the token of...
Egyptian
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Hermotubies ...men who cultivated them, but each in turn.69 A thousand Kalasiries and as many Hermotubies were the king's annual bodyguard. These men, besides their lands, each received...
Hermotubies
81 tomb of Apries ...their district. [5] The tomb of Amasis is farther from the sanctuary than the tomb of Apries and his ancestors; yet it, too, is within the temple court; it is a great...
tomb of Apries
80 Hermotubies ...named after its occupation. [2] The warriors are divided into Kalasiries and Hermotubies, and they belong to the following districts (for all divisions in Egypt are...
Hermotubies
79 Dorians ...women; afterwards, when the people of the Peloponnese were driven out by the Dorians, it was lost, except in so far as it was preserved by the Arcadians, the...
Dorians
79 Canobic mouth ...he had not come intentionally, and had then to take his ship and sail to the Canobic mouth; or if he could not sail against contrary winds, he had to carry his cargo in...
Canobic mouth
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Cyrene ...unharmed. 182. Moreover, Amasis dedicated offerings in Hellas. He gave to Cyrene a gilt image of Athena and a painted picture of himself; to Athena of Lindus...
Cyrene
77 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...that night, since that would remedy the problem, she would send a statue to Cyrene to her. And after the prayer, immediately, Amasis did have intercourse with...
Cyrene
78 21.856169,32.818736,0 Persians ...to bring overwhelming odds to attack the long-lived Ethiopians when the Persians can draw a bow of this length as easily as I do; but until then, to thank the...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to marry his sister. [3] These royal judges are men chosen out from the Persians to function until they die or are detected in some injustice; it is they who...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and this was done. 37. Cambyses committed many such mad acts against the Persians and his allies; he stayed at Memphis, and there opened ancient coffins and...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...some minor offense, and you kill boys. [2] If you do so often, beware lest the Persians revolt from you. As for me, your father Cyrus earnestly begged me to counsel...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...this, then, he said to Prexaspes in his anger: “Judge then if the Persians speak the truth, or rather are themselves out of their minds when they speak of...
Persians
68 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...I say, he spoke to Prexaspes: [2] “What manner of man, Prexaspes, do the Persians think me to be, and how do they speak of me?” “Sire,” said Prexaspes, “for all...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Egyptians ...son Cambyses, furiously angry, against Egypt. So the Persians say. 2. But the Egyptians, who say that Cambyses was the son of this daughter of Apries, claim him as one...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...sent a Persian herald up the river aboard a Mytilenean boat to invite the Egyptians to an accord. [2] But when they saw the boat coming to Memphis, they sallied...
Egyptians
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...said (which for my own part I readily believed), is the explanation of it: the Egyptians shave their heads from childhood, and the bone thickens by exposure to the sun...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...for six months, and confined him in the outer part of the city with other Egyptians, to insult him; having confined him there, he tried Psammenitus' spirit, as I...
Egyptians
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...regarding the burial-place and the man, were never given at all, and that the Egyptians believe in them in vain. 17. After this Cambyses planned three expeditions...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...was a man much admired among the mercenaries and had an exact knowledge of all Egyptian matters, Amasis was anxious to catch him, and sent a trireme with his most...
Egyptian
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...lying scattered separately (for the Persian bones lay in one place and the Egyptian in another, where the armies had first separately stood), the skulls of the...
Egyptian
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...say, however, that it was not Amasis to whom this was done, but another Egyptian of the same age as Amasis, whom the Persians abused thinking that they were...
Egyptian
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...saying this, according to the Greek story, she was killed by Cambyses. But the Egyptian tale is that as the two sat at table the woman took a lettuce and plucked off...
Egyptian
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...his thigh, wounding him in the same place where he had once wounded the Egyptian god Apis; and believing the wound to be mortal, Cambyses asked what was the...
Egyptian
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...the Egyptians put on their best clothing and held a festival. [2] Seeing the Egyptians so doing, Cambyses was fully persuaded that these signs of joy were for his...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...to him and Democedes applied Greek remedies and used gentleness instead of the Egyptians' violence, he enabled him to sleep and in a short time had him well, although...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Aeolian Greeks ...3 Cyrus' son Cambyses was leading an army of his subjects, Ionian and Aeolian Greeks among them,1 against this Amasis for the following reason. Cambyses had sent a...
Aeolian Greeks
73 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Palestine ...talents; in this province was all Phoenicia, and the part of Syria called Palestine, and Cyprus. [2] The sixth province was Egypt and the neighboring parts of...
Palestine
76 37.5,32.5,0 Sardis ...Samians. Periander chose the sons of the notable Corcyraeans and sent them to Sardis to be made eunuchs as an act of vengeance; for the Corcyraeans had first begun...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...[2] From Cadytis (which, as I judge, is a city not much smaller than Sardis) to the city of Ienysus the seaports belong to the Arabians; then they are...
Sardis
71 28.040278,38.488333,0 Memphis ...committed many such mad acts against the Persians and his allies; he stayed at Memphis, and there opened ancient coffins and examined the dead bodies. [2] Thus too he...
Memphis
81 31.254278,29.849667,0 Syria ...city; but as the event proved, the oracle prophesied his death at Ecbatana of Syria. [5] So when he now inquired and learned the name of the town, the shock of his...
Syria
80 37.5,37.5,0 Arabian ...what was said by the stranger from Halicarnassus, sent messengers to the Arabian and asked and obtained safe conduct, giving to him and receiving from him...
Arabian
75 42.5,27.5,0 Papremis ...Such is the truth of the matter. I saw too the skulls of those Persians at Papremis who were killed with Darius' son Achaemenes by Inaros the Libyan, and they were...
Papremis
77 30.52701,30.7765,0 Mytileneans ...bridle-bits in their mouths; [5] they were led out to be punished for those Mytileneans who had perished with their boat at Memphis; for such was the judgment of the...
Mytileneans
78 26.489422,39.05495,0 Barca ...sixth province was Egypt and the neighboring parts of Libya, and Cyrene and Barca, all of which were included in the province of Egypt. From here came seven...
Barca
78 20.892778,32.498333,0 Ethiopia ...westwards, the part of the world stretching farthest towards the sunset is Ethiopia; this produces gold in abundance, and huge elephants, and all sorts of wild...
Ethiopia
77 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopian ...and to spy out all else besides, under the pretext of bringing gifts for the Ethiopian king. 18. Now the Table of the Sun is said to be something of this kind:10...
Ethiopian
79 38.721522,14.125005,0 Samians ...kinship. [2] For these reasons then the Corinthians bore a grudge against the Samians. Periander chose the sons of the notable Corcyraeans and sent them to Sardis...
Samians
80 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...eunuchs. The Corinthians who brought the boys put in at Samos; and when the Samians heard why the boys were brought, first they instructed them to take sanctuary...
Samians
78 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...son of Samius, and grandson of the Archias mentioned above, who honored the Samians more than any other of his guest-friends, and told me that his father had borne...
Samians
78 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...taken. These two alone entered the fortress along with the fleeing crowd of Samians, and were cut off and killed in the city of Samos. [2] I myself have met in his...
Samians
78 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...with a great force and drove them out. [2] The mercenaries and many of the Samians themselves sallied out near the upper tower on the ridge of the hill and...
Samians
77 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...Oroetes then crucified him; as for those who had accompanied him, he let the Samians go, telling them to thank him that they were free; those who were not Samians...
Samians
79 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...Polycrates that the Lacedaemonians now made war, invited by the Samians who afterwards founded Cydonia in Crete. Polycrates had without the knowledge...
Samians
66 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...back to Samos, Polycrates' ships met and engaged them; and the returning Samians were victorious and landed on the island, but were there beaten in a land...
Samians
75 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...beginning of the speech and could not understand its end. [2] After this the Samians came a second time with a sack, and said nothing but this: “The sack wants...
Samians
79 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...of Egypt had sent them as a gift. [2] This breastplate had been stolen by the Samians in the year before they took the bowl; it was of linen, decked with gold and...
Samians
80 26.84,37.73,0 Thebes ...by Samians said to be of the Aeschrionian tribe, seven days' march from Thebes across sandy desert; this place is called, in the Greek language, Islands of...
Thebes
74 32.65285,25.70247,0 Samians ...guides; and it is known that they came to the city of Oasis,12 inhabited by Samians said to be of the Aeschrionian tribe, seven days' march from Thebes across...
Samians
78 26.84,37.73,0 Ethiopians ...feared their becoming cannibals, and so gave up his expedition against the Ethiopians and marched back to Thebes , with the loss of many of his army; from Thebes he...
Ethiopians
77 38.721522,14.125005,0 Samos ...to help them. 47. The Lacedaemonians then equipped and sent an army to Samos, returning a favor, as the Samians say, because they first sent a fleet to help...
Samos
74 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...the Corcyraeans, they would not have taken part in the expedition against Samos for this reason. But as it was, ever since the island was colonized, they have...
Samos
76 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...It is for this cause that I have expounded at more than ordinary length of Samos. 61. Now after Cambyses, son of Cyrus, had lost his mind, while he was still...
Samos
77 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...the river Maeander, sent Myrsus son of Gyges, a Lydian, with a message to Samos, having learned Polycrates' intention; [2] for Polycrates was the first of the...
Samos
76 26.84,37.73,0 Lacedaemonians ...the Lacedaemonian advance for a little while; then they fled back, with the Lacedaemonians pursuing and destroying them. 55. Had all the Lacedaemonians there that day...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Samos ...leading from the acropolis to the sea. [3] Maeandrius then set sail from Samos; but Charilaus armed all the guards, opened the acropolis' gates, and attacked...
Samos
75 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...disease that he contracted in his genitals. 150. While the fleet was away at Samos, the Babylonians revolted.41 They had made very good preparation; for during...
Samos
80 26.84,37.73,0 Lacedaemonians ...poem that custom is lord of all.19 39. While Cambyses was attacking Egypt, the Lacedaemonians too were making war upon Samos and upon Aeaces' son Polycrates, who had...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Asia ...and always worked for their well-being. 90. The Ionians, Magnesians of Asia, Aeolians, Carians, Lycians, Milyans, and Pamphylians, on whom Darius laid one...
Asia
74 Asia ...lost Democedes and the galley with which they had come, and sailed back for Asia, making no attempt to visit and learn of the further parts of Hellas now that...
Asia
78 Peloponnesus ...the men of Hermione, instead of money, the island Hydrea which is near to the Peloponnesus, and gave it to men of Troezen for safekeeping; they themselves settled at...
Peloponnesus
80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Siphnians ...away too, and went to Siphnus; [2] for they were in need of money; and the Siphnians were at this time very prosperous and the richest of the islanders, because of...
Siphnians
77 24.70109,36.9678,0 Corinth ...Lycophron, was struck with such horror when he heard them that when he came to Corinth he would not speak to his father, his mother's murderer, nor would he answer...
Corinth
81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Siphnus ...spoken or at the time of the Samians' coming. As soon as the Samians put in at Siphnus, they sent ambassadors to the town in one of their ships; [2] now in ancient...
Siphnus
81 24.70109,36.9678,0 Ecbatana ...Cambyses supposed this to signify that he would die in old age at the Median Ecbatana, his capital city; but as the event proved, the oracle prophesied his death at...
Ecbatana
79 48.51696,34.80523,0 Aeginetans ...boars' heads, and dedicated them in the temple of Athena in Aegina. [4] The Aeginetans did this out of a grudge against the Samians; for previously the Samians, in...
Aeginetans
78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Samian ...cups, he went to the ephors and told them it would be best for Sparta if this Samian stranger quit the country, lest he persuade Cleomenes himself or some other...
Samian
80 26.84,37.73,0 Babylonians ...and slaughtered the two thousand men of Darius' army. [4] When the Babylonians saw this work too, the praise of Zopyrus was on everyone's lips. The agreed...
Babylonians
69 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylonians ...in the field first. [3] Seeing that he produced works equal to his words, the Babylonians were overjoyed and ready to serve him in every way. When the agreed number of...
Babylonians
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylonians ...called Cissian and Belian, and let the Persians inside the walls. [2] Those Babylonians who saw what he did fled to the temple of that Zeus whom they call Belus; those...
Babylonians
78 44.42082,32.53617,0 Egypt ...this is a silly story which they tell about Heracles: that when he came to Egypt, the Egyptians crowned him and led him out in a procession to sacrifice him to...
Egypt
77 Egypt ...Boeotia. 50. In fact, the names of nearly all the gods came to Hellas from Egypt. For I am convinced by inquiry that they have come from foreign parts, and I...
Egypt
78 Dodona ...and, much later, the name of Dionysus; and presently they asked the oracle at Dodona about the names; for this place of divination, held to be the most ancient in...
Dodona
80 20.78784,39.54648,0 Dodona ...in my opinion, later. The earlier part of all this is what the priestesses of Dodona tell; the later, that which concerns Hesiod and Homer, is what I myself say...
Dodona
80 20.78784,39.54648,0 Hellas ...one, they said they had heard was taken away and sold in Libya, the other in Hellas; these women, they said, were the first founders of places of divination in the...
Hellas
79 Libya ...Dodona say: that two black doves had come flying from Thebes in Egypt, one to Libya and one to Dodona; [2] the latter settled on an oak tree, and there uttered...
Libya
80 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Dodona ...two black doves had come flying from Thebes in Egypt, one to Libya and one to Dodona; [2] the latter settled on an oak tree, and there uttered human speech...
Dodona
80 20.78784,39.54648,0 oracle of Ammon ...[3] The dove which came to Libya told the Libyans (they say) to make an oracle of Ammon; this also is sacred to Zeus. Such was the story told by the Dodonaean...
oracle of Ammon
74 25.54359,29.20514,0 Hellas ...then, in my opinion, the place where this woman was sold in what is now Hellas, but was formerly called Pelasgia, was Thesprotia; [2] and then, being a slave...
Hellas
74 Thebes ...it was reasonable that, as she had been a handmaid of the temple of Zeus at Thebes , she would remember that temple in the land to which she had come. [3] After...
Thebes
78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Dodona ...was Egyptian30. [3] The fashions of divination at Thebes of Egypt and at Dodona are like one another; moreover, the practice of divining from the sacrificed...
Dodona
76 20.78784,39.54648,0 Egypt ...are exceedingly strict against desecration of their temples. [2] Although Egypt has Libya on its borders, it is not a country of many animals. All of them are...
Egypt
77 Libya ...strict against desecration of their temples. [2] Although Egypt has Libya on its borders, it is not a country of many animals. All of them are held...
Libya
71 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Bubastis ...are shaven. 67. Dead cats are taken away to sacred buildings in the town of Bubastis, where they are embalmed and buried; female dogs are buried by the townsfolk in...
Bubastis
79 31.51591,30.56826,0 Thebes ...sacred; others do not, but treat them as enemies. Those who live near Thebes and lake Moeris consider them very sacred. [2] Every household raises one...
Thebes
72 32.65285,25.70247,0 Egypt ...which grows wild in Hellas, on the banks of the rivers and lakes; [2] sown in Egypt, it produces abundant fruit, though malodorous; when they gather this, some...
Egypt
80 Nile ...many of these boats; some are of many thousand talents' burden. 97. When the Nile overflows the land, only the towns are seen high and dry above the water, very...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Memphis ...but clean over the plain. [2] Indeed, the boat going up from Naucratis to Memphis passes close by the pyramids themselves, though the course does not go by...
Memphis
76 31.254278,29.849667,0 Memphis ...told me that Min was the first king of Egypt, and that first he separated Memphis from the Nile by a dam. All the river had flowed close under the sandy...
Memphis
76 31.254278,29.849667,0 Egypt ...their land, and drank only brackish water from wells. 109. For this reason Egypt was intersected. This king also (they said) divided the country among all the...
Egypt
78 Hellas ...the sunclock and the sundial, and the twelve divisions of the day, came to Hellas from Babylonia and not from Egypt. 110. Sesostris was the only Egyptian king...
Hellas
77 Memphis ...and thirteen feet thick. 112. Pheros was succeeded (they said) by a man of Memphis, whose name in the Greek tongue was Proteus. This Proteus has a very attractive...
Memphis
78 31.254278,29.849667,0 Nile ...from there (as the wind did not let up) he came to Egypt, to the mouth of the Nile called the Canopic mouth, and to the Salters'. [2] Now there was (and still is)...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Hellas ...Memphis: [2] “A stranger has come, a Trojan, who has committed an impiety in Hellas. After defrauding his guest-friend, he has come bringing the man's wife and a...
Hellas
79 Egypt ...shows that he knew of Alexander's wanderings to Egypt; for Syria borders on Egypt, and the Phoenicians, to whom Sidon belongs, dwell in Syria. 117. These verses...
Egypt
78 Libya ...When it became known that he had done this, he fled with his ships straight to Libya, hated and hunted; and where he went from there, the Egyptians could not say...
Libya
81 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Naucratis ...set up by the Chians and in front of the shrine itself. [5] The courtesans of Naucratis seem to be peculiarly alluring, for the woman of whom this story is told became...
Naucratis
80 30.5925,30.89722,0 Egypt ...Rhodopis. 136. After Mycerinus, the priests said, Asukhis became king of Egypt. He built the eastern outer court of Hephaestus' temple; this is by far the...
Egypt
76 Egypt ...him reigned a blind man called Anysis, of the town of that name. In his reign Egypt was invaded by Sabacos king of Ethiopia and a great army of Ethiopians.56 [2]...
Egypt
80 Bubastis ...of the Ethiopian. [5] Of the towns in Egypt that were raised, in my opinion, Bubastis is especially prominent, where there is also a temple of Bubastis, a building...
Bubastis
79 31.51591,30.56826,0 Miletus ...to go about the country. They then made their way through all the territory of Miletus, and whenever they found any well-tilled farm in the desolation of the land...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...himself consent to this.” 32. When Aristagoras heard that, he went away to Miletus in great joy. Artaphrenes sent a messenger to Susa with the news of what...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sardis ...exact measurement, I will give him that too, for the journey from Ephesus to Sardis must be added to the rest. [2] So, then, from the Greek sea to Susa, which is...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...desiring to make an alliance with the Persians, they despatched envoys to Sardis, for they knew that they had provoked the Lacedaemonians and Cleomenes to war...
Sardis
76 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...were prevented from plundering the city by the fact that most of the houses in Sardis were made of reeds, and those made of brick had roofs of reeds. Accordingly...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...not wanted to be their ally, now joined itself to them after the burning of Sardis. 104. The Cyprians did likewise of their own free will, all save the people of...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Miletus ...after he had brought about the Ionian revolt. Histiaeus, the tyrant of Miletus, arrived in Sardis after he was let go by Darius. When he came there from Susa...
Miletus
73 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...that they had tasted freedom. [2] When Histiaeus tried to force his way into Miletus by night, he was wounded in the thigh by a Milesian. Since he was thrust out...
Miletus
79 26.974176,39.528399,0 Byzantium ...give him ships. [3] They manned eight triremes, and sailed with Histiaeus to Byzantium; there they encamped, and seized all the ships that were sailing out of the...
Byzantium
79 28.975926,41.012379,0 Miletus ...If they did not have mastery of the sea, they would not be able to take Miletus, and would be in danger of some evil treatment by Darius. [2] With this in...
Miletus
74 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...of the Ionians who had been deposed from their governments by Aristagoras of Miletus and had fled to the Medes, and who now were with the army that was led against...
Miletus
79 26.974176,39.528399,0 Miletus ...offer to them alone. This happened immediately after the Persians arrived at Miletus. 11. Then the Ionians who had gathered at Lade held assemblies; among those...
Miletus
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...had been tyrant of Samos until he was deposed from his rule by Aristagoras of Miletus, just like the other Ionian tyrants. 14. Now when the Phoenician fleet came...
Miletus
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...to Persia. 31. Thus it fared with Histiaeus. The Persian fleet wintered at Miletus, and putting out to sea in the next year easily subdued the islands that lie...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Marathon ...led them there. 103. When the Athenians learned this, they too marched out to Marathon, with ten generals leading them. The tenth was Miltiades, and it had befallen...
Marathon
81 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Athens ...up with his uncle Miltiades in the Chersonese. The younger was with Cimon at Athens, and he took the name Miltiades from Miltiades the founder of the Chersonese...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Susa ...in the Cissian land; this place is two hundred and ten stadia distant from Susa, and forty from the well that is of three kinds. [3] Asphalt and salt and oil...
Susa
77 41.81359,42.04357,0 Sparta ...haste to reach it that they were in Attica on the third day after leaving Sparta. Although they came too late for the battle, they desired to see the Medes, so...
Sparta
76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Marathon ...came too late for the battle, they desired to see the Medes, so they went to Marathon and saw them. Then they departed again, praising the Athenians and their...
Marathon
79 35.907067,34.838764,0 Athens ...were deposed from their tyranny. [2] Thus in my judgment it was they who freed Athens much more than did Harmodius and Aristogeiton. These only enraged the remaining...
Athens
81 Athens ...and I can say no further. 125. The Alcmeonidae had been men of renown at Athens even in the old days, and from the time of Alcmeon51 and then Megacles their...
Athens
76 Sardis ...Alcmeon51 and then Megacles their renown increased. [2] When the Lydians from Sardis came from Croesus to the Delphic oracle, Alcmeon son of Megacles worked with...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Athens ...whatever penalty the Athenians themselves judged. The Pelasgians went to Athens and offered to pay the penalty for all their wrongdoing. [3] The Athenians set...
Athens
75 Sardis ...Hystaspes, already greatly angry against the Athenians for their attack upon Sardis, he was now much more angry and eager to send an expedition against Hellas. [2]...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Egypt ...men, but quite unlike gods. [2] Before these men, they said, the rulers of Egypt were gods, but none had been contemporary with the human priests. Of these gods...
Egypt
77 Bubastis ...their nurse and preserver; in Egyptian, Apollo is Horus, Demeter Isis, Artemis Bubastis. [6] It was from this legend and no other that Aeschylus son of Euphorion took...
Bubastis
81 31.51591,30.56826,0 Ethiopia ...to the Eleans. 161. Psammis reigned over Egypt for only six years; he invaded Ethiopia, and immediately thereafter died, and Apries68 the son of Psammis reigned in...
Ethiopia
81 38.721522,14.125005,0 Egypt ...the mother of such children, Cyrus dishonors me and honors his new woman from Egypt.” So she spoke in her bitterness against Nitetis; and Cambyses, the eldest of...
Egypt
80 Egypt ...name was Phanes. [2] This Phanes had some grudge against Amasis, and fled from Egypt aboard ship, hoping to talk to Cambyses. Since he was a man much admired among...
Egypt
81 Egypt ...the Arabians for a safe passage. 5. Now the only apparent way of entry into Egypt is this. The road runs from Phoenicia as far as the borders of the city of...
Egypt
79 Egypt ...Nile called Pelusian, awaiting Cambyses. [2] For when Cambyses marched against Egypt, he found Amasis no longer alive; he had died after reigning forty-four years...
Egypt
81 Arabia ...on wild trees; these trees supply the Indians with clothing. 107. Again, Arabia is the most distant to the south of all inhabited countries: and this is the...
Arabia
76 32.5,27.5,0 Scythians ...and when the youths learned of their parentage, they came out to fight the Scythians returning from Media. [2] First they barred the way to their country by digging...
Scythians
77 27.5,42.5,0 Scythia ...plough, a yoke, a sword, and a flask, all of gold—fell down from the sky into Scythia. The eldest of them, seeing these, approached them meaning to take them; but...
Scythia
80 Erythea ...Geryones lived west of the Pontus,7 settled in the island called by the Greeks Erythea, on the shore of Ocean near Gadira, outside the pillars of Heracles. As for...
Erythea
81 -6.29914,36.53566,0 Scythians ...across the Araxes8 river to the Cimmerian country (for the country which the Scythians now inhabit is said to have belonged to the Cimmerians before), [2] and the...
Scythians
79 27.5,42.5,0 Scythians ...of the one-eyed men and the griffins that guard gold; this is told by the Scythians, who have heard it from them; and we have taken it as true from the Scythians...
Scythians
76 27.5,42.5,0 Egypt ...this peninsula runs beside our sea by way of the Syrian Palestine and Egypt, which is at the end of it; in this peninsula there are just three nations...
Egypt
72 32.5,32.5,0 Asia ...is desolation, nor can anyone say what kind of land is there. 41. Such is Asia, and such its extent. But Libya is on this second peninsula; for Libya comes...
Asia
77 Libya ...say what kind of land is there. 41. Such is Asia, and such its extent. But Libya is on this second peninsula; for Libya comes next after Egypt. The Egyptian...
Libya
78 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...42. I wonder, then, at those who have mapped out and divided the world into Libya, Asia, and Europe; for the difference between them is great, seeing that in...
Libya
79 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Egypt ...that it is bounded by the sea, except where it borders on Asia. Necos king of Egypt first discovered this and made it known. When he had finished digging the canal...
Egypt
80 32.5,32.5,0 pillars of Heracles ...so that after two years had passed, it was in the third that they rounded the pillars of Heracles and came to Egypt. There they said (what some may believe, though I do not)...
pillars of Heracles
80 -5.485833,35.971667,0 Indus ...rivers in the production of crocodiles. Darius, desiring to know where this Indus empties into the sea, sent ships manned by Scylax, a man of Caryanda, and...
Indus
78 70.12808435,29.0592303,0 Libya ...by seas; its length is known to be enough to stretch along both Asia and Libya. [2] I cannot guess for what reason the earth, which is one, has three names...
Libya
75 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Scythian ...are men so ignorant as in the lands by the Euxine Pontus (excluding the Scythian nation) into which Darius led his army. For we cannot show that any nation...
Scythian
74 Scythian country ...are its tributaries. [2] Those that make it great, five flowing through the Scythian country, are these: the river called by Scythians Porata and by Greeks Pyretus,26 and...
Scythian country
78 Scythian ...strangled and skinned the beast, he sets about cooking it. 61. Now as the Scythian land is quite bare of wood, this is how they contrive to cook the meat. When...
Scythian
77 27.5,42.5,0 Scythians ...whoever has never seen hemp before will think the garment linen. 75. The Scythians then take the seed of this hemp and, crawling in under the mats, throw it on...
Scythians
76 27.5,42.5,0 Scythia ...from the sea inland to the country of the Black-cloaks who live north of Scythia. [3] Now, as I reckon a day's journey at two hundred stades, the...
Scythia
75 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...all wear black clothing, from which they get their name; their customs are Scythian. 108. The Budini are a great and populous nation; the eyes of them all are...
Scythian
77 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...on for a long time and did not stop, Darius sent a horseman to Idanthyrsus the Scythian king, with this message: “You crazy man, why do you always run, when you can do...
Scythian
81 27.5,42.5,0 Libya ...at Delphi again, and the priestess mentioned the colony they should send to Libya. [2] So, since there was no remedy for their ills, they sent messengers to...
Libya
78 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...have come for a voice; but Lord Phoebus Apollo Sends you to found a city in Libya, nurse of sheep,” ” just as if she addressed him using the Greek word for...
Libya
78 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...Pythian priestess warned all Greeks by an oracle to cross the sea and live in Libya with the Cyrenaeans; for the Cyrenaeans invited them, promising a distribution...
Libya
80 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...with his brothers, until they left him and went away to another place in Libya, where they founded a city for themselves, which was then and is now called...
Libya
75 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Egypt ...inhabited by Libyans, the Adyrmachidae are the people that live nearest to Egypt; they follow Egyptian customs for the most part, but dress like other Libyans...
Egypt
77 32.5,32.5,0 Libya ...and Greeks are later settlers. 198. In my opinion, there is in no part of Libya any great excellence for which it should be compared to Asia or Europe, except...
Libya
77 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...the most fertile farmland in the world, nor is it at all like to the rest of Libya. For the soil is black and well-watered by springs, and has no fear of drought...
Libya
79 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...hundredfold. 199. The country of Cyrene, which is the highest part of the Libya that the nomads inhabit, has the marvellous advantage of three harvest seasons...
Libya
77 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Egypt ...from the Cyrenaeans provisions for their march, after which they left to go to Egypt; [4] but then they fell into the hands of the Libyans, who killed the laggards...
Egypt
81 32.5,32.5,0 Libya ...came to Egypt. 204. This Persian force advanced as far as Euhesperidae in Libya and no farther. As for the Barcaeans whom they had taken for slaves, they...
Libya
77 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Hellas ...city of the Lydians. 32. After he arrived in Sardis, he first sent heralds to Hellas to demand earth and water and to command the preparation of meals for the king...
Hellas
81 Marathon ...the Lydians and Mysians was that Artaphrenes son of Artaphrenes, who attacked Marathon with Datis. 75. The Thracians in the army wore fox-skin caps on their heads...
Marathon
80 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Hellas ...and wild oxen, whose horns are those very long ones which are brought into Hellas. The boundary of the lions' country is the river Nestus which flows through...
Hellas
77 Hellas ...worth in his eyes, and every one of you might by his commission be a ruler of Hellas.” [3] To this the Spartans answered: “Your advice to us, Hydarnes, is not...
Hellas
80 Hellas ...Such would have been their fate. Perhaps, however, when they saw the rest of Hellas siding with the enemy, they would have made terms with Xerxes. In either case...
Hellas
79 Hellas ...were informed from the first that the foreigner was stirring up war against Hellas. When they learned that the Greeks would attempt to gain their aid against the...
Hellas
78 Hellas ...said, and Gelon, speaking very vehemently, said in response to this: “Men of Hellas, it is with a self-seeking plea that you have dared to come here and invite me...
Hellas
79 Hellas ...promised to send help and protection, declaring that they would not allow Hellas to perish, for if she should fall, the very next day would certainly see them...
Hellas
76 Hellas ...was also a test of the Thessalian horsemen, whom he had heard were the best in Hellas. The Greek horses were far outpaced in this contest. Of the Thessalian rivers...
Hellas
81 Artemisium ...themselves the few Greek ships that they had already heard were stationed off Artemisium, and they were eager to attack so that they might take them. [2] They were not...
Artemisium
80 23.220954,39.017832,0 Euboea ...cruise outside Sciathus so that the enemies might not see them sailing round Euboea and by way of Caphereus round Geraestus to the Euripus so that they might catch...
Euboea
79 23.87,38.53,0 Euboea ...admirals the story of the shipwreck, and of the ships that had been sent round Euboea. 9. Hearing that, the Greeks took counsel together; there was much talk, but...
Euboea
81 23.87,38.53,0 Euboea ...both by the ships coming and by the news that the barbarians sailing round Euboea had all perished in the recent storm. They waited then for the same hour as...
Euboea
77 23.87,38.53,0 Artemisium ...they put to sea. After destroying these when night fell, they sailed back to Artemisium. 15. On the third day, however, the barbarian admirals, finding it hard to...
Artemisium
79 23.220954,39.017832,0 Artemisium ...on the rocks words which the Ionians read on the next day when they came to Artemisium. This was what the writing said: “Men of Ionia, you do wrongly to fight against...
Artemisium
78 23.220954,39.017832,0 Artemisium ...40. At the request of the Athenians, the fleet of the Hellenes came from Artemisium and put in at Salamis. The Athenians requested them to put in at Salamis so...
Artemisium
76 23.220954,39.017832,0 Artemisium ...removed everything to safety, they returned to the camp. 42. When those from Artemisium had put in at Salamis, the rest of the Hellenic fleet learned of this and...
Artemisium
80 23.220954,39.017832,0 Artemisium ...Lacedaemonians provided sixteen ships; the Corinthians the same number as at Artemisium; the Sicyonians furnished fifteen ships, the Epidaurians ten, the Troezenians...
Artemisium
79 23.220954,39.017832,0 Athens ...Mardonius set forth from Thessaly and led his army with all zeal against Athens;1 he also took with him all the people to whose countries he came along the...
Athens
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Boeotia ...into Hellas. 2. But when, in the course of its march, the army had come into Boeotia, the Thebans attempted to stay Mardonius, advising him that he could find no...
Boeotia
80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Hellespont ...Mardonius came to Athens, he sent to Salamis a certain Murychides, a man from Hellespont, bearing the same offer as Alexander the Macedonian had ferried across to the...
Hellespont
80 26.4,40.2,0 Boeotia ...Peloponnesians took longer and longer to act and the invader was said to be in Boeotia already, they then conveyed all their goods out of harms way and themselves...
Boeotia
81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotia ...the barbarian to invade Attica and not helping the Athenians to meet him in Boeotia; and who were to remind the Lacedaemonians of the promises which the Persian...
Boeotia
78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Attica ...Pausanias and his army had departed from Sparta, they sent as their herald to Attica the swiftest runner of long distances whom they could find. [2] When he came to...
Attica
80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Athens ...attacked him, sent a horseman to the Athenians with this message: “Men of Athens, in this great contest which must give freedom or slavery to Hellas, we...
Athens
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Boeotia ...siege till Thebes is taken or we are delivered to them, do not let the land of Boeotia increase the measure of its ills for our sake. [2] No, rather if it is money...
Boeotia
81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Hellespont ...had escaped them, and did not know whether to return back or set sail for the Hellespont. At last they resolved that they would do neither, but sail to the mainland...
Hellespont
80 26.4,40.2,0 Boeotia ...to the effect that the Greeks were victors over Mardonius' army at a battle in Boeotia. [2] Now there are many clear indications of the divine ordering of things...
Boeotia
81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Corinth ...the oracle's answer to Thrasybulus, was the son of Cypselus, and sovereign of Corinth. The Corinthians say (and the Lesbians agree) that the most marvellous thing...
Corinth
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Sicily ...Arion, who spent most of his time with Periander, wished to sail to Italy and Sicily, and that after he had made a lot of money there he wanted to come back to...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Italy ...what news they brought of Arion. While they were saying that he was safe in Italy and that they had left him flourishing at Tarentum, Arion appeared before them...
Italy
78 11.953951787557699,43.55087092641273,0 Tarentum ...saying that he was safe in Italy and that they had left him flourishing at Tarentum, Arion appeared before them, just as he was when he jumped from the ship...
Tarentum
77 17.228553,40.476034,0 Sparta ...of the Peloponnese. 69. Croesus, then, aware of all this, sent messengers to Sparta with gifts to ask for an alliance, having instructed them what to say. They...
Sparta
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...The rest of the Ionians resolved to send envoys in the name of them all to Sparta, to ask help for the Ionians. 142. Now these Ionians possessed the Panionion...
Sparta
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 the Lacedaemonians ...them in warships and carried it off; [3] but the Samians themselves say that the Lacedaemonians who were bringing the bowl, coming too late, and learning that Sardis and...
the Lacedaemonians
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadia ...to the messengers: [4] “There is a place Tegea in the smooth plain of Arcadia, Where two winds blow under strong compulsion. Blow lies upon blow, woe upon...
Arcadia
72 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Smyrna ...These are the ancient Aeolian cities, eleven in number; but one of them, Smyrna, was taken away by the Ionians; for these too were once twelve, on the...
Smyrna
75 27.1383,38.41905,0 Smyrna ...but the climate was not so good. 150. Now this is how the Aeolians lost Smyrna. Some men of Colophon, the losers in civil strife and exiles from their...
Smyrna
75 27.1383,38.41905,0 Colophon ...was not so good. 150. Now this is how the Aeolians lost Smyrna. Some men of Colophon, the losers in civil strife and exiles from their country, had been received by...
Colophon
79 27.142222,38.115556,0 Sardis ...commander against the Ionians. 154. But no sooner had Cyrus marched away from Sardis than Pactyes made the Lydians revolt from Tabalus and Cyrus; and he went down...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...and Cyrus; and he went down to the sea, where, as he had all the gold of Sardis, he hired soldiers and persuaded the men of the coast to join his undertaking...
Sardis
75 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...and bear the punishment on my head; while Pactyes, in whose charge you left Sardis, does this present wrong; let him, then, pay the penalty. [4] But pardon the...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...further, to enslave all the others who had joined the Lydians in attacking Sardis; and as for Pactyes himself, by all means to bring him into his presence alive...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Branchidae ...of Miletus, above the harbor of Panormus. 158. The men of Cyme, then, sent to Branchidae to inquire of the shrine what they should do in the matter of Pactyes that...
Branchidae
81 27.256115,37.384829,0 Branchidae ...concerning Pactyes, among whom was Aristodicus. 159. When they came to Branchidae, Aristodicus, speaking for all, put this question to the oracle: “Lord, Pactyes...
Branchidae
74 27.256115,37.384829,0 Ionia ...for Cyrus. [2] This man was now made general by Cyrus. When he came to Ionia, he took the cities by means of earthworks; he would drive the men within their...
Ionia
73 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Babylon ...private offerings besides. 184. Now among the many rulers of this city of Babylon (whom I shall mention in my Assyrian history) who finished the building of the...
Babylon
77 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylon ...used most, with writing engraved on the tomb, which read: [2] “If any king of Babylon in the future is in need of money, let him open this tomb and take as much as...
Babylon
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Susa ...food and flocks from home; and water from the Choaspes river that flows past Susa is carried with him, the only river from which the king will drink. [2] This...
Susa
79 48.24854,32.19202,0 Matieni ...Gyndes river on his march to Babylon,68 which rises in the mountains of the Matieni and flows through the Dardanean country into another river, the Tigris, that...
Matieni
78 46.5,36.5,0 Gyndes ...out a hundred and eighty canals running every way from either bank of the Gyndes; then he organized his army along the lines and made them dig. [4] Since a...
Gyndes
76 Euphrates ...out of the city, and told his men to enter the city by the channel of the Euphrates when they saw it to be fordable. Having disposed them and given this command...
Euphrates
76 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Euphrates ...posted with this objective made their way into Babylon by the channel of the Euphrates, which had now sunk to a depth of about the middle of a man's thigh. [5] Now if...
Euphrates
79 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Babylon ...and exempted from all other burdens. Such were the riches of the governor of Babylon. 193. There is little rain in Assyria. This nourishes the roots of the grain...
Babylon
79 44.42082,32.53617,0 Euphrates ...of these is navigable: it runs towards where the sun rises in winter, from the Euphrates to another river, the Tigris, on which stood the city of Ninus. This land is by...
Euphrates
81 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Illyria ...is one which I have learned by inquiry is also a custom of the Eneti in Illyria. It is this: once a year in every village all the maidens as they attained...
Illyria
74 Egypt ...dead are embalmed in honey for burial, and their dirges are like the dirges of Egypt. Whenever a Babylonian has had intercourse with his wife, they both sit before...
Egypt
81 Caspian ...Heracles, which they call Atlantic, and the Red Sea, are all one: 203. but the Caspian is separate and by itself. Its length is what a ship rowed by oars can traverse...
Caspian
81 49.98680535,42.6759567125,0 Caucasus ...higher peaks than any other range. Many and all kinds of nations dwell in the Caucasus, and the most of them live on the fruits of the forest. [2] Here, it is said...
Caucasus
80 42.4378759,43.3525468,0 Caucasus ...of the flock. 204. This sea called Caspian is hemmed in to the west by the Caucasus: towards the east and the sunrise there stretches from its shores a boundless...
Caucasus
78 42.4378759,43.3525468,0 Araxes ...to treat as you like.” 211. After having given this answer and crossed the Araxes, Hystaspes went to Persia to watch his son for Cyrus; and Cyrus, advancing a...
Araxes
78 46.5,38.5,0 Massagetae ...a long time they stood fighting and neither would give ground; but at last the Massagetae got the upper hand. [3] The greater part of the Persian army was destroyed...
Massagetae
81 62.5,37.5,0 Egypt ...besides others whom he ruled. 2. Now before Psammetichus became king of Egypt,1 the Egyptians believed that they were the oldest people on earth. But ever...
Egypt
75 Memphis ...this story of the rearing of the children, I also heard other things at Memphis in conversation with the priests of Hephaestus;3 and I visited Thebes and...
Memphis
74 31.254278,29.849667,0 Egypt ...from the land reaches this far. 6. Further, the length of the seacoast of Egypt itself is sixty “schoeni”7 —of Egypt, that is, as we judge it to be, reaching...
Egypt
77 Egypt ...the length of the seacoast of Egypt itself is sixty “schoeni”7 —of Egypt, that is, as we judge it to be, reaching from the Plinthinete gulf to the...
Egypt
69 Egypt ...hundred and fifty miles in length. Inland from the sea as far as Heliopolis, Egypt is a wide land, all flat and watery and marshy. From the sea up to Heliopolis...
Egypt
79 Arabia ...Egypt is a narrow land. For it is bounded on the one side by the mountains of Arabia, which run north to south, always running south towards the sea called the Red...
Arabia
80 31.75,27.25,0 Libya ...boundaries yield frankincense. [2] Such are these mountains. On the side of Libya, Egypt is bounded by another range of rocky mountains among which are the...
Libya
78 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Thebes ...a wide land again. Such is the nature of this country. 9. From Heliopolis to Thebes is nine days' journey by river, and the distance is six hundred and eight...
Thebes
80 32.75,26.25,0 Thebes ...from the sea to Thebes : it is seven hundred and sixty-five miles. And between Thebes and the city called Elephantine there are two hundred and twenty-five miles...
Thebes
81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Egypt ...the widest. Every day the tides ebb and flow in it. [3] I believe that where Egypt is now, there was once another such gulf; this extended from the northern sea...
Egypt
79 Egypt ...Moeris was king, if the river rose as much as thirteen feet, it watered all of Egypt below Memphis.10 Moeris had not been dead nine hundred years when I heard this...
Egypt
81 Egypt ...Asia, and Libya; [2] they must add to these a fourth part, the Delta of Egypt, if it belongs neither to Asia nor to Libya; for by their showing the Nile is...
Egypt
74 Nile ...both the names, the one a part of Libya and the other of Asia. [3] For the Nile, beginning from the Cataracts, divides Egypt into two parts as it flows to the...
Nile
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...and the other of Asia. [3] For the Nile, beginning from the Cataracts, divides Egypt into two parts as it flows to the sea. Now, as far as the city Cercasorus the...
Egypt
81 Egypt ...god forbade them: all the land, he said, watered by the Nile in its course was Egypt, and all who lived lower down than the city Elephantine and drank the river's...
Egypt
81 Libya ...that the river is unlikely to flow from snows is that the winds blowing from Libya and Ethiopia are hot. [3] In the second place, the country is rainless and...
Libya
79 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Nile ...Now, were there but the least fall of snow in this country through which the Nile flows and where it rises, none of these things would happen, as necessity...
Nile
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Nile ...then, as it is and as it was in the beginning. But as to the sources of the Nile, no one that conversed with me, Egyptian, Libyan, or Greek, professed to know...
Nile
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Crophi ...the Thebaid and Elephantine, there are two hills with sharp peaks, one called Crophi and the other Mophi. [3] The springs of the Nile, which are bottomless, rise...
Crophi
80 Ethiopia ...half the water flows north towards Egypt, and the other half south towards Ethiopia. [4] He said that Psammetichus king of Egypt had put to the test whether the...
Ethiopia
77 38.721522,14.125005,0 Elephantine ...where there is an island in the Nile, called Takhompso. [4] The country above Elephantine now begins to be inhabited by Ethiopians: half the people of the island are...
Elephantine
80 32.89066,24.08292,0 Ethiopia ...in distance to that by which you came from Elephantine to the capital city of Ethiopia, and you come to the land of the Deserters. These Deserters are called Asmakh...
Ethiopia
80 38.721522,14.125005,0 Elephantine ...reason was as follows. In the reign of Psammetichus, there were watchposts at Elephantine facing Ethiopia, at Daphnae of Pelusium facing Arabia and Assyria, and at Marea...
Elephantine
80 32.89066,24.08292,0 Syrtis ...some Nasamonians. [2] These are a Libyan people, inhabiting the country of the Syrtis and a little way to the east of the Syrtis. [3] When these Nasamonians were...
Syrtis
81 18.0,31.5,0 Libyan desert ...were asked on their arrival if they brought any news concerning the Libyan desert, they told Etearchus that some sons of their leading men, proud and violent...
Libyan desert
70 30.25,28.75,0 Libya ...of Libya, from Egypt as far as the promontory of Soloeis, which is the end of Libya, is inhabited throughout its length by Libyans, many tribes of them, except the...
Libya
80 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...known from many reports; but no one can speak of the source of the Nile; for Libya, though which it runs, is uninhabited and desert. Regarding its course, I have...
Libya
79 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Nile ...the course of the Ister. 35. It is sufficient to say this much concerning the Nile. But concerning Egypt, I am going to speak at length, because it has the most...
Nile
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ethiopia ...the Egyptians are imitated by the Ammonians, who are colonists from Egypt and Ethiopia and speak a language compounded of the tongues of both countries. [5] It was...
Ethiopia
80 38.721522,14.125005,0 Egypt ...Heracles, I heard it said that he was one of the twelve gods. But nowhere in Egypt could I hear anything about the other Heracles, whom the Greeks know. [2] I...
Egypt
79 Egypt ...a lot of other evidence that the name of Heracles did not come from Hellas to Egypt, but from Egypt to Hellas (and in Hellas to those Greeks who gave the name...
Egypt
80 Argos ...contests, and this story is told about them: there was a festival of Hera in Argos, and their mother absolutely had to be conveyed to the temple by a team of...
Argos
79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Trophonius ...Abae in Phocia, and to Dodona, while others were despatched to Amphiaraus and Trophonius,13 and others to Branchidae in the Milesian country. [3] These are the Greek...
Trophonius
80 Sardis ...these instructions: they were to keep track of the time from the day they left Sardis, and on the hundredth day inquire of the oracles what Croesus, king of Lydia...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Delphi ...of bronze covered with a lid of the same. 49. Such, then, was the answer from Delphi delivered to Croesus. As to the reply which the Lydians received from the...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Amphiaraus ...to Croesus. As to the reply which the Lydians received from the oracle of Amphiaraus when they had followed the due custom of the temple, I cannot say what it was...
Amphiaraus
76 23.846116,38.291099,0 Samos ...Appearance.15 [3] It is said by the Delphians to be the work of Theodorus of Samos, and I agree with them, for it seems to me to be of no common workmanship...
Samos
79 26.84,37.73,0 Dryopia ...Pindus in the territory called Macedonian; from there again it migrated to Dryopia, and at last came from Dryopia into the Peloponnese, where it took the name of...
Dryopia
77 20.75,39.25,0 Placia ...at the time when it became part of the Hellenes. For the people of Creston and Placia have a language of their own in common, which is not the language of their...
Placia
81 28.27741,40.397648,0 Samos ...two reasons are given: the Lacedaemonians say that when the bowl was near Samos on its way to Sardis, the Samians descended upon them in warships and carried...
Samos
76 26.84,37.73,0 Sardis ...given: the Lacedaemonians say that when the bowl was near Samos on its way to Sardis, the Samians descended upon them in warships and carried it off; [3] but the...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Halys ...of Cyrus. [2] For the boundary of the Median and Lydian empires was the river Halys, which flows from the Armenian mountains first through Cilicia and afterwards...
Halys
80 35.9295291,41.6767598,0 Halys ...and so led his army into the Persian territory. [3] When he came to the river Halys, he transported his army across it—by the bridges which were there then, as I...
Halys
80 35.9295291,41.6767598,0 Miletus ...then, as I maintain; but the general belief of the Greeks is that Thales of Miletus got the army across. [4] The story is that, as Croesus did not know how his...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sardis ...to Croesus, for he was a prisoner before they could make their voyage back to Sardis. [3] Nonetheless, this was the judgment of the Telmessians: that Croesus must...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...Then, though very sorry indeed, they ceased their efforts. 84. This is how Sardis was taken. When Croesus had been besieged for fourteen days, Cyrus sent...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...to be assaulted; this was the only place where Meles the former king of Sardis had not carried the lion which his concubine had borne him, the Telmessians...
Sardis
74 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...for all the rest of his life he had power of speech. 86. The Persians gained Sardis and took Croesus prisoner. Croesus had ruled fourteen years and been besieged...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...which he had no right. [2] And it was the wish of Loxias that the evil lot of Sardis fall in the lifetime of Croesus' sons, not in his own; but he could not deflect...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Phasis ...days' journey for an unencumbered man from the Maeetian lake38 to the river Phasis and the land of the Colchi; from the Colchi it is an easy matter to cross into...
Phasis
78 42.5,42.5,0 Asia ...whom the Scythians call “Hermaphrodites”.40 106. The Scythians, then, ruled Asia for twenty-eight years: and the whole land was ruined because of their violence...
Asia
79 Halys ...the Persians because of Astyages' cruelty. They had ruled all Asia beyond the Halys for one hundred and twenty-eight years,42 from which must be subtracted the...
Halys
80 35.9295291,41.6767598,0 Asia ...unprovoked wrong done him; and after this victory he became sovereign of all Asia. 131. As to the customs of the Persians, I know them to be these. It is not...
Asia
79 Halicarnassus ...Histories Book 1 This is the display of the inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, so that things done by man not be forgotten in time, and that great and...
Halicarnassus
72 27.424112,37.037864,0 Argos ...way among the people of what is now called Hellas. The Phoenicians came to Argos, and set out their cargo. [3] On the fifth or sixth day after their arrival...
Argos
77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Ionia ...reign of Croesus, all Greeks were free: for the Cimmerian host which invaded Ionia before his time did not subjugate the cities, but raided and robbed them...
Ionia
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Sardis ...following way. [2] Candaules, whom the Greeks call Myrsilus, was the ruler of Sardis; he was descended from Alcaeus, son of Heracles; Agron son of Ninus, son of...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Parus ...wife and sovereignty. He is mentioned in the iambic verses of Archilochus of Parus who lived about the same time. 13. So he took possession of the sovereign...
Parus
79 25.19093,37.03613,0 Miletus ...son of Gyges, who succeeded him. He took Priene and invaded the country of Miletus; and it was while he was monarch of Sardis that the Cimmerians, driven from...
Miletus
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Limeneion ...these years two great disasters overtook the Milesians, one at the battle of Limeneion in their own territory, and the other in the valley of the Maeander. [2] For...
Limeneion
79 22.08803,39.51028,0 Miletus ...son of Cypselus, a close friend of the Thrasybulus who then was sovereign of Miletus, learned what reply the oracle had given to Alyattes, and sent a messenger to...
Miletus
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...when the Delphic reply was brought to Alyattes, he promptly sent a herald to Miletus, offering to make a truce with Thrasybulus and the Milesians during his...
Miletus
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 the Ionians ...Darius had planned to remove the Phoenicians and settle them in Ionia, and the Ionians in Phoenicia; for this reason, he said, he had sent the order. The king had...
the Ionians
77 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...evil treatment by Darius. [2] With this in mind, they gathered the tyrants of the Ionians who had been deposed from their governments by Aristagoras of Miletus and had...
the Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...continue their exercises. 13. When the generals of the Samians learned what the Ionians were doing, they recalled that message which Aeaces son of Syloson had already...
the Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...untried as they were in such labor and worn out by hard work and by the sun, the Ionians began to say each to other: [3] “Against what god have we sinned that we have...
the Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...on board; for the rest of the day he kept the fleet at anchor; all day he made the Ionians work. [2] For seven days they obeyed him and did his bidding; but on the next...
the Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...and Tyrrhenians, but no Greeks. 18. When the Persians had conquered the Ionians by sea, they laid siege to Miletus by sea and land, mining the walls and using...
the Ionians
71 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...people of Zancle5 in Sicily about this time sent messengers to Ionia inviting the Ionians to the Fair Coast, desiring there to found an Ionian city. This Fair Coast, as...
the Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...part which looks towards Tyrrhenia. At this invitation, the Samians alone of the Ionians, with those Milesians who had escaped, set forth. 23. In their journey a thing...
the Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...all this, and they burnt the cities with their temples. Thus three times had the Ionians been enslaved, first by the Lydians and now twice in a row by the Persians...
the Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...Ionians, and at this same time certain things happened which greatly benefited the Ionians. Artaphrenes governor of Sardis summoned ambassadors from the cities and...
the Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Chians ...the Thesmophoria; then the Ephesians, never having heard the story of the Chians and seeing an army invading their country, were fully persuaded that these were...
the Chians
72 26.053,38.414,0 the Ionians ...greatest of the islands, while secretly intending to make himself leader of the Ionians in their war against Darius. [2] Crossing over to Chios, he was taken and bound...
the Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...Ionian tyrants sent their messages by night, each to his own countrymen. But the Ionians to whom these messages came were stubborn and would have no part of the...
the Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Chios ...of Abydos, son of Apollophanes, he himself sailed with the Lesbians to Chios and, when the Chian guardships would not receive him, fought in the Hollows of...
Chios
73 26.053,38.414,0 the Chians ...to death. 5. So troubles arose in Sardis. Since he failed in this hope, the Chians brought Histiaeus back to Miletus at his own request. But the Milesians were...
the Chians
75 26.053,38.414,0 Miletus ...but especially in this: when Phrynichus wrote a play entitled “The Fall of Miletus” and produced it, the whole theater fell to weeping; they fined Phrynichus a...
Miletus
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...to fight for Miletus at sea. This Lade is a small island lying off the city of Miletus. 8. The Ionians then came there with their ships manned, and with them the...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...them so personally, and forbade the performance of that play forever. 22. Miletus then was left empty of Milesians. The men of property among the Samians were...
Miletus
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Ionian ...doing this, Datis sailed with his army against Eretria first, taking with him Ionians and Aeolians; and after he had put out from there, Delos was shaken by an...
Ionian
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Lesbians ...Chians to give him ships, he then crossed over to Mytilene and persuaded the Lesbians to give him ships. [3] They manned eight triremes, and sailed with Histiaeus to...
Lesbians
79 26.10052,39.20874,0 Lesbians ...and beat the city to its knees; on top of the sea-fight came Histiaeus and the Lesbians. Since the Chians were in such a bad state, he easily subdued them. 28. Then...
Lesbians
81 26.10052,39.20874,0 Scythians ...from it. 63. These then are their established rites of sacrifice; but these Scythians make no offerings of swine; nor are they willing for the most part to rear them...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...governor of a province brews a bowl of wine in his own province, which those Scythians who have slain enemies drink; those who have not achieved this do not taste...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...about like this for forty days and then buried. [2] After the burial the Scythians cleanse themselves as follows: they anoint and wash their heads and, for their...
Scythians
75 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...the most trusted of the rest of the king's servants (and these are native-born Scythians, for only those whom he tells to do so serve the king, and none of the...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...Then those who receive the dead man on his arrival do the same as do the Royal Scythians: that is, they cut off a part of their ears, shave their heads, make cuts...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...Scythians, who have heard it from them; and we have taken it as true from the Scythians, and call these people by the Scythian name, Arimaspians; for in the Scythian...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Argives ...from whom he learned the names, then he sent a herald calling by name the Argives that were shut up in the sacred precinct and inviting them to come out, saying...
Argives
76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...between them, until with difficulty the Argives got the upper hand.31 84. The Argives say this was the reason Cleomenes went mad and met an evil end; the Spartans...
Argives
81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Scythians ...Medes, who were the rulers of Asia before the Scythians came. [3] But when the Scythians had been away from their homes for twenty-eight years and returned to their...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...and ended the power of the Medes, who were the rulers of Asia before the Scythians came. [3] But when the Scythians had been away from their homes for...
Scythians
75 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...invaded Media first and defeated those who opposed them in battle. [2] For the Scythians, as I have said before, ruled upper Asia1 for twenty-eight years; they invaded...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Sparta ...called by some of the Spartans Cyniscus. This Zeuxidemus never became king of Sparta, for he died before Leutychides, leaving his son Archidemus. [2] After the loss...
Sparta
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...the victory in a chariot-race he had won at Olympia; he was the only king of Sparta who did this. 71. Leutychides son of Menares succeeded to the kingship after...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...while Leotychides did not, and that this question would be the beginning for Sparta of either immense evil or immense good fortune. He said this, covered his head...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...position. 67. So it was concerning Demaratus' loss of the kingship, and from Sparta he went into exile among the Medes because of the following reproach: after he...
Sparta
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...the child's head and said that she would be the most beautiful woman in all Sparta. From that day her looks changed, and when she reached the time for marriage...
Sparta
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...than they did, and they must have recourse to some other means. [7] Then the Spartans did as the Messenian advised; as they watched the mother of Aristodemus'...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...the Aeginetans heard that Cleomenes was dead, they sent messengers to Sparta to cry out against Leutychides concerning the hostages that were held at...
Sparta
72 22.42454,37.08149,0 Delphi ...and they each choose two Pythians. (The Pythians are the ambassadors to Delphi and eat with the kings at the public expense.) If the kings do not come to the...
Delphi
74 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athens ...Way,7 no one invited them, so they turned toward Athens. 35. At that time in Athens, Pisistratus held all power, but Miltiades son of Cypselus also had great...
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sparta ...Hellas. 50. Regarding this accusation, Cleomenes son of Anaxandrides, king of Sparta, crossed over to Aegina intending to arrest the most culpable of its people...
Sparta
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartan ...and of Zeus of Heaven; they wage war against whatever land they wish, and no Spartan can hinder them in this on peril of being put under a curse; when the armies go...
Spartan
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartan ...to be his own son. [3] He named him Demaratus because before his birth all the Spartan populace had prayed that Ariston, the man most highly esteemed out of all the...
Spartan
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadia ...by oath to follow him wherever he led was his zeal to bring the chief men of Arcadia to the city of Nonacris and make them swear by the water of the Styx.26 [2]...
Arcadia
79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadia ...but then there came to the slaves a prophet, Cleander, a man of Phigalea in Arcadia by birth; he persuaded the slaves to attack their masters. From that time there...
Arcadia
78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Spartan ...plot against Demaratus became known; he was seized with fear of the Spartans and secretly fled to Thessaly. From there he came to Arcadia and stirred up...
Spartan
70 22.42454,37.08149,0 Chios ...leader of the Ionians in their war against Darius. [2] Crossing over to Chios, he was taken and bound by the Chians, because they judged him to have been...
Chios
74 26.053,38.414,0 Scythians ...some one of the Borysthenites scoffed at the Scythians: “You laugh at us, Scythians, because we play the Bacchant and the god possesses us; but now this deity has...
Scythians
76 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...initiated into the Bacchic rite, some one of the Borysthenites scoffed at the Scythians: “You laugh at us, Scythians, because we play the Bacchant and the god...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...age; and they met the Amazons in battle. The result of the fight was that the Scythians got possession of the dead, and so came to learn that their foes were women...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...122. After this convoy was first sent on its way, the advance guard of the Scythians found the Persians about a three days' march distant from the Ister; and having...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...who were the agents of wrong.” 120. When this answer was brought back to the Scythians, they determined not to meet their enemy in the open field, since they could...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...march away from him; [2] and because Darius would not stop pursuing them, the Scythians, according to the plan they had made, fell back before him to the countries of...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...when he came by forced marches into Scythia, he met the two divisions of the Scythians, and pursued them, who always kept a day's march away from him; [2] and because...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...perceived that Darius had betrayed them, and they held out their hands to the Scythians and explained the circumstances; they, when they heard this, assembled their...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...way back with all haste. 134. But after sending the gifts to Darius, the Scythians who had remained there came out with foot and horse and offered battle to the...
Scythians
76 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...they heard this, the Persians deliberated. Darius' judgment was that the Scythians were surrendering themselves and their earth and their water to him; for he...
Scythians
75 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...slaves, none love their masters more, or desire less to escape. Thus have the Scythians taunted the Ionians. 143. Darius marched through Thrace to Sestos on the...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...they had thought the best was the very cause of their going astray. [3] So the Scythians went searching for their enemies through the parts of their own country where...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Cimmerians ...and a strait named Cimmerian. [2] Furthermore, it is evident that the Cimmerians in their flight from the Scythians into Asia also made a colony on the...
Cimmerians
72 36.2317044,45.0437458,0 Medes ...invaded Asia in their pursuit of the Cimmerians, and ended the power of the Medes, who were the rulers of Asia before the Scythians came. [3] But when the...
Medes
78 46.5,34.5,0 Scythian ...call Oiorpata, a name signifying in our tongue killers of men, for in Scythian a man is “oior” and to kill is “pata”), the story runs that after their victory...
Scythian
72 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...seizing the first troop of horses they met, they mounted them and raided the Scythian lands. 111. The Scythians could not understand the business; for they did not...
Scythian
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...about scorching the earth of all living things. [2] When the Persians saw the Scythian cavalry appear, they marched on its track, the horsemen always withdrawing...
Scythian
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...came out with foot and horse and offered battle to the Persians. But when the Scythian ranks were set in order, a rabbit ran out between the armies; and every...
Scythian
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...of the Royal Scythians live the Blackcloaks, who are of another and not a Scythian stock; and beyond the Blackcloaks the land is all marshes and uninhabited by...
Scythian
76 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...Scythians, and call these people by the Scythian name, Arimaspians; for in the Scythian tongue “arima” is one, and “spou” is the eye. 28. All the aforesaid country is...
Scythian
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...as gods; the Scythians called Royal sacrifice to Poseidon also. [2] In the Scythian tongue, Hestia is called Tabiti; Zeus (in my judgment most correctly so called)...
Scythian
77 27.5,47.5,0 Media ...of their parentage, they came out to fight the Scythians returning from Media. [2] First they barred the way to their country by digging a wide trench from...
Media
74 46.5,34.5,0 Cardia ...His first act was to wall off the isthmus of the Chersonese from the city of Cardia across to Pactye,8 so that the Apsinthians would not be able to harm them by...
Cardia
79 21.338432,38.546722,0 Tenedos ...easily subdued the islands that lie off the mainland, Chios and Lesbos and Tenedos. Whenever they took an island, the foreigners would (net) the people. [2] This...
Tenedos
77 26.05,39.816667,0 Greeks ...the ways of Hellas, and after his return told the king who sent him that all Greeks were keen for every kind of learning, except the Lacedaemonians; but that these...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...Now this was at that time an untapped52 market; hence, the Samians, of all the Greeks whom we know with certainty, brought back from it the greatest profit on their...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...past the fairest place in their country, called Irasa, at night, lest the Greeks see it in their journey. [3] Then they brought the Greeks to what is called the...
Greeks
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...and led them west, so calculating the hours of daylight that they led the Greeks past the fairest place in their country, called Irasa, at night, lest the...
Greeks
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...the hairless tasselled “aegea” over their dress, colored with madder, and the Greeks have changed the name of these aegeae into their “aegides.”61 [3] Furthermore...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...and the Ethiopians in the south of Libya are aboriginal; the Phoenicians and Greeks are later settlers. 198. In my opinion, there is in no part of Libya any great...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Maeetian lake ...group was to retire before him and fall back toward the Tanaïs river, by the Maeetian lake, and if the Persian turned to go back, then they were to pursue and attack him...
Maeetian lake
79 35.862586,45.814417000000006,0 Greeks ...that this woman was of Asiatic birth, and never came to this land which the Greeks now call Europe, but only from Phoenicia to Crete and from Crete to Lycia. Thus...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...the name of Skoloti, after their king; “Scythians” is the name given them by Greeks. This, then, is the Scythians' account of their origin, 7. and they say that...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...and thus they came to believe what Salmoxis had told them. Such is the Greek story about him. 96. Now I neither disbelieve nor entirely believe the tale...
Greek
73 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...temples; [2] for there are temples of Greek gods among them, furnished in Greek style with images and altars and shrines of wood; and they honor Dionysus every...
Greek
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...and their houses are wooden, and their temples; [2] for there are temples of Greek gods among them, furnished in Greek style with images and altars and shrines of...
Greek
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...their trading ports to settle among the Budini; and they speak a language half Greek and half Scythian. But the Budini do not speak the same language as the Geloni...
Greek
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...would not consent, saying that he had been sent against Barce and no other Greek city; at last they passed through Cyrene and camped on the hill of Lycaean...
Greek
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...from the Scythians into Asia also made a colony on the peninsula where the Greek city of Sinope has since been founded; and it is clear that the Scythians...
Greek
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Pontus ...orguiai, or three thousand three hundred stades. [4] Thus have I measured the Pontus and the Bosporus and Hellespont, and they are as I have said. Furthermore, a...
Pontus
80 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Pontus ...and sixty thousand by night. [2] This being granted, seeing that from the Pontus' mouth to the Phasis (which is the greatest length of the sea) it is a voyage...
Pontus
76 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Pontus ...the Maeetian lake, and the mother of the Pontus. 87. After having viewed the Pontus, Darius sailed back to the bridge, whose architect was Mandrocles of Samos; and...
Pontus
80 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Pontus ...but is now inhabited by the Scythians. [2] Geryones lived west of the Pontus,7 settled in the island called by the Greeks Erythea, on the shore of Ocean...
Pontus
72 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Pontus ...one of the peninsulas begins at the Phasis and stretches seaward along the Pontus and the Hellespont, as far as Sigeum in the Troad; on the south side, the same...
Pontus
77 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Caucasus ...the Cimmerians always fled along the coast, and the Scythians pursued with the Caucasus on their right until they came into the Median land, turning inland on their...
Caucasus
81 42.4378759,43.3525468,0 Issedones ...by the Issedones; however, of what lies north either of the bald-heads or the Issedones we have no knowledge, except what comes from the report of these latter...
Issedones
80 92.5,37.5,0 Issedones ...too, then, we have knowledge; but as for what is north of them, it is from the Issedones that the tale comes of the one-eyed men and the griffins that guard gold; this...
Issedones
81 92.5,37.5,0 Proconnesus ...who was as well-born as any of his townsfolk, went into a fuller's shop at Proconnesus and there died; the owner shut his shop and went away to tell the dead man's...
Proconnesus
77 27.55568,40.591686,0 Hyperboreans ...again the Hyperboreans, whose territory reaches to the sea. [2] Except for the Hyperboreans, all these nations (and first the Arimaspians) are always at war with their...
Hyperboreans
81 77.5,32.5,0 Hyperboreans ...These same Delians relate that two virgins, Arge and Opis, came from the Hyperboreans by way of the aforesaid peoples to Delos earlier than Hyperoche and Laodice...
Hyperboreans
75 77.5,32.5,0 Issedones ...a man of Proconnesus. This Aristeas, possessed by Phoebus, visited the Issedones; beyond these (he said) live the one-eyed Arimaspians, beyond whom are the...
Issedones
73 92.5,37.5,0 Cyzicus ...of Lampsacus, Herophantus of Parium, Metrodorus of Proconnesus, Aristagoras of Cyzicus, Ariston of Byzantium, [2] all from the Hellespont and sovereigns of cities...
Cyzicus
81 27.874127,40.389806,0 Metapontines ...god had been a crow—had come with him. [3] After saying this, he vanished. The Metapontines, so they say, sent to Delphi and asked the god what the vision of the man could...
Metapontines
81 16.824063,40.383868,0 Delphi ...[3] After saying this, he vanished. The Metapontines, so they say, sent to Delphi and asked the god what the vision of the man could mean; and the Pythian...
Delphi
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Borysthenes ...by the Hypanis river,12 west of the Borysthenes. But on the other side of the Borysthenes, the tribe nearest to the sea is the tribe of the Woodlands; and north of these...
Borysthenes
80 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Neuri ...more came down on them out of the desolation on the north, until at last the Neuri were so afflicted that they left their own country and lived among the Budini...
Neuri
79 Neuri ...another. In the rest of their customs they are like the Thracians. 105. The Neuri follow Scythian customs; but one generation before the advent of Darius' army...
Neuri
79 Neuri ...mind and promised to help the Scythians; but the kings of the Agathyrsi and Neuri and Maneaters and Black-cloaks and Tauri gave this answer to the messengers...
Neuri
78 Neuri ...agitating them too; from there, they drew off into the country of the Neuri and, agitating them also, fled to the Agathyrsi. [4] But the Agathyrsi, seeing...
Neuri
72 Borysthenites ...[4] So when Scyles had been initiated into the Bacchic rite, some one of the Borysthenites scoffed at the Scythians: “You laugh at us, Scythians, because we play the...
Borysthenites
79 31.9056,46.69238,0 Hypanis river ...and north of these live Scythian farmers, whom the Greek colonists on the Hypanis river (who call themselves Olbiopolitae) call Borystheneïtae. [2] These farming...
Hypanis river
76 31.3343727,47.5349319,0 Borysthenes ...it a perfect square; [2] for it is a ten days' journey from the Ister to the Borysthenes, and the same from the Borysthenes to the Maeetian lake; and it is a twenty...
Borysthenes
79 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Alazones ...plant and eat grain, onions, garlic, lentils, and millet. [2] Above the Alazones live Scythian farmers, who plant grain not to eat but to sell; north of these...
Alazones
74 31.5,47.5,0 Alazones ...world. This spring is on the border between the farming Scythians29 and the Alazones; the name of it and of the place where it rises is in Scythian Exampaeus; in...
Alazones
78 31.5,47.5,0 Alazones ...tongue, Sacred Ways. [4] The Tyras and the Hypanis draw near together in the Alazones' country; after that they flow apart, the intervening space growing wider...
Alazones
79 31.5,47.5,0 Borysthenites ...by report of the farthest lands shall be told. 17. North of the port of the Borysthenites,11 which lies midway along the coast of Scythia, the first inhabitants are the...
Borysthenites
79 31.9056,46.69238,0 Panticapes ...as far as we know. 19. But to the east of these farming Scythians, across the Panticapes river, you are in the land of nomadic Scythians, who plant nothing, nor plough...
Panticapes
81 32.5,46.5,0 Man-eaters ...Scythia is bounded first by the Agathyrsi, next by the Neuri, next by the Man-eaters, and last by the Black-cloaks. 101. Scythia, then, is a four-sided country...
Man-eaters
76 Tanaïs river ...Nile river and the Colchian Phasis river (though some say that the Maeetian Tanaïs river and the Cimmerian Ferries24 are boundaries); and I cannot learn the names of...
Tanaïs river
78 40.7291755,47.5437096,0 Blackcloaks ...the Blackcloaks, who are of another and not a Scythian stock; and beyond the Blackcloaks the land is all marshes and uninhabited by men, so far as we know. 21. Across...
Blackcloaks
79 Budini ...farmers, eating grain and cultivating gardens; they are altogether unlike the Budini in form and in coloring. Yet the Greeks call the Budini too Geloni; but this is...
Budini
80 Budini ...deliberated, and their opinions were divided. The kings of the Geloni and the Budini and the Sauromatae were of one mind and promised to help the Scythians; but the...
Budini
80 Budini ...into desolation, which is inhabited by no one; it lies to the north of the Budini and its breadth is a seven days' march. [3] Beyond this desolation live the...
Budini
77 Budini ...of the Budini, they found themselves before the wooden-walled town; the Budini had abandoned it and left nothing in it, and the Persians burnt the town. [2]...
Budini
74 Budini ...divisions of their horde and the one division that was with the Sauromatae and Budini and Geloni, and made straight for the Ister in pursuit of the Persians. [2] And...
Budini
81 Tanaïs ...and issue into the lake called the Maeetian; their names are Lycus, Oarus, Tanaïs, Syrgis. 124. When Darius came into the desolate country, he halted in his...
Tanaïs
77 40.7291755,47.5437096,0 Royal ...these and somewhat to the east live Scythians again, who revolted from the Royal Scythians and came to this country. 23. As for the countryside of these...
Royal
77 33.5,45.5,0 Royal ...lake, and enters a yet greater lake called the Maeetian, which divides the Royal Scythians from the Sauromatae; another river, called Hyrgis,32 is a tributary...
Royal
77 33.5,45.5,0 Sauromatae ...haste, the two divisions of their horde and the one division that was with the Sauromatae and Budini and Geloni, and made straight for the Ister in pursuit of the...
Sauromatae
81 39.5,45.5,0 Libyan ...the robe and aegis of the images of Athena were copied by the Greeks from the Libyan women; for except that Libyan women dress in leather, and that the tassels of...
Libyan
80 26.5,31.5,0 Libyan ...from the pool. So, then, the story that comes from the island lying off the Libyan coast is like the truth, too. 196. Another story is told by the Carthaginians...
Libyan
78 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...are healthy. When the children smart from the pain of the burning, the Libyans have found a remedy; they soothe them by applications of goats' urine. This is...
Libyans
73 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...which they left to go to Egypt; [4] but then they fell into the hands of the Libyans, who killed the laggards and stragglers of the army for the sake of their...
Libyans
79 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...no horns in Scythia. A verse of Homer in the Odyssey attests to my opinion: ““Libya, the land where lambs are born with horns on their foreheads,” ” Hom. Od...
Libya
81 26.5,31.5,0 Sindi ...lead armies over the ice, and drive their wagons across to the land of the Sindi. [2] So it is winter for eight months, and cold in that country for the four...
Sindi
77 36.75,45.25,0 Libya ...Corobius, who told them that he had once been driven off course by winds to Libya, to an island there called Platea.51 [3] They hired this man to come with them...
Libya
78 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...and two not; the Libyans in the north and the Ethiopians in the south of Libya are aboriginal; the Phoenicians and Greeks are later settlers. 198. In my...
Libya
75 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...for as for Sataspes son of Teaspes, an Achaemenid, he did not sail around Libya, although he was sent for that purpose; but he feared the length and loneliness...
Libya
76 26.5,31.5,0 Delians ...journey, the Hyperboreans sent two maidens bearing the offerings, to whom the Delians give the names Hyperoche and Laodice, and five men of their people with them as...
Delians
80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Delos ...upon their names in the hymn made for them by Olen of Lycia; it was from Delos that the islanders and Ionians learned to sing hymns to Opis and Arge, calling...
Delos
75 25.268194,37.397274,0 Andros ...and one city sends them on to another until they come to Carystus; after this, Andros is left out of their journey, for Carystians carry them to Tenos, and Tenians...
Andros
81 24.86222,37.8528,0 Thracian ...knowledge that there is a custom like these offerings; namely, that when the Thracian and Paeonian women sacrifice to the Royal Artemis, they have straw with them...
Thracian
79 27.5,42.5,0 Paeonians ...in Thrace; the Cius river, which cuts through the middle of Haemus, from the Paeonians and the mountain range of Rhodope. [2] The Angrus river flows north from...
Paeonians
79 21.75,41.75,0 Delian ...have straw with them while they sacrifice. 34. I know that they do this. The Delian girls and boys cut their hair in honor of these Hyperborean maidens, who died...
Delian
80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Ionians ...to wait there for him, bridging the river meanwhile; for the fleet was led by Ionians and Aeolians and men of the Hellespont. [2] So the fleet passed between the...
Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...the Scythians can march straight to the Ister to break up the bridge, or the Ionians take some action by which we may well be ruined.” 135. This was Gobryas'...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Europe ...whole of Europe, rising among the Celts, who are the most westerly dwellers in Europe, except for the Cynetes, and flowing thus clean across Europe it issues forth...
Europe
81 Europe ...he crossed over with his ships to Asia, leaving Megabazus as his commander in Europe, a Persian whom he once honored by saying among the Persians what I note here...
Europe
80 Europe ...part of Libya any great excellence for which it should be compared to Asia or Europe, except in the region which is called by the same name as its river, Cinyps...
Europe
80 Ionians ...Scythians sought the Persians, but missed them again. Their judgment of the Ionians is that if they are regarded as free men they are the basest and most craven in...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...hymn made for them by Olen of Lycia; it was from Delos that the islanders and Ionians learned to sing hymns to Opis and Arge, calling upon their names and collecting...
Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Persians ...and Budini and Geloni, and made straight for the Ister in pursuit of the Persians. [2] And as the Persian army was for the most part infantry and did not know...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...[2] Had they not done, they could, if they had wished, easily have found the Persians. But as it was, that part of their plan which they had thought the best was the...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...repaired the bridge. 142. Thus the Persians escaped. The Scythians sought the Persians, but missed them again. Their judgment of the Ionians is that if they are...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...as his commander in Europe, a Persian whom he once honored by saying among the Persians what I note here: [2] Darius was about to eat pomegranates, and no sooner had...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...land without us and ruled the Persians for as long as god granted; and the Persians, urged on by the same god, are only repaying you in kind. [4] But we did these...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...convoy was first sent on its way, the advance guard of the Scythians found the Persians about a three days' march distant from the Ister; and having found them they...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...behind with the shepherds, moving away themselves to another place; and the Persians would come and take the sheep, and be encouraged by this achievement...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...shield rang clear. Here the Barcaeans made a counter-tunnel and killed those Persians who were digging underground. Thus the tunnels were discovered, and the...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 northern sea ...on their return voyage past the Pillars of Heracles until they came into the northern sea and so to Egypt. [3] So the Phoenicians set out from the Red Sea and sailed the...
northern sea
79 -2.9808908,42.9389421,0 Phasis river ...why the boundary lines set for it are the Egyptian Nile river and the Colchian Phasis river (though some say that the Maeetian Tanaïs river and the Cimmerian Ferries24 are...
Phasis river
81 42.2161531,42.1237505,0 Hellespont ...in his travels and given many examples of his wisdom, he sailed through the Hellespont and put in at Cyzicus; [3] where, finding the Cyzicenes celebrating the feast...
Hellespont
78 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...left now as commander in the country, subjugated all the people of the Hellespont who did not take the side of the Persians. 145. At the same time that he was...
Hellespont
73 26.4,40.2,0 Phoenicia ...and never came to this land which the Greeks now call Europe, but only from Phoenicia to Crete and from Crete to Lycia. Thus much I have said of these matters, and...
Phoenicia
78 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicia ...same peninsula has a seacoast beginning at the Myriandric gulf that is near Phoenicia, and stretching seaward as far as the Triopian headland. On this peninsula live...
Phoenicia
78 35.25,33.25,0 Egyptian ...in our judgment, not only of the Scythian but of all rivers, except the Egyptian Nile, with which no other river can be compared. [2] But of the rest, the...
Egyptian
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...167. At this time, Aryandes took pity on Pheretime and gave her all the Egyptian land and sea forces, appointing Amasis, a Maraphian, general of the army, and...
Egyptian
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...Thestes spring, and there fought with the Egyptians and beat them; [6] for the Egyptians had as yet had no experience of Greeks, and despised their enemy; as a result...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Triopian headland ...Myriandric gulf that is near Phoenicia, and stretching seaward as far as the Triopian headland. On this peninsula live thirty nations. 39. This is the first peninsula. But...
Triopian headland
79 27.36846,36.6849,0 Nile ...and made it known. When he had finished digging the canal which leads from the Nile to the Arabian Gulf, he sent Phoenicians in ships, instructing them to sail on...
Nile
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Nile ...our judgment, not only of the Scythian but of all rivers, except the Egyptian Nile, with which no other river can be compared. [2] But of the rest, the...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Nile ...live beside it for a ten days' voyage. [5] This is the only river, besides the Nile, whose source I cannot identify; nor, I think, can any Greek. When the...
Nile
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Persian ...with them also the Geloni and Budini, to draw off like the others at the Persian approach, always keeping one day's march ahead of the enemy, avoiding a...
Persian
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Red Sea ...Egypt. The Egyptian part of this peninsula is narrow; for from our sea to the Red Sea it is a distance of a hundred and twenty-five miles; that is, a thousand...
Red Sea
80 39.5,19.0,0 Persia ...nations. 39. This is the first peninsula. But the second, beginning with Persia, stretches to the Red Sea, and is Persian land; and next, the neighboring land...
Persia
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...looking for the slain men. It was in this way, then, that the death of these Persians was kept silent. 22. Now that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, as...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...households banished by Cleomenes. Then, desiring to make an alliance with the Persians, they despatched envoys to Sardis, for they knew that they had provoked the...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...stood arrayed to meet them, but were utterly routed in the battle. [3] The Persians put to the sword many men of renown including Eualcides the general of the...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...march against their cities, they beset the road with an ambush at Pedasus. The Persians fell into this by night and perished, they and their generals, Daurises and...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Whatever the truth may be, Megabazus made its coastal area subject to the Persians. 11. As soon as Darius had crossed the Hellespont and come to Sardis,4 he...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...enslaved by the Medians.” 110. This was the Ionians' response, and when the Persian army afterwards arrived on the plain of Salamis, the Cyprian kings ordered...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...the rest of the enemy's army. Onesilus placed himself opposite Artybius, the Persian general. 111. Now the horse which Artybius rode was trained to fight with...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...bedfellows.” [5] With that, Alexander seated each of his Macedonians next to a Persian, as though they were women, and when the Persians began to lay hands on them...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Perinthians ...now it is time for us to act.” Accordingly, the Paeonians set upon the Perinthians and won a great victory, leaving few of their enemies alive. 2. This, then, is...
Perinthians
73 27.95454,40.97089,0 Athenians ...be restored, but the Aeginetans answered that they had nothing to do with the Athenians. 85. The Athenians report that after making this demand, they despatched one...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...ravaged Phaleron and many other seaboard townships. By so doing they dealt the Athenians a very shrewd blow. 82. This was the beginning of the Aeginetans'...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the strength of their alliance with that family but were soundly beaten by the Athenians. Thereupon they sent a second message to Aegina, giving back the sons of Aeacus...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...for this is the fact that while they were under tyrannical rulers, the Athenians were no better in war than any of their neighbors, yet once they got rid of...
Athenians
73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...cost them dear- One tenth to Pallas raised this chariot here. ” 78. So the Athenians grew in power and proved, not in one respect only but in all, that equality is...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...him where her husband was. [3] This is how this man met his end, and the Athenians found the action of their women to be more dreadful than their own misfortune...
Athenians
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...them 87. This, then, is the story told by the Argives and Aeginetans, and the Athenians too acknowledge that only one man of their number returned safely to Attica...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...what the Athenians did, but the Aeginetans say that they discovered that the Athenians were about to make war upon them and therefore assured themselves of help from...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Lacedaemon, one single man, but thirty thousand46 Athenians he could. [3] The Athenians, now persuaded, voted to send twenty ships to aid the Ionians, appointing for...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...not deceive Cleomenes of Lacedaemon, one single man, but thirty thousand46 Athenians he could. [3] The Athenians, now persuaded, voted to send twenty ships to aid...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...well as five triremes of the Eretrians who came to the war to please not the Athenians but the Milesians themselves, thereby repaying their debt (for the Milesians...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...103. This, then is how they fared in their fighting. Presently, however, the Athenians wholly separated themselves from the Ionians and refused to aid them, although...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...to him three times whenever dinner was set before him, “Master, remember the Athenians.” 106. After giving this order, he called before him Histiaeus the Milesian...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...They have certain set forms of worship at Athens in which the rest of the Athenians take no part, particularly the rites and mysteries of Achaean Demeter. 62. I...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...were forced to go to Athens after being expelled in turn by the Boeotians. The Athenians received them as citizens of their own on set terms, debarring them from many...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...this dispute and took the commons into his party.31 Presently he divided the Athenians into ten tribes instead of four as formerly. He called none after the names of...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...himself secretly departed. Afterwards, however, Cleomenes appeared in Athens with no great force. Upon his arrival, he, in order to take away the curse...
Athens
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...entrance into the outer porch of the acropolis and38 bears this inscription: “Athens with Chalcis and Boeotia fought, Bound them in chains and brought their pride...
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...the Milesian, driven from Sparta by Cleomenes the Lacedaemonian, came to Athens, since that city was more powerful than any of the rest. Coming before the...
Athens
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...be overcome. [2] This he said adding that the Milesians were settlers from Athens, whom it was only right to save seeing that they themselves were a very...
Athens
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...by three days. 55. When he was forced to leave Sparta, Aristagoras went to Athens, which had been freed from its ruling tyrants in the manner that I will show...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...while Isagoras and his friends had no part in it. 71. How the Accursed at Athens had received their name, I will now relate. There was an Athenian named Cylon...
Athens
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...Accursed at Athens had received their name, I will now relate. There was an Athenian named Cylon, who had been a winner at Olympia. This man put on the air of one...
Athenian
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...Attica. They had come twice as invaders in war and twice as helpers of the Athenian people. The first time was when they planted a settlement at Megara36(this...
Athenian
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...them to Sparta, and the Lacedaemonians learned their contents. It was from the Athenian acropolis that Cleomenes took the oracles, which had been in the possession of...
Athenian
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...the Athenians because of Hipparchus' death, and the Alcmeonidae, a family of Athenian stock banished by the sons of Pisistratus, attempted with the rest of the...
Athenian
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Greeks ...who could have furnished as many ships as any state save Athens,—we, when the Greeks attempted to gain our aid in this war, would not resist you nor do anything...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...say that when Crete was left desolate, it was populated especially by Greeks, among other peoples. Then, in the third generation after Minos, the events...
Greeks
72 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...kings of Persia. 107. The only one of those who were driven out by the Greeks whom king Xerxes considered a valiant man was Boges, from whom they took Eion...
Greeks
74 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...oracle. 118. King Xerxes, then, mourned for the death of Artachaees. But the Greeks who received Xerxes' army and entertained the king himself were brought to such...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Delphi ...the prophets of the shrine; there is a priestess who utters the oracle, as at Delphi; it is no more complicated here than there.52 112. After passing through the...
Delphi
80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...were trying to gain their aid, acted as I will show. They sent messengers to Delphi, inquiring if it would be to their advantage to help the Greeks. [2] The Pythia...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Greek ...prow, thinking that the sacrifice91 of the foremost and fairest of their Greek captives would be auspicious. The name of the sacrificed man was Leon, and it...
Greek
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...where they are in the strongest position and make the attempt there. The Greek custom, then, is not good; and when I marched as far as the land of Macedonia...
Greek
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Corinthian ...where the Athenians put them, and with them Aristeas son of Adimantus, a Corinthian, to death.65 This happened many years after the king's expedition, and I return...
Corinthian
75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...desired to know of Xerxes' force, the Greeks sent them away to the isthmus of Corinth in bonds. 196. So the foreign fleet, of which, with the exception of fifteen...
Corinth
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Greeks ...came and declared to them the fate of Leonidas and his army. When the Greeks learned this, they no longer delayed their departure but went their ways in...
Greeks
72 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...these men into the king's presence, the Persians inquired of them what the Greeks were doing, there being one who put this question in the name of all. [2] When...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...way of Caphereus round Geraestus to the Euripus so that they might catch the Greeks between them, the one part holding that course and barring the retreat, and...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...of Lemnos, the only one of the Greeks siding with the Persian, deserted to the Greeks, and for that the Athenians gave him land in Salamis. 12. When darkness came...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Athenians ...forty ships and the Megarians twenty; [2] the Chalcidians manned twenty, the Athenians furnishing the ships; the Aeginetans eighteen, the Sicyonians twelve, the...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Eurybiades changed his mind. I think he did so chiefly out of fear that the Athenians might desert them if they set sail for the Isthmus. If the Athenians left, the...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Corinthians, declaring that so long as they had two hundred manned ships, the Athenians had both a city and a land greater than theirs, and that none of the Hellenes...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...in Salamis and were about to fight at sea on behalf of the land of the Athenians, and if they were defeated they would be trapped on an island and besieged...
Athenians
73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...could not free it, the others came to help Ameinias and joined battle. [2] The Athenians say that the fighting at sea began this way, but the Aeginetans say that the...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Greeks Herodotus The Histories Book 8 The Greeks appointed to serve in the fleet were these: the Athenians furnished a hundred...
Greeks
38 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Athenians ...Histories Book 8 The Greeks appointed to serve in the fleet were these: the Athenians furnished a hundred and twenty-seven ships; the Plataeans manned these ships...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...in fact happen. 110. Thus spoke Themistocles with intent to deceive, and the Athenians obeyed him; since he had always been esteemed wise and now had shown himself to...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...refuge if ever (as might chance) he should suffer anything at the hands of the Athenians—and just that did in fact happen. 110. Thus spoke Themistocles with intent to...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...not give it. When, however, Themistocles gave them to understand that the Athenians had come with two great gods to aid them, Persuasion and Necessity, and that...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...fell out for both that they made their entry at one and the same time, for the Athenians delayed and waited for them, being certain that the Lacedaemonians were going...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Peloponnese by the Medes and the Athenians, they were greatly afraid that the Athenians should agree with the Persian, and they straightway resolved that they would...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...however, had heard that Alexander had come to Athens to bring the Athenians to an agreement with the barbarian. Remembering the oracles, how that they...
Athenians
68 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and agree to be our brothers in arms in all faith and honesty.— 140B. This Athenians, is the message which Mardonius charges me to give you. For my own part I will...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...came to Athens from Mardonius who had sent him, he spoke as follows : “This, Athenians, is what Mardonius says to you:—there is a message come to me from the king...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...now is the time for us to march first into Boeotia.” At this reply of the Athenians the envoys returned back to Sparta.
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedaemonians ...his army and Xerxes was in Thessaly, there came an oracle from Delphi to the Lacedaemonians, that they should demand justice of Xerxes for the slaying of Leonidas and take...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...72. These were the Hellenes who marched out in a body to the Isthmus: the Lacedaemonians and all the Arcadians, the Eleans and Corinthians and Sicyonians and...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...of his visit to Lacedaemon, saying that the honors he had from the Lacedaemonians were paid him for Athens' sake and not for his own. [2] This he kept saying...
Lacedaemonians
69 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...that they did this in order that they might make their will known to the Lacedaemonians. 142. So when Alexander had made an end of speaking, the envoys from Sparta...
Lacedaemonians
75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...your substance has been for a long time wasted. [4] In requital for this the Lacedaemonians and their allies declare that they will nourish your women and all of your...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Plataeans ...the rest, one hundred and eighty ships. They provided these alone, since the Plataeans did not fight with the Athenians at Salamis for this reason: when the Hellenes...
Plataeans
79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataeans ...Dorians and Locrians and the whole force of Boeotia except the Thespians and Plataeans; and the Carystians and Andrians and Teneans and all the rest of the islanders...
Plataeans
79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Persians ...best diver of the time, and in the shipwreck at Pelion he had saved for the Persians much of their possessions and gotten much for himself in addition; this...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to find some service. Bringing these men into the king's presence, the Persians inquired of them what the Greeks were doing, there being one who put this...
Persians
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...that according to the oracle this, not the ships, was the refuge. 52. The Persians took up a position on the hill opposite the acropolis, which the Athenians call...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to the oracle all the mainland of Attica had to become subject to the Persians. In front of the acropolis, and behind the gates and the ascent, was a place...
Persians
72 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...pay the penalty for the battles at Artemisium. The purpose of their landing Persians on the islet called Psyttalea was this: when the battle took place, it was...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...I mention only these because Theomestor was appointed tyrant of Samos by the Persians for this feat, and Phylacus was recorded as a benefactor of the king and...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenian ...by a dream or because he felt remorse after burning the sacred precinct. The Athenian exiles did as they were commanded. 55. I will tell why I have mentioned this...
Athenian
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...to Artabanus. On the day after the messenger was sent, he called together the Athenian exiles who accompanied him and asked them go up to the acropolis and perform...
Athenian
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...their ships. 57. When Themistocles returned to his ship, Mnesiphilus, an Athenian, asked him what had been decided. Learning from him that they had resolved to...
Athenian
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...a ship to Aegina for Aeacus and his sons. 65. Dicaeus son of Theocydes, an Athenian exile who had become important among the Medes, said that at the time when the...
Athenian
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...the Athenians observe this festival for the Mother and the Maiden, and any Athenian or other Hellene who wishes is initiated. The voice which you hear is the...
Athenian
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...[2] He now came by boat and said to the generals of the barbarians, “The Athenian general has sent me without the knowledge of the other Hellenes. He is on the...
Athenian
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persians ...of the Greeks, for if you have suffered harm, it is by no fault of the Persians. Nor can you say that we have anywhere done less than brave men should, and if...
Persians
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the Hellespont, he turned to the Athenians (for they were the angriest at the Persians' escape, and they were minded to sail to the Hellespont even by themselves, if...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...of these many who are on board.” Hearing that, it is said, Xerxes said to the Persians, “Now it is for you to prove your concern for your king, for it seems that my...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athens ...Alexander. The Lacedaemonians, however, had heard that Alexander had come to Athens to bring the Athenians to an agreement with the barbarian. Remembering the...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...and at that time captain of a trireme. The Naxians are Ionians descended from Athens. [4] The Styrians provided the same number of ships as at Artemisium, and the...
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...they were at Phalerum, the port of Athens. I think no less a number invaded Athens by land and sea than came to Sepias and Thermopylae. [2] Those killed by the...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persians ...Alexander, a Macedonian, son of Amyntas. Him he sent, partly because the Persians were akin to him; Bubares, a Persian, had taken to wife Gygaea Alexander's...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...that they had been the chief authors of the calamities which had befallen the Persians at sea. [3] If he gained their friendship he thought he would easily become...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenian ...a man of note in the fleet. The first Greek to take an enemy ship was an Athenian, Lycomedes, son of Aeschraeus, and he it was who received the prize for valor...
Athenian
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...in their own country. When they arrived, they made a proclamation that every Athenian should save his children and servants as he best could. Thereupon most of them...
Athenian
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Hellas ...before, “If you remain here, you will be an noble man. If not, you will ruin Hellas. All our strength for war is in our ships, so listen to me. [2] If you do not...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...thought that he would be punished for persuading the king to march against Hellas and that it was better for him to risk the chance of either subduing Hellas or...
Hellas
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...I say to you,—as it is to a fortunate chance that we owe ourselves and Hellas, and have driven away so mighty a band of enemies—let us not pursue men who...
Hellas
73 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Persian ...of Orchomenus in Boeotia. Now the whole population of Boeotia took the Persian side, and men of Macedonia sent by Alexander safeguarded their towns, each in...
Persian
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...five cities whose names I previously mentioned. The farther into Hellas the Persian advanced, the more nations followed him. 67. All these came to Athens except...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...yearly fruits of the earth Hellas produces. [4] But, as I think that the Persian will not remain in Europe after his defeat in the sea-fight, let us permit him...
Persian
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...he found in revolt. [3] When the king had marched away past the town and the Persian fleet had taken flight from Salamis, Potidaea had openly revolted from the...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...fairness and excellence that the gift of it should win us to take the Persian part and enslave Hellas. [2] For there are many great reasons why we should not...
Persian
72 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Corinthians ...and occupied. [2] This time Themistocles said many things against him and the Corinthians, declaring that so long as they had two hundred manned ships, the Athenians had...
Corinthians
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...guidance a boat encountered them. No one appeared to have sent it, and the Corinthians knew nothing about the affairs of the fleet when it approached. They reckon the...
Corinthians
77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Persian ...the barbarians did no harm at their invasion, for the people took the Persian side, and the Thessalians would not have them harmed. 32. When they entered...
Persian
72 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Corinthians ...they had any knowledge of seamanship, but because of mere valor and zeal. The Corinthians furnished forty ships and the Megarians twenty; [2] the Chalcidians manned...
Corinthians
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Athenians ...Leucadians, Paleans, and Aeginetans; [5] next to the Sacae, and opposite the Athenians, Plataeans, Megarians, the Boeotians, Locrians, Malians, Thessalians, and the...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...to these six hundred Plataeans. At the end, and first in the line, were the Athenians who held the left wing. They were eight thousand in number, and their general...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...This was the Athenians' response, and the whole army shouted aloud that the Athenians were worthier to hold the wing than the Arcadians. It was in this way that the...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Pausanias, however, when the cavalry attacked him, sent a horseman to the Athenians with this message: “Men of Athens, in this great contest which must give...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...which must give freedom or slavery to Hellas, we Lacedaemonians and you Athenians have been betrayed by the flight of our allies in the night that is past. [2] I...
Athenians
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...deed worthy of his merit, despite all his eager desire to do so. 73. Of the Athenians, Sophanes son of Eutychides is said to have won renown, a man from the town of...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...all together were killed in battle; of the Tegeans, seventeen and of the Athenians, fifty-two.24 71. Among the barbarians, the best fighters were the Persian...
Athenians
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...fight for the wall became intense and lasted for a long time. In the end the Athenians, by valor and constant effort, scaled the wall and breached it. The Greeks...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Lacedaemonians; then they strengthened the wall as best they could. When the Athenians arrived, an intense battle for the wall began. [2] For as long as the Athenians...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...sided with the Persians and giving their land to the Ionians to dwell in. The Athenians disliked the whole plan of removing the Greeks from Ionia, or allowing the...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...remain there and attack the Chersonesus. So the rest sailed away, but the Athenians crossed over to the Chersonesus and laid siege to Sestus. 115. Now when the...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and stoned to death his wife and his children. 6. Now this was how the Athenians had crossed over to Salamis. As long as they expected that the Peloponnesian...
Athenians
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...bearing the same offer as Alexander the Macedonian had ferried across to the Athenians. [2] He sent this for the second time because although he already knew the...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...are building across the Isthmus is nearly finished, you take no account of the Athenians, but have deserted us despite all your promises that you would withstand the...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Attica. Before he had word of it, he had held his land, desiring to know the Athenians' plan and what they would do; he neither harmed nor harried the land of Attica...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...other the word, and all rode together to recover the dead body. 23. When the Athenians saw the horsemen riding at them, not by squadrons as before, but all together...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebans ...and laid siege to the Thebans, demanding the surrender of the men. When the Thebans refused this surrender, they laid waste to their lands and assaulted the walls...
Thebans
78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...2. But when, in the course of its march, the army had come into Boeotia, the Thebans attempted to stay Mardonius, advising him that he could find no country better...
Thebans
80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenians ...then who were with Leutychides decided to sail away to Hellas, but the Athenians, with Xanthippus their general, that they would remain there and attack the...
Athenians
73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...come from Elaeus and have intercourse with women in the shrine. Now, when the Athenians laid siege to him, he had made no preparation for it; he did not think that the...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persians ...they had heard from Alexander. At the message Pausanias was terrified by the Persians, and said: [2] “Since, therefore, the battle is to begin at dawn, it is best...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...at dawn, it is best that you Athenians should take your stand opposite the Persians, and we opposite the Boeotians and the Greeks who are posted opposite you; for...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and they resolved to change places in the second watch of the night, lest the Persians should see them setting forth and the horsemen press after them and throw them...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...heard about you, we expected that you would send us a herald challenging the Persians and none other to fight with you. That we were ready to do; but we find you...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...they are overtaken and pay the penalty for all the harm they have done the Persians.” 59. With that, he led the Persians with all speed across the Asopus in...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...another way over the broken ground, and were out of his sight. [2] Seeing the Persians setting forth in pursuit of the Greeks, the rest of the barbarian battalions...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...sacrifices of the Lacedaemonians became favorable. Now they too charged the Persians, and the Persians met them, throwing away their bows. [2] First they fought by...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...land and disembarked on the beach, where they formed a battle column. But the Persians, seeing the Greeks prepare for battle and exhort the Ionians, first of all took...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...said) and the Greeks would quickly surrender their liberty; but do not let the Persians risk the event of a battle. [4] This opinion of his was the same as the...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...they were arrayed for battle by Mardonius as I shall show. He posted the Persians facing the Lacedaemonians. [2] Seeing that the Persians by far outnumbered the...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...crossed over to the Chersonesus and laid siege to Sestus. 115. Now when the Persians heard that the Greeks were at the Hellespont, they had come in from the...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Lacedaemonians ...to make a change for himself also, by moving the Persians opposite the Lacedaemonians. When Pausanias perceived what was being done, he saw that his action had been...
Lacedaemonians
73 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...from which the entire Greek army drew its water. [3] None indeed but the Lacedaemonians were posted near the spring, and it was far from the several stations of the...
Lacedaemonians
75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...stood alone, men-at-arms and light-armed together; there were of the Lacedaemonians fifty thousand and of the Tegeans, who had never been parted from the...
Lacedaemonians
71 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...there, the barbarians defended themselves and had a great advantage over the Lacedaemonians who had no skill in the assault of walls. When the Athenians came up, however...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...fled with his forty thousand, scarcely three thousand were left alive. Of the Lacedaemonians from Sparta ninety-one all together were killed in battle; of the Tegeans...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Persian ...of the role we played at Marathon, seeing that alone of all Greeks we met the Persian singlehandedly and did not fail in that enterprise, but overcame forty-six...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...for a long time against the Athenians. For those Thebans who were on the Persian side had great enthusiasm in the battle, and did not want to fight in a...
Persian
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Lacedaemonians ...Athenian delegation, Chileus, a man of Tegea, who had more authority with the Lacedaemonians than any other of their guests, learned from the ephors all that the Athenians...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...setting forth to war, they thought that they should not lag behind the Lacedaemonians in so doing. [2] Accordingly, they all marched from the Isthmus (the omens of...
Lacedaemonians
73 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...both the later and the earliest comers. On the right wing were ten thousand Lacedaemonians; five thousand of these, who were Spartans, had a guard of thirty-five thousand...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...where he sacrificed and worked zealously, both for the hatred he bore the Lacedaemonians and for gain. [2] When no favorable omens for battle could be won either by the...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...to find the man himself. [4] This, then, is the way in which he escaped the Lacedaemonians and took refuge in Tegea, which at that time was unfriendly to Lacedaemon...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...waged many years after this time between the Athenians and Peloponnesians, the Lacedaemonians laid no hand on Decelea when they harried the rest of Attica.27 74. From that...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...about half of the line, their way lay over the beach and level ground; for the Lacedaemonians and those that were next to them, their way lay through a ravine and among...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...line passed the word and went more zealously to work, that they and not the Lacedaemonians might win the victory, immediately the face of the fight changed. [3] Breaking...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Persian ...from the Isthmus was that while he was offering sacrifice for victory over the Persian, the sun was darkened in the heavens. Pausanias chose as his colleague a man of...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...addition. Attaginus made them sit, not each man by himself but on each couch a Persian and a Theban together. [2] Now as they were drinking together after dinner, the...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...a Theban together. [2] Now as they were drinking together after dinner, the Persian who sat with him asked Thersander in the Greek tongue from what country he was...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...the Lacedaemonians insisted that the Athenians should not join the side of the Persian, yet now took no account of that; it may be that with the Isthmus fortified...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...what of you, who once were in great dread lest we should make terms with the Persian? Now that you have a clear idea of our sentiments and are sure that we will...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Thessaly ...came and said, “Men of Hellas, the pass of Olympus must be guarded so that Thessaly and all Hellas may be sheltered from the war. Now we are ready to guard it with...
Thessaly
77 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...some means of deliverance for ourselves.” These are the words of the men of Thessaly. 173. Thereupon the Greeks resolved that they would send a land army to...
Thessaly
78 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...to see how many there were and what they were doing. While he was still in Thessaly, he had heard that a small army was gathered there and that its leaders were...
Thessaly
77 22.2,39.6,0 Salamis ...When it was midnight, they brought their western wing in a circle towards Salamis, and those stationed at Ceos and Cynosura also put out to sea, occupying all...
Salamis
76 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...men more noble. [4] Whenever Xerxes, as he sat beneath the mountain opposite Salamis which is called Aegaleos, saw one of his own men achieve some feat in the...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...had marched away past the town and the Persian fleet had taken flight from Salamis, Potidaea had openly revolted from the barbarians and so too had the rest of...
Salamis
77 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...they asked the fleet to put in at Salamis. 41. While the others put in at Salamis, the Athenians landed in their own country. When they arrived, they made a...
Salamis
77 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...the rest. When the Athenians learned this, they asked the fleet to put in at Salamis. 41. While the others put in at Salamis, the Athenians landed in their own...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...for the Peloponnese, giving this reason: if they were defeated in the fight at Salamis they would be besieged on an island, where no help could come to them, but if...
Salamis
81 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...they prayed to all the gods, called Ajax and Telamon to come straight from Salamis, and sent a ship to Aegina for Aeacus and his sons. 65. Dicaeus son of...
Salamis
77 23.51,37.93,0 Macedonia ...because he intended to march by the upper road through the highland people of Macedonia to the country of the Perrhaebi and the town of Gonnus;57 this, it was told...
Macedonia
80 21.75,41.25,0 Lacedaemonians ...an equal right to the kingship, and doing other impious things; [2] hence the Lacedaemonians resolved to kill them, and they seized them and cast them into prison. (When...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...to kill them, and they seized them and cast them into prison. (When the Lacedaemonians execute, they do it by night, never by day.) [3] Now when they were about to...
Lacedaemonians
74 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...of Miletus came to Sparta. When he had an audience with the king, as the Lacedaemonians report, he brought with him a bronze tablet on which the map of all the earth...
Lacedaemonians
75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...Alopecae in Attica, near to the Heracleum in Cynosarges.28 64. After this the Lacedaemonians sent out a greater army to attack Athens, appointing as its general their king...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...a matter which took its rise in Lacedaemon hindered them, for when the Lacedaemonians learned of the plot of the Alcmaeonids with the Pythian priestess40 and of her...
Lacedaemonians
73 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...knowledge of these oracles but now Cleomenes brought them to Sparta, and the Lacedaemonians learned their contents. It was from the Athenian acropolis that Cleomenes took...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...he was of this opinion, Dorieus was very angry when at Anaxandrides' death the Lacedaemonians followed their custom and made Cleomenes king by right of age. Since he would...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Greek ...expenses for his men. This Philippus was a victor at Olympia and the fairest Greek of his day. [2] For his physical beauty he received from the Egestans honors...
Greek
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Corinthians ...then, Lacedaimonians, is the nature of tyranny, and such are its deeds. [5] We Corinthians marvelled greatly when we saw that you were sending for Hippias, and now we...
Corinthians
81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...answered, calling the same gods as Socles had invoked to witness, that the Corinthians would be the first to wish the Pisistratidae back, when the time appointed...
Corinthians
77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...when they heard the free speech of Socles and sided with the opinion of the Corinthians, entreating the Lacedaemonians not to harm a Greek city. 94. His plan, then...
Corinthians
78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Lacedaemonian ...her seat, and before he had passed through the door-way, she said, “Go back, Lacedaemonian stranger, and do not enter the holy place since it is not lawful that Dorians...
Lacedaemonian
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...the Spartan well, but here he made a false step. If he desired to take the Spartans away into Asia he should never have told the truth, but he did tell it, and...
Spartans
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...two wives and kept two households, a thing which is not at all customary at Sparta. 41. After no long time the second wife gave birth to Cleomenes. She, then...
Sparta
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...have been in the reign of Codrus), the second and third when they set out from Sparta to drive out the sons of Pisistratus, and the fourth was now, when Cleomenes...
Sparta
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedaemonian ...Darius. This was he whose daughter (if indeed the tale is true) Pausanias the Lacedaemonian, son of Cleombrotus, at a later day betrothed to himself, since it was his wish...
Lacedaemonian
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Persians ...and possessions and a Persian wife, who bore him children who were reckoned as Persians. Miltiades made his way from Imbros to Athens. 42. In this year10 the Persians...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to have given the gift out of enmity for Athens, so they might join with the Persians in attacking the Athenians. Gladly laying hold of this pretext, they went to...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...was an Assyrian, and became a Greek, which his forebears had not been; the Persians say that the ancestors of Acrisius18 had no bond of kinship with Perseus, and...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...debt any Spartan who owes a debt to the king or to the commonwealth. Among the Persians the king at the beginning of his reign forgives all cities their arrears of...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...son of Alcimachus and Philagrus son of Cineas, betrayed the city to the Persians. [3] They entered the city and plundered and burnt the temples, in revenge for...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...good to Darius himself and to Persia. 31. Thus it fared with Histiaeus. The Persian fleet wintered at Miletus, and putting out to sea in the next year easily...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...Darius did him no harm but much good, giving him a house and possessions and a Persian wife, who bore him children who were reckoned as Persians. Miltiades made his...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...and their crews. 94. Thus Athens and Aegina grappled together in war. The Persian was going about his own business, for his servant was constantly reminding him...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...too came over to their side. 100. When the Eretrians learned that the Persian expedition was sailing to attack them, they asked for help from the Athenians...
Persian
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the Alcmeonidae would ever have agreed to hold up a shield as a sign for the Persians out of a desire to make Athens subject to foreigners and to Hippias; for it is...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...recalled that message which Aeaces son of Syloson had already sent them at the Persians' bidding, entreating them to desert the Ionian alliance; seeing great disorder...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...Aeginetans, before paying the penalty for the violence they had done to the Athenians to please the Thebans, acted as follows: blaming the Athenians and deeming...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...by the fourth, Sophanes the son of Deceles. 93. The Aeginetan ships found the Athenians in disarray and attacked and overcame them, taking four Athenian ships and...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the Athenians,34 and the Pisistratidae were at his elbow maligning the Athenians; moreover, Darius desired to take this pretext for subduing all the men of...
Athenians
73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...son of Nothon, a leading man in Eretria, learned of both designs, he told the Athenians who had come how matters stood, and asked them to depart to their own country...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...to Eretria, so Hippias son of Pisistratus led them there. 103. When the Athenians learned this, they too marched out to Marathon, with ten generals leading them...
Athenians
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...previously an Olympic victor in the four-horse chariot, recruited any Athenian who wanted to take part in the expedition, sailed off with the Dolonci, and...
Athenian
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...the founder of the Chersonese. 104. It was this Miltiades who was now the Athenian general, after coming from the Chersonese and escaping a two-fold death. The...
Athenian
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...Athenians in the aforesaid manner, and now came to help at Marathon. 109. The Athenian generals were of divided opinion, some advocating not fighting because they...
Athenian
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...Athenians are conducting sacrifices at the festivals every fourth year,47 the Athenian herald prays for good things for the Athenians and Plataeans together. [3] As...
Athenian
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...sailed back home in a sorry condition, neither bringing money for the Athenians nor having won Paros; he had besieged the town for twenty-six days and ravaged...
Athenians
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...him in these evils. 136. Such was the priestess' reply to the Parians. The Athenians had much to say about Miltiades on his return from Paros, especially Xanthippus...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...at the foot of Hymettus and wronged the Athenians in this way: Neither the Athenians nor any other Hellenes had servants yet at that time, and their sons and...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...set out from their settlement at the foot of Hymettus and wronged the Athenians in this way: Neither the Athenians nor any other Hellenes had servants yet at...
Athenians
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...in reward for the wall that had once been built around the acropolis—when the Athenians saw how well this place was tilled which previously had been bad and worthless...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...because he persuaded the Pythian priestess to tell the tale of Demaratus. The Athenians alone say it was because he invaded Eleusis and laid waste the precinct of the...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...in Aegina; they carried them to Attica and gave them into the keeping of the Athenians, the bitterest foes of the Aeginetans. 74. Later Cleomenes' treacherous plot...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and they deemed it wrong to restore it to one without the other. 86A. When the Athenians refused to give them back, Leutychides said to them: “Men of Athens, do...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...were now set upon harming the Aeginetans, he agreed to betray Aegina to the Athenians, naming the day when he would make the attempt and when they must come to aid...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...every fourth year,47 the Athenian herald prays for good things for the Athenians and Plataeans together. [3] As the Athenians were marshalled at Marathon, it...
Athenians
73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...now, I expect that great strife will fall upon and shake the spirit of the Athenians, leading them to medize. But if we attack now, before anything unsound corrupts...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...either cavalry or archers. [3] So the foreigners imagined, but when the Athenians all together fell upon the foreigners they fought in a way worthy of record...
Athenians
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...prevailed there and broke through in pursuit inland, but on each wing the Athenians and Plataeans prevailed. [2] In victory they let the routed foreigners flee...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...figurehead. Many other famous Athenians also fell there. 115. In this way the Athenians overpowered seven ships. The foreigners pushed off with the rest, picked up the...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...When the Thebans heard this, they marched against the Plataeans, but the Athenians came to their aid. [5] As they were about to join battle, the Corinthians, who...
Athenians
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Attica and were besieged, until they too submitted. Thus did Miltiades and the Athenians take possession of Lemnos.
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedaemonians ...of the children king. But the children were identical in all respects, so the Lacedaemonians did not know which to choose; when they could not judge between them, or...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Greeks ...he set himself up as a pirate, robbing Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians, but no Greeks. 18. When the Persians had conquered the Ionians by sea, they laid siege to...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...fought for a long time, until the Persian cavalry charged and fell upon the Greeks. So this was the accomplishment of the cavalry; when the Greeks were routed...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...Darius is the Doer, Xerxes the Warrior, Artaxerxes the Great Warrior. The Greeks would rightly call the kings thus in their language. 99. Launching out to sea...
Greeks
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...where it was written: “I will shake Delos, though unshaken before. ” In the Greek language these names have the following meanings: Darius is the Doer, Xerxes...
Greek
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Lacedaemonians ...has in some sort the greater honor by right of primogeniture.16 52. The Lacedaemonians say (but no poet agrees) that it was Aristodemus son of Aristomachus son of...
Lacedaemonians
75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Persians ...he was the son of Cyrus' daughter Atossa and that it was Cyrus who had won the Persians their freedom. 3. While Darius delayed making his decision, it chanced that at...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...should go unpunished for their deeds, after all the evil they have done to the Persians. [2] For now you should do what you have in hand; then, when you have tamed the...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...against Athens, Xerxes held a special assembly of the noblest among the Persians, so he could learn their opinions and declare his will before them all. When...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Lacedaemonians ...many of them, and far more fled for refuge into the grove of Argus, which the Lacedaemonians encamped around and guarded. 79. Then Cleomenes' plan was this: He had with...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...out against Leutychides concerning the hostages that were held at Athens. The Lacedaemonians then assembled a court and gave judgment that Leutychides had done violence to...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...Such was the fate of the Eretrians. 120. After the full moon two thousand Lacedaemonians came to Athens, making such great haste to reach it that they were in Attica on...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonian ...he was punished for his dealings with Demaratus as I will show. He led a Lacedaemonian army to Thessaly,25 and when he could have subdued all the country he took a...
Lacedaemonian
75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Persians ...and sent Artabanus away to Susa. He next sent for the most notable among the Persians, and when they were present he said, “Persians, I have assembled you to make...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Persians took their name.32 62. The Medes in the army were equipped like the Persians; indeed, that fashion of armor is Median, not Persian. Their commander was...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...nations, but not all of them furnished cavalry. Only the following did so: the Persians, equipped like their infantry, except that some of them wore headgear of...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Thousand. Hydarnes son of Hydarnes was general of these picked ten thousand Persians, who were called Immortals for this reason: when any one of them was forced to...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...had done this, he cast himself into the fire. Thus he is justly praised by the Persians to this day. 108. From Doriscus Xerxes went on his way towards Hellas...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...the Carchedonian in Sicily on the same day that the Greeks defeated the Persian at Salamis. This Amilcas was, on his father's side, a Carchedonian, and a...
Persian
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...already at Abydos. The Thessalians, now bereft of their allies, sided with the Persian wholeheartedly and unequivocally. As a result of this they, in their acts...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...and grandeur, worthier than Xerxes himself to hold that command. 188. The Persian fleet put to sea and reached the beach of the Magnesian land, between the city...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...of wide-wayed Sparta, Either your great and glorious city must be wasted by Persian men, Or if not that, then the bound of Lacedaemon must mourn a dead king, from...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...When day dawned, the king took no account of this dream, and he assembled the Persians whom he had before gathered together and addressed them thus: [2] “Persians...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Persians whom he had before gathered together and addressed them thus: [2] “Persians, forgive me for turning and twisting in my purpose; I am not yet come to the...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the horse ten thousand that were foot soldiers, chosen out of the rest of the Persians. [3] One thousand of these had golden pomegranates on their spear-shafts...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...here had been built that royal fortress which is called Doriscus, and a Persian guard had been posted there by Darius ever since the time of his march against...
Persian
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...were equipped like the Persians; indeed, that fashion of armor is Median, not Persian. Their commander was Tigranes, an Achaemenid. The Medes were formerly called by...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...bronze and iron. 85. There are also certain nomads called Sagartian; they are Persian in speech, and the fashion of their equipment is somewhat between the Persian...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...207. This is what they intended, but the Hellenes at Thermopylae, when the Persians drew near the pass, fearfully took counsel whether to depart. The rest of the...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...Sane; there are others situated seaward of Sane and landward of Athos, and the Persian now intended to make them into island and not mainland towns; they are Dion...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...handsome man stood over him and said, [2] “Are you then changing your mind, Persian, and will not lead the expedition against Hellas, although you have proclaimed...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...be sent against these Greeks, hear me now: let the king himself remain in the Persian land, and let us two stake our children's lives upon it; you lead out the army...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...Cambyses son of Teispes son of Achaemenes,10 if I do not have vengeance on the Athenians; I well know that if we remain at peace they will not; they will assuredly...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...of Cambyses subdued and made tributary to Persia all Ionians except only the Athenians. I advise you by no means to lead these Ionians against the land of their...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...indeed Boges proved himself worthy of all praise. When he was besieged by the Athenians under Cimon son of Miltiades, he could have departed under treaty from Eion and...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...captive at Bisanthe on the Hellespont, and carried away to Attica, where the Athenians put them, and with them Aristeas son of Adimantus, a Corinthian, to death.65...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...that, however, it rose up again in the war between the Peloponnesians and Athenians, as the Lacedaemonians say. That seems to me to be an indication of something...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and in the guise of suppliants, approach the oracle a second time. [2] The Athenians did exactly this; “Lord,” they said, “regard mercifully these suppliant boughs...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...then, that we possess the greatest number of seafaring men in Hellas, if we Athenians yield our command to Syracusans,—we who can demonstrate the longest lineage of...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...desire. [2] Now as long as you sought the leadership of the whole force, we Athenians were content to hold our peace, knowing that the Laconian was well able to...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...called by everyone Arians,33 but when the Colchian woman Medea came from Athens to the Arians they changed their name, like the Persians. This is the Medes'...
Athens
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...as great as any and who could have furnished as many ships as any state save Athens,—we, when the Greeks attempted to gain our aid in this war, would not resist...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persia ...left behind in this place will hear that Mardonius has done great harm to Persia, and has been torn apart by dogs and birds in the land of Athens or of...
Persia
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Spartans ...was a long period after the incident I have mentioned above during which the Spartans were unable to obtain good omens from sacrifice. The Lacedaemonians were...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...proclamation inviting some Lacedaemonian to give his life for Sparta. Then two Spartans of noble birth and great wealth, Sperthias son of Aneristus and Bulis son of...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...turn to face the barbarians and overthrow innumerable Persians. A few of the Spartans themselves were also slain. When the Persians could gain no inch of the pass...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...that they would be killed, but felt it not fitting for himself and the Spartans to desert that post which they had come to defend at the beginning. [2] I...
Spartans
73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...Talthybiadae, who have the special privilege of conducting all embassies from Sparta. [2] Now there was a long period after the incident I have mentioned above...
Sparta
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...reasonable nor just that anyone should have the royal privilege before him. At Sparta too (advised Demaratus) it was customary that if sons were born before their...
Sparta
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...making a proclamation inviting some Lacedaemonian to give his life for Sparta. Then two Spartans of noble birth and great wealth, Sperthias son of Aneristus...
Sparta
73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...Cleodaeus, son of Hyllus, son of Heracles. Leonidas had gained the kingship at Sparta unexpectedly. 205. Since he had two older brothers, Cleomenes and Dorieus, he...
Sparta
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...is for them all, but the Spartans have their own: “Foreigner, go tell the Spartans that we lie here obedient to their commands. ” [3] That one is to the...
Spartans
76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...sick and returned to Sparta, or if they had both made the trip, I think the Spartans would not have been angry with them. When, however, one of them died, and the...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenian ...by sea near Salamis and be there overthrown. 143. Now there was a certain Athenian, by name and title Themistocles son of Neocles, who had lately risen to be...
Athenian
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Spartans ...voting as their two had. [3] At that, say the Argives, they decided that the Spartans' covetousness was past all bearing and that it was better to be ruled by the...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...one of you might by his commission be a ruler of Hellas.” [3] To this the Spartans answered: “Your advice to us, Hydarnes, is not completely sound; one half of it...
Spartans
76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartan ...then is how the Lacedaemonians and Thespians conducted themselves, but the Spartan Dieneces is said to have exhibited the greatest courage of all. They say that...
Spartan
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartan ...two kings, and the Argives but one. Now it was impossible to deprive either Spartan of his command, but there was nothing to prevent the Argive from having the...
Spartan
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...Susa, in voluntary exile from Lacedaemonia after he had lost the kingship of Sparta. [2] Learning of the contention between the sons of Darius, this man, as the...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Greeks ...regard in particular to the sons of Aleues, the Thessalians who were the first Greeks to surrender themselves to the king. Xerxes supposed that when they offered him...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...so minded. 145. These oracles, then, had been given to the Athenians. All the Greeks who were concerned about the general welfare of Hellas met in conference and...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...their council, although the oracle forbade them to make the alliance with the Greeks; furthermore, they, despite their fear of the oracle, were eager to secure a...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...however, I promise on one condition, that I shall be general and leader of the Greeks against the foreigner. On no other condition will I come myself or send...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...called Achaia, and before Danaus and Xuthus came to the Peloponnese, as the Greeks say, they were called Aegialian Pelasgians.46 They were named Ionians after Ion...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...myself think that even if they were equal in numbers it would be hard for the Greeks to fight just against the Persians. [5] What you are talking about is found...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...almost to Athens itself, yet none came out to meet me in battle. 9B. Yet the Greeks are accustomed to wage wars, as I learn, and they do it most senselessly in...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...vision might signify. [4] They declared to him that the god was showing the Greeks the abandonment of their cities; for the sun (they said) was the prophet of the...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...son of Amestris and father of Xerxes' wife. They were formerly called by the Greeks Cephenes, but by themselves and their neighbors Artaei. [3] When Perseus son of...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...midst of the Greeks, however, he was not to escape a second time, for when the Greeks saw the Persians bearing down on them, they perceived their mistake and putting...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...so, they found and read the message, and presently sent it to the rest of the Greeks. This is the story, as it is told.
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...With such a plea they put the Greeks off. 169. But the Cretans, when the Greeks appointed to deal with them were trying to gain their aid, acted as I will...
Greeks
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...had been sent by the king of Scythia and had been a student of the ways of Hellas, and after his return told the king who sent him that all Greeks were keen for...
Hellas
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...said that he would rather have that many men like Megabazus than make all Hellas subject to him. [3] By speaking thus among Persians, the king honored...
Hellas
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Cyzicenes ...to his own country safe and sound he would sacrifice to her as he saw the Cyzicenes doing, and establish a nightly rite of worship. [4] So when he came to Scythia...
Cyzicenes
76 27.874127,40.389806,0 Samian ...bridge of boats, Darius made a gift of ten of everything42 to Mandrocles the Samian, the architect of it; Mandrocles took the first-fruits of these and had a...
Samian
79 26.84,37.73,0 Tauri ...army was marching against them. [2] The assembled kings were those of the Tauri, Agathyrsi, Neuri, Maneaters, Black-cloaks, Geloni, Budini, and Sauromatae...
Tauri
76 34.27150174333333,44.883441823333335,0 Tauric ...I mean, so to speak, to compare small things with great. Such a land is the Tauric country. But those who have not sailed along that part of Attica may understand...
Tauric
78 34.27150174333333,44.883441823333335,0 Attica ...a land is the Tauric country. But those who have not sailed along that part of Attica may understand from this other analogy: it is as though in Calabria some other...
Attica
81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Anaphlystus ...not Attic, were to inhabit the heights of Sunium from Thoricus to the town of Anaphlystus, if Sunium jutted farther out into the sea. [5] I mean, so to speak, to compare...
Anaphlystus
80 23.9508185,37.7273205,0 Gerrhi ...solemn curses. 71. The burial-places of the kings are in the land of the Gerrhi, which is the end of the navigation of the Borysthenes. Whenever their king has...
Gerrhi
76 Geloni ...they are nomads, and the only people in these parts that eat fir-cones; the Geloni are farmers, eating grain and cultivating gardens; they are altogether unlike...
Geloni
78 Geloni ...the third whose king was Taxakis, were to unite, and taking with them also the Geloni and Budini, to draw off like the others at the Persian approach, always keeping...
Geloni
81 Geloni ...their horde and the one division that was with the Sauromatae and Budini and Geloni, and made straight for the Ister in pursuit of the Persians. [2] And as the...
Geloni
79 Amazons ...to the number of the women. They directed these youths to camp near the Amazons and to imitate all that they did; if the women pursued them, not to fight, but...
Amazons
74 Amazons ...women. The young men who were sent did as they were directed. 112. When the Amazons perceived that the youths meant them no harm, they let them be; but every day...
Amazons
79 Peloponnesians ...three tribes;56 of which the Theraeans and dispossessed Libyans were one, the Peloponnesians and Cretans the second, and all the islanders the third; furthermore, he set...
Peloponnesians
80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Maneaters ...them. [2] The assembled kings were those of the Tauri, Agathyrsi, Neuri, Maneaters, Black-cloaks, Geloni, Budini, and Sauromatae. 103. Among these, the Tauri...
Maneaters
75 Borysthenite ...him to you.” [5] The leading men among the Scythians followed him, and the Borysthenite brought them up secretly onto a tower; from which, when Scyles passed by with...
Borysthenite
77 32.5,46.5,0 Gerrhi ...man to all in turn, they are at the place of burial, in the country of the Gerrhi, the farthest distant tribe of all under their rule. [4] Then, having laid the...
Gerrhi
77 Geloni ...kings were those of the Tauri, Agathyrsi, Neuri, Maneaters, Black-cloaks, Geloni, Budini, and Sauromatae. 103. Among these, the Tauri have the following...
Geloni
76 Minyae ...all their own garments, and themselves put on the men's clothing; so the Minyae passed out in the guise of women dressed in women's clothing; and thus...
Minyae
75 Spartans ...the wives of the Minyae, who were natives of the country, daughters of leading Spartans, asked permission to enter the prison and each converse with her husband; the...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thera ...in Lacedaemon but would sail away to his family. [4] On the island now called Thera, but then Calliste, there were descendants of Membliarus the son of Poeciles, a...
Thera
80 25.478129,36.36399,0 Calliste ...Membliarus together with other Phoenicians. [5] These dwelt on the island of Calliste for eight generations before Theras came from Lacedaemon. 148. It was these...
Calliste
79 25.4,36.4,0 Pillars of Heracles ...Carthaginians. There is a place in Libya, they say, where men live beyond the Pillars of Heracles; they come here and unload their cargo; then, having laid it in order along the...
Pillars of Heracles
80 -5.384583,35.9358335,0 Tartessus ...they had passed through the Pillars of Heracles and came providentially to Tartessus. [3] Now this was at that time an untapped52 market; hence, the Samians, of all...
Tartessus
77 -6.4119,36.93672,0 Cyrenaeans ...them in the oven, he deliberately refrained from going into the city of the Cyrenaeans, fearing the death prophesied and supposing the tidal place to be Cyrene. [4]...
Cyrenaeans
78 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaeans ...by an oracle to cross the sea and live in Libya with the Cyrenaeans; for the Cyrenaeans invited them, promising a distribution of land; [3] and this was the oracle...
Cyrenaeans
79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaeans ...Barcaeans, and went home. When they appeared before the city of Cyrene, the Cyrenaeans let them pass through their city, so that a certain oracle might be fulfilled...
Cyrenaeans
78 21.856169,32.818736,0 Theraean ...154. This is what the Theraeans say; and now begins the part in which the Theraean and Cyrenaean stories agree, but not until now, for the Cyrenaeans tell a...
Theraean
77 25.478129,36.36399,0 Thera ...and let her down into the sea and drew her up again, and presently arrived at Thera. 155. There Polymnestus, a notable Theraean, took Phronime and made her his...
Thera
80 25.478129,36.36399,0 Barcaeans ...the surrender of those who were guilty of the murder of Arcesilaus: but the Barcaeans, whose whole people were accessory to the deed, would not yield. [2] The...
Barcaeans
78 20.892778,32.498333,0 Barcaeans ...treaty would hold good while the ground where they stood was unchanged; the Barcaeans promised to pay a due sum to the king, and the Persians to do the Barcaeans no...
Barcaeans
78 20.892778,32.498333,0 Barcaeans ...Barcaeans promised to pay a due sum to the king, and the Persians to do the Barcaeans no harm. [3] When the sworn agreement was made, the townsfolk, trusting in it...
Barcaeans
78 20.892778,32.498333,0 Barcaeans ...cut off and planted around the wall in like manner. [2] As for the rest of the Barcaeans, she told the Persians to take them as their booty, except those who were of...
Barcaeans
81 20.892778,32.498333,0 Barcaeans ...retribution from the gods. That of Pheretime, daughter of Battus, against the Barcaeans was revenge of this nature and this brutality.
Barcaeans
80 20.892778,32.498333,0 Egypt ...virginity of whichever of these pleases him. These Adyrmachidae extend from Egypt to the harbor called Plynus. 169. Next to them are the Giligamae, who inhabit...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Adyrmachidae ...the king then takes the virginity of whichever of these pleases him. These Adyrmachidae extend from Egypt to the harbor called Plynus. 169. Next to them are the...
Adyrmachidae
77 26.5,31.5,0 Pasargadae ...Amasis, a Maraphian, general of the army, and Badres of the tribe of the Pasargadae, admiral of the fleet. [2] But before despatching the troops, Aryandes sent a...
Pasargadae
75 53.17334,30.1985,0 Egypt ...past the Pillars of Heracles until they came into the northern sea and so to Egypt. [3] So the Phoenicians set out from the Red Sea and sailed the southern sea...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Tritonian lake ...these and the Machlyes, separated by the Triton, live on the shores of the Tritonian lake. The Machlyes wear their hair long behind, the Auseans in front. [2] They...
Tritonian lake
77 8.5,33.5,0 Tritonian lake ...Egypt. [5] As for Athena, they say that she was daughter of Poseidon and the Tritonian lake, and that, being for some reason angry at her father, she gave herself to Zeus...
Tritonian lake
79 8.5,33.5,0 Machlyes ...is said) the Libyan people of the country hid the tripod. 180. Next to these Machlyes are the Auseans; these and the Machlyes, separated by the Triton, live on the...
Machlyes
80 Peloponnese ...put aboard besides a hecatomb a bronze tripod, and set out to sail around the Peloponnese, to go to Delphi. [2] But when he was off Malea, a north wind caught and...
Peloponnese
80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Europe ...mind to bid Megabazus take the Paeonians and take them from their homes out of Europe into Asia. There were two Paeonians, Pigres and Mantyes, who themselves desired...
Europe
81 Mytilenaeans ...to their respective cities, which he wished to please. 38. Coes, when the Mytilenaeans received him, was taken out and stoned, but the Cymaeans, as well as most of...
Mytilenaeans
77 26.489422,39.05495,0 Cyprians ...took it in the fifth month by digging a mine under its walls. 116. So the Cyprians, after winning freedom for a year, were enslaved once more.55 Daurises...
Cyprians
77 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Median ...men dwelling beyond the Ister save certain that are called Sigynnae and wear Median dress. [2] Their horses are said to be covered all over with shaggy hair3 five...
Median
79 46.5,34.5,0 Sigynnae ...I can learn of no men dwelling beyond the Ister save certain that are called Sigynnae and wear Median dress. [2] Their horses are said to be covered all over with...
Sigynnae
79 Myrcinus ...he hadasked of Darius as his reward for guarding the bridge, a place called Myrcinus by the river Strymon. Megabazus discovered what he was doing, and upon his...
Myrcinus
78 23.819776,40.901252,0 Asia ...and brother to Darius the king but also governor of all the coastal peoples of Asia. He accordingly has a great army and many ships at his disposal. This man...
Asia
81 Asia ...spurred by zeal to fight and die). Yet when you can readily be masters of all Asia, will you refuse to attempt it?” [9] Thus spoke Aristagoras, and Cleomenes...
Asia
80 Miletus ...as follows: [2] “Men of Paeonia, I have been sent by Aristagoras, tyrant of Miletus, to show you the way to deliverance, if you are disposed to obey. All Ionia is...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...were driven from Miletus. Afterwards, with this as a base, he could return to Miletus. 126. Such was the advice of Hecataeus, but Aristagoras himself thought it...
Miletus
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Paeonia ...and suffered instead a great reverse. After fortifying Lipsydrium north of Paeonia, they, in their desire to use all devices against the sons of Pisistratus...
Paeonia
77 21.75,41.75,0 Ionians ...to Miletus, he devised a plan from which no advantage was to accrue to the Ionians (nor indeed was that the purpose of his plan, but rather to vex king Darius)...
Ionians
77 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...Presently, however, the Athenians wholly separated themselves from the Ionians and refused to aid them, although Aristagoras sent messages of earnest...
Ionians
73 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...and the Ionians, after no long deliberation, came with a great force. So the Ionians were in Cyprus when the Persians, crossing from Cilicia, marched to Salamis by...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...you choose, see to it that Ionia and Cyprus become free.” [3] To this the Ionians answered, “We were sent by the common voice of Ionia to guard the seas, not to...
Ionians
76 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...so eager to come here, for our present situation is such that the sons of the Ionians are slaves and not free men, which is shameful and grievous particularly to...
Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...At this time the Greeks who were settled around them were for the most part Ionians, and after being taught the letters by the Phoenicians, they used them with a...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...perished. Hymaees, who had been one of those who went in pursuit of the Ionians who marched on Sardis, now turned towards the Propontis, and there took Cius in...
Ionians
74 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Lesbians ...Antandrus in the Troad, and Lamponium, and with ships he had taken from the Lesbians, he took Lemnos and Imbros, both of which were still inhabited by Pelasgians...
Lesbians
78 26.10052,39.20874,0 Ionia ...set on. If I had been in Ionia no city would have stirred. Now send me off to Ionia right away, so that I may restore that country to peace and deliver into your...
Ionia
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...Ionians did exactly what their hearts had long been set on. If I had been in Ionia no city would have stirred. Now send me off to Ionia right away, so that I may...
Ionia
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...a great Persian host. [2] Upon hearing this, Onesilus sent heralds all through Ionia to summon the people, and the Ionians, after no long deliberation, came with a...
Ionia
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...Sardis, and Otanes, the third general, were appointed to lead the army against Ionia and the Aeolian territory on its borders. They took Clazomenae in Ionia, and...
Ionia
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Naxos ...of Aristagoras enraged Megabates, who, went night fell, sent men in a boat to Naxos to tell the Naxians of the trouble in store for them. 34. Now the Naxians had...
Naxos
80 25.52001,37.127,0 Naxos ...subject to Darius. 31. Aristagoras came to Sardis and told Artaphrenes that Naxos was indeed an island of no great size, but that it was otherwise a beautiful...
Naxos
79 25.52001,37.127,0 Naxos ...put in with his ships at Caucasa14 so that he might cross with a north wind to Naxos. [2] Since it was not fated that the Naxians were to be destroyed by this...
Naxos
81 25.52001,37.127,0 Naxians ...with him at Susa. Histiaeus was tyrant of Miletus but was at Susa when the Naxians, who had been his guests and friends, arrived. [3] When the Naxians came to...
Naxians
77 25.52001,37.127,0 Croton ...Telys, the tyrant of Sybaris, because as he was sacrificing for victory over Croton, he could obtain no favorable omens. 45. This is their tale, and both cities...
Croton
79 17.205128,39.028864,0 Croton ...diviner of the Iamid clan. About him there was a story that he had fled to Croton from Telys, the tyrant of Sybaris, because as he was sacrificing for victory...
Croton
77 17.205128,39.028864,0 Croton ...had been betrothed to the daughter of Telys of Sybaris but was banished from Croton. Cheated out of his marriage, he sailed away to Cyrene, from where he set forth...
Croton
79 17.205128,39.028864,0 Sybaris ...him there was a story that he had fled to Croton from Telys, the tyrant of Sybaris, because as he was sacrificing for victory over Croton, he could obtain no...
Sybaris
77 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Halys ...of Hellas. At this time, the Persians of the provinces this side50 of the Halys, on hearing of these matters, gathered together and came to aid the Lydians...
Halys
76 35.9295291,41.6767598,0 Lydia ...of it passes through country that is inhabited and safe. Its course through Lydia and Phrygia is of the length of twenty stages, and ninety-four and a half...
Lydia
78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Phrygia ...through country that is inhabited and safe. Its course through Lydia and Phrygia is of the length of twenty stages, and ninety-four and a half parasangs. [2]...
Phrygia
75 29.75,38.75,0 Lacedaemonian woman ...deign to notice the seizure of our women; but the Greeks, for the sake of a Lacedaemonian woman, recruited a great armada, came to Asia, and destroyed the power of Priam. [4]...
Lacedaemonian woman
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Argive Io ...replied that, as they had been refused reparation for the abduction of the Argive Io, they would not make any to the Colchians. 3. Then (they say), in the second...
Argive Io
77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Ionians ...which they called the Panionion, and agreed among themselves to allow no other Ionians to use it (nor in fact did any except the men of Smyrna ask to be admitted)...
Ionians
81 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...temple. Such was the penalty imposed on the Halicarnassians. 145. As for the Ionians, the reason why they made twelve cities and would admit no more was in my...
Ionians
80 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Aeolians ...the Thracian Thynians and Bithynians, Carians, Ionians, Dorians, Aeolians, and Pamphylians; 29. and after these were subdued and subject to Croesus in...
Aeolians
67 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Aeolians ...to follow the Ionians' lead. 152. So when the envoys of the Ionians and Aeolians came to Sparta (for they set about this in haste) they chose a Phocaean, whose...
Aeolians
75 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Aeolians ...an expedition against the Carians, Caunians, and Lycians, taking Ionians and Aeolians with him. [2] Of these, the Carians have come to the mainland from the islands...
Aeolians
79 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Ionians ...Ionians. Mykale is a western promontory of the mainland opposite Samos; the Ionians used to assemble there from their cities and keep the festival to which they...
Ionians
78 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...and decided to follow the Ionians' lead. 152. So when the envoys of the Ionians and Aeolians came to Sparta (for they set about this in haste) they chose a...
Ionians
75 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...Lacedaemonians would not listen to him and refused to help the Ionians. So the Ionians departed; but the Lacedaemonians, though they had rejected their envoys, did...
Ionians
81 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...if I keep my health, shall talk of their own misfortunes, not those of the Ionians.” [2] He uttered this threat against all the Greeks, because they have markets...
Ionians
77 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Dorians ...in the city of Creston—who were once neighbors of the people now called Dorians, and at that time inhabited the country which now is called Thessalian— [2] and...
Dorians
74 Dorians ...their persons and their nobility, all end in the same letter, that which the Dorians call san, and the Ionians sigma; you will find, if you search, that not some...
Dorians
79 Dorians ...Phocian renegades from their nation, Molossians, Pelasgian Arcadians, Dorians of Epidaurus, and many other tribes; [2] and as for those who came from the...
Dorians
72 Persians ...away with the Phoenicians of her own accord. [3] These are the stories of the Persians and the Phoenicians. For my part, I shall not say that this or that story is...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Chians ...on the islands of Samos and Chios, and one, Erythrae, on the mainland; the Chians and Erythraeans speak alike, but the Samians have a language which is their own...
Chians
77 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Chians ...would have bought the islands called Oenussae from the Chians;54 but the Chians would not sell them, because they feared that the islands would become a market...
Chians
75 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Mysians ...[6] and they point to an ancient shrine of Carian Zeus at Mylasa, to which Mysians and Lydians, as brethren of the Carians (for Lydus and Mysus, they say, were...
Mysians
77 28.25,38.75,0 Mysians ...who would come off that mountain and ravage the fields of the Mysians. The Mysians had gone up against him often; but they never did him any harm but were hurt by...
Mysians
77 28.25,38.75,0 Argives ...allies. Now at this very time the Spartans themselves were feuding with the Argives over the country called Thyrea; [2] for this was a part of the Argive territory...
Argives
78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...only the mainland, but the island of Cythera and the other islands.) [3] The Argives came out to save their territory from being cut off, then after debate the two...
Argives
79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...armies came to learn the issue. [6] For a while both claimed the victory, the Argives arguing that more of their men had survived, the Lacedaemonians showing that...
Argives
80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Corinthians ...which were the base on which it stood; and now it is in the treasury of the Corinthians, but weighs only six talents and a half, for the fire melted away three and a...
Corinthians
78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Pelasgians ...had the same language since its beginning; yet being, when separated from the Pelasgians, few in number, they have grown from a small beginning to comprise a multitude...
Pelasgians
80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pelasgian race ...in ancient time, the first a Pelasgian and the second a Hellenic people. The Pelasgian race has never yet left its home; the Hellenic has wandered often and far. [3] For...
Pelasgian race
79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Ionic stock ...were the Lacedaemonians among those of Doric, and the Athenians among those of Ionic stock. These races, Ionian and Dorian, were the foremost in ancient time, the first a...
Ionic stock
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Macedonian ...country by the Cadmeans, it settled about Pindus in the territory called Macedonian; from there again it migrated to Dryopia, and at last came from Dryopia into...
Macedonian
75 22.5,42.5,0 Hellenic ...with them in their migration into the places where they live. 58. But the Hellenic stock, it seems clear to me, has always had the same language since its...
Hellenic
77 Thessalian ...now called Dorians, and at that time inhabited the country which now is called Thessalian— [2] and of the Pelasgians who inhabited Placia and Scylace on the Hellespont...
Thessalian
81 22.2,39.6,0 Tyrrheni ...one may judge by those that still remain of the Pelasgians who live above the Tyrrheni19 in the city of Creston—who were once neighbors of the people now called...
Tyrrheni
80 11.752744124826158,42.42102874792005,0 Hellespont ...Thessalian— [2] and of the Pelasgians who inhabited Placia and Scylace on the Hellespont, who came to live among the Athenians, and by other towns too which were once...
Hellespont
80 26.699162,40.346685,0 Pelasgic stock ...other foreign peoples united themselves with them. Before that, I think, the Pelasgic stock nowhere increased much in number while it was of foreign speech. 59. Now of...
Pelasgic stock
79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Attic ...was of foreign speech. 59. Now of these two peoples, Croesus learned that the Attic was held in subjection and divided into factions by Pisistratus, son of...
Attic
81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Lacedaemonian ...of meat and water, boiled without fire until they boiled over. [2] Chilon the Lacedaemonian, who happened to be there and who saw this marvel, advised Hippocrates not to...
Lacedaemonian
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Crete ...casting out the alien gods. 173. Such are their ways. The Lycians were from Crete in ancient times (for in the past none that lived on Crete were Greek). [2] Now...
Crete
79 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Strymon ...and revenue collected both from Athens and from the district of the river Strymon, and he took hostage the sons of the Athenians who remained and did not leave...
Strymon
76 23.848889,40.785833,0 Crete ...at Sparta, but the Lacedaemonians themselves say that Lycurgus brought it from Crete when he was guardian of his nephew Leobetes, the Spartan king. [5] Once he...
Crete
81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Arcadians ...not content to live in peace, but, confident that they were stronger than the Arcadians, asked the oracle at Delphi about gaining all the Arcadian land. [2] She...
Arcadians
80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Samians ...when they returned to Sparta, said that they had been robbed of it by the Samians. Such are the tales about the bowl. 71. Croesus, mistaking the meaning of the...
Samians
76 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...Lacedaemonians say that when the bowl was near Samos on its way to Sardis, the Samians descended upon them in warships and carried it off; [3] but the Samians...
Samians
81 26.84,37.73,0 Media ...there is only one nation between, the Saspires; to pass these is to be in Media. [2] Nevertheless, it was not by this way that the Scythians entered; they...
Media
76 46.5,34.5,0 Media ...in that part of the country where the passes are and the shortest road from Media, so that the Medes might not mix with her people and learn of her affairs...
Media
78 46.5,34.5,0 Matieni ...said to be their way of life. [3] The Araxes73 flows from the country of the Matieni (as does the Gyndes, which Cyrus divided into the three hundred and sixty...
Matieni
79 46.5,36.5,0 Sardis ...never thinking that after a contest so equal Cyrus would march against Sardis. 78. This was how Croesus reasoned. Meanwhile, snakes began to swarm in the...
Sardis
73 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...Telmessians having declared that if this lion were carried around the walls, Sardis could never be taken. Meles then carried the lion around the rest of the wall...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...his.” This was the answer of the priestess to the Lydians. They carried it to Sardis and told Croesus, and when he heard it, he confessed that the sin was not the...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Lydia ...[2] This he decided, and this he did immediately; he marched his army into Lydia and so came himself to bring the news of it to Croesus. All had turned out...
Lydia
77 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Mardian ...the city which faces towards Tmolus. [4] The day before, then, Hyroeades, this Mardian, had seen one of the Lydians come down by this part of the acropolis after a...
Mardian
81 40.735111,37.312236,0 Lacedaemonians ...hair, and no Argive woman wear gold, until they recovered Thyreae; [8] and the Lacedaemonians made a contrary law, that they wear their hair long ever after; for until now...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Tmolus ...in comparison with other countries, except the gold dust that comes down from Tmolus. [2] But there is one building to be seen there which is much the greatest of...
Tmolus
80 28.101929,38.3233025,0 Ephesus ...and Priene; these are settlements in Caria, and they have a common language; Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea, all of them in Lydia, [4] have a...
Ephesus
79 27.339722,37.941944,0 Ionian mother ...of Croesus: Croesus was Alyattes' son by a Carian and Pantaleon by an Ionian mother. [4] So when Croesus gained the sovereignty by his father's gift, he put the...
Ionian mother
72 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Lydia ...[3] In the reign of Atys son of Manes there was great scarcity of food in all Lydia. For a while the Lydians bore this with what patience they could; presently...
Lydia
80 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Struchates ...and ruled it. The Median tribes are these: the Busae, the Paretaceni, the Struchates, the Arizanti, the Budii, the Magi. Their tribes are this many. 102. Deioces...
Struchates
76 Median nation ...and eavesdroppers everywhere in his domain. 101. Deioces, then, united the Median nation by itself and ruled it. The Median tribes are these: the Busae, the Paretaceni...
Median nation
78 46.5,34.5,0 Assyrians ...and they were left alone, though well-off themselves. Marching against these Assyrians, then, Phraortes and most of his army perished, after he had reigned twenty-two...
Assyrians
79 37.5,37.5,0 Palestine ...they marched against Egypt: and when they were in the part of Syria called Palestine, Psammetichus king of Egypt met them and persuaded them with gifts and prayers...
Palestine
77 Persians ...advise you to be so also. As for this boy, send him out of your sight to the Persians and to his parents.” 121. Hearing this, Astyages was glad, and calling Cyrus...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Lydians ...sovereign power and was confirmed in it by the Delphic oracle. For when the Lydians took exception to what was done to Candaules, and took up arms, the faction of...
Lydians
78 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...answer was given by the rest of the oracles. But at Delphi, no sooner had the Lydians entered the hall to inquire of the god and asked the question with which they...
Lydians
80 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...[3] When they were all in order, he commanded them to kill all the other Lydians who came in their way, and spare none, but not to kill Croesus himself, even if...
Lydians
75 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...and mounted Croesus atop it, bound in chains, with twice seven sons of the Lydians beside him. Cyrus may have intended to sacrifice him as a victory-offering to...
Lydians
77 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...mingled together in confusion. [2] This was the king who fought against the Lydians when the day was turned to night in the battle, and who united under his...
Lydians
78 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...156. Croesus proposed this to him, because he thought this was better for the Lydians than to be sold as slaves; he knew that without some reasonable plea he could...
Lydians
81 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...does this present wrong; let him, then, pay the penalty. [4] But pardon the Lydians, and give them this command so that they not revolt or pose a danger to you...
Lydians
78 27.5,37.5,0 Delphians ...of the temple. This bowl holds six hundred nine-gallon measures: for the Delphians use it for a mixing-bowl at the feast of the Divine Appearance.15 [3] It is...
Delphians
75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphians ...certain round basins of silver, and a female figure five feet high, which the Delphians assert to be the statue of the woman who was Croesus' baker. Moreover, he...
Delphians
80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Persian ...Magus comes near and chants over it the song of the birth of the gods, as the Persian tradition relates it; for no sacrifice can be offered without a Magus. Then...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...ready for their voyage, they first sailed to Phocaea, where they destroyed the Persian guard to whom Harpagus had entrusted the defense of the city; and when this was...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...province by the king's will, was an artaba full of silver [3] (the artaba is a Persian measure, containing more than an Attic medimnus by three Attic choenixes),69...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...thrown into the ship, which then sailed away for Egypt. 2. In this way, the Persians say (and not as the Greeks), was how Io came to Egypt, and this, according to...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Phoenicians ...know it, and so, lest they discover her condition, she sailed away with the Phoenicians of her own accord. [3] These are the stories of the Persians and the...
Phoenicians
78 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...it, as the Cyprians themselves say; and the temple on Cythera was founded by Phoenicians from this same land of Syria. [4] But the Scythians who pillaged the temple...
Phoenicians
79 35.25,33.25,0 Cretans ...off the king's daughter Europa. These Greeks must, I suppose, have been Cretans. So far, then, the account between them was balanced. But after this (they...
Cretans
74 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Colchians ...reparation for the abduction of the Argive Io, they would not make any to the Colchians. 3. Then (they say), in the second generation after this, Alexandrus, son of...
Colchians
80 39.228819,38.52585,0 Lydian ...sea, it was of no use for his army to besiege their city. The reason that the Lydian did not destroy the houses was this: that the Milesians might have homes from...
Lydian
80 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Lydian ...as follows: [2] ““When the Medes have a mule as king, Just then, tender-footed Lydian, by the stone-strewn Hermus Flee and do not stay, and do not be ashamed to be a...
Lydian
81 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Lydian ...the Medes, and, at this time, of Cyrus. [2] For the boundary of the Median and Lydian empires was the river Halys, which flows from the Armenian mountains first...
Lydian
81 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Lydian ...speaking for all, put this question to the oracle: “Lord, Pactyes the Lydian has come to us a suppliant fleeing a violent death at the hands of the...
Lydian
72 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Milesians ...his reign, these were the most notable: 17. He continued the war against the Milesians which his father had begun. This was how he attacked and beseiged Miletus: he...
Milesians
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Corinthian ...come back to Corinth. [2] Trusting none more than the Corinthians, he hired a Corinthian vessel to carry him from Tarentum.8 But when they were out at sea, the crew...
Corinthian
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Athenians ...them, and when they came into town proclaimed as they were instructed: [5] “Athenians, give a hearty welcome to Pisistratus, whom Athena herself honors above all men...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...part of Delos. [3] So Pisistratus was sovereign of Athens: and as for the Athenians, some had fallen in the battle, and some, with the Alcmeonids, were exiles from...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...was the Ionian; for it had no considerable city except Athens. [3] Now the Athenians and the rest would not be called Ionians, but spurned the name; even now the...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...from the district of the river Strymon, and he took hostage the sons of the Athenians who remained and did not leave the city at once, and placed these in Naxos. [2]...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...so as not to be compelled to repeal any of the laws he had made, [2] since the Athenians themselves could not do that, for they were bound by solemn oaths to abide for...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...was prosperous by our standards, and his death was most glorious: [5] when the Athenians were fighting their neighbors in Eleusis, he came to help, routed the enemy...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...by Pisistratus, son of Hippocrates, who at that time was sovereign over the Athenians. This Hippocrates was still a private man when a great marvel happened to him...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Europe ...truly with all other matters, you will not suffer the Ionians7 who dwell in Europe to laugh at us, which they have no right to do. [2] It would be strange indeed...
Europe
78 Europe ...10B. You say that you will bridge the Hellespont and march your army through Europe to Hellas. Now suppose you happen to be defeated either by land or by sea, or...
Europe
79 Europe ...march to Abydos; meanwhile his men were bridging the Hellespont from Asia to Europe. On the Chersonese, which is on the Hellespont, between the city of Sestus and...
Europe
79 Europe ...the sun that no accident might befall him which would keep him from subduing Europe before he reached its farthest borders. After the prayer, he cast the phial...
Europe
79 Europe ...heard that the king crossed last of all. 56. When Xerxes had passed over to Europe, he viewed his army crossing under the lash. Seven days and seven nights it was...
Europe
79 Europe ...Acarnania. Neither to the east of the Nestus anywhere in the nearer part of Europe, nor to the west of the Achelous in the rest of the mainland, is any lion to be...
Europe
78 Hellas ...gave their opinions. 7. After being persuaded to send an expedition against Hellas, Xerxes first marched against the rebels in the year after Darius death. He...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Medes ...many people there were few real men. The battle lasted all day. 211. When the Medes had been roughly handled, they retired, and the Persians whom the king called...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Libyans ...were equipped as were their foot, and the Caspians in the same manner. [2] The Libyans, too, were armed like the men of their infantry, and all of them also drove...
Libyans
81 26.5,31.5,0 Libyan ...son. While governing Egypt, this Achaemenes was at a later time6 slain by a Libyan, Inaros son of Psammetichus. 8. After the conquest of Egypt, intending now to...
Libyan
78 26.5,31.5,0 Lemnos ...into the writings of Musaeus an oracle showing that the islands off Lemnos would disappear into the sea. [4] Because of this Hipparchus banished him...
Lemnos
70 25.25,39.916667,0 Europe ...in the future.” [3] This argument was for vengeance,3 but he kept adding that Europe was an extremely beautiful land, one that bore all kinds of orchard trees, a...
Europe
80 Lacedaemon ...glorious city must be wasted by Persian men, Or if not that, then the bound of Lacedaemon must mourn a dead king, from Heracles' line. The might of bulls or lions will...
Lacedaemon
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Media ...in the army were equipped like the Persians; indeed, that fashion of armor is Median, not Persian. Their commander was Tigranes, an Achaemenid. The Medes were...
Media
80 46.5,34.5,0 Media ...is their manner of fighting; they were marshalled with the Persians. 86. The Median cavalry were equipped like their infantry, and the Cissians similarly. The...
Media
80 46.5,34.5,0 Styrians ...Then as guide he unloaded the slaves from Eretria onto the island of the Styrians called Aegilia, and brought to anchor the ships that had put ashore at...
Styrians
75 24.2607,38.1455,0 Asia ...anger. [3] These two had been sent by the Lacedaemonians as ambassadors to Asia, and betrayed by the Thracian king Sitalces son of Tereus and Nymphodorus son...
Asia
77 Asia ...he proposes to bridge the Hellespont and lead all the hosts of the east from Asia against us, making an open show of marching against Athens, but actually with...
Asia
79 Asia ...into Thessaly, while the king was planning to cross into Europe from Asia and was already at Abydos. The Thessalians, now bereft of their allies, sided...
Asia
71 Asia ...six hundred and ten men. So far I have spoken of the force which came from Asia itself, without the train of servants which followed it and the companies of...
Asia
77 Asia ...pursuit of the Cimmerians and subdued and ruled almost all the upper lands of Asia (it was for this that Darius afterwards attempted to punish them). According to...
Asia
80 Asia ...from their homes by Teucrians and Mysians. The commander of the Thracians of Asia was Bassaces son of Artabanus. 76. The <Pisidians> had little shields of raw...
Asia
79 Lacedaemonians ...To this Xerxes, with great magnanimity, replied that he would not imitate the Lacedaemonians. “You,” said he, “made havoc of all human law by slaying heralds, but I will...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...whose arms lay in front of the wall, and it chanced that at that time the Lacedaemonians were posted there. [3] He saw some of the men exercising naked and others...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...in obedience to Leonidas, only the Thespians and Thebans remaining with the Lacedaemonians. The Thebans remained against their will and desire, for Leonidas kept them as...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...fought and fell there. There was a great struggle between the Persians and Lacedaemonians over Leonidas' body, until the Hellenes by their courageous prowess dragged it...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...that we lie here obedient to their commands. ” [3] That one is to the Lacedaemonians, this one to the seer: “This is a monument to the renowned Megistias, Slain by...
Lacedaemonians
73 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...or is it so with them all?” [2] “My king,” said Demaratus, “the number of the Lacedaemonians is great, and so too the number of their cities. But what you would like to...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...make that island their station and set out from there to strike fear into the Lacedaemonians. If these have a war of their own on their borders, you will have no cause to...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...was then at Susa and had knowledge of this, desired to send word of it to the Lacedaemonians. [3] He, however, feared detection and had no other way of informing them than...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonian ...Dieneces the Lacedaemonian left behind as a memorial. 227. Next after him two Lacedaemonian brothers, Alpheus and Maron, sons of Orsiphantus, are said to have been most...
Lacedaemonian
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonian ...of in the sun. This saying and others like it, they claim, Dieneces the Lacedaemonian left behind as a memorial. 227. Next after him two Lacedaemonian brothers...
Lacedaemonian
74 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Egypt ...the other half with vermilion. The Arabians and the Ethiopians who dwell above Egypt had as commander Arsames, the son of Darius and Artystone daughter of Cyrus...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...of Syria. This part of Syria as far as Egypt is all called Palestine. [3] The Egyptians furnished two hundred ships. They wore woven helmets and carried hollow shields...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Susa ...a herald with such a message to Argos, and that the Argive envoys came up to Susa and questioned Artoxerxes about their friendship, I cannot say with exactness...
Susa
79 48.24854,32.19202,0 Lacedaemonian ...by this and frequently called assemblies, making a proclamation inviting some Lacedaemonian to give his life for Sparta. Then two Spartans of noble birth and great wealth...
Lacedaemonian
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Hellas ...rich in power, and as lord of Sicily you rule what is not the least part of Hellas; therefore, we beg of you, send help to those who are going to free Hellas, and...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...First, they will never accept conditions from you that bring slavery upon Hellas; and second, they will meet you in battle even if all the other Greeks are on...
Hellas
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Medes ...Greeks Syrians, and these Syrians before the Persian rule were subjects of the Medes, and, at this time, of Cyrus. [2] For the boundary of the Median and Lydian...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...of fifty-three years.36 Having inherited it, he was not content to rule the Medes alone: marching against the Persians, he attacked them first, and they were the...
Medes
78 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...one city and to fortify and care for this more strongly than all the rest. The Medes did this for him, too. So he built the big and strong walls, one standing...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...a bodyguard out of all the Medes. [3] And having obtained power, he forced the Medes to build him one city and to fortify and care for this more strongly than all...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...him houses worthy of his royal power, and strengthen him with a bodyguard. The Medes did so. They built him a big and strong house wherever in the land he indicated...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Delphian citizenship ...from all charges, the chief seats at festivals, and perpetual right of Delphian citizenship to whoever should wish it. 55. After his gifts to the Delphians, Croesus made...
Delphian citizenship
73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athens ...and the least regarded was the Ionian; for it had no considerable city except Athens. [3] Now the Athenians and the rest would not be called Ionians, but spurned...
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...to the Lycians by their neighbors; but after Lycus son of Pandion came from Athens—banished as well by his brother, Aegeus—to join Sarpedon in the land of the...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Attica ...ten years they set out from Eretria and returned home. The first place in Attica which they took and held was Marathon: and while encamped there they were...
Attica
76 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Tegeans ...relying on the deceptive oracle. They were confident they would enslave the Tegeans, but they were defeated in battle. [4] Those taken alive were bound in the very...
Tegeans
78 22.429,37.464,0 Pythia ...or god, But I think rather you are a god, Lycurgus. ” [4] Some say that the Pythia also declared to him the constitution that now exists at Sparta, but the...
Pythia
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Syrians ...72. Now the Cappadocians are called by the Greeks Syrians, and these Syrians before the Persian rule were subjects of the Medes, and, at this time, of...
Syrians
72 37.5,37.5,0 Syrians ...no luxury and no comforts. 72. Now the Cappadocians are called by the Greeks Syrians, and these Syrians before the Persian rule were subjects of the Medes, and, at...
Syrians
80 37.5,37.5,0 Persian territory ...answer came he thought it to be favorable to him, and so led his army into the Persian territory. [3] When he came to the river Halys, he transported his army across it—by the...
Persian territory
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Mother Dindymene ...of them, which is called Hermus (this flows from the mountain sacred to the Mother Dindymene27 and empties into the sea near the city of Phocaea). [2] When Cyrus saw the...
Mother Dindymene
78 29.75,38.75,0 Persians ...were routed and driven within their city wall, where they were besieged by the Persians. 81. So then they were besieged. But Croesus, supposing that the siege would...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Lacedaemonians ...At last from arguing they fell to fighting; many of both sides fell, but the Lacedaemonians gained the victory. The Argives, who before had worn their hair long by fixed...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...the victory, the Argives arguing that more of their men had survived, the Lacedaemonians showing that the Argives had fled, while their man had stood his ground and...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Ephesus ...tripod at Thebes in Boeotia, which he dedicated to Apollo of Ismenus; at Ephesus29 there are the oxen of gold and the greater part of the pillars; and in the...
Ephesus
75 27.339722,37.941944,0 Persians ...concerning it. For Loxias declared to him that if he led an army against the Persians, he would destroy a great empire. Therefore he ought, if he had wanted to plan...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...his offerings, and how the oracle had encouraged him to attack the Persians; and so saying he once more insistently pled that he be allowed to reproach the...
Persians
69 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Assyrians ...These, it would seem, proved their bravery in fighting for freedom against the Assyrians; they cast off their slavery and won freedom. Afterwards, the other subject...
Assyrians
81 37.5,37.5,0 Tyrrhenians ...and have lived ever since. [7] They no longer called themselves Lydians, but Tyrrhenians, after the name of the king's son who had led them there. The Lydians, then...
Tyrrhenians
79 11.752744124826158,42.42102874792005,0 Assyrians ...another, until he marched against the Assyrians; that is, against those of the Assyrians who held Ninus. These had formerly been rulers of all; but now their allies had...
Assyrians
81 37.5,37.5,0 Mede ...was of marriageable age, he feared the vision too much to give her to any Mede worthy to marry into his family, but married her to a Persian called Cambyses...
Mede
76 46.5,34.5,0 Persians ...were the Pasargadae, the Maraphii, and the Maspii. On these all the other Persians depend. The chief tribe is that of the Pasargadae; to them belongs the clan of...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Maspii ...persuaded to revolt from the Medes were the Pasargadae, the Maraphii, and the Maspii. On these all the other Persians depend. The chief tribe is that of the...
Maspii
80 Persia ...with a sickle.” This is what Cyrus said. [3] Now there are many tribes in Persia: those of them that Cyrus assembled and persuaded to revolt from the Medes were...
Persia
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Median dress ...the Persians more than all men welcome foreign customs. They wear the Median dress, thinking it more beautiful than their own, and the Egyptian cuirass in war...
Median dress
72 46.5,34.5,0 Persians ...is another thing that always happens among them; we have noted it although the Persians have not: their names, which agree with the nature of their persons and their...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Egyptian cuirass ...They wear the Median dress, thinking it more beautiful than their own, and the Egyptian cuirass in war. Their luxurious practices are of all kinds, and all borrowed: the...
Egyptian cuirass
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Phocaea ...and then embarked themselves and set sail for Chios; and the Persians took Phocaea, left thus uninhabited. 165. The Phocaeans would have bought the islands...
Phocaea
77 26.75261,38.6684,0 Phocaea ...(as I suppose) the situation with Cyrus and Ionia. [3] These, after coming to Phocaea, sent Lacrines, who was the most esteemed among them, to Sardis, to repeat...
Phocaea
80 26.75261,38.6684,0 Chios ...are yet three Ionian cities, two of them situated on the islands of Samos and Chios, and one, Erythrae, on the mainland; the Chians and Erythraeans speak alike...
Chios
80 26.053,38.414,0 Clazomenae ...they founded a city, Abdera, which before this had been founded by Timesius of Clazomenae; yet he got no profit of it, but was driven out by the Thracians. This Timesius...
Clazomenae
81 26.78715,38.37322,0 Erythraeans ...islands of Samos and Chios, and one, Erythrae, on the mainland; the Chians and Erythraeans speak alike, but the Samians have a language which is their own and no one...
Erythraeans
81 26.48103,38.38122,0 Ionian ...keep the festival to which they gave the name of Panionia. [2] Not only the Ionian festivals, but all those of all the Greeks alike, end in the same letter, just...
Ionian
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Phriconian ...149. Those are the Ionian cities, and these are the Aeolian: Cyme (called “Phriconian”),49 Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegaeae...
Phriconian
78 26.986314750000002,38.7248785,0 Pitane ...“Phriconian”),49 Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegaeae, Myrina, Gryneia.50 These are the ancient Aeolian cities, eleven in...
Pitane
77 26.934063,38.934089,0 Persians ...received in return Atarneus, which is a district in Mysia opposite Lesbos. The Persians thus received Pactyes and kept him guarded, so that they might show him to...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Tartessus ...with the king of the Tartessians, whose name was Arganthonius; he ruled Tartessus for eighty years and lived a hundred and twenty.53 [3] The Phocaeans won this...
Tartessus
74 -6.4119,36.93672,0 Tartessus ...sailing in round freightships but in fifty-oared vessels. When they came to Tartessus they made friends with the king of the Tartessians, whose name was...
Tartessus
78 -6.4119,36.93672,0 Iberia ...and it was they who discovered the Adriatic Sea, and Tyrrhenia, and Iberia, and Tartessus,52 [2] not sailing in round freightships but in fifty-oared...
Iberia
70 Ionia ...won this man's friendship to such a degree that he invited them to leave Ionia and settle in his country wherever they liked; and then, when he could not...
Ionia
75 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Cyrnus ...kept the oath put out to sea from the Oenussae. 166. And when they came to Cyrnus they lived there for five years as one community with those who had come first...
Cyrnus
78 9.200077440000001,42.103331615555554,0 Cyrnus ...[4] they founded this because they learned from a man of Posidonia that the Cyrnus whose establishment the Pythian priestess ordained was the hero, and not the...
Cyrnus
78 9.200077440000001,42.103331615555554,0 Cyrnus ...their own island be cut off from trade: so the Phocaeans prepared to sail to Cyrnus,55 where at the command of an oracle they had built a city called Alalia twenty...
Cyrnus
79 9.200077440000001,42.103331615555554,0 Thrace ...by building an earthwork, they all embarked aboard ship and sailed away for Thrace. There they founded a city, Abdera, which before this had been founded by...
Thrace
78 Thracians ...Timesius of Clazomenae; yet he got no profit of it, but was driven out by the Thracians. This Timesius is now honored as a hero by the Teians of Abdera. 169. These...
Thracians
80 Calynda ...of full age put on their armor and went together as far as the boundaries of Calynda, striking the air with their spears and saying that they were casting out the...
Calynda
79 28.835859,36.750652,0 Solymi ...by the Lycians was in the past Milyan, and the Milyans were then called Solymi. [3] For a while Sarpedon ruled them, and the people were called Termilae...
Solymi
74 30.454074,36.524766,0 Xanthians ...each other, and sallying out fell fighting, all the men of Xanthus. [3] Of the Xanthians who claim now to be Lycians the greater number, all except eighty households...
Xanthians
81 29.31836,36.355934,0 Cnidian country ...So they brought it all within the entrenchment; for the frontier between the Cnidian country and the mainland is on the isthmus across which they dug. [4] Many of them were...
Cnidian country
79 27.37404,36.686188,0 Rhodes ...the north by the gulf of Ceramicus, and on the south by the sea off Syme and Rhodes). Now while Harpagus was conquering Ionia, the Cnidians dug a trench across...
Rhodes
79 28.15629,36.41451,0 Babylonian woman ...woman sleeps in the temple of Theban Zeus,65 and neither the Egyptian nor the Babylonian woman, it is said, has intercourse with men), and as does the prophetess of the god66...
Babylonian woman
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Egyptians ...to visit the shrine and rest on the couch, as in Thebes of Egypt, as the Egyptians say [2] (for there too a woman sleeps in the temple of Theban Zeus,65 and...
Egyptians
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Babylonians ...the three hundred and sixty canals, he marched against Babylon at last. The Babylonians sallied out and awaited him; and when he came near their city in his march...
Babylonians
78 44.42082,32.53617,0 Persians ...third of the entire wealth of Asia. The governorship of this land, which the Persians call “satrapy,” is by far the most powerful of all the governorships, since the...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Massagetae ...army. But if you will not, then I swear to you by the sun, lord of the Massagetae, that I shall give even you who can never get enough of it your fill of blood.”...
Massagetae
73 62.5,37.5,0 Persia ...211. After having given this answer and crossed the Araxes, Hystaspes went to Persia to watch his son for Cyrus; and Cyrus, advancing a day's journey from the...
Persia
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...there is no way that he is not plotting against me. Therefore hurry back to Persia, and see that when I come back after subjecting this country you bring your son...
Persia
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Massagetae ...it is a lesser victory than if you crossed into their country and routed the Massagetae and pursued them; for I weigh your chances against theirs, and suppose that...
Massagetae
79 62.5,37.5,0 Egyptians ...said the god. [4] So he trusted the vision, and together with those Egyptians who would follow him camped at Pelusium, where the road comes into Egypt; and...
Egyptians
70 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...came against Egypt, with a great force of Arabians and Assyrians, the warrior Egyptians would not march against him. [3] The priest, in this quandary, went into the...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...years between Dionysus and Amasis are the fewest, and they are reckoned by the Egyptians at fifteen thousand. [3] The Egyptians claim to be sure of all this, since they...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...the Egyptians themselves say. I shall now relate what is recorded alike by Egyptians and foreigners, and shall add something of what I myself have seen. [2] After...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...the time when they gained the knowledge. 147. So far I have recorded what the Egyptians themselves say. I shall now relate what is recorded alike by Egyptians and...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...having won them over, deposed the eleven kings with these allies and those Egyptians who volunteered. 153. Having made himself master of all Egypt, he made the...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...inasmuch as it is more crooked. In Necos' reign, a hundred and twenty thousand Egyptians died digging it. Necos stopped work, stayed by a prophetic utterance that he...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...only strangers to the contest, and not Eleans.” Such was the counsel of the Egyptians to the Eleans. 161. Psammis reigned over Egypt for only six years; he invaded...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...had come to learn whether the Egyptians could discover any juster way. [3] The Egyptians deliberated, and then asked the Eleans if their own citizens took part in the...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...after explaining this, the Eleans said that they had come to learn whether the Egyptians could discover any juster way. [3] The Egyptians deliberated, and then asked...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...about this, may I keep the goodwill of gods and heroes! 46. This is why the Egyptians of whom I have spoken sacrifice no goats, male or female: the Mendesians reckon...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...a silly story which they tell about Heracles: that when he came to Egypt, the Egyptians crowned him and led him out in a procession to sacrifice him to Zeus; and for a...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...sacrificed victim has also come from Egypt. 58. It would seem, too, that the Egyptians were the first people to establish solemn assemblies, and processions, and...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...washing. Nearly all other peoples are less careful in this matter than are the Egyptians and Greeks, and consider a man to be like any other animal; [2] for beasts and...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...for Ares became a custom in the festival32. 64. Furthermore, it was the Egyptians who first made it a matter of religious observance not to have intercourse with...
Egyptians
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...Linus; so that of many things in Egypt that amaze me, one is: where did the Egyptians get Linus? Plainly they have always sung this song; but in Egyptian Linus is...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...When the river is in flood and flows over the plains, many lilies, which the Egyptians call lotus, grow in the water. They gather these and dry them in the sun; then...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...from these eggs at once come the fish. 94. So much, then, for the fish. The Egyptians who live around the marshes use an oil drawn from the castor-berry, which they...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...of both peoples; and the Colchians remembered the Egyptians better than the Egyptians remembered the Colchians; [2] the Egyptians said that they considered the...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...105. Listen to something else about the Colchians, in which they are like the Egyptians: they and the Egyptians alone work linen and have the same way of working it, a...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...was intersected. This king also (they said) divided the country among all the Egyptians by giving each an equal parcel of land, and made this his source of revenue...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...[2] Yet, although getting this, Menelaus was guilty of injustice toward the Egyptians. For adverse weather detained him when he tried to sail away; after this...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...with all the justice and fairness in the world, and claiming that even the Egyptians, although the wisest of all men, could not do better. [2] When the Eleans came...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...and told them that the image had been made out of the washbowl, in which Egyptians had once vomited and urinated and cleaned their feet, but which now they...
Egyptians
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...story which I heard from the priests of Hephaestus'2 temple at Memphis; the Greeks say among many foolish things that Psammetichus had the children reared by...
Greeks
78 Ilion ...seemed to me to have once been a gulf of the sea, just as the country about Ilion and Teuthrania and Ephesus and the plain of the Maeander, to compare these...
Ilion
78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Syrians ...neither the neighboring land of Arabia nor Libya, not even like Syria (for Syrians inhabit the seaboard of Arabia); it is a land of black and crumbling earth, as...
Syrians
77 37.5,37.5,0 Syrians ...that have from the first practised circumcision. [3] The Phoenicians and the Syrians of Palestine acknowledge that they learned the custom from the Egyptians, and...
Syrians
79 37.5,37.5,0 Syrians ...Palestine acknowledge that they learned the custom from the Egyptians, and the Syrians of the valleys of the Thermodon and the Parthenius, as well as their neighbors...
Syrians
81 37.5,37.5,0 Arabian gulf ...this extended from the northern sea towards Aethiopia, and the other, the Arabian gulf of which I shall speak, extended from the south towards Syria; the ends of...
Arabian gulf
76 50.9999999,27.0000001,0 Arabia ...is above Memphis; [2] besides, Egypt is like neither the neighboring land of Arabia nor Libya, not even like Syria (for Syrians inhabit the seaboard of Arabia); it...
Arabia
79 42.5,27.5,0 Arabia ...of Arabia nor Libya, not even like Syria (for Syrians inhabit the seaboard of Arabia); it is a land of black and crumbling earth, as if it were alluvial deposit...
Arabia
80 42.5,27.5,0 Arabia ...and Canobus, and that all the rest of Egypt is partly Libya and partly Arabia—if we follow this account, we can show that there was once no land for the...
Arabia
73 42.5,27.5,0 Pelusium ...from the so-called Watchtower of Perseus forty schoeni to the Salters' at Pelusium, while inland it stretches as far as the city of Cercasorus,11 where the Nile...
Pelusium
76 32.540631,31.042265,0 Delta ...15. Now if we agree with the opinion of the Ionians, who say that only the Delta is Egypt, and that its seaboard reaches from the so-called Watchtower of...
Delta
78 Greek land ...they themselves once said the Greeks would be; [3] for, learning that all the Greek land is watered by rain, but not by river water like theirs, they said that one day...
Greek land
80 Delta ...parts, Europe, Asia, and Libya; [2] they must add to these a fourth part, the Delta of Egypt, if it belongs neither to Asia nor to Libya; for by their showing the...
Delta
80 Europe ...Greeks cannot reckon truly, when they divide the whole earth into three parts, Europe, Asia, and Libya; [2] they must add to these a fourth part, the Delta of Egypt...
Europe
81 Cilicians ...by Egyptians, just as Cilicia and Assyria are the countries inhabited by Cilicians and Assyrians, and we know of no boundary line (rightly so called) below Asia...
Cilicians
75 33.25,36.25,0 Cataracts ...a part of Libya and the other of Asia. [3] For the Nile, beginning from the Cataracts, divides Egypt into two parts as it flows to the sea. Now, as far as the city...
Cataracts
78 33.97,17.677,0 Nile ...by their showing the Nile is not the river that separates Asia and Libya; the Nile divides at the apex of this Delta, so that this land must be between Asia and...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Cilicia ...is this: Egypt is all that country which is inhabited by Egyptians, just as Cilicia and Assyria are the countries inhabited by Cilicians and Assyrians, and we know...
Cilicia
78 33.25,36.25,0 Asia ...the Nile divides at the apex of this Delta, so that this land must be between Asia and Libya. 17. We leave the Ionians' opinion aside, and our own judgment about...
Asia
80 Asia ...parts, and to claim both the names, the one a part of Libya and the other of Asia. [3] For the Nile, beginning from the Cataracts, divides Egypt into two parts...
Asia
79 Ammon ...injunction of the religious law that forbade them to eat cows' meat, sent to Ammon saying that they had no part of or lot with Egypt: for they lived (they said)...
Ammon
79 25.54359,29.20514,0 Saïs ...in another chamber statues of Mycerinus' concubines stand, so the priests of Saïs said; and in fact there are about twenty colossal wooden figures there, made...
Saïs
79 30.7695,30.96716,0 Saïs ...to districts). 165. The Hermotubies are from the districts of Busiris, Saïs, Khemmis, and Papremis, the island called Prosopitis, and half of Natho—from...
Saïs
74 30.7695,30.96716,0 Saïs ...Athena, very near to the sanctuary, on the left of the entrance. The people of Saïs buried within the temple precinct all kings who were natives of their district...
Saïs
81 30.7695,30.96716,0 Saïs ...hewn from the same block, each of them twenty feet high. [2] There is at Saïs another stone figure of like size, supine as is the figure at Memphis. It was...
Saïs
75 30.7695,30.96716,0 Egyptian ...to know them, except the recorder of the sacred treasures of Athena in the Egyptian city of Saïs. [2] I thought he was joking when he said that he had exact...
Egyptian
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...beginning. But as to the sources of the Nile, no one that conversed with me, Egyptian, Libyan, or Greek, professed to know them, except the recorder of the sacred...
Egyptian
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Phoenicians ...divination; and she said that her sister had been sold in Libya by the same Phoenicians who sold her. 57. I expect that these women were called “doves” by the people...
Phoenicians
78 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...knew of Alexander's wanderings to Egypt; for Syria borders on Egypt, and the Phoenicians, to whom Sidon belongs, dwell in Syria. 117. These verses and this passage...
Phoenicians
79 35.25,33.25,0 Libyans ...and Apis, in the part of Egypt bordering on Libya, believing themselves to be Libyans and not Egyptians, and disliking the injunction of the religious law that...
Libyans
80 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...the Pelasgians, except Poseidon, the knowledge of whom they learned from the Libyans. [3] Alone of all nations the Libyans have had among them the name of Poseidon...
Libyans
79 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...of Soloeis, which is the end of Libya, is inhabited throughout its length by Libyans, many tribes of them, except the part held by Greeks and Phoenicians; the...
Libyans
79 26.5,31.5,0 Nasamonians ...little men of less than common stature, who took them and led them away. The Nasamonians did not know these men's language nor did the escort know the language of the...
Nasamonians
79 20.5,30.5,0 Tyre ...first became a city, and that was two thousand three hundred years ago. At Tyre I saw yet another temple of the so-called Thasian Heracles. [4] Then I went to...
Tyre
77 35.209358,33.268071,0 Tyre ...south of the temple of Hephaestus. [2] Around the precinct live Phoenicians of Tyre, and the whole place is called the Camp of the Tyrians. There is in the...
Tyre
81 35.209358,33.268071,0 Egyptian ...this: that Amphitryon and Alcmene, the parents of this Heracles, were both Egyptian by descent26 ; and that the Egyptians deny knowing the names Poseidon and the...
Egyptian
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...evidence that the name of Heracles did not come from Hellas to Egypt, but from Egypt to Hellas (and in Hellas to those Greeks who gave the name Heracles to the son...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Thebans ...of the Mendesian district sacrifice sheep, but will not touch goats. [3] The Thebans, and those who by the Theban example will not touch sheep, give the following...
Thebans
79 32.65285,25.70247,0 Pelasgians ...in the Samothracian mysteries. 52. Formerly, in all their sacrifices, the Pelasgians called upon gods without giving name or appellation to any (I know this...
Pelasgians
77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pelasgians ...Greeks to make ithyphallic images of Hermes, and they did this because the Pelasgians taught them. The Pelasgians told a certain sacred tale about this, which is set...
Pelasgians
77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pelasgians ...to be the most ancient in Hellas, was at that time the only one. [3] When the Pelasgians, then, asked at Dodona whether they should adopt the names that had come from...
Pelasgians
80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Dodona ...without giving name or appellation to any (I know this, because I was told at Dodona); for as yet they had not heard of such. They called them gods29 from the fact...
Dodona
80 20.78784,39.54648,0 Samothrace ...from the Pelasgians and now practice, understands what my meaning is. [3] Samothrace was formerly inhabited by those Pelasgians who came to live among the...
Samothrace
76 25.5302283,40.5009431,0 lake Moeris ...others do not, but treat them as enemies. Those who live near Thebes and lake Moeris consider them very sacred. [2] Every household raises one crocodile, trained to...
lake Moeris
75 30.580833,29.453611,0 Lacedaemonians ...and their only chant. 80. There is a custom, too, which no Greeks except the Lacedaemonians have in common with the Egyptians: younger men, encountering their elders...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Arabia ...[3] What they say this bird manages to do is incredible to me. Flying from Arabia to the temple of the sun, they say, he conveys his father encased in myrrh and...
Arabia
77 42.5,27.5,0 Ethiopian stone ...into the rest. [4] Then, making a cut near the flank with a sharp knife of Ethiopian stone, they take out all the intestines, and clean the belly, rinsing it with palm...
Ethiopian stone
77 38.721522,14.125005,0 Khemmis ...they traced descent from these down to Perseus. [6] They told how he came to Khemmis, too, when he came to Egypt for the reason alleged by the Greeks as...
Khemmis
79 31.746075,26.565878,0 Khemmis ...temple; but of things of second rank, the most wondrous is the island called Khemmis. [2] This lies in a deep and wide lake near the temple at Buto, and the...
Khemmis
79 31.746075,26.565878,0 Greeks ...he came to Khemmis, too, when he came to Egypt for the reason alleged by the Greeks as well—namely, to bring the Gorgon's head from Libya—and recognized all his...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Arkhandrus' town ...son of Phthius the Achaean, and son-in-law of Danaus; for it is called Arkhandrus' town. It may be that there was another Arkhandrus; but the name is not Egyptian...
Arkhandrus' town
73 30.39934,31.02814,0 Anthylla ...near the town of Anthylla and that which is called Arkhandrus' town. 98. Anthylla is a town of some reputation, and is especially assigned to the consort of the...
Anthylla
76 30.20803,31.16413,0 Anthylla ...the sea and Canobus to Naucratis will take you over the plain near the town of Anthylla and that which is called Arkhandrus' town. 98. Anthylla is a town of some...
Anthylla
81 30.20803,31.16413,0 Asia ...103. He marched over the country doing this until he had crossed over from Asia to Europe and defeated the Scythians and Thracians. Thus far and no farther, I...
Asia
78 Egyptian ...a bow in his left, and the rest of his equipment proportional; for it is both Egyptian and Ethiopian; [4] and right across the breast from one shoulder to the other a...
Egyptian
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Syria ...are no longer to be seen. But I myself saw them in the Palestine district of Syria, with the aforesaid writing and the women's private parts on them. [2] Also...
Syria
79 37.5,37.5,0 Sardis ...in rock, one on the road from Ephesus to Phocaea, and the other on that from Sardis to Smyrna. [3] In both places, the figure is over twenty feet high, with a...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Egyptian sea ...his own country; violent winds caught him in the Aegean and drove him into the Egyptian sea; and from there (as the wind did not let up) he came to Egypt, to the mouth of...
Egyptian sea
81 32.68554,31.15802,0 Scythians ...deeds of Sesostris the Egyptian; for Sesostris (he said) had subjugated the Scythians, besides as many nations as Darius had conquered, and Darius had not been able...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Trojans ...for what Proteus the Egyptian had. [4] But the Greeks, thinking that the Trojans were mocking them, laid siege to the city, until they took it; but there was no...
Trojans
75 26.23873,39.9577,0 Trojan land ...himself. [2] After the rape of Helen, a great force of Greeks came to the Trojan land on Menelaus' behalf. After disembarking and disposing their forces, they sent...
Trojan land
76 26.23873,39.9577,0 Egyptian ...was in Egypt, and they could not justly make reparation for what Proteus the Egyptian had. [4] But the Greeks, thinking that the Trojans were mocking them, laid...
Egyptian
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian stories ...led back again from the temple by the wolves to the same place. 123. These Egyptian stories are for the benefit of whoever believes such tales: my rule in this history is...
Egyptian stories
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...and that he was troubled by what he saw in his dream, Sabacos departed from Egypt of his own volition. 140. When the Ethiopian left Egypt, the blind man (it is...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Arabian town ...[2] It is fed by the Nile, and is carried from a little above Bubastis by the Arabian town of Patumus; it issues into the Red Sea. Digging began in the part of the...
Arabian town
80 42.5,27.5,0 Syrian city ...his land army met and defeated the Syrians at Magdolus,66 taking the great Syrian city of Cadytis67 after the battle. [3] He sent to Branchidae of Miletus and...
Syrian city
77 37.5,37.5,0 Red Sea ...of war were built on the northern sea, and some in the Arabian Gulf, by the Red Sea coast: the winches for landing these can still be seen. [2] He used these ships...
Red Sea
78 39.5,19.0,0 Red Sea ...Now the shortest and most direct passage from the northern to the southern or Red Sea is from the Casian promontory, the boundary between Egypt and Syria, to the...
Red Sea
80 39.5,19.0,0 Tanis ...166. The Kalasiries are from the districts of Thebes , Bubastis, Aphthis, Tanis, Mendes, Sebennys, Athribis, Pharbaïthis, Thmuis, Onuphis, Anytis, Myecphoris...
Tanis
77 31.0427,29.3698,0 Onuphis ...Bubastis, Aphthis, Tanis, Mendes, Sebennys, Athribis, Pharbaïthis, Thmuis, Onuphis, Anytis, Myecphoris (this last is in an island opposite the city of Bubastis）—...
Onuphis
81 30.93444,30.87394,0 Aeolian city ...the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene. [3] It is to these that the precinct belongs, and these are the...
Aeolian city
76 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Egyptian ...was twenty thousand. [2] It was Amasis also who made the law that every Egyptian declare his means of livelihood to the ruler of his district annually, and that...
Egyptian
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Teos ...which is called the Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus...
Teos
80 26.785014,38.177262,0 Persians ...you, men of Babylon, and as a great bane to Darius and to his army and to the Persians; for he shall not get away with having mutilated me so; and I know all the...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...deserving of prison, you have bound and imprisoned me; but when you see the Persians throwing you out of house and home, you have no courage to avenge yourself...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...he was a man of influence in his own country as well as in Persia. 138. The Persians then put out from Croton; but their ships were wrecked on the coast of Iapygia...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to enslave first?” [4] But the men of Croton paid no attention to them; so the Persians lost Democedes and the galley with which they had come, and sailed back for...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...rule reaches, the country north of the Caucasus paying no regard to the Persians); these were rendered every four years and are still rendered, namely, a...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the Hyrcanians, Parthians, Sarangians, and Thamanaei, but since the Persians have held power it has been the king's. [2] Now from the encircling mountains...
Persians
70 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the last roll to the scribe, in which was written: “King Darius instructs the Persians in Sardis to kill Oroetes.” Hearing this the spearmen drew their scimitars and...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and asked of him that when he had shown and made clear all of Greece to the Persians, he would come back; and he told him to take all his movable goods to give to...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...he had. [2] He honored him very much; every year he sent him such gifts as the Persians hold most precious, and let him govern Babylon all his life with no tribute to...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...When it was her turn to go to the Magus (for their wives go in sequence to the Persians), she came to his bed and felt for the Magus' ears while he slumbered deeply...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...not have left one Magus alive. [3] This day is the greatest holy day that all Persians alike keep; they celebrate a great festival on it, which they call the Massacre...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...made king (whether by lot, or entrusted with the office by the choice of the Persians, or in some other way), but I shall not compete with you; I desire neither to...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Egypt ...of her sons, said, [3] “Then, mother, when I am grown up, I will turn all Egypt upside down.” When he said this, he was about ten years old, and the women were...
Egypt
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...and so escaped to Persia. There he found Cambyses prepared to set out against Egypt, but in doubt as to his march, how he should cross the waterless desert; so...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...of those who sail to Egypt know. Earthen jars full of wine are brought into Egypt twice a year from all Greece and Phoenicia besides: yet one might safely say...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...a plan to punish Phanes, angered at him for leading a foreign army into Egypt. [2] Phanes had left sons in Egypt; these they brought to the camp, into their...
Egypt
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Arabians ...and are still rendered, namely, a hundred boys and as many maids. [5] The Arabians rendered a thousand talents' weight of frankincense yearly. Such were the gifts...
Arabians
76 42.5,27.5,0 Arabians ...into Egypt, which the Persians could not enter without the consent of the Arabians. [2] Darius took wives from the noblest houses of Persia, marrying Cyrus'...
Arabians
76 42.5,27.5,0 Halicarnassian ...to this campaign. There was among Amasis' mercenaries a man who was a Halicarnassian by birth, a clever man and a good soldier, whose name was Phanes. [2] This...
Halicarnassian
72 27.424112,37.037864,0 Persia ...to marry his sister; but that they had found a law permitting the King of Persia to do whatever he liked. [5] Thus, although they feared Cambyses they did not...
Persia
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Egypt ...readily sent to Samos, asking Polycrates to send a fleet to aid him against Egypt. Polycrates chose those men whom he most suspected of planning a rebellion...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...Indians who are called Callatiae,18 who eat their parents, and asked them (the Greeks being present and understanding through interpreters what was said) what would...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Nile ...places. 10. Psammenitus, son of Amasis, was encamped by the mouth of the Nile called Pelusian, awaiting Cambyses. [2] For when Cambyses marched against...
Nile
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...are two tales of her death, as there are of the death of Smerdis. The Greeks say that Cambyses had set a lion cub to fight a puppy, and that this woman was...
Greeks
72 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Corys ...tale also, since they tell it. There is a great river in Arabia called Corys, emptying into the sea called Red. [3] From this river (it is said) the king of...
Corys
73 Carchedonians ...them in vain. 17. After this Cambyses planned three expeditions, against the Carchedonians,8 against the Ammonians, and against the “long-lived”9 Ethiopians, who inhabit...
Carchedonians
80 10.327986,36.857569,0 Ethiopians ...the Carchedonians,8 against the Ammonians, and against the “long-lived”9 Ethiopians, who inhabit that part of Libya that is on the southern sea. [2] He decided...
Ethiopians
75 38.721522,14.125005,0 Phoenicians ...being enslaved by the Persians; for Cambyses would not use force with the Phoenicians, seeing that they had willingly surrendered to the Persians, and the whole...
Phoenicians
76 35.25,33.25,0 Ethiopians ...the King of the Persians to bring overwhelming odds to attack the long-lived Ethiopians when the Persians can draw a bow of this length as easily as I do; but until...
Ethiopians
79 38.721522,14.125005,0 Cyprians ...to the Persians, and the whole fleet drew its strength from them. The Cyprians too had come of their own accord to aid the Persians against Egypt. 20. When...
Cyprians
72 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Persian ...spies, spoke thus to them: “It is not because he values my friendship that the Persian King sends you with gifts, nor do you speak the truth (for you have come to spy...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Ethiopian ...full age to which a man might hope to live was eighty years. Then, said the Ethiopian, it was no wonder that they lived so few years, if they ate dung;11 they would...
Ethiopian
78 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopian ...excelled the Ethiopians. 23. The Fish-eaters then in turn asking of the Ethiopian length of life and diet, he said that most of them attained to a hundred and...
Ethiopian
75 38.721522,14.125005,0 Thebes ...were, and taking with him all his land army. [3] When he came in his march to Thebes , he detached about fifty thousand men from his army, and directed them to...
Thebes
80 32.65285,25.70247,0 Susa ...all his misfortune, he sprang upon his horse, with intent to march at once to Susa against the Magus. [3] As he sprang upon his horse, the cap fell off the sheath...
Susa
80 48.24854,32.19202,0 Ammonian ...masses of sand which it bore; and so they disappeared from sight. Such is the Ammonian tale about this army. 27. When Cambyses was back at Memphis, there appeared in...
Ammonian
80 25.54359,29.20514,0 Oasis ...from Oasis to attack them, and were about midway between their country and Oasis, while they were breakfasting a great and violent south wind arose, which...
Oasis
77 30.73046277641199,25.596754764260208,0 Indians ...for before that everyone who falls ill they kill. 100. There are other Indians, again, who kill no living creature, nor plant anything, nor are accustomed to...
Indians
74 77.5,22.5,0 Massagetae ...own country so well, and gave fine advice to my father—telling him, when the Massagetae were willing to cross over into our lands, to pass the Araxes and attack them...
Massagetae
79 62.5,37.5,0 Samos ...wore a seal set in gold, an emerald, crafted by Theodorus son of Telecles of Samos; [2] being resolved to cast this away, he embarked in a fifty-oared ship with...
Samos
79 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...was they who, being his captives, dug all the trench around the acropolis of Samos. 40. Now Amasis was somehow aware of Polycrates' great good fortune; and as...
Samos
79 26.84,37.73,0 Milesians ...others, he conquered the Lesbians; they had brought all their force to aid the Milesians, and Polycrates defeated them in a sea-fight; it was they who, being his...
Milesians
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Lacedaemonian ...sallied out near the upper tower on the ridge of the hill and withstood the Lacedaemonian advance for a little while; then they fled back, with the Lacedaemonians...
Lacedaemonian
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Samos ...found what he cast away, must come to an evil end. [2] So he sent a herald to Samos to renounce his friendship, determined that when some great and terrible...
Samos
80 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...escaped from the guard that was set over them. [2] But as they sailed back to Samos, Polycrates' ships met and engaged them; and the returning Samians were...
Samos
80 26.84,37.73,0 Corcyra ...and aware that he could no longer oversee and direct all his affairs, sent to Corcyra inviting Lycophron to be sovereign; for he saw no hope in his eldest son, who...
Corcyra
80 19.92178,39.60733,0 Corinthians ...would not allow the suppliants to be dragged from the temple; and when the Corinthians tried to starve the boys out, the Samians held a festival which they still...
Corinthians
77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corcyraeans ...got ready to go to Corcyra and Lycophron to go to Corinth; but when the Corcyraeans learned of all these matters, they put the young man to death so that Periander...
Corcyraeans
74 19.92178,39.60733,0 Corinthians ...counterpart of that one which Amasis dedicated to Athena in Lindus. 48. The Corinthians also enthusiastically helped to further the expedition against Samos. For an...
Corinthians
79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Sparta ...while his servants were cleaning these, he would converse with the king of Sparta, Cleomenes son of Anaxandrides, and would bring him to his house. As Cleomenes...
Sparta
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Siphnians ...messengers, then, demanded from the Siphnians a loan of ten talents; when the Siphnians refused them, the Samians set about ravaging their lands. [4] Hearing this the...
Siphnians
80 24.70109,36.9678,0 Troezen ...the island Hydrea which is near to the Peloponnesus, and gave it to men of Troezen for safekeeping; they themselves settled at Cydonia in Crete, though their...
Troezen
77 23.34845,37.50303,0 Cydonia ...[2] Here they stayed and prospered for five years; indeed, the temples now at Cydonia and the shrine of Dictyna are the Samians' work; [3] but in the sixth year...
Cydonia
80 24.019611,35.517333,0 Cydonia ...and gave it to men of Troezen for safekeeping; they themselves settled at Cydonia in Crete, though their voyage had been made with no such intent, but rather to...
Cydonia
76 24.019611,35.517333,0 Hydrea ...the Samians took from the men of Hermione, instead of money, the island Hydrea which is near to the Peloponnesus, and gave it to men of Troezen for...
Hydrea
74 23.46048,37.32924,0 Median ...Cambyses supposed this to signify that he would die in old age at the Median Ecbatana, his capital city; but as the event proved, the oracle prophesied his...
Median
72 46.5,34.5,0 Persian ...what you were told like a good man you are free of blame; but who can this Persian be who rebels against me and usurps the name of Smerdis?” [4] Prexaspes...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Asiatics ...he benefitted all his subjects to such an extent that after his death all the Asiatics except the Persians wished him back; for he sent to every nation he ruled and...
Asiatics
80 Babylonian ...him yearly. Those that paid in silver were required to render the weight of a Babylonian talent; those that paid in gold, of a Euboic talent; the Babylonian talent...
Babylonian
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylonians ...he contracted in his genitals. 150. While the fleet was away at Samos, the Babylonians revolted.41 They had made very good preparation; for during the reign of the...
Babylonians
78 44.42082,32.53617,0 Euboic ...to render the weight of a Babylonian talent; those that paid in gold, of a Euboic talent; the Babylonian talent being equal to seventy-eight Euboic minae. [3] In...
Euboic
77 23.87,38.53,0 Persia ...onward, like a river in flood? [3] Let those like democracy who wish ill to Persia; but let us choose a group of the best men and invest these with the power. For...
Persia
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Cilicia ...paid three hundred and sixty talents of tribute. [3] The fourth province was Cilicia. This rendered three hundred and sixty white horses, one for each day in the...
Cilicia
79 35.75,38.25,0 Cilician ...the Arabians, which paid no tribute) between Posideion, a city founded on the Cilician and Syrian border by Amphilochus son of Amphiaraus, and Egypt; this paid three...
Cilician
80 33.25,36.25,0 Hytennians ...as his first province. The Mysians, Lydians, Lasonians, Cabalians, and Hytennians paid five hundred talents; this was the second province. [2] The third...
Hytennians
73 Sattagydae ...the Persians quartered at the White Wall of Memphis and their allies. [4] The Sattagydae, Gandarii, Dadicae, and Aparytae paid together a hundred and seventy talents...
Sattagydae
80 67.5,37.5,0 Gandarii ...quartered at the White Wall of Memphis and their allies. [4] The Sattagydae, Gandarii, Dadicae, and Aparytae paid together a hundred and seventy talents; this was...
Gandarii
79 87.5,22.5,0 Dadicae ...at the White Wall of Memphis and their allies. [4] The Sattagydae, Gandarii, Dadicae, and Aparytae paid together a hundred and seventy talents; this was the seventh...
Dadicae
79 72.5,37.5,0 lake Moeris ...came seven hundred talents, besides the income in silver from the fish of the lake Moeris; [3] besides that silver and the assessment of grain that was given also, seven...
lake Moeris
80 30.580833,29.453611,0 Cyprus ...this province was all Phoenicia, and the part of Syria called Palestine, and Cyprus. [2] The sixth province was Egypt and the neighboring parts of Libya, and...
Cyprus
79 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Orthocorybantians ...the ninth province; Ecbatana and the rest of Media, with the Paricanians and Orthocorybantians, paid four hundred and fifty talents, and was the tenth province. [2] The...
Orthocorybantians
79 Thessaly ...on he drew tribute also from the islands and the dwellers in Europe, as far as Thessaly. [2] The tribute is stored by the king in this fashion: he melts it down and...
Thessaly
81 22.2,39.6,0 Hellas ...it, for he was afraid that if he revealed himself he would be cut off from Hellas for good. [2] It was clear to Darius, however, that he was trained in deceit,39...
Hellas
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...Persians, and instructed them to go with Democedes and sail along the coast of Hellas; telling them, too, by all means to bring the physician back and not let him...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...back for Asia, making no attempt to visit and learn of the further parts of Hellas now that their guide was taken from them. [5] But Democedes gave them a message...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Eridanus ...any knowledge of Tin Islands, where our tin is brought from. [2] The very name Eridanus betrays itself as not a foreign but a Greek name, invented by some poet; nor...
Eridanus
81 Argive ...those of Croton, and next to them those of Cyrene. About the same time the Argives had the name of being the best musicians]. 132. So now because he had healed...
Argive
77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Tarentum ...and sent a messenger to the men of Cnidos, telling them to take Gillus back to Tarentum. They obeyed Darius; but they could not persuade the Tarentines, and were not...
Tarentum
81 17.228553,40.476034,0 Persian ...it clear and turned it over uninhabited to Syloson. But afterwards Otanes, the Persian general, helped to settle the land, prompted by a dream and a disease that he...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Peloponnesians ...determine the lot of Athenian colonies, and as they resisted vehemently, the Peloponnesians yielded. [4] It accordingly came about that they admitted to their alliance the...
Peloponnesians
79 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Plataeans ...Paleans, and Aeginetans; [5] next to the Sacae, and opposite the Athenians, Plataeans, Megarians, the Boeotians, Locrians, Malians, Thessalians, and the thousand...
Plataeans
78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Peloponnesian ...always had the right to hold this position in all campaigns, of the united Peloponnesian armies, both ancient and recent, ever since that time when the Heraclidae after...
Peloponnesian
77 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesian ...that this should be so, swore a compact that if Hyllus should overcome the Peloponnesian champion, the Heraclidae should return to the land of their fathers, but if he...
Peloponnesian
77 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesians ...army would come to their aid, they remained in Attica. But when the Peloponnesians took longer and longer to act and the invader was said to be in Boeotia...
Peloponnesians
70 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Plataean ...Aeginetans' desire, by their patron and protector Cleades son of Autodicus, a Plataean. 86. As soon as the Greeks had buried their dead at Plataea, they resolved in...
Plataean
80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Thermopylae ...and the Sepiad headland. 184. Until the whole host reached this place and Thermopylae it suffered no hurt, and calculation proves to me that its numbers were still...
Thermopylae
77 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thermopylae ...this stream is the narrowest place; there is only space for a single cart-way. Thermopylae is fifteen furlongs away from the river Phoenix. [2] Between the river and...
Thermopylae
81 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thermopylae ...son Cleombrotus and had married Cleomenes' daughter. [2] He now came to Thermopylae with the appointed three hundred he had selected,107 all of whom had sons. He...
Thermopylae
74 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thermopylae ...be decided so quickly. 207. This is what they intended, but the Hellenes at Thermopylae, when the Persians drew near the pass, fearfully took counsel whether to...
Thermopylae
79 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thermopylae ...came to speak with him and told him of the path leading over the mountain to Thermopylae. In so doing he caused the destruction of the Hellenes remaining there. [2]...
Thermopylae
79 22.538294,38.796511,0 Macedonians ...nations—Thracians, Paeonians, Eordi, Bottiaei, Chalcidians, Brygi, Pierians, Macedonians, Perrhaebi, Enienes, Dolopes, Magnesians, Achaeans, dwellers on the coast of...
Macedonians
79 21.75,41.25,0 Thermopylae ...the same at the Phoenix stream, near the town of Anthele. [3] To the west89 of Thermopylae rises a high mountain, inaccessible and precipitous, a spur of Oeta; to the...
Thermopylae
81 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thermopylae ...here, however, but elsewhere that the way is narrowest, namely, in front of Thermopylae and behind it; at Alpeni, which lies behind, it is only the breadth of a...
Thermopylae
78 22.538294,38.796511,0 Delphi ...was choosing his army and Xerxes was in Thessaly, there came an oracle from Delphi to the Lacedaemonians, that they should demand justice of Xerxes for the...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...dead, and their shields, of which they dedicated half at Abae and the rest at Delphi. [5] A tithe of what they won in that fight went to the making of the great...
Delphi
80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphians ...said, had come after them, slaying and pursuing. 39. These two, say the Delphians, were the native heroes Phylacus and Autonous, whose precincts are near the...
Delphians
75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphians ...of the chamber within and laid before the shrine. [2] So he went to tell the Delphians of this miracle, but when the barbarians came with all speed near to the temple...
Delphians
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Macedonia ...flood that the riders could not cross. So the brothers came to another part of Macedonia and settled near the place called the garden of Midas son of Gordias, where...
Macedonia
81 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonian ...blossoms and of surpassing fragrance. [3] In this garden, according to the Macedonian story, Silenus was taken captive. Above it rises the mountain called Bermius...
Macedonian
77 21.75,41.25,0 Boeotians ...place; the reason of the safeguarding was that Xerxes should see that the Boeotians were on the Persian side. 35. So this part of the barbarian army marched as I...
Boeotians
76 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Peloponnese ...state of affairs. [2] They expected to find the entire population of the Peloponnese in Boeotia awaiting the barbarian, but they found no such thing. They learned...
Peloponnese
75 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...and burnt the city of the Thespians, who had abandoned it and gone to the Peloponnese, and Plataea likewise. Now the army had come to Athens and was devastating...
Peloponnese
76 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...Their land army will accompany their fleet, and so you will lead them to the Peloponnese and risk all Hellas. 60B. But if you do what I say, you will find it useful in...
Peloponnese
79 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...Eleusis to help the Athenians and their allies. [3] If it descends upon the Peloponnese, the king himself and his army on the mainland will be endangered. If, however...
Peloponnese
78 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...at sea, but keep your ships here and stay near land, or even advance into the Peloponnese, then, my lord, you will easily accomplish what you had in mind on coming here...
Peloponnese
80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...71. That very night the land army of the barbarians began marching to the Peloponnese. Yet every possible device had been used to prevent the barbarians from...
Peloponnese
77 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...days, the Arcadians and Cynurians. One nation, the Achaean, has never left the Peloponnese, but it has left its own country and inhabits another nation's land. [2] The...
Peloponnese
81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Hellespont ...they attack with their ships and prevail in a sea-fight, and then sail to the Hellespont and destroy your bridge, that, O king, is the hour of peril. 10C. It is from no...
Hellespont
80 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...into the sea. I have even heard that he sent branders with them to brand the Hellespont. [2] He commanded them while they whipped to utter words outlandish and...
Hellespont
79 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...was pleased with the race and with his expedition. 45. When he saw the whole Hellespont covered with ships, and all the shores and plains of Abydos full of men, Xerxes...
Hellespont
80 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...crossing, with no pause. [2] It is said that when Xerxes had now crossed the Hellespont, a man of the Hellespont cried, “O Zeus, why have you taken the likeness of a...
Hellespont
79 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...everywhere in Thrace and on the Hellespont. [2] All of these in Thrace and the Hellespont, except the governor of Doriscus, were after this expedition captured by the...
Hellespont
81 26.4,40.2,0 Peloponnese ...at length on the same matters as before: some said they must sail away to the Peloponnese and risk battle for that country, not stay and fight for a captured land; but...
Peloponnese
80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...that they themselves with the rest of the Dorians must be driven out of the Peloponnese by the Medes and the Athenians, they were greatly afraid that the Athenians...
Peloponnese
78 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Ister ...these rivers aforesaid, and many others, too, as its tributaries, the Ister becomes the greatest river of all, while river for river the Nile surpasses it...
Ister
72 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...snow that has fallen in winter melts and pours from all sides into the Ister; so this snow-melt pours into the river and helps to swell it and much violent...
Ister
73 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...appears always the same. 51. One of the rivers of the Scythians, then, is the Ister. The next is the Tyras;28 this comes from the north, flowing at first out of a...
Ister
81 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...the Ister, and give its measurements. The ancient Scythian land begins at the Ister and faces south and the south wind, as far as the city called Carcinitis. [3]...
Ister
80 29.647293,45.16291,0 Tyras ...from the sea, I shall name. There is the Ister, which has five mouths, and the Tyras, and Hypanis, and Borysthenes, and Panticapes, and Hypacuris, and Gerrhus, and...
Tyras
81 29.613982,46.8329732,0 Ister ...rivers that help to swell it; but the Maris river, which commingles with the Ister, flows from the Agathyrsi. The Atlas, Auras, and Tibisis, three other great...
Ister
79 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...of the Scythians found the Persians about a three days' march distant from the Ister; and having found them they camped a day's march ahead of the enemy and set...
Ister
81 29.647293,45.16291,0 Haemus ...of the Crobyzi in Thrace; the Cius river, which cuts through the middle of Haemus, from the Paeonians and the mountain range of Rhodope. [2] The Angrus river...
Haemus
77 24.91728,42.7168715,0 Angrus ...of Haemus, from the Paeonians and the mountain range of Rhodope. [2] The Angrus river flows north from Illyria into the Triballic plain and the Brongus river...
Angrus
75 Cius ...the Artanes flow into the Ister from the country of the Crobyzi in Thrace; the Cius river, which cuts through the middle of Haemus, from the Paeonians and the...
Cius
81 23.5370147,42.5159742,0 Rhodope ...through the middle of Haemus, from the Paeonians and the mountain range of Rhodope. [2] The Angrus river flows north from Illyria into the Triballic plain and the...
Rhodope
77 22.5,42.5,0 Gerrhan ...besides. [4] Its course is from the north, and it is known as far as the Gerrhan land; that is, for forty days' voyage; beyond that, no one can say through what...
Gerrhan
75 Woodland ...every part of the country, until at last he came to the land called the Woodland, and there he found in a cave a creature of double form that was half maiden...
Woodland
74 32.5,46.5,0 Samos ...these, and not armies, were gifts for women. 163. Meanwhile Arcesilaus was in Samos, collecting all the men that he could and promising them a new division of...
Samos
81 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...Hellespont and Pontus, that this Salmoxis was a man who was once a slave in Samos, his master being Pythagoras son of Mnesarchus; [2] then, after being freed and...
Samos
78 26.84,37.73,0 Propontis ...stades long. The Bosporus reaches as far as to the Propontis; [4] and the Propontis is five hundred stades wide and one thousand four hundred long; its outlet is...
Propontis
76 28.2499999,40.6666672,0 Thermodon ...make eleven thousand stades. [3] From the Sindic region to Themiscura on the Thermodon river (the greatest width of the Pontus) it is a voyage of three days and two...
Thermodon
79 36.9424975,41.1939559,0 Samos ...Pontus, Darius sailed back to the bridge, whose architect was Mandrocles of Samos; and when he had viewed the Bosporus also, he set up two pillars of white...
Samos
78 26.84,37.73,0 Themiscura ...orguiai, which make eleven thousand stades. [3] From the Sindic region to Themiscura on the Thermodon river (the greatest width of the Pontus) it is a voyage of...
Themiscura
76 36.967737,41.215176,0 Getae ...great piles of stones. 93. But before he came to the Ister, he first took the Getae, who pretend to be immortal. The Thracians of Salmydessus and of the country...
Getae
81 25.5,44.5,0 Euxine ...place, one from the town of Heraeum near Perinthus, one from Apollonia on the Euxine sea; each is a two days' journey. This Tearus is a tributary of the Contadesdus...
Euxine
80 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Heraeum ...from the same rock. [2] There are two roads to the place, one from the town of Heraeum near Perinthus, one from Apollonia on the Euxine sea; each is a two days'...
Heraeum
81 27.742027,41.023945,0 Aeolians ...for him, bridging the river meanwhile; for the fleet was led by Ionians and Aeolians and men of the Hellespont. [2] So the fleet passed between the Dark Rocks and...
Aeolians
78 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Milesian ...Darius had this man stand on the bank of the Ister and call to Histiaeus the Milesian. This the Egyptian did; Histiaeus heard and answered the first shout, and sent...
Milesian
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Lacedaemon ...when he had had a taste of supreme power, and said he would no longer stay in Lacedaemon but would sail away to his family. [4] On the island now called Thera, but then...
Lacedaemon
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Calchedonians ...their town seventeen years before the Byzantines had founded theirs, that the Calchedonians must at that time have been blind, for had they not been, they would never have...
Calchedonians
80 29.025789,40.983393,0 Teügetum ...out of Lemnos by them, they sailed away to Lacedaemon, and there camped on Teügetum and kindled a fire. [3] Seeing it, the Lacedaemonians sent a messenger to...
Teügetum
77 22.3503405,36.9528148,0 Lepreum ...they divided themselves into six companies and established the cities of Lepreum, Macistus, Phrixae, Pyrgus, Epium, and Nudium in the land they had won;48 most...
Lepreum
75 21.724777,37.439599,0 Phoenicians ...do so, he left on this island his own relation Membliarus together with other Phoenicians. [5] These dwelt on the island of Calliste for eight generations before Theras...
Phoenicians
80 35.25,33.25,0 Macistus ...divided themselves into six companies and established the cities of Lepreum, Macistus, Phrixae, Pyrgus, Epium, and Nudium in the land they had won;48 most of these...
Macistus
79 21.6758,37.6047,0 Cyrene ...their most valued citizen, whose name was Demonax. [3] When this man came to Cyrene and learned everything, he divided the people into three tribes;56 of which the...
Cyrene
79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...Pheretime came to him, asking him for an army to bring her and her son back to Cyrene; [4] Evelthon was willing to give her everything else, only not an army, and...
Cyrene
81 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...the land of the Cinyps region yields three hundredfold. 199. The country of Cyrene, which is the highest part of the Libya that the nomads inhabit, has the...
Cyrene
79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...rest of the Barcaeans, and went home. When they appeared before the city of Cyrene, the Cyrenaeans let them pass through their city, so that a certain oracle...
Cyrene
78 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...been sent against Barce and no other Greek city; at last they passed through Cyrene and camped on the hill of Lycaean Zeus; there they regretted not having taken...
Cyrene
79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Argolic ...talents, a tenth of their profit, and made a bronze vessel with it, like an Argolic cauldron, with griffins' heads projecting from the rim all around; they set...
Argolic
78 22.719464,37.631561,0 Cretans ...which the Theraeans and dispossessed Libyans were one, the Peloponnesians and Cretans the second, and all the islanders the third; furthermore, he set apart certain...
Cretans
80 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Salamis ...and banished to Samos, and his mother fled to Salamis in Cyprus. [3] Now Salamis at this time was ruled by Evelthon, who dedicated that marvellous censer at...
Salamis
75 33.90294,35.17926,0 Cyprus ...these left the country altogether; others, Arcesilaus seized and sent away to Cyprus to be killed there. These were carried off their course to Cnidus, where the...
Cyprus
80 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Cnidians ...to be killed there. These were carried off their course to Cnidus, where the Cnidians saved them and sent them to Thera. Others of the Cyrenaeans fled for refuge...
Cnidians
79 27.37404,36.686188,0 Nasamones ...they take the dust of the earth and lick it up. 173. On the borders of the Nasamones is the country of the Psylli, who perished in this way: the force of the south...
Nasamones
78 20.5,30.5,0 Nasamones ...190. The dead are buried by the nomads in Greek fashion, except by the Nasamones. They bury their dead sitting, being careful to make the dying man sit when he...
Nasamones
74 20.5,30.5,0 Nasamones ...placed before the dwelling, and then they have intercourse. When a man of the Nasamones weds, on the first night the bride must by custom lie with each of the whole...
Nasamones
80 20.5,30.5,0 Garamantes ...and the Nasamones have their country. 174. Inland of these to the south, the Garamantes live in wild beast country. They shun the sight and fellowship of men, and have...
Garamantes
80 13.5,27.5,0 Augila ...of the Ammonians, and springs of water, where men live; this place is called Augila; it is to this that the Nasamones come to gather palm-fruit. 183. After ten...
Augila
79 21.290963,29.127566,0 Corinthian ...are set fighting, the whole people choose the fairest maid, and arm her with a Corinthian helmet and Greek panoply, to be then mounted on a chariot and drawn all along...
Corinthian
81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Thebes ...desert and inland from the wild beasts' country. The first on the journey from Thebes , ten days distant from there, are the Ammonians, who follow the worship of the...
Thebes
81 32.65285,25.70247,0 Phoenicians ...in the north and the Ethiopians in the south of Libya are aboriginal; the Phoenicians and Greeks are later settlers. 198. In my opinion, there is in no part of...
Phoenicians
76 35.25,33.25,0 Caryanda ...where this Indus empties into the sea, sent ships manned by Scylax, a man of Caryanda, and others whose word he trusted; [2] these set out from the city of...
Caryanda
79 27.378,37.1263,0 Paeonians ...then, is what the Perinthians had previously suffered at the hands of the Paeonians. Now they fought like brave men for their liberty, but Megabazus and the...
Paeonians
76 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...discovered what he was doing, and upon his arrival at Sardis with the Paeonians, he said to Darius, [2] ” Sire, what is this that you have done? You have...
Paeonians
72 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...his plan, but rather to vex king Darius). He sent a man into Phrygia, to the Paeonians who had been led captive from the Strymon by Megabazus, and now dwelt in a...
Paeonians
79 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...pursuit. Unable to overtake them, the Persians sent to Chios, commanding the Paeonians to go back. The Paeonians would not consent to this, but were brought from...
Paeonians
79 21.75,41.75,0 Thracians ...this, believing themselves to be deeply dishonored. 6. Among the rest of the Thracians, it is the custom to sell their children for export and to take no care of...
Thracians
80 27.5,42.5,0 Thrace ...numbers. [2] When Perinthus had been taken, Megabazus marched his army through Thrace, subduing to the king's will every city and every people of that region. For...
Thrace
81 27.5,42.5,0 Thracians ...For this, the conquest of Thrace, was the charge given him by Darius. 3. The Thracians are the biggest nation in the world, next to the Indians. If they were under...
Thracians
80 27.5,42.5,0 Milesians ...affairs as they had of their own, and they ordained that the rest of the Milesians who had been at feud should obey these men. 30. It was in this way that the...
Milesians
75 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...the army but remained at Miletus, and appointed others to be generals of the Milesians, namely his own brother Charopinus and another citizen named Hermophantus...
Milesians
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...accord. For myself, I cannot even go so far as to believe the report that the Milesians and my vicegerent are doing you some dreadful wrong. If, however,it is true...
Milesians
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Macedonians ...providing food and bedfellows.” [5] With that, Alexander seated each of his Macedonians next to a Persian, as though they were women, and when the Persians began to...
Macedonians
78 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonians ...and when the Persians began to lay hands on them, they were killed by the Macedonians. 21. This was the way in which they perished, they and all their retinue...
Macedonians
76 21.75,41.25,0 Naxians ...Megabates, who, went night fell, sent men in a boat to Naxos to tell the Naxians of the trouble in store for them. 34. Now the Naxians had no suspicion at all...
Naxians
75 25.52001,37.127,0 Cyprus ...after no long deliberation, came with a great force. So the Ionians were in Cyprus when the Persians, crossing from Cilicia, marched to Salamis by land, and the...
Cyprus
78 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Cyprus ...the Phoenicians, do so, but whichever you choose, see to it that Ionia and Cyprus become free.” [3] To this the Ionians answered, “We were sent by the common...
Cyprus
77 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Chios ...the Naxians, pretended to be sailing to the Hellespont, but when he came to Chios, he put in with his ships at Caucasa14 so that he might cross with a north wind...
Chios
78 26.053,38.414,0 Euboea ...called Cyclades. [3] Making these your starting point, you will easily attack Euboea, which is a great and a wealthy island, no smaller than Cyprus and very easy to...
Euboea
80 23.87,38.53,0 Delphi ...Parian marble. 63. These men, as the Athenians say, established themselves at Delphi and bribed the Pythian priestess to bid any Spartans who should come to inquire...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...took, and the Thebans, desiring vengeance on Athens, afterwards appealed to Delphi for advice. The Pythian priestess said that the Thebans themselves would not be...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Erycine ...no more than that which he set out to do, he would have taken and held the Erycine region without bringing about the death of himself and his army. [2] The...
Erycine
77 12.5919,38.03528,0 Elean ...by no stranger in their war with Sybaris with the exception of Callias, an Elean diviner of the Iamid clan. About him there was a story that he had fled to...
Elean
77 15.15732,40.160423,0 Ionians ...Ionians furnished a hundred ships; their equipment was like the Greek. These Ionians, as long as they were in the Peloponnese, dwelt in what is now called Achaia...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...as the Greeks say, they were called Aegialian Pelasgians.46 They were named Ionians after Ion the son of Xuthus. 95. The islanders provided seventeen ships and...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...it died down on its own. They sacrificed to Thetis after hearing from the Ionians the story that it was from this place that Peleus had carried her off and that...
Ionians
76 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...in all your pronouncements you are most mistaken when you fear that the Ionians might change sides; we have the surest guarantee for them, and you and all who...
Ionians
74 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Indians ...of the east37 (for there were two kinds of them in the army) served with the Indians; they were not different in appearance from the others, only in speech and...
Indians
79 77.5,22.5,0 Sacae ...that is the Persian name for all Scythians. The commander of the Bactrians and Sacae was Hystaspes, son of Darius and Cyrus' daughter Atossa. 65. The Indians wore...
Sacae
81 72.5,37.5,0 Aeolians ...and hold their sons, those who dwell in our land and are called Ionians and Aeolians and Dorians. [2] I myself have made trial of these men, when by your father's...
Aeolians
78 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Sacae ...do. [2] It would be strange indeed if we who have subdued and made slaves of Sacae and Indians and Ethiopians and Assyrians and many other great nations, for no...
Sacae
79 72.5,37.5,0 Scythians ...surest guarantee for them, and you and all who marched with Darius against the Scythians can bear witness. They had the power to destroy or to save the whole Persian...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Attica ...prepare for no sea fight, and, in short, offer no resistance at all, but leave Attica and settle in some other country. 144. The advice of Themistocles had...
Attica
81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Phrygian ...that will befall me when I march against these Greeks—men that even Pelops the Phrygian, the slave of my forefathers, did so utterly subdue that to this day they and...
Phrygian
81 29.75,38.75,0 Hellas ...I lay upon you this disgrace, that you will not go with me and my army against Hellas, but will stay here with the women; I myself will accomplish all that I have...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...Thinking it over at night, he saw clearly that to send an army against Hellas was not his affair. He made this second resolve and fell asleep; then (so the...
Hellas
73 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...But since there is some divine motivation, and it seems that the gods mark Hellas for destruction, I myself change and correct my judgment. Now declare the gods'...
Hellas
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Thracians ...Artaphrenes son of Artaphrenes, who attacked Marathon with Datis. 75. The Thracians in the army wore fox-skin caps on their heads, and tunics on their bodies; over...
Thracians
77 27.5,42.5,0 Mysians ...until they changed their name and were called after Lydus son of Atys. The Mysians wore on their heads their native helmets, carrying small shields and javelins...
Mysians
77 28.25,38.75,0 Athos ...to the sea opposite Torone. [3] On this isthmus which is at the end of Athos, there stands a Greek town, Sane; there are others situated seaward of Sane and...
Athos
73 24.295147727272727,40.24683418181819,0 Athos ...by the sight of the sea below them. 37. When the bridges and the work at Athos were ready, and both the dikes at the canal's entrances, built to prevent the...
Athos
76 24.295147727272727,40.24683418181819,0 Athos ...Acrothoum, Thyssus, and Cleonae. 23. These are the towns situated on Athos. The foreigners dug as follows,14 dividing up the ground by nation: they made a...
Athos
72 24.295147727272727,40.24683418181819,0 Athos ...a Greek town, Sane; there are others situated seaward of Sane and landward of Athos, and the Persian now intended to make them into island and not mainland towns...
Athos
80 24.295147727272727,40.24683418181819,0 Athos ...and Megabyzus. 122. Now when the fleet had left Xerxes, it sailed through the Athos canal which reached to the gulf in which are located the towns of Assa...
Athos
81 24.295147727272727,40.24683418181819,0 Peneus ...and came down to the Ionian sea, marching southward as far as the river Peneus. 21. All these expeditions and whatever others have happened in addition could...
Peneus
74 21.75,39.75,0 Elaeus ...three years preparations had been underway there. Triremes were anchored off Elaeus in the Chersonese; with these for their headquarters, all sorts of men in the...
Elaeus
79 26.220385,40.051661,0 Ionian sea ...the Bosporus into Europe,13 subdued all the Thracians, and came down to the Ionian sea, marching southward as far as the river Peneus. 21. All these expeditions and...
Ionian sea
78 19.674861075555555,39.03244647555555,0 Acanthus ...was his shortest way. [2] The order of the army's march, from Doriscus to Acanthus, had been such as I will show. Dividing his entire land army into three parts...
Acanthus
76 23.88504,40.39427,0 Acanthus ...between them, awaiting the king. But Xerxes and his land army marched from Acanthus by the straightest inland course, making for Therma. Their way lay through the...
Acanthus
77 23.88504,40.39427,0 Sane ...namely, Potidaea, Aphytis, Neapolis, Aege, Therambus, Scione, Mende, and Sane. [2] Sailing along this coast they made for the appointed place, taking troops...
Sane
75 23.33484,40.07254,0 Torone ...Then rounding Ampelus, the headland of Torone, it passed the Greek towns of Torone, Galepsus, Sermyle, Mecyberna, and Olynthus, all of which gave them ships and...
Torone
78 23.9008123,39.9770534,0 Strymon ...Phyllis; it stretches westwards to the river Angites, which issues into the Strymon, and southwards to the Strymon itself; at this river the Magi sought good omens...
Strymon
78 23.848889,40.785833,0 Strymon ...to the river Angites, which issues into the Strymon, and southwards to the Strymon itself; at this river the Magi sought good omens by sacrificing white horses...
Strymon
77 23.848889,40.785833,0 Strymon ...they were called (as they themselves say) Strymonians, since they lived by the Strymon; they say that they were driven from their homes by Teucrians and Mysians. The...
Strymon
81 23.848889,40.785833,0 Phoenicians ...them he desired to see the ships contend in a race. They did so, and the Phoenicians of Sidon won; Xerxes was pleased with the race and with his expedition...
Phoenicians
75 35.25,33.25,0 Strymon ...were assigned the digging were also assigned to join the banks of the river Strymon by a bridge. 25. Thus Xerxes did this. He assigned the Phoenicians and...
Strymon
78 23.848889,40.785833,0 Greeks ...his empire. Then he sought very carefully to discover who the mightiest of the Greeks were, whom he should make his friends. [2] He found by inquiry that the chief...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...gratify me if you will let me send these chains of mine to that god of the Greeks whom I especially honored and to ask him if it is his way to deceive those who...
Greeks
77 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...proposal was made, the Trojans pleaded the seizure of Medea, and reminded the Greeks that they asked reparation from others, yet made none themselves, nor gave up...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...[3] We of Asia did not deign to notice the seizure of our women; but the Greeks, for the sake of a Lacedaemonian woman, recruited a great armada, came to Asia...
Greeks
75 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...son Croesus, then thirty-five years of age, came to the throne10. The first Greeks whom he attacked were the Ephesians. [2] These, besieged by him, dedicated...
Greeks
78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...fruit into the flames; then the fumes of it as it burns make them drunk as the Greeks are with wine, and more and more drunk as more fruit is thrown on the fire...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Scythians ...Alyattes for protection. 74. After this, since Alyattes would not give up the Scythians to Cyaxares at his demand, there was war between the Lydians and the Medes for...
Scythians
81 28.5,44.5,0 Scythians ...had driven the Cimmerians out of Europe: pursuing them in their flight, the Scythians came to the Median country.37 104. It is a thirty days' journey for an...
Scythians
78 28.5,44.5,0 Scythians ...the condition of those whom the Scythians call “Hermaphrodites”.40 106. The Scythians, then, ruled Asia for twenty-eight years: and the whole land was ruined because...
Scythians
79 28.5,44.5,0 Scythians ...them, were afflicted by the goddess with the “female” sickness: and so the Scythians say that they are afflicted as a consequence of this and also that those who...
Scythians
77 28.5,44.5,0 Pythian priestess ...of the god and asked the question with which they were entrusted, than the Pythian priestess uttered the following hexameter verses: [3] ““I know the number of the grains...
Pythian priestess
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 land of the Meii ...whom this whole Lydian district got its name; before that it was called the land of the Meii. [4] The Heraclidae, descendants of Heracles and a female slave of Iardanus...
land of the Meii
78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Lycians ...was the name that they had brought with them and that is still given to the Lycians by their neighbors; but after Lycus son of Pandion came from Athens—banished as...
Lycians
78 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Lycians ...driven out, came to the Milyan land in Asia. What is now possessed by the Lycians was in the past Milyan, and the Milyans were then called Solymi. [3] For a...
Lycians
76 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Lycians ...similar manner, the Caunians following for the most part the example of the Lycians. 177. Harpagus, then, made havoc of lower Asia; in the upper country, Cyrus...
Lycians
78 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Glaucus the Chian ...all the offerings at Delphi, this is the most worth seeing, and is the work of Glaucus the Chian, the only one of all men who discovered how to weld iron. 26. After the death...
Glaucus the Chian
81 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Pamphylians ...the Thracian Thynians and Bithynians, Carians, Ionians, Dorians, Aeolians, and Pamphylians; 29. and after these were subdued and subject to Croesus in addition to the...
Pamphylians
81 30.98638,36.990721,0 Ammon ...to which Croesus sent for divination: and he told others to go inquire of Ammon in Libya. His intent in sending was to test the knowledge of the oracles, so...
Ammon
76 25.54359,29.20514,0 Adrastus the Phrygian ...and permit you to go to the chase.” 41. Having said this, Croesus sent for Adrastus the Phrygian and when he came addressed him thus: “Adrastus, when you were struck by ugly...
Adrastus the Phrygian
78 29.75,38.75,0 Phrygian ...as the Greeks), and when he had done everything customary, he asked the Phrygian where he came from and who he was: [3] “Friend,” he said, “who are you, and...
Phrygian
74 29.75,38.75,0 Medes ...appointed to command the army against you or some other notable man among the Medes: for they will of themselves revolt from Astyages and join you and try to pull...
Medes
80 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...in Persia: those of them that Cyrus assembled and persuaded to revolt from the Medes were the Pasargadae, the Maraphii, and the Maspii. On these all the other...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...was deposed from his sovereignty after a reign of thirty-five years: and the Medes had to bow down before the Persians because of Astyages' cruelty. They had...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...But now, in Astyages' time, Cyrus and the Persians rose in revolt against the Medes, and from this time ruled Asia. [3] As for Astyages, Cyrus did him no further...
Medes
80 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...all. [3] Under the rule of the Medes, one tribe would even govern another; the Medes held sway over all alike and especially over those who lived nearest to them...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...the country where the passes are and the shortest road from Media, so that the Medes might not mix with her people and learn of her affairs. 186. So she made the...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Zanclaeans ...Learning this, Anaxilaus the tyrant of Rhegium, being then in a feud with the Zanclaeans, joined forces with the Samians and persuaded them to leave off their voyage to...
Zanclaeans
80 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Ampe ...did them no further harm, settling them by the sea called Red, in the city of Ampe, by which the river Tigris flows as it issues into the sea. Of the Milesian...
Ampe
80 Argos ...of one of the deserters to what god the grove belonged; the man said it was of Argos. When he heard that, he groaned aloud, “Apollo, god of oracles, you have...
Argos
81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...the image, and so he learned the truth of the matter, that he would not take Argos. If the flame had come out of the head of the image, he would have taken the...
Argos
79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...and governing until the sons of the slain men grew up. Then they recovered Argos for themselves and cast out the slaves; when they were driven out, the slaves...
Argos
77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...land. [3] From the Peloponnese came Leocedes, son of Phidon the tyrant of Argos, that Phidon who made weights and measures for the Peloponnesians53 and acted...
Argos
76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Boeotians ...a ring of foes, decided to oppose the Spartans at Eleusis and to deal with the Boeotians and Chalcidians later. 75. When the armies were about to join battle, the...
Boeotians
81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotians ...resolved to attack the Boeotians before the Chalcidians. [2] When they met the Boeotians in battle, they won a great victory, slaying very many and taking seven hundred...
Boeotians
81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotian ...which might rid him of Adrastus. When he thought he had found one, he sent to Boeotian Thebes saying that he would gladly bring Melanippus son of Astacus into his...
Boeotian
80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Phoenician ...a few changes of form. In so doing, they gave to these characters the name of Phoenician, as was quite fair seeing that the Phoenicians had brought them into Greece.26...
Phoenician
80 35.25,33.25,0 Thebes ...59. I have myself seen Cadmean writing in the temple of Ismenian Apollo at Thebes of Boeotia engraved on certain tripods and for the most part looking like...
Thebes
78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Cadmeans ...lovely offering. ” [2] During the rule of this Laodamas son of Eteocles, the Cadmeans were expelled by the Argives and went away to the Encheleis. The Gephyraeans...
Cadmeans
80 35.25,33.25,0 Cadmeans ...of Tanagra were allotted to them, and this is where they settled. [2] The Cadmeans had first been expelled from there by the Argives,25 and these Gephyraeans were...
Cadmeans
76 35.25,33.25,0 Gephyreans ...told both of the vision of Hipparchus' dream and of the first origin of the Gephyreans, to whom the slayers of Hipparchus belonged. Now I must go further and return...
Gephyreans
78 36.352594,36.249652,0 Phalerum ...they devised the following plan. [4] First they laid waste the plain of Phalerum so that all that land could be ridden over and then launched their cavalry...
Phalerum
74 23.7062,37.9373,0 Attica ...This army they sent not by sea but by land. [2] When they broke into Attica, the Thessalian horsemen were the first to meet them. They were routed after...
Attica
71 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...of Attica, while the Chalcidians attacked on another side and raided lands in Attica. The Athenians, who were now caught in a ring of foes, decided to oppose the...
Attica
80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...by a concerted plan, took Oenoe and Hysiae, districts on the borders of Attica, while the Chalcidians attacked on another side and raided lands in Attica. The...
Attica
74 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...they too went off. 76. This was the fourth time that Dorians had come into Attica. They had come twice as invaders in war and twice as helpers of the Athenian...
Attica
78 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...of the images. [2] While the Aeginetans were laying waste to the seaboard of Attica, the Athenians were setting out to march against them, but an oracle from...
Attica
79 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Sigeum ...in return for the recovery of their children. [3] Afterwards they departed to Sigeum on the Scamander. They had ruled the Athenians for thirty-six years30 and were...
Sigeum
80 26.18372,39.98975,0 Pelasgic wall ...who desired freedom came into the city, drove the tyrants' family within the Pelasgic wall29 and besieged them there. 65. The Lacedaemonians would never have taken the...
Pelasgic wall
79 Scamander ...the recovery of their children. [3] Afterwards they departed to Sigeum on the Scamander. They had ruled the Athenians for thirty-six years30 and were in lineage of the...
Scamander
80 26.25,39.75,0 Sigeum ...that each party should keep what it had. 96. It was in this way, then, that Sigeum came to be under Athenian rule, but Hippias, having come from Lacedaemon into...
Sigeum
79 26.18372,39.98975,0 Sicyon ...after going to war with the Argives, made an end of minstrels' contests at Sicyon by reason of the Homeric poems, in which it is the Argives and Argos which are...
Sicyon
77 22.71135,37.98336,0 Caria ...but his lineage I cannot say. His kinsfolk, at any rate, sacrifice to Zeus of Caria. [2] These men with their factions fell to contending for power, Cleisthenes...
Caria
80 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Thebans ...afterwards appealed to Delphi for advice. The Pythian priestess said that the Thebans themselves would not be able to obtain the vengeance they wanted and that they...
Thebans
80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...that he would gladly bring Melanippus son of Astacus into his country, and the Thebans handed him over. [3] When Cleisthenes had brought him in, he consecrated a...
Thebans
81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Sicyonians ...Dorians, he changed their names so that these tribes should not be shared by Sicyonians and Argives. In this especially he made a laughing-stock of the Sicyonians, for...
Sicyonians
79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Chalcidians ...then had been ingloriously scattered, the Athenians first marched against the Chalcidians to punish them. The Boeotians came to the Euripus to help the Chalcidians and...
Chalcidians
80 23.602,38.464,0 Chalcidians ...[3] Horse-breeders was the name given to the men of substance among the Chalcidians. They fettered as many of these as they took alive and kept them imprisoned...
Chalcidians
74 23.602,38.464,0 Delphian ...them under sentence of death. Among the prisoners was Timesitheus the Delphian, whose achievements of strength and courage were quite formidable. 73. These...
Delphian
72 22.501169,38.482289,0 Eleusis ...who were now caught in a ring of foes, decided to oppose the Spartans at Eleusis and to deal with the Boeotians and Chalcidians later. 75. When the armies were...
Eleusis
75 23.538311,38.041096,0 Chalcis ...of pride and is growing so much in power, that its neighbors in Boeotia and Chalcis have really noticed it, and others too will soon recognize their error. [3]...
Chalcis
78 23.602,38.464,0 Euripus ...marched against the Chalcidians to punish them. The Boeotians came to the Euripus to help the Chalcidians and as soon as the Athenians saw these allies, they...
Euripus
76 23.58944,38.46276,0 Chalcis ...the outer porch of the acropolis and38 bears this inscription: “Athens with Chalcis and Boeotia fought, Bound them in chains and brought their pride to...
Chalcis
78 23.602,38.464,0 Aeginetans ...came upon them 87. This, then, is the story told by the Argives and Aeginetans, and the Athenians too acknowledge that only one man of their number returned...
Aeginetans
71 23.42372,37.74991,0 Coronea ...they said, “If this is so, our nearest neighbors are the men of Tanagra and Coronea and Thespiae. These are always our comrades in battle and zealously wage our...
Coronea
78 22.956902,38.392613,0 Aeginetans ...reason of the feud with the Athenians. The enmity of the Athenians against the Aeginetans began as I have told, and now at the Thebans' call the Aeginetans came readily...
Aeginetans
81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...against the Aeginetans began as I have told, and now at the Thebans' call the Aeginetans came readily to the aid of the Boeotians, remembering the matter of the images...
Aeginetans
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...the men of Aegina, who have the images.” [2] The Athenians therefore sent to Aegina and demanded that the images be restored, but the Aeginetans answered that they...
Aegina
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...with certain of their citizens who, coming in the name of the whole people to Aegina, attempted to tear the images, as being made of Attic wood, from their bases so...
Aegina
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Epidaurians ...time, however, they began to build ships, and stubbornly revolted from the Epidaurians. [2] In the course of this struggle, they did the Epidaurians much damage and...
Epidaurians
77 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurians ...time, as before it, the Aeginetans were in all matters still subject to the Epidaurians and even crossed to Epidaurus for the hearing of their own private lawsuits...
Epidaurians
78 23.079167,37.596111,0 Attic ...by women in the shrines of these two goddesses. Furthermore, nothing else Attic should be brought to the temple, not even pottery, and from that time on only...
Attic
76 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Corinth ...brought to accomplishment. In a single day he stripped all the women of Corinth naked, because of his own wife Melissa.44 [2] Periander had sent messengers to...
Corinth
74 22.878721,37.906045,0 Oracle of the Dead ...because of his own wife Melissa.44 [2] Periander had sent messengers to the Oracle of the Dead on the river Acheron in Thesprotia to enquire concerning a deposit that a...
Oracle of the Dead
78 Lesbos ...would not consent to this, but were brought from Chios by the Chians to Lesbos and carried by the Lesbians to Doriscus, from where they made their way by land...
Lesbos
74 26.10052,39.20874,0 Tmolus ...of others approaching, they were afraid and withdrew to the mountain called Tmolus, from where they departed to their ships at nightfall. 102. In the fire at...
Tmolus
78 28.101929,38.3233025,0 Hellespont ...and revolted from the Persians. For this reason he turned aside from the Hellespont and marched his army to Caria. 118. It so happened that news of this was...
Hellespont
75 26.699162,40.346685,0 Hellespont ...and was marching towards Caria, he left the Propontis and led his army to the Hellespont, making himself master of all the Aeolians who dwell in the territory of Ilium...
Hellespont
80 26.699162,40.346685,0 Pactolus ...no exit from the city, came thronging into the marketplace and to the river Pactolus, which flows through the marketplace carrying down gold dust from Tmolus and...
Pactolus
78 28.0627776,38.4803822,0 Amathus ...114. As for Onesilus, the Amathusians cut off his head and brought it to Amathus, where they hung it above their gates, because he had besieged their city. When...
Amathus
76 33.1438299,34.712174,0 Medes ...own free will, all save the people of Amathus, for these too revolted from the Medes in such manner as I will show. There was a certain Onesilus, a younger brother...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Amathus ...forces in front of their city and besieged it. 105. Onesilus, then, besieged Amathus. When it was reported to Darius that Sardis had been taken and burnt by the...
Amathus
80 33.1438299,34.712174,0 Curium ...his horse, fell. While the rest were still fighting, Stesenor the ruler of Curium, allegedly an Argive settlement, played the traitor with great company of men...
Curium
77 32.8877,34.6642,0 Solians ...of Chersis, who had contrived the Cyprian revolt, as well as the king of the Solians, Aristocyprus son of Philocyprus, that Philocyprus whom Solon of Athens, when...
Solians
79 32.8125385,35.1406719,0 Amathusians ...Cyprus, extolled in a poem above all other tyrants. 114. As for Onesilus, the Amathusians cut off his head and brought it to Amathus, where they hung it above their...
Amathusians
81 33.1438299,34.712174,0 Pedasus ...set forth to march against their cities, they beset the road with an ambush at Pedasus. The Persians fell into this by night and perished, they and their generals...
Pedasus
81 27.42178,37.06804,0 Cindya ...laid before them, the best of which, in my judgment, was that of Pixodarus of Cindya, the son of Mausolus and husband of the daughter of Syennesis, king of Cilicia...
Cindya
80 27.650052,37.191684,0 Gergithae ...master of all the Aeolians who dwell in the territory of Ilium, and of the Gergithae, a remnant of the ancient Trojans. While he was conquering these nations...
Gergithae
77 27.67097,39.19355,0 Mysia ...marched on Sardis, now turned towards the Propontis, and there took Cius in Mysia. [2] When he had taken this place and heard that Daurises had left the...
Mysia
78 27.75,40.25,0 sea ...were coming against them, they gathered together and marched away to the sea, thinking that the Persians would attempt to attack them by that way. [2] So...
sea
75 25.8829628235849,37.42245628773585,0 Persia ...when the Athenians had made their decision and were already on bad terms with Persia, that Aristagoras the Milesian, driven from Sparta by Cleomenes the...
Persia
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 sea ...said with his bow, held converse with Histiaeus and permitted him to go to the sea, the following events took place. When Onesilus of Salamis was besieging the...
sea
81 25.8829628235849,37.42245628773585,0 Cilicians ...fight, and there came with them to the war the newly subdued Cyprians, and the Cilicians and Egyptians. 7. These were coming to attack Miletus and the rest of Ionia...
Cilicians
81 33.25,36.25,0 Erythraeans ...next to these the Chians with a hundred; near these in the line were the Erythraeans, bringing eight ships, and the Phocaeans with three, and next to these the...
Erythraeans
75 26.48103,38.38122,0 Prieneans ...themselves had the eastern wing, bringing eighty ships; next to them were the Prieneans with twelve ships, and the Myesians with three; next to the Myesians were the...
Prieneans
80 27.298333,37.66,0 Medes ...country they would sail to a colony, rather than remain and be slaves of the Medes and Aeaces. [2] The people of Zancle5 in Sicily about this time sent messengers...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic. 113. They fought a long time at Marathon. In the...
Medes
75 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...Sparta. Although they came too late for the battle, they desired to see the Medes, so they went to Marathon and saw them. Then they departed again, praising the...
Medes
78 46.5,34.5,0 Samians ...a thing happened to them such as I will show. As they voyaged to Sicily, the Samians came to the country of the Epizephyrian6 Locrians at a time when the people of...
Samians
79 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...to the Fair Coast and seize Zancle while it was deserted by its men. [3] The Samians consented and seized Zancle; when they learned that their city was taken, the...
Samians
79 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...he gave three hundred chief men to the Samians to be put to death, but the Samians did not do so. 24. Scythes the monarch of Zancle escaped from Inyx to Himera...
Samians
77 26.84,37.73,0 Chian ...escaped to their own country with their remaining ships, but the crews of the Chian ships that were damaged and disabled were pursued and took refuge in Mykale...
Chian
80 26.053,38.414,0 Medes ...deposed from their governments by Aristagoras of Miletus and had fled to the Medes, and who now were with the army that was led against Miletus. They gathered as...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Ephesus ...their way across the mainland. [2] But when the Chians entered the lands of Ephesus on their march, they came by night while the women were celebrating the...
Ephesus
78 27.339722,37.941944,0 Sybaris ...of Sybaris, son of Hippocrates, the most luxurious liver of his day (and Sybaris was then at the height of its prosperity), and Damasus of Siris, son of that...
Sybaris
75 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Sybaris ...in running and wrestling contests. 127. From Italy came Smindyrides of Sybaris, son of Hippocrates, the most luxurious liver of his day (and Sybaris was then...
Sybaris
74 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Fair Coast ...forces with the Samians and persuaded them to leave off their voyage to the Fair Coast and seize Zancle while it was deserted by its men. [3] The Samians consented...
Fair Coast
78 14.440957,38.024241,0 Crotoniates ...give them equal return for what they had done. When Sybaris was taken by the Crotoniates, all the people of Miletus, young and old, shaved their heads and made great...
Crotoniates
79 17.205128,39.028864,0 sea called Red ...brought to Susa. King Darius did them no further harm, settling them by the sea called Red, in the city of Ampe, by which the river Tigris flows as it issues into the...
sea called Red
78 39.5,19.0,0 Hellas ...of Sicyon raised that house still higher, so that it grew much more famous in Hellas than it had formerly been. Cleisthenes son of Aristonymus son of Myron son of...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...name was Agariste. He desired to wed her to the best man he could find in Hellas. [2] It was the time of the Olympian games, and when he was victor there with a...
Hellas
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...[4] Since there is much talk about your justice throughout all the rest of Hellas, and even in Ionia, I considered the fact that Ionia is always in danger while...
Hellas
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Gela ...Zanclaeans came to deliver it, calling to their aid Hippocrates the tyrant of Gela, who was their ally. [4] But Hippocrates, when he came bringing his army to aid...
Gela
80 14.258433,37.062775,0 Hellas ...Darius considered him the most honest man of all who had come up to him from Hellas; [2] for he returned by the king's permission to Sicily and from Sicily back...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellespont ...and set up democracies in their cities. [4] He did this and hurried to the Hellespont. When a great multitude of ships and a great army were assembled, the Persians...
Hellespont
77 26.4,40.2,0 Polichne ...the sea-fight, were mastered by Histiaeus with his Lesbians, setting out from Polichne in Chios. 27. It is common for some sign to be given when great ills threaten...
Polichne
80 26.57715,38.429149,0 Hollows ...to Chios and, when the Chian guardships would not receive him, fought in the Hollows of Chios (as they are called). [2] Many of their crews he killed; the rest of...
Hollows
79 Thasos ...28. Then Histiaeus brought a great force of Ionians and Aeolians against Thasos. While he was besieging Thasos a message came that the Phoenicians were putting...
Thasos
76 24.717535,40.78201,0 Chersonese ...provoked by Darius, gathered themselves together and rode as far as the Chersonese. [2] Miltiades did not await their attack and fled from the Chersonese, until...
Chersonese
74 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...of Thrace. 40. But not long after this Miltiades son of Cimon had come to the Chersonese, greater difficulties than the present afflictions overtook him. He had been...
Chersonese
81 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...mourning; but he put them in bonds. So Miltiades made himself master of the Chersonese; there he maintained a guard of five hundred men, and married Hegesipyle the...
Chersonese
78 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...thus to honor the memory of his brother Stesagoras. When the people of the Chersonese learned this, their ruling men gathered together from all the cities on every...
Chersonese
77 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...Lemnos. 140. At the time that was all. But a great many years later, when the Chersonese on the Hellespont was made subject to Athens, Miltiades son of Cimon...
Chersonese
81 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...and Artace; after giving these also to the flames they sailed back to the Chersonese to finish off the remaining cities, as many as they had not destroyed at their...
Chersonese
76 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...Miltiades had pushed away the Apsinthians by walling off the neck of the Chersonese, he made war first on the people of Lampsacus, but the Lampsacenes laid an...
Chersonese
75 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...son of Cimon and brother of the dead Stesagoras, in a trireme to the Chersonese to take control of the country; they had already treated him well at Athens...
Chersonese
71 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Cyzicenes ...at their former landing. [3] But they did not sail against Cyzicus at all; the Cyzicenes had already made themselves the king's subjects before the Phoenician...
Cyzicenes
81 27.874127,40.389806,0 Dolonci ...He immediately set out for Delphi to ask the oracle if he should do what the Dolonci asked of him. 36. The Pythia also bade him do so. Then Miltiades son of...
Dolonci
79 Dolonci ...attack and fled from the Chersonese, until the Scythians departed and the Dolonci brought him back again. All this had happened three years before the matters...
Dolonci
76 Proconnesus ...Mesambria. The Phoenicians burnt the aforementioned places and turned against Proconnesus and Artace; after giving these also to the flames they sailed back to the...
Proconnesus
80 27.55568,40.591686,0 Artace ...Phoenicians burnt the aforementioned places and turned against Proconnesus and Artace; after giving these also to the flames they sailed back to the Chersonese to...
Artace
81 27.796268,40.402952,0 Olympic ...“Through the Hollow”, and buried opposite him are the mares who won the three Olympic prizes. [4] The mares of Evagoras the Laconian did the same as these, but none...
Olympic
80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Scythians ...a drinker of strong wine, and the madness came from this. [2] The nomadic Scythians, after Darius had invaded their land, were eager for revenge, so they sent to...
Scythians
76 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...Cleomenes' madness arose from no divine agent, but that by consorting with Scythians he became a drinker of strong wine, and the madness came from this. [2] The...
Scythians
77 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...they urged the Spartans to set out and march inland from Ephesus and meet the Scythians. [3] They say that when the Scythians had come for this purpose, Cleomenes kept...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Eretrians ...voyage, they carried the enslaved Eretrians inland to Susa. [2] Before the Eretrians were taken captive, king Darius had been terribly angry with them for doing him...
Eretrians
77 22.607216,39.290562,0 Eretrians ...Datis and Artaphrenes reached Asia in their voyage, they carried the enslaved Eretrians inland to Susa. [2] Before the Eretrians were taken captive, king Darius had...
Eretrians
80 22.607216,39.290562,0 Eretrians ...their land, until the Carystians too came over to their side. 100. When the Eretrians learned that the Persian expedition was sailing to attack them, they asked for...
Eretrians
79 22.607216,39.290562,0 Athos ...ships were lost, and more than twenty thousand men. Since the coasts of Athos abound in wild beasts, some men were carried off by beasts and so perished...
Athos
74 24.295147727272727,40.24683418181819,0 Athos ...army away homewards, since the Brygi had dealt a heavy blow to his army and Athos an even heavier blow to his fleet. This expedition after an inglorious...
Athos
78 24.295147727272727,40.24683418181819,0 Eretria ...from the Persians. [3] When Aeschines son of Nothon, a leading man in Eretria, learned of both designs, he told the Athenians who had come how matters stood...
Eretria
72 22.607216,39.290562,0 Eretria ...was the place in Attica most suitable for riding horses and closest to Eretria, so Hippias son of Pisistratus led them there. 103. When the Athenians learned...
Eretria
73 22.607216,39.290562,0 Macedonia ...to the slaves that they had already, for all the nations nearer to them than Macedonia had been made subject to the Persians before this. [2] Crossing over from...
Macedonia
79 21.75,41.25,0 Aeginetans ...immediately came down upon them for doing this, for they supposed the Aeginetans to have given the gift out of enmity for Athens, so they might join with the...
Aeginetans
72 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...Gladly laying hold of this pretext, they went to Sparta and there accused the Aeginetans of acting to betray Hellas. 50. Regarding this accusation, Cleomenes son of...
Aeginetans
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...in Aegina, Nicodromus son of Cnoethus by name, who held a grudge against the Aeginetans for his former banishment from the island. When he learned that the Athenians...
Aeginetans
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...not there at the right time, for they did not have ships worthy to fight the Aeginetans. While they were asking the Corinthians to lend them ships, the affair was...
Aeginetans
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...the Aeginetans, the Athenians no longer put off devising all mischief against Aegina. There was a notable man in Aegina, Nicodromus son of Cnoethus by name, who...
Aegina
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...When the Athenians came, they fought them at sea with seventy ships; the Aeginetans were defeated in the sea-fight and asked for help from the Argives, as they had...
Aeginetans
75 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...done wrong and agreed to go free with a payment of a hundred talents, but the Aeginetans made no such confession and remained stubborn. For this cause the Argive state...
Aeginetans
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...a four-horse chariot, and he traced his earliest descent to Aeacus and Aegina, though his later ancestry was Athenian. Philaeus son of Ajax was the first of...
Aegina
73 23.42372,37.74991,0 Athens ...for they supposed the Aeginetans to have given the gift out of enmity for Athens, so they might join with the Persians in attacking the Athenians. Gladly laying...
Athens
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aegina ...them, taking four Athenian ships and their crews. 94. Thus Athens and Aegina grappled together in war. The Persian was going about his own business, for his...
Aegina
73 23.42372,37.74991,0 Spartans ...not take away any Aeginetan with impunity, for he had no authority from the Spartans for what he was doing; instead he had been bribed by the Athenians; otherwise...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Dorians ...Greek report, and hold that the Greeks correctly recount these kings of the Dorians as far back as Perseus son of Danae—they make no mention of the god17 —and...
Dorians
78 Egyptian ...55. Enough of these matters. Why and for what achievements these men, being Egyptian, won the kingship of the Dorians has been told by others, so I will let it go...
Egyptian
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Lacedaemon ...the Spartans have given to their kings: two priesthoods, of Zeus called Lacedaemon19 and of Zeus of Heaven; they wage war against whatever land they wish, and no...
Lacedaemon
74 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...beside Ariston and heard him say this. 66. Disputes arose over it, so the Spartans resolved to ask the oracle at Delphi if Demaratus was the son of Ariston. [2]...
Spartans
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Eleusis ...had already fallen out with Cleomenes when he had brought the army back from Eleusis, and now they were even more at odds when Cleomenes crossed over after the...
Eleusis
79 23.538311,38.041096,0 Therapne ...child every day to the sacred precinct of Helen, which is in the place called Therapne,23 beyond the sacred precinct of Phoebus. Every time the nurse carried the...
Therapne
80 22.454127,37.066091,0 Zacynthians ...over after him and laid hands on him, carrying off his servants. But the Zacynthians refused to give him up, and later he crossed from there to Asia and went to...
Zacynthians
75 20.76,37.77,0 Tegea ...the message to the Athenians, when he was in the Parthenian mountain above Tegea he encountered Pan. [2] Pan called out Philippides' name and bade him ask the...
Tegea
77 22.429,37.464,0 Pheneus ...round the pool. Nonacris, where this spring rises, is a city of Arcadia near Pheneus. 75. When the Lacedaemonians learned that Cleomenes was doing this, they took...
Pheneus
79 22.30692,37.91045,0 Spartans ...of the Spartans given up to you by the citizens and carry him away? If the Spartans have now so judged in their anger, see that they do not bring utter destruction...
Spartans
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Tiryns ...of this and came to the coast to do battle with him. When they had come near Tiryns and were at the place called Hesipeia, they encamped opposite the...
Tiryns
79 22.80004,37.59918,0 Hesipeia ...battle with him. When they had come near Tiryns and were at the place called Hesipeia, they encamped opposite the Lacedaemonians, leaving only a little space between...
Hesipeia
79 Sunium ...from Aegina. Other Aeginetans followed him, and the Athenians gave them Sunium to dwell in; setting out from there they harried the Aeginetans of the island...
Sunium
74 25.28064,37.15168,0 Phigalea ...each other; but then there came to the slaves a prophet, Cleander, a man of Phigalea in Arcadia by birth; he persuaded the slaves to attack their masters. From that...
Phigalea
78 21.8391,37.3963,0 Argolid coast ...because ships of Aegina had been taken by force by Cleomenes and put in on the Argolid coast, where their crews landed with the Lacedaemonians; men from ships of Sicyon...
Argolid coast
81 22.92059272180843,37.6566371145232,0 Delos ...themselves. [3] Thus it was no marvel that there should be an earthquake in Delos when there had been none before. Also there was an oracle concerning Delos...
Delos
78 25.268194,37.397274,0 Icarian sea ...the Hellespont and Thrace, but setting forth from Samos they sailed by the Icarian sea and from island to island; this, to my thinking, was because they feared above...
Icarian sea
77 26.333333,37.5,0 Delos ...sail for the other islands. 97. While they did this, the Delians also left Delos and fled away to Tenos. As his expedition was sailing landwards, Datis went on...
Delos
78 25.268194,37.397274,0 Carystos ...for hostages. [2] When in their voyage about the islands they put in at Carystos, the Carystians gave them no hostages and refused to join them against...
Carystos
74 24.4204,38.0165,0 Attica ...son of Aristocrates, the two most powerful men in Aegina; they carried them to Attica and gave them into the keeping of the Athenians, the bitterest foes of the...
Attica
81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...exactly what they had done to the Eretrians. Marathon39 was the place in Attica most suitable for riding horses and closest to Eretria, so Hippias son of...
Attica
75 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...came to Athens, making such great haste to reach it that they were in Attica on the third day after leaving Sparta. Although they came too late for the...
Attica
72 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...women bore more and more children, and they taught their sons the speech of Attica and Athenian manners. These boys would not mix with the sons of the Pelasgian...
Attica
78 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...country to ours in one day”; they supposed that this was impossible, since Attica is far to the south of Lemnos. 140. At the time that was all. But a great many...
Attica
77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Oropus ...followed Aeschines' advice. 101. So they saved themselves by crossing over to Oropus; the Persians sailed holding their course for Temenos and Choereae and Aegilea...
Oropus
81 23.846116,38.291099,0 Euboea ...[2] Some of them planned to leave the city and make for the heights of Euboea; others plotted treason in hope of winning advantages from the Persians. [3]...
Euboea
73 23.87,38.53,0 Hellenes ...upon the foreigners they fought in a way worthy of record. These are the first Hellenes whom we know of to use running against the enemy. They are also the first to...
Hellenes
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...and wronged the Athenians in this way: Neither the Athenians nor any other Hellenes had servants yet at that time, and their sons and daughters used to go to the...
Hellenes
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...Tegeans. [2] Before this they had been the worst-governed of nearly all the Hellenes and had had no dealings with strangers, but they changed to good government in...
Hellenes
78 Hellas ...not want to sin against Zeus the god of Hellas and think it shameful to betray Hellas, have not consented. This we have done despite the fact that the Greeks are...
Hellas
81 Hellas ...say before the Athenians take some new resolve which will bring calamity to Hellas.” 10. This was the counsel he gave the ephors, who straightway took it to...
Hellas
78 Hellas ...stint, excepting none, but especially to the chief men in the cities of Hellas. Let them do this (he said) and the Greeks would quickly surrender their...
Hellas
74 Hellas ...undoing. In truth I would not tell it to you if I did not care so much for all Hellas; [2] I myself am by ancient descent a Greek, and I would not willingly see...
Hellas
81 Hellas ...“Men of Athens, in this great contest which must give freedom or slavery to Hellas, we Lacedaemonians and you Athenians have been betrayed by the flight of our...
Hellas
78 Hellas ...him to death before his father's eyes. 121. This done, they sailed away to Hellas, carrying with them the cables of the bridges to be dedicated in their temples...
Hellas
78 Hellas ...subdued and subject to Croesus in addition to the Lydians, all the sages from Hellas who were living at that time, coming in different ways, came to Sardis, which...
Hellas
80 22.5,37.5,0 Egypt ...away into the marshes, and that he was not to concern himself with the rest of Egypt. 152. This Psammetichus had formerly been in exile in Syria, where he had fled...
Egypt
81 Egypt ...to the southern or Red Sea is from the Casian promontory, the boundary between Egypt and Syria, to the Arabian Gulf, and this is a distance of one hundred and...
Egypt
81 Egypt ...and his son Psammis reigned in his place. 160. While this Psammis was king of Egypt, he was visited by ambassadors from Elis, the Eleans boasting that they had...
Egypt
81 Naucratis ...he did for some of the Greeks, he gave those who came to Egypt the city of Naucratis to live in; and to those who travelled to the country without wanting to settle...
Naucratis
77 30.5925,30.89722,0 Naucratis ...winds, he had to carry his cargo in barges around the Delta until he came to Naucratis. In such esteem was Naucratis held. 180. When the Amphictyons paid three...
Naucratis
79 30.5925,30.89722,0 Egypt ...against this Amasis for the following reason. Cambyses had sent a herald to Egypt asking Amasis for his daughter; he asked on the advice of an Egyptian, who...
Egypt
78 Egypt ...arid. 6. I am going to mention something now which few of those who sail to Egypt know. Earthen jars full of wine are brought into Egypt twice a year from all...
Egypt
79 Egypt ...the surrender of the walled city of Memphis, Cambyses took Psammenitus king of Egypt, who had reigned for six months, and confined him in the outer part of the city...
Egypt
81 Egypt ...[2] And if he had known how to mind his own business, he would have regained Egypt to govern; for the Persians are inclined to honor kings' sons; even though...
Egypt
79 Egypt ...The Cyprians too had come of their own accord to aid the Persians against Egypt. 20. When the Fish-eaters arrived from Elephantine at Cambyses' summons, he...
Egypt
76 Egypt ...about this army. 27. When Cambyses was back at Memphis, there appeared in Egypt that Apis13 whom the Greeks call Epaphus; at whose epiphany the Egyptians put...
Egypt
77 Persia ...the best pretext for entering, for I shall say that I have just arrived from Persia and have a message for the king from my father. [4] When it is necessary to...
Persia
79 Arabia ...the uterus left intact. 109. So too if the vipers and the winged serpents of Arabia were born in the natural manner of serpents life would be impossible for men...
Arabia
80 32.5,27.5,0 Phoenicia ...sent them all to the coast. 136. They came down to the city of Sidon in Phoenicia, and there chartered two triremes, as well as a great galley laden with all...
Phoenicia
75 37.5,32.5,0 Scythians ...our slaves; and taking this to heart they will not face our attack.” 4. The Scythians heard this and acted on it; and their enemies, stunned by what they saw, did...
Scythians
79 27.5,42.5,0 Scythians ...them for what they had done, Darius assembled an army against them. 5. The Scythians say that their nation is the youngest in the world, and that it came into being...
Scythians
78 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...royal power to the youngest. 6. Lipoxaïs, it is said, was the father of the Scythian clan called Auchatae; Arpoxaïs, the second brother, of those called Katiari and...
Scythian
79 Scythians ...and sky are full of feathers, and these hinder sight. 8. This is what the Scythians say about themselves and the country north of them. But the story told by the...
Scythians
77 27.5,42.5,0 Scythians ...whole line of the kings of Scythia; and it is because of the vessel that the Scythians carry vessels on their belts to this day. This alone his mother did for...
Scythians
79 27.5,42.5,0 Scythians ...which account I myself especially incline. It is to this effect. The nomadic Scythians inhabiting Asia, when hard pressed in war by the Massagetae, fled across the...
Scythians
79 27.5,42.5,0 Scythians ...the Greek city of Sinope has since been founded; and it is clear that the Scythians pursued them and invaded Media, missing their way; [3] for the Cimmerians...
Scythians
76 27.5,42.5,0 Scythians ...Alazones; these and the Callippidae, though in other ways they live like the Scythians, plant and eat grain, onions, garlic, lentils, and millet. [2] Above the...
Scythians
79 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...is the country of the Man-eaters, who are a nation apart and by no means Scythian; and beyond them is true desolation, where no nation of men lives, as far as we...
Scythian
75 Scythia ...uninhabited by men, so far as we know. 21. Across the Tanaïs it is no longer Scythia; the first of the districts belongs to the Sauromatae, whose country begins at...
Scythia
80 Scythian ...and snub-nosed and with long beards; they speak their own language, and wear Scythian clothing, and their food comes from trees. [3] The tree by which they live is...
Scythian
79 Scythians ...said to be most distant. 32. Concerning the Hyperborean people, neither the Scythians nor any other inhabitants of these lands tell us anything, except perhaps the...
Scythians
79 27.5,42.5,0 Scythia ...They say that offerings wrapped in straw are brought from the Hyperboreans to Scythia; when these have passed Scythia, each nation in turn receives them from its...
Scythia
80 Delos ...and boys cut their hair in honor of these Hyperborean maidens, who died at Delos; the girls before their marriage cut off a tress and lay it on the tomb, wound...
Delos
77 25.268194,37.397274,0 Delos ...Arge and Opis, came from the Hyperboreans by way of the aforesaid peoples to Delos earlier than Hyperoche and Laodice; [2] these latter came to bring to...
Delos
79 25.268194,37.397274,0 Asia ...world as round as if fashioned by compasses, encircled by the Ocean river, and Asia and Europe of a like extent. For myself, I will in a few words indicate the...
Asia
81 Libya ...is Asia, and such its extent. But Libya is on this second peninsula; for Libya comes next after Egypt. The Egyptian part of this peninsula is narrow; for from...
Libya
75 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Asia ...wonder, then, at those who have mapped out and divided the world into Libya, Asia, and Europe; for the difference between them is great, seeing that in length...
Asia
79 Indus ...44. But as to Asia, most of it was discovered by Darius. There is a river, Indus, second of all rivers in the production of crocodiles. Darius, desiring to know...
Indus
78 70.12808435,29.0592303,0 Scythians ...know in what is the most important of all human affairs; I do not praise the Scythians in all respects, but in this, the most important: that they have contrived that...
Scythians
79 Egypt ...and rivers run through it not very many fewer in number than the canals of Egypt. [2] As many of them as are famous and can be entered from the sea, I shall...
Egypt
77 32.5,32.5,0 Scythian ...we know, flows with the same volume in summer and winter; it is most westerly Scythian river of all, and the greatest because other rivers are its tributaries. [2]...
Scythian
80 Scythian ...these two and pour their waters into the Ister. 49. These are the native-born Scythian rivers that help to swell it; but the Maris river, which commingles with the...
Scythian
81 27.5,42.5,0 Scythia ...who are called Tyritae. 52. The third river is the Hypanis; this comes from Scythia, flowing out of a great lake, around which wild, white horses graze. This lake...
Scythia
79 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...70. As for giving sworn pledges to those who are to receive them, this is the Scythian way: they take blood from the parties to the agreement by making a little cut...
Scythian
81 27.5,42.5,0 Hellas ...very much shun practising those of any other country, and particularly of Hellas, as was proved in the case of Anacharsis and also of Scyles. [2] For when...
Hellas
76 22.5,37.5,0 Scythia ...suffered a like fate. Scyles was one of the sons born to Ariapithes, king of Scythia; but his mother was of Istria,34 and not native-born; and she taught him to...
Scythia
79 27.5,42.5,0 Scythia ...hastened to march further. 99. Thrace runs farther out into the sea than Scythia; and Scythia begins where a bay is formed in its coast, and the mouth of the...
Scythia
76 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...of the true Scythia from the Ister, and give its measurements. The ancient Scythian land begins at the Ister and faces south and the south wind, as far as the city...
Scythian
77 27.5,42.5,0 Scythia ...next by the Neuri, next by the Man-eaters, and last by the Black-cloaks. 101. Scythia, then, is a four-sided country, two of whose sides are coastline, the frontiers...
Scythia
81 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...the rest of their customs they are like the Thracians. 105. The Neuri follow Scythian customs; but one generation before the advent of Darius' army, they happened to...
Scythian
80 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...to war, and dress the same as the men. 117. The language of the Sauromatae is Scythian, but not spoken in its ancient purity, since the Amazons never learned it...
Scythian
81 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...several times, Darius was finally at a loss; and when they perceived this, the Scythian kings sent a herald to Darius with the gift of a bird, a mouse, a frog, and...
Scythian
81 27.5,42.5,0 Libya ...they brought word that they had established a settlement on an island off Libya. The Theraeans determined to send out men from their seven regions, taking by...
Libya
76 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...boy was given some other name, [2] and changed it to Battus on his coming to Libya, taking this new name because of the oracle given to him at Delphi and the...
Libya
79 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...and on their arrival questioned the oracle, and said that they were living in Libya, but that they were no better off for that. [2] Then the priestess gave them...
Libya
80 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...was the pretext; but I myself think that the troops were sent to subjugate Libya. For the Libyan tribes are many and of different kinds, and though a few of...
Libya
77 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...[2] But when he was off Malea, a north wind caught and carried him away to Libya; and before he saw land, he came into the shallows of the Tritonian lake...
Libya
77 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...Their houses are all built of blocks of the salt; for these are parts of Libya where no rain falls; for the walls, being of salt, could not stand firm if...
Libya
75 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Egypt ...no rain, no forests; this region is wholly without moisture. 186. Thus from Egypt to the Tritonian lake, the Libyans are nomads that eat meat and drink milk; for...
Egypt
79 32.5,32.5,0 Asia ...is in no part of Libya any great excellence for which it should be compared to Asia or Europe, except in the region which is called by the same name as its river...
Asia
81 Perinthus ...the oracle of the god ordered the Paeonians from the Strymon to march against Perinthus, and if the Perinthians, who were encamped opposite them, should call to them...
Perinthus
80 27.95454,40.97089,0 Adriatic Sea ...These men's borders, it is said, reach almost as far as the Eneti on the Adriatic Sea. [3] They call themselves colonists from Media. How this has come about I...
Adriatic Sea
75 Hellespont ...coastal area subject to the Persians. 11. As soon as Darius had crossed the Hellespont and come to Sardis,4 he remembered the good service done him by Histiaeus of...
Hellespont
79 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...men, that the towns of Paeonia lay on the Strymon, a river not far from the Hellespont, and that they were colonists from the Teucrians of Troy. [3] So they told him...
Hellespont
78 26.4,40.2,0 Miletus ...Now, since you have done well in coming here, I make you this proposal. Leave Miletus and your newly founded Thracian city and follow me to Susa, where you will have...
Miletus
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sardis ...said, and after appointing Artaphrenes, his father's son, to be viceroy of Sardis, he rode away to Susa, taking Histiaeus with him. First, however, he made...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Hellespont ...remained committed by what they had done to Darius). [2] They sailed to the Hellespont and made Byzantium and all the other cities of that region subject to...
Hellespont
78 26.4,40.2,0 Sardis ...105. Onesilus, then, besieged Amathus. When it was reported to Darius that Sardis had been taken and burnt by the Athenians and Ionians and that Aristagoras the...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Miletus ...and said, “I hear, Histiaeus, that the viceregent whom you put in charge of Miletus has done me wrong. He has brought men from the mainland overseas, and persuaded...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sardis ...yet pay me the penalty for their deeds—to follow them and has robbed me of Sardis. [2] Now then, I ask you, do you think that this state of affairs is good? How...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Hellespont ...Mysia. [2] When he had taken this place and heard that Daurises had left the Hellespont and was marching towards Caria, he left the Propontis and led his army to the...
Hellespont
79 26.4,40.2,0 Sardis ...brought about the Ionian revolt. Histiaeus, the tyrant of Miletus, arrived in Sardis after he was let go by Darius. When he came there from Susa, Artaphrenes, the...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...let go by Darius. When he came there from Susa, Artaphrenes, the governor of Sardis, asked him for what reason he supposed the Ionians had rebelled; Histiaeus said...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...and then Artaphrenes put many Persians to death. 5. So troubles arose in Sardis. Since he failed in this hope, the Chians brought Histiaeus back to Miletus at...
Sardis
76 28.040278,38.488333,0 Miletus ...in Sardis. Since he failed in this hope, the Chians brought Histiaeus back to Miletus at his own request. But the Milesians were glad enough to be rid of Aristagoras...
Miletus
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Mytilene ...he could not persuade the Chians to give him ships, he then crossed over to Mytilene and persuaded the Lesbians to give him ships. [3] They manned eight triremes...
Mytilene
78 26.489422,39.05495,0 Miletus ...had joined their power together and made one army, which they led against Miletus, taking less account of the other fortresses. Of the fleet, the Phoenicians...
Miletus
76 26.974176,39.528399,0 Miletus ...Cyprians, and the Cilicians and Egyptians. 7. These were coming to attack Miletus and the rest of Ionia. When the Ionians learned of it, they sent deputies to...
Miletus
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Ionia ...and Egyptians. 7. These were coming to attack Miletus and the rest of Ionia. When the Ionians learned of it, they sent deputies to take counsel for them in...
Ionia
73 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Miletus ...they had done. When Sybaris was taken by the Crotoniates, all the people of Miletus, young and old, shaved their heads and made great public lamentation; no cities...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...Zancle, after they had escaped from the Medes. 25. After the fight at sea for Miletus, the Phoenicians at the Persians' bidding brought Aeaces son of Syloson back to...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Byzantium ...over by force. 26. All this happened so. Histiaeus the Milesian was at Byzantium, seizing the Ionian merchant ships as they sailed out of the Euxine, when he...
Byzantium
74 28.975926,41.012379,0 Athens ...and overcame them, taking four Athenian ships and their crews. 94. Thus Athens and Aegina grappled together in war. The Persian was going about his own...
Athens
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...and refused to join them against neighboring cities, meaning Eretria and Athens; the Persians besieged them and laid waste their land, until the Carystians too...
Athens
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Sardis ...plundered and burnt the temples, in revenge for the temples that were burnt at Sardis; moreover, they enslaved the townspeople, according to Darius' command...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Marathon ...there ahead of the foreigners. Coming from the sacred precinct of Heracles in Marathon, they pitched camp in the sacred precinct of Heracles in Cynosarges. The...
Marathon
80 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Delium ...never carried that statue away; twenty years later the Thebans brought it to Delium by command of an oracle. 119. When Datis and Artaphrenes reached Asia in their...
Delium
79 12.30363,45.52962,0 Athens ...from Elis, son of Agaeus. [4] These came from the Peloponnese itself; from Athens Megacles, son of that Alcmeon who visited Croesus, and also Hippocleides son of...
Athens
77 Athens ...many years later, when the Chersonese on the Hellespont was made subject to Athens, Miltiades son of Cimon accomplished the voyage from Elaeus on the Chersonese...
Athens
78 Dodona ...Hellas, was at that time the only one. [3] When the Pelasgians, then, asked at Dodona whether they should adopt the names that had come from foreign parts, the...
Dodona
81 20.78784,39.54648,0 Libya ...I myself say. 54. But about the oracles in Hellas, and that one which is in Libya, the Egyptians give the following account. The priests of Zeus of Thebes told...
Libya
79 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Thebes ...is in Libya, the Egyptians give the following account. The priests of Zeus of Thebes told me that two priestesses had been carried away from Thebes by Phoenicians...
Thebes
80 32.75,26.25,0 Thebes ...signifies that the woman was Egyptian30. [3] The fashions of divination at Thebes of Egypt and at Dodona are like one another; moreover, the practice of divining...
Thebes
78 32.75,26.25,0 Egypt ...the practice of divining from the sacrificed victim has also come from Egypt. 58. It would seem, too, that the Egyptians were the first people to establish...
Egypt
73 Nile ...something more than human, and is handled and buried by the priests of the Nile themselves. 91. The Egyptians shun using Greek customs, and (generally...
Nile
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Naucratis ...of the stream, but clean over the plain. [2] Indeed, the boat going up from Naucratis to Memphis passes close by the pyramids themselves, though the course does not...
Naucratis
78 30.5925,30.89722,0 Egypt ...of the reigning king of Egypt, to provide her shoes. This has been done since Egypt has been under Persian dominion. [2] The other town, I think, is named after...
Egypt
80 Hellas ...Egypt, I consider clearly proved by this: that Phoenicians who traffic with Hellas cease to imitate the Egyptians in this matter and do not circumcise their...
Hellas
78 Egypt ...his life was hastening to a close: he had done what was contrary to fate; Egypt should have been afflicted for a hundred and fifty years, and the two kings...
Egypt
76 Ethiopia ...of the town of that name. In his reign Egypt was invaded by Sabacos king of Ethiopia and a great army of Ethiopians.56 [2] The blind man fled to the marshes, and...
Ethiopia
78 38.721522,14.125005,0 Egypt ...not (he said) do so, but otherwise, for the time foretold for his rule over Egypt was now fulfilled, after which he was to depart: [3] for when he was still in...
Egypt
78 Egypt ...people of that country told him that he was fated to reign fifty years over Egypt. Seeing that this time was now completed and that he was troubled by what he...
Egypt
78 Egypt ...Sabacos departed from Egypt of his own volition. 140. When the Ethiopian left Egypt, the blind man (it is said) was king once more, returning from the marshes...
Egypt
81 Sardis ...the roads part; the road on the left leads to Caria, the one on the right to Sardis; on the latter the traveller must cross the river Maeander and pass by the city...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...On the next day he reached the city of the Lydians. 32. After he arrived in Sardis, he first sent heralds to Hellas to demand earth and water and to command the...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...wintered. At the beginning of spring25 the army made ready and set forth from Sardis to march to Abydos. [2] As it was setting out, the sun left his place in the...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Hellas ...I have five sons, and all of them are constrained to march with you against Hellas. [3] I pray you, O king, take pity on me in my advanced age, and release one of...
Hellas
78 Hellas ...a hare. The meaning of it was easy to guess: Xerxes was to march his army to Hellas with great pomp and pride, but to come back to the same place fleeing for his...
Hellas
79 Hellas ...the whole truth, and to say what you will not later prove to be false, in Hellas poverty is always endemic, but courage is acquired as the fruit of wisdom and...
Hellas
76 Sardis ...the Athenians and the Aeginetans. [2] Presently, learning that Xerxes was at Sardis with his army, they planned to send men into Asia to spy out the king's doings...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Hellas ...some to Gelon son of Dinomenes in Sicily, some to Corcyra, praying aid for Hellas, and some to Crete. This they did in the hope that since the danger threatened...
Hellas
77 Hellas ...is the Argives' account of this matter, but there is another story told in Hellas, namely that before Xerxes set forth on his march against Hellas, he sent a...
Hellas
77 Hellas ...the Isthmus, where men chosen from the cities which were best disposed towards Hellas were assembled in council for the Greek cause. [2] To these the Thessalian...
Hellas
81 Hellas ...enemy. In the meantime, the Delphians, who were afraid for themselves and for Hellas, consulted the god. They were advised to pray to the winds, for these would be...
Hellas
80 Hellas ...you will have no cause to fear that they will send men to save the rest of Hellas from being overrun by your armies; furthermore, the enslavement of the rest of...
Hellas
77 Hellas ...were the first to be informed that the king was equipping himself to attack Hellas; with this knowledge it was that they sent to the oracle at Delphi, where they...
Hellas
78 Euboea ...had been sent for that purpose by the Athenians. 6. So the Greeks remained in Euboea and fought there; this came about as I will now reveal. Having arrived at...
Euboea
81 23.87,38.53,0 Artemisium ...a man of Histiaea in a boat, telling them of the flight of the Greeks from Artemisium. Not believing this, they kept the bringer of the news in confinement and sent...
Artemisium
77 23.220954,39.017832,0 Artemisium ...[2] After the Aeginetans came the Chalcidians with their twenty ships from Artemisium, and the Eretrians with the same seven; these are Ionians. Next were the Ceans...
Artemisium
77 23.220954,39.017832,0 Euboea ...highly. Still he ordered that the majority be obeyed, for he believed that at Euboea they had purposely fought badly because he was not there. This time he had made...
Euboea
80 23.87,38.53,0 Salamis ...wife and his children. 6. Now this was how the Athenians had crossed over to Salamis. As long as they expected that the Peloponnesian army would come to their aid...
Salamis
80 23.51,37.93,0 Attica ...who were to upbraid the Lacedaemonians for permitting the barbarian to invade Attica and not helping the Athenians to meet him in Boeotia; and who were to remind...
Attica
80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...the Persian in Boeotia, and have permitted the barbarian to march into Attica. [2] For the present, then, the Athenians are angry with you since you have...
Attica
73 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...went back again. When Mardonius heard that, he no longer desired to remain in Attica. Before he had word of it, he had held his land, desiring to know the...
Attica
80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Athens ...Pausanias' army prior to its entering the Isthmus. First, however, he burnt Athens, and utterly overthrew and demolished whatever wall or house or temple was left...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Attica ...or temple was left standing. [3] The reason for his marching away was that Attica was not a land fit for horses, and if he should be defeated in a battle, there...
Attica
77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Boeotia ...on the Isthmus. Thereupon he marched back again through Decelea; the rulers of Boeotia sent for those of the Asopus country who lived nearby, and these guided him to...
Boeotia
81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Athens ...but the Athenians took it upon themselves, that is three hundred picked men of Athens, whose captain was Olympiodorus son of Lampon. 22. Those who volunteered...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Attica ...against the Amazons, who once came from the river Thermodon and broke into Attica, and in the hard days of Troy we were second to none. But since it is useless...
Attica
77 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Athens ...that the king had been at Sardis ever since he came there in flight from Athens after his overthrow in the sea-fight. Being then at Sardis he became enamored...
Athens
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Assyrian ...higher up she made the river so crooked that its course now passes one of the Assyrian villages three times; the village which is so approached by the Euphrates is...
Assyrian
80 37.5,37.5,0 Lydian ...on Taenarus, the figure of a man riding upon a dolphin. 25. Alyattes the Lydian, his war with the Milesians finished, died after a reign of fifty-seven years...
Lydian
76 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Lydian ...the better to win the aid of the god, to whom he also commanded that every Lydian sacrifice what he could. [2] When the sacrifice was over, he melted down a vast...
Lydian
77 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Trojans ...and atonement made for the seizure; but when this proposal was made, the Trojans pleaded the seizure of Medea, and reminded the Greeks that they asked...
Trojans
75 26.23873,39.9577,0 the Lacedaemonians ...being the Ionians, the Aeolians, and the Dorians of Asia, and the latter the Lacedaemonians. [3] Before the reign of Croesus, all Greeks were free: for the Cimmerian host...
the Lacedaemonians
75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...and had mastered the Tegeans in war. In the kingship of Leon and Hegesicles at Sparta, the Lacedaemonians were successful in all their other wars but met disaster...
Sparta
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Greeks ...had no luxury and no comforts. 72. Now the Cappadocians are called by the Greeks Syrians, and these Syrians before the Persian rule were subjects of the Medes...
Greeks
77 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...hungry, because not much dessert is set before them: were this too given to Greeks (the Persians say) they would never stop eating. [3] They are very partial to...
Greeks
78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...that follow many, and not all served together. This is why the Persians say of Greeks that they rise from table still hungry, because not much dessert is set before...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...a matter of mere seizure on both sides. But after this (the Persians say), the Greeks were very much to blame; for they invaded Asia before the Persians attacked...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...or that story is true, but I shall identify the one who I myself know did the Greeks unjust deeds, and thus proceed with my history, and speak of small and great...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...Asia, and the latter the Lacedaemonians. [3] Before the reign of Croesus, all Greeks were free: for the Cimmerian host which invaded Ionia before his time did not...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Persians ...of Priam. [4] Ever since then we have regarded Greeks as our enemies.” For the Persians claim Asia for their own, and the foreign peoples that inhabit it; Europe and...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Scythians ...Assyrians in battle; but while he was besieging their city, a great army of Scythians came down upon him, led by their king Madyes son of Protothyes. They had...
Scythians
78 28.5,44.5,0 Scythians ...Cythera was founded by Phoenicians from this same land of Syria. [4] But the Scythians who pillaged the temple, and all their descendants after them, were afflicted...
Scythians
79 28.5,44.5,0 Scythians ...that I have told, is the most credible. 215. These Massagetae are like the Scythians in their dress and way of life. They are both cavalry and infantry (having some...
Scythians
78 28.5,44.5,0 Scythians ...language and the skill of archery. [4] As time went on, it happened that the Scythians, who were accustomed to go hunting and always to bring something back, once had...
Scythians
79 28.5,44.5,0 Cimmerians ...king Madyes son of Protothyes. They had invaded Asia after they had driven the Cimmerians out of Europe: pursuing them in their flight, the Scythians came to the Median...
Cimmerians
81 24.93869,41.14788,0 Milesian territory ...invade when the crops in the land were ripe; [2] and whenever he came to the Milesian territory, he neither demolished nor burnt nor tore the doors off the country dwellings...
Milesian territory
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Carians ...I cannot clearly decide), but in their customs they diverge widely from the Carians, as from all other men. Their chief pleasure is to assemble for drinking-bouts...
Carians
78 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...of Carian Zeus at Mylasa, to which Mysians and Lydians, as brethren of the Carians (for Lydus and Mysus, they say, were brothers of Car), are admitted, but not...
Carians
77 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...an alien wife or concubine, the children are dishonored. 174. Neither the Carians nor any Greeks who dwell in this country did any thing notable before they were...
Carians
77 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...so came to the mainland. This is the Cretan story about the Carians; but the Carians themselves do not subscribe to it, but believe that they are aboriginal...
Carians
79 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Argive stock ...to win second prize. Solon answered, “Cleobis and Biton. [2] They were of Argive stock, had enough to live on, and on top of this had great bodily strength. Both had...
Argive stock
76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Carians ...171. Harpagus, after subjugating Ionia, made an expedition against the Carians, Caunians, and Lycians, taking Ionians and Aeolians with him. [2] Of these, the...
Carians
74 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Argive women ...men stood around the youths and congratulated them on their strength; the Argive women congratulated their mother for having borne such children. [4] She was...
Argive women
76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Medes ...the land he indicated to them, and let him choose a bodyguard out of all the Medes. [3] And having obtained power, he forced the Medes to build him one city and...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...and though he knew that injustice is always the enemy of justice. Then the Medes of the same town, seeing his behavior, chose him to be their judge, and he (for...
Medes
77 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...and made drunk and then slain by Cyaxares and the Medes: so thus the Medes took back their empire and all that they had formerly possessed; and they took...
Medes
71 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...this the following had been done by him: since Astyages was harsh toward the Medes, he associated with each of the chief Medes and persuaded them to make Cyrus...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...by Astyages. Persuade the Persians to rebel, and lead their army against the Medes; [3] then you have your wish, whether I am appointed to command the army...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...divine chance to undertake this work; and I hold you fully as good men as the Medes in war and in everything else. All this is true; therefore revolt from Astyages...
Medes
80 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...would see him sooner than he liked. Hearing this, Astyages armed all his Medes, and was distracted by Providence so that he forgot what he had done to...
Medes
75 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...Astyages quickly now!” 127. The Persians had long been discontent that the Medes ruled them, and now having got a champion they were glad to win their freedom...
Medes
78 46.5,34.5,0 Attic nation ...which was not Greek. [3] If, then, all the Pelasgian stock spoke so, then the Attic nation, being of Pelasgian blood, must have changed its language too at the time when...
Attic nation
80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Ionian ...those of Doric, and the Athenians among those of Ionic stock. These races, Ionian and Dorian, were the foremost in ancient time, the first a Pelasgian and the...
Ionian
77 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Lacedaemonians ...make his friends. [2] He found by inquiry that the chief peoples were the Lacedaemonians among those of Doric, and the Athenians among those of Ionic stock. These...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Scythia ...is in that country. [2] Now I am going to describe the coast of the true Scythia from the Ister, and give its measurements. The ancient Scythian land begins at...
Scythia
75 27.5,47.5,0 Hippolaus' promontory ...between these rivers, where the land projects like a ship's beak, is called Hippolaus' promontory; a temple of Demeter stands there. The settlement of the Borystheneïtae is...
Hippolaus' promontory
78 32.147611,46.570165,0 Neurian ...first out of a great lake, which is the boundary between the Scythian and the Neurian countries; at the mouth of the river there is a settlement of Greeks, who are...
Neurian
80 Scythia ...these people are wizards; [2] for the Scythians, and the Greeks settled in Scythia, say that once a year every one of the Neuri becomes a wolf for a few days and...
Scythia
77 27.5,47.5,0 Woodland ...worship. [4] So when he came to Scythia, he hid himself in the country called Woodland (which is beside the Race of Achilles, and is all overgrown with every kind of...
Woodland
80 32.5,46.5,0 Maeetian ...by flowing out of a great lake, and enters a yet greater lake called the Maeetian, which divides the Royal Scythians from the Sauromatae; another river, called...
Maeetian
75 35.862586,45.814417000000006,0 Maeetian ...Egyptian Nile river and the Colchian Phasis river (though some say that the Maeetian Tanaïs river and the Cimmerian Ferries24 are boundaries); and I cannot learn...
Maeetian
78 35.862586,45.814417000000006,0 Race of Achilles ...to Scythia, he hid himself in the country called Woodland (which is beside the Race of Achilles, and is all overgrown with every kind of timber); hidden there, Anacharsis...
Race of Achilles
81 31.5,46.5,0 Thracians ...he came to the Ister, he first took the Getae, who pretend to be immortal. The Thracians of Salmydessus and of the country above the towns of Apollonia and Mesambria...
Thracians
81 27.5,42.5,0 Thracians ...animosity toward one another. In the rest of their customs they are like the Thracians. 105. The Neuri follow Scythian customs; but one generation before the advent...
Thracians
79 27.5,42.5,0 Lacedaemonians ...be no killing, promising to lead them out of the country himself. [3] The Lacedaemonians consented to this, and Theras sailed with three thirty-oared ships to join the...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Hellas ...say they have no knowledge of him; this is because he left his country for Hellas and followed the customs of strangers. [6] But according to what I heard from...
Hellas
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Susa ...were left there. 85. But Darius, when he came to that place in his march from Susa where the Bosporus was bridged in the territory of Calchedon, went aboard ship...
Susa
81 48.24854,32.19202,0 Bosporus ...of these and had a picture made with them, showing the whole bridge of the Bosporus, and Darius sitting aloft on his throne and his army crossing; he set this up...
Bosporus
77 29.075278,41.119444,0 Bosporus ...bridge, whose architect was Mandrocles of Samos; and when he had viewed the Bosporus also, he set up two pillars of white marble by it, engraving on the one in...
Bosporus
78 29.075278,41.119444,0 Dark Rocks ...and Aeolians and men of the Hellespont. [2] So the fleet passed between the Dark Rocks and sailed straight for the Ister and, after a two days' voyage up the river...
Dark Rocks
78 29.11443,41.23498,0 Aegean ...four hundred long. The Hellespont empties into a gulf of the sea which we call Aegean. 86. These measurements have been made in this way: a ship will generally...
Aegean
81 25.8829628235849,37.42245628773585,0 Calchedon ...Hellespont for replying, [2] when he was told at Byzantium that the people of Calchedon had founded their town seventeen years before the Byzantines had founded...
Calchedon
80 29.025789,40.983393,0 Dark Rocks ...was bridged in the territory of Calchedon, went aboard ship and sailed to the Dark Rocks38 (as they are called), which the Greeks say formerly moved; there, he sat on a...
Dark Rocks
80 29.11443,41.23498,0 Susa ...ceased to advise, and Darius, all his preparations made, led his army from Susa. 84. Then the Persian Oeobazus, who had three sons, all with the army, asked...
Susa
77 48.24854,32.19202,0 Assyrian ...also, he set up two pillars of white marble by it, engraving on the one in Assyrian and on the other in Greek characters the names of all the nations that were in...
Assyrian
77 37.5,37.5,0 Byzantium ...by the people of the Hellespont for replying, [2] when he was told at Byzantium that the people of Calchedon had founded their town seventeen years before the...
Byzantium
72 28.975926,41.012379,0 Apollonia ...two roads to the place, one from the town of Heraeum near Perinthus, one from Apollonia on the Euxine sea; each is a two days' journey. This Tearus is a tributary of...
Apollonia
80 30.26009,41.21588,0 Agrianes ...journey. This Tearus is a tributary of the Contadesdus river, and that of the Agrianes, and that of the Hebrus, which empties into the sea near the city of Aenus...
Agrianes
80 27.25,41.25,0 Ionian ...Now the Thracians were a poor and backward people, but this Salmoxis knew Ionian ways and a more advanced way of life than the Thracian; for he had consorted...
Ionian
76 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Attica ...as seas are boundaries of Attica; and the Tauri inhabit a part of Scythia like Attica, as though some other people, not Attic, were to inhabit the heights of Sunium...
Attica
81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Attica ...are two of the four boundary lines of Scythia, just as seas are boundaries of Attica; and the Tauri inhabit a part of Scythia like Attica, as though some other...
Attica
80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Carcinitis ...at the Ister and faces south and the south wind, as far as the city called Carcinitis. [3] Beyond this place, the country fronting the same sea is hilly and projects...
Carcinitis
77 33.37015,45.18737,0 Ionia ...summoning the Ionian sovereigns to an audience said to them: [2] “Gentlemen of Ionia, I take back the decision which I delivered before about the bridge; now, take...
Ionia
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Tauri ...as to the head, but say that the body is buried, not thrown off the cliff. The Tauri themselves say that this deity to whom they sacrifice is Agamemnon's daughter...
Tauri
81 34.27150174333333,44.883441823333335,0 Sunium ...Attica, as though some other people, not Attic, were to inhabit the heights of Sunium from Thoricus to the town of Anaphlystus, if Sunium jutted farther out into the...
Sunium
81 24.0359195,37.683423,0 Calabrian ...from this other analogy: it is as though in Calabria some other people, not Calabrian, were to live on the promontory within a line drawn from the harbor of...
Calabrian
78 17.75,40.75,0 Black-cloaks ...[2] The assembled kings were those of the Tauri, Agathyrsi, Neuri, Maneaters, Black-cloaks, Geloni, Budini, and Sauromatae. 103. Among these, the Tauri have the...
Black-cloaks
80 Amazons ...victory on the Thermodon they sailed away carrying in three ships as many Amazons as they had been able to take alive; and out at sea the Amazons attacked the...
Amazons
76 Amazons ...every day the two camps drew nearer to each other. Now the young men, like the Amazons, had nothing but their arms and their horses, and lived as did the women, by...
Amazons
81 Amazons ...given the allotted share of possessions that fell to them, and returned to the Amazons, the women said to them: [2] “We are worried and frightened how we are to live...
Amazons
81 Geloni ...Greek and half Scythian. But the Budini do not speak the same language as the Geloni, nor is their manner of life the same. 109. The Budini are indigenous; they...
Geloni
80 Geloni ...the nations deliberated, and their opinions were divided. The kings of the Geloni and the Budini and the Sauromatae were of one mind and promised to help the...
Geloni
77 Lycus ...an uncle of Idanthyrsus king of Scythia, and he was the son of Gnurus, son of Lycus, son of Spargapithes. Now if Anacharsis was truly of this family, then let him...
Lycus
80 37.5,47.5,0 Amazons ...the Sauromatae, the story is as follows. When the Greeks were at war with the Amazons (whom the Scythians call Oiorpata, a name signifying in our tongue killers of...
Amazons
80 Chersonesites ...Ionians held a council. Miltiades the Athenian, general and sovereign of the Chersonesites of the Hellespont, advised that they do as the Scythians said and set Ionia...
Chersonesites
79 26.5,40.33333,0 Abydos ...138. Those high in Darius' favor who gave their vote were Daphnis of Abydos, Hippoclus of Lampsacus, Herophantus of Parium, Metrodorus of Proconnesus...
Abydos
72 26.41122,40.19406,0 Chios ...the Hellespont and sovereigns of cities there; and from Ionia, Strattis of Chios, Aiaces of Samos, Laodamas of Phocaea, and Histiaeus of Miletus who opposed the...
Chios
77 26.053,38.414,0 Syrgis ...issue into the lake called the Maeetian; their names are Lycus, Oarus, Tanaïs, Syrgis. 124. When Darius came into the desolate country, he halted in his pursuit and...
Syrgis
81 Lampsacus ...high in Darius' favor who gave their vote were Daphnis of Abydos, Hippoclus of Lampsacus, Herophantus of Parium, Metrodorus of Proconnesus, Aristagoras of Cyzicus...
Lampsacus
81 26.68998,40.34869,0 Phocaea ...cities there; and from Ionia, Strattis of Chios, Aiaces of Samos, Laodamas of Phocaea, and Histiaeus of Miletus who opposed the plan of Miltiades. As for the...
Phocaea
80 26.75261,38.6684,0 Aeolians ...and Histiaeus of Miletus who opposed the plan of Miltiades. As for the Aeolians, their only notable man present was Aristagoras of Cymae. 139. When these...
Aeolians
73 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Pelasgians ...tell now. [2] The descendants of the crew of the Argo were driven out by the Pelasgians who carried off the Athenian women from Brauron; after being driven out of...
Pelasgians
79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lemnos ...married, and gave in marriage to others the women they had brought from Lemnos. 146. But in no time these Minyae became imperious, demanding an equal right...
Lemnos
74 25.25,39.916667,0 Brauron ...Argo were driven out by the Pelasgians who carried off the Athenian women from Brauron; after being driven out of Lemnos by them, they sailed away to Lacedaemon, and...
Brauron
81 23.9937505,37.926189,0 Lacedaemon ...Thersander, Tisamenus, and Autesion, was preparing to lead out colonists from Lacedaemon. [2] This Theras was of the line of Cadmus and was an uncle on their mother's...
Lacedaemon
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Minyae ...Tyndaridae47 had been in the ship's company of the Argo; so they received the Minyae and gave them land and distributed them among their own tribes. The Minyae...
Minyae
80 Minyae ...by day.) [3] Now when they were about to kill the prisoners, the wives of the Minyae, who were natives of the country, daughters of leading Spartans, asked...
Minyae
80 Minyae ...Lemnos and there begot their race. [4] Hearing the story of the lineage of the Minyae, the Lacedaemonians sent a second time and asked why they had come into Laconia...
Minyae
81 Calliste ...would sail away to his family. [4] On the island now called Thera, but then Calliste, there were descendants of Membliarus the son of Poeciles, a Phoenician; for...
Calliste
78 25.4,36.4,0 Calliste ...of people from the tribes; his intention was to settle among the people of Calliste and not drive them out but claim them as in fact his own people. [2] So when...
Calliste
77 25.4,36.4,0 Phoenician ...but then Calliste, there were descendants of Membliarus the son of Poeciles, a Phoenician; for Cadmus son of Agenor had put in at the place now called Thera during his...
Phoenician
81 35.25,33.25,0 Paroreatae ...a few; [4] for the greater part of them made their way to the lands of the Paroreatae and Caucones, and after having driven these out of their own country, they...
Paroreatae
77 Spartan ...his customary name. He had a son, Aegeus, from whom the Aegidae, a great Spartan clan, take their name. [2] The men of this clan, finding that none of their...
Spartan
75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Thera ...their children lived. It fared thus, too, with the children of the Aegidae at Thera. 150. So far in the story the Lacedaemonian and Theraean records agree; for...
Thera
80 25.478129,36.36399,0 Epium ...companies and established the cities of Lepreum, Macistus, Phrixae, Pyrgus, Epium, and Nudium in the land they had won;48 most of these were in my time taken and...
Epium
78 21.784671,37.56585,0 Theraeans ...friendship between them and the men of Cyrene and Thera. 153. As for the Theraeans, when they came to Thera after leaving Corobius on the island, they brought...
Theraeans
76 25.478129,36.36399,0 Theraeans ...stammering speech was born to him, to whom he gave the name Battus,53 as the Theraeans and Cyrenaeans say; but in my opinion the boy was given some other name, [2]...
Theraeans
79 25.478129,36.36399,0 Theraeans ...learned everything, he divided the people into three tribes;56 of which the Theraeans and dispossessed Libyans were one, the Peloponnesians and Cretans the second...
Theraeans
78 25.478129,36.36399,0 Thera ...with provision for some months, and themselves sailed back with all speed to Thera to bring news of the island. 152. But after they had been away for longer than...
Thera
79 25.478129,36.36399,0 Minyan ...Battus son of Polymnestus came with him, a descendant of Euphemus of the Minyan clan. [3] When Grinnus king of Thera asked the oracle about other matters, the...
Minyan
75 Pillars of Heracles ...where he received a ship and a crew from the Egyptians, and sailed past the Pillars of Heracles. [4] Having sailed out beyond them, and rounded the Libyan promontory called...
Pillars of Heracles
78 -5.384583,35.9358335,0 Pillars of Heracles ...beasts' haunt runs a ridge of sand that stretches from Thebes of Egypt to the Pillars of Heracles.60 [2] At intervals of about ten days' journey along this ridge there are...
Pillars of Heracles
80 -5.384583,35.9358335,0 Samians ...whose captain was Colaeus, was driven off her course to Platea, where the Samians heard the whole story from Corobius and left him provisions for a year; [2]...
Samians
76 26.84,37.73,0 Egypt ...a year; [2] they then put out to sea from the island and would have sailed to Egypt, but an easterly wind drove them from their course, and did not abate until...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Cyrene ...I have said already) Platea. This island is said to be as big as the city of Cyrene is now. 157. Here they lived for two years; but as everything went wrong, the...
Cyrene
79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaeans ...[5] Apries mustered a great force of Egyptians and sent it against Cyrene; the Cyrenaeans marched out to Irasa and the Thestes spring, and there fought with the...
Cyrenaeans
81 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaeans ...was born to him, to whom he gave the name Battus,53 as the Theraeans and Cyrenaeans say; but in my opinion the boy was given some other name, [2] and changed it to...
Cyrenaeans
75 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaeans ...in which the Theraean and Cyrenaean stories agree, but not until now, for the Cyrenaeans tell a wholly different story about Battus, which is this. There is a town in...
Cyrenaeans
80 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaean ...is what the Theraeans say; and now begins the part in which the Theraean and Cyrenaean stories agree, but not until now, for the Cyrenaeans tell a wholly different...
Cyrenaean
79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Thera ...was the beginning of a close friendship between them and the men of Cyrene and Thera. 153. As for the Theraeans, when they came to Thera after leaving Corobius on...
Thera
81 25.478129,36.36399,0 Thera ...and the men of Cyrene and Thera. 153. As for the Theraeans, when they came to Thera after leaving Corobius on the island, they brought word that they had...
Thera
81 25.478129,36.36399,0 Cyrenaean ...Asbystae, who live inland of Cyrene, not coming down to the coast, for that is Cyrenaean territory. These drive four-horse chariots to a greater extent than any other...
Cyrenaean
81 21.856169,32.818736,0 Egypt ...a result of which, they were so utterly destroyed that few of them returned to Egypt. Because of this misfortune, and because they blamed him for it, the Egyptians...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Platea ...a colony on an island off the Libyan coast called (as I have said already) Platea. This island is said to be as big as the city of Cyrene is now. 157. Here they...
Platea
77 26.2322965,35.8634532,0 Mantineans ...mediator from Mantinea in Arcadia. When the Cyrenaeans sent their request, the Mantineans gave them their most valued citizen, whose name was Demonax. [3] When this man...
Mantineans
81 22.393259,37.618138,0 Cyprus ...but he was defeated and banished to Samos, and his mother fled to Salamis in Cyprus. [3] Now Salamis at this time was ruled by Evelthon, who dedicated that...
Cyprus
79 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 islanders ...names in the hymn made for them by Olen of Lycia; it was from Delos that the islanders and Ionians learned to sing hymns to Opis and Arge, calling upon their names...
islanders
79 Egypt ...money out of gold refined to an extreme purity,57 and Aryandes, then ruling Egypt, made a similar silver coinage; and now there is no silver money so pure as is...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Barcaeans ...they had made, so that they might keep the oath which they had sworn to the Barcaeans: namely, that this treaty would hold good for as long as the ground remained as...
Barcaeans
78 20.892778,32.498333,0 Giligamae ...extend from Egypt to the harbor called Plynus. 169. Next to them are the Giligamae, who inhabit the country to the west as far as the island of Aphrodisias; in...
Giligamae
76 23.5,32.5,0 Asbystae ...practice to imitate most of the Cyrenaean customs. 171. Next west of the Asbystae are the Auschisae, dwelling inland of Barce, and touching the coast at...
Asbystae
76 21.5,32.5,0 Asbystae ...the others in its customs. 170. The next people west of the Giligamae are the Asbystae, who live inland of Cyrene, not coming down to the coast, for that is Cyrenaean...
Asbystae
81 21.5,32.5,0 Lotus Eaters ...who sow in earth which they have laid on the salt. [2] The shortest way to the Lotus Eaters' country is from here, thirty days' journey distant. Among the Garamantes are...
Lotus Eaters
81 10.5,33.5,0 Nasamones ...desert, a strong south wind buried them. So they perished utterly, and the Nasamones have their country. 174. Inland of these to the south, the Garamantes live in...
Nasamones
77 20.5,30.5,0 Gindanes ...men. 177. There is a headland jutting out into the sea from the land of the Gindanes; on it live the Lotus Eaters, whose only fare is the lotus.58 The lotus fruit...
Gindanes
79 11.5,33.5,0 Lotus Eaters ...jutting out into the sea from the land of the Gindanes; on it live the Lotus Eaters, whose only fare is the lotus.58 The lotus fruit is the size of a...
Lotus Eaters
73 10.5,33.5,0 Tritonian lake ...forests; this region is wholly without moisture. 186. Thus from Egypt to the Tritonian lake, the Libyans are nomads that eat meat and drink milk; for the same reason as...
Tritonian lake
80 8.5,33.5,0 Malea ...out to sail around the Peloponnese, to go to Delphi. [2] But when he was off Malea, a north wind caught and carried him away to Libya; and before he saw land, he...
Malea
79 23.19975,36.43603,0 Triton ...than the aforesaid people. Their country reaches to a great river called the Triton,59 which empties into the great Tritonian lake, in which is an island called...
Triton
79 Atlantes ...and can tell the names of all the peoples that live on the ridge as far as the Atlantes, but no farther than that. But I know this, that the ridge reaches as far as...
Atlantes
81 Triton ...can be carried here and there. Such are the Libyan customs. 191. West of the Triton river and next to the Aseans begins the country of Libyans who cultivate the...
Triton
80 Bactria ...into banishment and brought them to the king, and Darius gave them a town of Bactria to live in. They gave this town the name Barce, and it remained an inhabited...
Bactria
79 67.5,37.5,0 Paeonians ...fulfillment of the prophecy; now it is time for us to act.” Accordingly, the Paeonians set upon the Perinthians and won a great victory, leaving few of their enemies...
Paeonians
79 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...and take them from their homes out of Europe into Asia. There were two Paeonians, Pigres and Mantyes, who themselves desired to be rulers of their countrymen...
Paeonians
73 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...reading it, took guides from Thrace and led his army to Paeonia. 15. When the Paeonians learned that the Persians were coming against them, they gathered together and...
Paeonians
81 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...to withstand the onset of Megabazus' army, but the Persians, learning that the Paeonians had gathered their forces and were guarding the coast route into their country...
Paeonians
81 21.75,41.75,0 Thracians ...for hucksters, and the Cyprians use it for spears. 10. According to the Thracians, all the land beyond the Ister is full of bees, and that by reason of these...
Thracians
75 27.5,42.5,0 Paeonians ...took their children and women and fled to the sea. After arriving there, the Paeonians crossed over to Chios. [4] They were already in Chios, when a great host of...
Paeonians
79 21.75,41.75,0 Thrace ...will every city and every people of that region. For this, the conquest of Thrace, was the charge given him by Darius. 3. The Thracians are the biggest nation...
Thrace
77 27.5,42.5,0 Thrace ...have done? You have permitted a clever and cunning Greek to build a city in Thrace, where there are abundant forests for ship-building, much wood for oars, mines...
Thrace
78 27.5,42.5,0 Paeonians ...of the Hellespont. These Perinthians had already been roughly handled by the Paeonians. [2] For the oracle of the god ordered the Paeonians from the Strymon to march...
Paeonians
79 21.75,41.75,0 Getae ...Getae, the Trausi, and those who dwell above the Crestonaeans. 4. As for the Getae, who claim to be immortal, I have already given an account of their practices.1...
Getae
80 25.5,44.5,0 Thracian ...prizes are offered for the hardest type of single combat. Such are the Thracian funeral rites. 9. As for the region which lies north of this country, none can...
Thracian
73 27.5,42.5,0 Trausi ...claim to be immortal, I have already given an account of their practices.1 The Trausi, who in all else conform to the customs of other Thracians, do as I will show...
Trausi
81 Cyprians ...their ally, now joined itself to them after the burning of Sardis. 104. The Cyprians did likewise of their own free will, all save the people of Amathus, for these...
Cyprians
79 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Cyprians ...called together the generals of the Ionians, and said to them: “Ionians, we Cyprians offer you the choice of engaging either the Persians or the Phoenicians. [2] If...
Cyprians
78 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Sardis ...forty stages, for there are five hundred and forty furlongs from Ephesus to Sardis. The three months' journey is accordingly made longer by three days. 55. When...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Ligyes ...is possible in the long passage of time. However that may be, we know that the Ligyes who dwell inland of Massalia use the word “sigynnae” for hucksters, and the...
Ligyes
81 9.235707726672372,44.22656549434755,0 Miletus ...son of Lysagoras whom Darius kept with him at Susa. Histiaeus was tyrant of Miletus but was at Susa when the Naxians, who had been his guests and friends, arrived...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...men of substance who had been banished by the common people, went in exile to Miletus. [2] Now it chanced that the deputy ruling Miletus was Aristagoras son of...
Miletus
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...sent away to the coast in the case that there should be a revolt. If, however, Miletus remained at peace, he calculated that he would never return there. 36. With...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Mytilene ...Histiaeus of Termera son of Tymnes; Coes son of Erxandrus, to whom Darius gave Mytilene; Aristagoras of Cyme, son of Heraclides; and many others besides. Then...
Mytilene
81 26.55529,39.10772,0 Asia ...Aristagoras spoke to the same effect as at Sparta, of the good things of Asia, and how the Persians carried neither shield nor spear in war and could easily...
Asia
75 Edonian ...desired no further sovereignty than that, but asked for Myrcinus5 in the Edonian land so that he might build a city there. This, then, was Histiaeus' choice...
Edonian
75 23.848889,40.785833,0 Miletus ...a choice of whatever they wanted. [2] Histiaeus, seeing that he was tyrant of Miletus, desired no further sovereignty than that, but asked for Myrcinus5 in the...
Miletus
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Paeonia ...Megabazus, who, after reading it, took guides from Thrace and led his army to Paeonia. 15. When the Paeonians learned that the Persians were coming against them...
Paeonia
80 21.75,41.75,0 Teucrians ...a river not far from the Hellespont, and that they were colonists from the Teucrians of Troy. [3] So they told him all this, and the king asked them if all the...
Teucrians
77 26.609255,39.898491,0 Siriopaeones ...own way, and surrendered themselves to the Persians. Thus of the Paeonians the Siriopaeones and Paeoplae and all who lived as far as the Prasiad lake were taken away from...
Siriopaeones
81 23.75,41.25,0 Lydians ...she passed by him, for what she did was not in the manner of the Persians or Lydians or any of the peoples of Asia. Having taken note of this, he sent some of his...
Lydians
79 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Prasiad lake ...and the country of the Doberes and the Agrianes and the Odomanti and the Prasiad lake itself were never subdued at all by Megabazus. He did in fact try to take the...
Prasiad lake
75 23.75,40.75,0 Macedonia ...has passed the mine, he need only cross the mountain called Dysorum10 to be in Macedonia. 18. The Persians who had been sent as envoys came to Amyntas and demanded...
Macedonia
81 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonians ...too had come with them, and servants, and all the great train they had. The Macedonians made away with all that, as well as with all the envoys themselves. [2] No long...
Macedonians
78 21.75,41.25,0 Milesian ...cut short Aristagoras' account of the prospective journey. He then bade his Milesian guest depart from Sparta before sunset, for never, he said, would the...
Milesian
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesian ...you refuse to attempt it?” [9] Thus spoke Aristagoras, and Cleomenes replied: “Milesian, my guest, wait till the third day for my answer.” 50. At that time, then...
Milesian
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesian ...Athenians.” 106. After giving this order, he called before him Histiaeus the Milesian, whom Darius had kept with him for a long time now, and said, “I hear...
Milesian
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...spear in war and could easily be overcome. [2] This he said adding that the Milesians were settlers from Athens, whom it was only right to save seeing that they...
Milesians
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...of the Eretrians who came to the war to please not the Athenians but the Milesians themselves, thereby repaying their debt (for the Milesians had once been the...
Milesians
75 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...to the Persians or to depart from Asia. 120. While they took counsel, the Milesians and their allies came to their aid, whereupon the Carians put aside their...
Milesians
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Argive ...where he then established as tyrant Hegesistratus, his own bastard son by an Argive woman. Hegesistratus, however, could not keep what Pisistratus had given him...
Argive
79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Hellas ...came with Cadmus and of whom the Gephyraeans were a part brought with them to Hellas, among many other kinds of learning, the alphabet, which had been unknown...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Scythia ...I will tell you the reason why I sent for you. As soon as I returned from Scythia and you were gone from my sight, there was nothing which I longed for so much...
Scythia
76 27.5,47.5,0 Milesian ...Hellespont, and after crossing it from there, he came to Sardis. Histiaeus the Milesian was by this time fortifying the place which he hadasked of Darius as his reward...
Milesian
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Susa ...whom Darius kept with him at Susa. Histiaeus was tyrant of Miletus but was at Susa when the Naxians, who had been his guests and friends, arrived. [3] When the...
Susa
80 48.24854,32.19202,0 Susa ...he began to plan revolt, for it chanced that at that very time there came from Susa Histiaeus' messenger, the man with the marked head, signifying that Aristagoras...
Susa
81 48.24854,32.19202,0 Susa ...proposal. Leave Miletus and your newly founded Thracian city and follow me to Susa, where you will have all that is mine, sharing my table and my counsels.”...
Susa
80 48.24854,32.19202,0 Pelasgians ...the Lesbians, he took Lemnos and Imbros, both of which were still inhabited by Pelasgians. 27. The Lemnians fought well and defended themselves, till at last they were...
Pelasgians
81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Troad ...in his governorship. He captured Byzantium, Calchedon, Antandrus in the Troad, and Lamponium, and with ships he had taken from the Lesbians, he took Lemnos...
Troad
74 26.341361553099542,39.82696158473712,0 Ionians ...lands in which they dwell lie next to each other, as I shall show: next to the Ionians are the Lydians, who inhabit a good land and have great store of silver.” (This...
Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...of his grandfather and namesake, decided out of contempt, I imagine, for the Ionians, that his tribes should not be the same as theirs. [2] When he had drawn into...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...together and came to aid the Lydians. [2] It chanced that they found the Ionians no longer at Sardis, but following on their tracks, they caught them at...
Ionians
75 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...Sardis, but following on their tracks, they caught them at Ephesus. There the Ionians stood arrayed to meet them, but were utterly routed in the battle. [3] The...
Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Naxos ...onset of war. When their enemies had brought their ships over from Chios to Naxos, it was a fortified city that they attacked, and for four months they besieged...
Naxos
78 25.52001,37.127,0 Naxos ...One out of their number was to sail to Myus, to the army which had left Naxos and was there, and attempt to seize the generals who were aboard the ships...
Naxos
74 25.52001,37.127,0 Ionians ...what you suffered when you were enslaved by the Medians.” 110. This was the Ionians' response, and when the Persian army afterwards arrived on the plain of...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...his response, and immediately afterwards war broke out on land and sea. The Ionians in their ships, displaying surpassing excellence that day, overcame the...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...115. This the Amathusians did, and have done to this day. When, however, the Ionians engaged in the sea-battle off Cyprus learned that Onesilus' cause was lost and...
Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...royal house52 that I will not take off the tunic I am wearing on my arrival in Ionia until I have made Sardo,53 the largest of the islands, tributary to you.”...
Ionia
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...Ionia and the Aeolian territory on its borders. They took Clazomenae in Ionia, and Cyme in Aeolia. 124. Aristagoras the Milesian, as he clearly...
Ionia
74 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Naxos ...without evils, trouble began once more to come on the Ionians, and this from Naxos and Miletus. Naxos surpassed all the other islands in prosperity, and at about...
Naxos
79 25.52001,37.127,0 Ionia ...made peace in Miletus, but now these cities began to bring trouble upon Ionia. Certain men of substance who had been banished by the common people, went in...
Ionia
74 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Naxos ...began once more to come on the Ionians, and this from Naxos and Miletus. Naxos surpassed all the other islands in prosperity, and at about the same time...
Naxos
75 25.52001,37.127,0 Naxians ...authority to give you such power as will restore you against the will of the Naxians who hold your city, for I know that the Naxians have eight thousand men that...
Naxians
79 25.52001,37.127,0 Naxians ...you against the will of the Naxians who hold your city, for I know that the Naxians have eight thousand men that bear shields, and many ships of war. Nevertheless...
Naxians
78 25.52001,37.127,0 Andros ...for the king, Naxos itself and the islands which are its dependents, Paros, Andros, and the rest of those that are called Cyclades. [3] Making these your starting...
Andros
78 24.86222,37.8528,0 Cyprus ...is called the keys of Cyprus.54 109. In this turn of affairs, the tyrants of Cyprus called together the generals of the Ionians, and said to them: “Ionians, we...
Cyprus
80 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Chios ...arriving there, the Paeonians crossed over to Chios. [4] They were already in Chios, when a great host of Persian horsemen came after them in pursuit. Unable to...
Chios
80 26.053,38.414,0 Cymaeans ...when the Mytilenaeans received him, was taken out and stoned, but the Cymaeans, as well as most of the others, let their own man go. [2] In this way, then, an...
Cymaeans
72 26.936283,38.75953,0 Cyme ...and the Aeolian territory on its borders. They took Clazomenae in Ionia, and Cyme in Aeolia. 124. Aristagoras the Milesian, as he clearly demonstrated, was a...
Cyme
79 26.936283,38.75953,0 Branchidae ...was a city of no great wealth), namely if they took away from the temple at Branchidae15 the treasure which Croesus the Lydian had dedicated there. With this at their...
Branchidae
78 27.256115,37.384829,0 Delphi ...the very marketplace of Sicyon because he was an Argive. [2] He went then to Delphi, and asked the oracle if he should cast Adrastus out, but the priestess said in...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...hired themselves to the Amphictyons for the building of the temple at Delphi which exists now but was not there yet then. [3] Since they were wealthy and...
Delphi
72 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...[2] When no sons were born to him by this wife or any other, he set out to Delphi to enquire concerning the matter of acquiring offspring. As soon as he entered...
Delphi
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...and was seeking a divination, an oracle of double meaning was given him at Delphi. Putting faith in this, he made an attempt on Corinth and won it. [2] The...
Delphi
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Heraclea ...advised him, on the basis of the oracles of Laius, to plant a colony at Heraclea in Sicily, for Heracles18 himself, said Antichares, had won all the region of...
Heraclea
74 16.67048,40.21973,0 Peloponnesus ...had done him wrong in word and deed, mustered an army from the whole of the Peloponnesus. He did not declare the purpose for which he mustered it, namely to avenge...
Peloponnesus
78 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Eryx ...in Sicily, for Heracles18 himself, said Antichares, had won all the region of Eryx, which accordingly belonged to his descendants. When Dorieus heard that, he...
Eryx
80 12.5919,38.03528,0 Italy ...be so, and he took with him the company that he had led to Libya and went to Italy. 44. Now at this time,19 as the Sybarites say, they and their king Telys were...
Italy
79 16.25,38.25,0 Sybaris ...but the Crotoniats say that they were aided by no stranger in their war with Sybaris with the exception of Callias, an Elean diviner of the Iamid clan. About him...
Sybaris
79 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Sybaris ...They claim, however,that if Dorieus had aided them in their war with Sybaris, he would have received a reward many times greater than what was given to...
Sybaris
71 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Sybarites ...that he had led to Libya and went to Italy. 44. Now at this time,19 as the Sybarites say, they and their king Telys were making ready to march against Croton, and...
Sybarites
78 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Sybarites ...is their tale, and both cities have proof of the truth of what they say. The Sybarites point to a precinct and a temple beside the dry bed of the Crathis, which, they...
Sybarites
79 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Crotoniats ...region without bringing about the death of himself and his army. [2] The Crotoniats, on the other hand, show many plots of land which had been set apart for and...
Crotoniats
75 17.205128,39.028864,0 Sybaris ...come to their aid. Their request was granted, and Dorieus marched with them to Sybaris helping them to take it. [2] This is the story which the Sybarites tell of...
Sybaris
81 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Phoenicians ...debarring them from many practices not deserving of mention here. 58. These Phoenicians who came with Cadmus and of whom the Gephyraeans were a part brought with them...
Phoenicians
79 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...to contend with the Phoenicians. If, however, you desire rather to engage the Phoenicians, do so, but whichever you choose, see to it that Ionia and Cyprus become free.”...
Phoenicians
80 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...in their ships, displaying surpassing excellence that day, overcame the Phoenicians, and it was the Samnians who were most brave. On land, when the armies met...
Phoenicians
74 35.25,33.25,0 Crathis ...dry bed of the Crathis, which, they say, Dorieus founded in honor of Athena of Crathis after he had helped to take their city. and find their strongest proof in his...
Crathis
81 16.2544973,39.3801999,0 Egestans ...company, they were all overcome and slain in battle by the Phoenicians and Egestans, all, that is, except Euryleon, who was the only settler that survived this...
Egestans
77 12.839871,37.939199,0 Cilicians ...them are the Cappadocians, whom we call Syrians, and their neighbors are the Cilicians, whose land reaches to the sea over there, in which you see the island of...
Cilicians
79 33.25,36.25,0 Syrians ...the fruits of the earth. [6] Close by them are the Cappadocians, whom we call Syrians, and their neighbors are the Cilicians, whose land reaches to the sea over...
Syrians
80 37.5,37.5,0 Armenians ...they pay to the king is five hundred talents. Next to the Cilicians, are the Armenians, another people rich in flocks, and after the Armenians, the Matieni, whose...
Armenians
79 40.5,39.5,0 Choaspes ...I show you. [7] Adjoining these you see the Cissian land, in which, on the Choaspes, lies that Susa where the great king lives and where the storehouses of his...
Choaspes
77 47.5259884,33.0958458,0 Cilicia ...Cilica of three stages and fifteen and a half parasangs. The boundary of Cilicia and Armenia is a navigable river, the name of which is the Euphrates. In...
Cilicia
75 35.75,38.25,0 Cilicia ...Cindya, the son of Mausolus and husband of the daughter of Syennesis, king of Cilicia. He proposed that the Carians should cross the Maeander and fight with the...
Cilicia
80 35.75,38.25,0 Argives ...with with Messenians, who are matched in strength with you, and Arcadians and Argives, men who have nothing in the way of gold or silver (for which things many are...
Argives
80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Gyndes ...the Armenians and the second from the Matieni. [5] The fourth river is called Gyndes, that Gyndes which Cyrus parted once into three hundred and sixty channels.21...
Gyndes
80 Ephesus ...no longer at Sardis, but following on their tracks, they caught them at Ephesus. There the Ionians stood arrayed to meet them, but were utterly routed in the...
Ephesus
74 27.339722,37.941944,0 Cilica ...pass two fortresses. [3] Ride past these, and you will have a journey through Cilica of three stages and fifteen and a half parasangs. The boundary of Cilicia and...
Cilica
80 33.25,36.25,0 Ephesus ...a more exact measurement, I will give him that too, for the journey from Ephesus to Sardis must be added to the rest. [2] So, then, from the Greek sea to Susa...
Ephesus
75 27.339722,37.941944,0 Greek sea ...from Ephesus to Sardis must be added to the rest. [2] So, then, from the Greek sea to Susa, which is the city called Memnonian, it is a journey of fourteen...
Greek sea
75 25.8829628235849,37.42245628773585,0 Byzantines ...and the forts that lie towards Thrace, and Selymbria and Byzantium. [2] The Byzantines and the Calchedonians beyond them did not even wait for the attack of the...
Byzantines
78 28.975926,41.012379,0 Argos ...god of oracles, you have gravely deceived me by saying that I would take Argos; this, I guess, is the fulfillment of that prophecy.” 81. Then Cleomenes sent...
Argos
75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Boeotians ...as tyrant. [2] Cleomenes broke in as far as Eleusis with a great host, and the Boeotians, by a concerted plan, took Oenoe and Hysiae, districts on the borders of...
Boeotians
81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Gephyraean ...of the tyrant Hippias, had been slain by Aristogiton and Harmodius, men of Gephyraean descent. This was in fact an evil of which he had received a premonition in a...
Gephyraean
77 22.69361,40.73211,0 Gephyraeans ...the Cadmeans were expelled by the Argives and went away to the Encheleis. The Gephyraeans were left behind but were later compelled by the Boeotians to withdraw to...
Gephyraeans
80 22.69361,40.73211,0 Argives ...where they settled. [2] The Cadmeans had first been expelled from there by the Argives,25 and these Gephyraeans were forced to go to Athens after being expelled in...
Argives
81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thebes ...rid him of Adrastus. When he thought he had found one, he sent to Boeotian Thebes saying that he would gladly bring Melanippus son of Astacus into his country...
Thebes
77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Greece ...is not in its origin Ionian, but Carian, for in ancient times all women in Greece wore the costume now known as Dorian. [2] As for the Argives and Aeginetans...
Greece
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Boeotia ...have myself seen Cadmean writing in the temple of Ismenian Apollo at Thebes of Boeotia engraved on certain tripods and for the most part looking like Ionian letters...
Boeotia
81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Teleboae ...there is this inscription: “Amphitryon dedicated me from the spoils of27 Teleboae. ” This would date from about the time of Laius the son of Labdacus, grandson...
Teleboae
75 Lipsydrium ...in their return and suffered instead a great reverse. After fortifying Lipsydrium north of Paeonia, they, in their desire to use all devices against the sons of...
Lipsydrium
73 23.362766,37.974359,0 Argives ...the rule of this Laodamas son of Eteocles, the Cadmeans were expelled by the Argives and went away to the Encheleis. The Gephyraeans were left behind but were later...
Argives
79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Phalerum ...of man. [3] They sent these men by sea on shipboard. Anchimolius put in at Phalerum and disembarked his army there. The sons of Pisistratus, however, had received...
Phalerum
77 23.7062,37.9373,0 Thessalians ...and sent to ask help from the Thessalians with whom they had an alliance. The Thessalians, at their entreaty, joined together and sent their own king, Cineas of Conium...
Thessalians
80 22.2,39.6,0 Thessalians ...however, had received word of the plan already, and sent to ask help from the Thessalians with whom they had an alliance. The Thessalians, at their entreaty, joined...
Thessalians
80 22.2,39.6,0 Attica ...this happened, all their plans were confounded, and they agreed to depart from Attica within five days on the terms prescribed to them by the Athenians in return for...
Attica
81 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Cynosarges ...off, and Anchimolius' tomb is at Alopecae in Attica, near to the Heracleum in Cynosarges.28 64. After this the Lacedaemonians sent out a greater army to attack Athens...
Cynosarges
80 23.55943,37.94394,0 Sigeum ...there was constant war over a long period of time45 between the Athenians at Sigeum and the Mytilenaeans at Achilleum. The Mytilenaeans were demanding the place...
Sigeum
79 26.18372,39.98975,0 Carians ...news of this was brought to the Carians before Daurises' coming, and when the Carians heard, they mustered at the place called the White Pillars by the river...
Carians
80 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...the Maeander, they and the Carians joined battle by the river Marsyas. The Carians fought obstinately and for a long time, but at the last they were overcome by...
Carians
77 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...Zeus of Armies at Labraunda,57 a large and a holy grove of plane-trees. (The Carians are the only people whom we know who offer sacrifices to Zeus by this name.)...
Carians
79 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...of their whole army fell, but the Milesians were hardest stricken. 121. The Carians, however, rallied and fought again after this disaster, for learning that the...
Carians
79 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...day. Then as he marched from Paesus against Parius, news came to him that the Carians had made common cause with the Ionians and revolted from the Persians. For this...
Carians
80 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Caria ...sailing out from the Hellespont they gained to their cause the greater part of Caria, for even Caunus, which till then had not wanted to be their ally, now joined...
Caria
81 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Caria ...For this reason he turned aside from the Hellespont and marched his army to Caria. 118. It so happened that news of this was brought to the Carians before...
Caria
78 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carian ...infantrymen by rearing up. Hearing this, Onesilus said to his attendant, a Carian of great renown in war and a valiant man , [2] “I learn that Artybius' horse...
Carian
77 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Sicyonians ...away all Adrastus' sacrifices and festivals and gave them to Melanippus. The Sicyonians had been accustomed to pay very great honor to Adrastus because the country had...
Sicyonians
79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Thebans ...of the envoys, an assembly was called and the oracle put before it. When the Thebans heard that they must entreat their “nearest,” they said, “If this is so, our...
Thebans
79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Argos ...at Sicyon by reason of the Homeric poems, in which it is the Argives and Argos which are primarily the theme of the songs. Furthermore, he conceived the...
Argos
75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Dorians ...had left their host, they too went off. 76. This was the fourth time that Dorians had come into Attica. They had come twice as invaders in war and twice as...
Dorians
77 Dorians ...then, is what he did regarding Adrastus, but as for the tribes of the Dorians, he changed their names so that these tribes should not be shared by Sicyonians...
Dorians
72 Chalcidians ...the Chalcidians to punish them. The Boeotians came to the Euripus to help the Chalcidians and as soon as the Athenians saw these allies, they resolved to attack the...
Chalcidians
80 23.602,38.464,0 Chalcidians ...plan, took Oenoe and Hysiae, districts on the borders of Attica, while the Chalcidians attacked on another side and raided lands in Attica. The Athenians, who were...
Chalcidians
77 23.602,38.464,0 Hysiae ...with a great host, and the Boeotians, by a concerted plan, took Oenoe and Hysiae, districts on the borders of Attica, while the Chalcidians attacked on another...
Hysiae
76 23.362766,37.974359,0 Aeginetans ...giving back the sons of Aeacus and asking for some men instead. [2] The Aeginetans, who were enjoying great prosperity and remembered their old feud with Athens...
Aeginetans
74 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...himself to Phalerum. 86. This is the Athenian version of the matter, but the Aeginetans say that the Athenians came not in one ship only, for they could easily have...
Aeginetans
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...in Greece wore the costume now known as Dorian. [2] As for the Argives and Aeginetans, this was the reason of their passing a law in both their countries that...
Aeginetans
77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Thespiae ...“If this is so, our nearest neighbors are the men of Tanagra and Coronea and Thespiae. These are always our comrades in battle and zealously wage our wars. What...
Thespiae
79 23.154521,38.293384,0 Hellas ...not used for the purpose for which they were built, but later came to serve Hellas in her need. These ships, then, had been made and were already there for the...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...story told in Hellas, namely that before Xerxes set forth on his march against Hellas, he sent a herald to Argos, who said on his coming (so the story goes), [2]...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...open show of marching against Athens, but actually with intent to subdue all Hellas to his will. [2] Now you are rich in power, and as lord of Sicily you rule what...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...no word of sending an army without the condition of your being the leader of Hellas; it is the command alone that you desire. [2] Now as long as you sought the...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...it up again thought that they would in this way bar the foreigner's way into Hellas. Very near the road is a village called Alpeni, and it is from here that the...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...hands to withstand you, my King. You are now attacking the fairest kingdom in Hellas and men who are the very best.” [5] What he said seemed completely incredible...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...out of goodwill or spiteful triumph. When Xerxes was resolved to march against Hellas, Demaratus, who was then at Susa and had knowledge of this, desired to send...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...with this single one. For what nation did Xerxes not lead from Asia against Hellas? What water did not fail when being drunk up, except only the greatest rivers?...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Epidaurians ...have certain secret rites as well. 84. When these images were stolen, the Epidaurians ceased from fulfilling their agreement with the Athenians. Then the Athenians...
Epidaurians
77 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurians ...anywhere save at Athens. [3] The Athenians consented to give the trees, if the Epidaurians would pay yearly sacred dues to Athena, the city's goddess, and to Erechtheus...
Epidaurians
81 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurians ...of the Aeginetans' long-standing debt of enmity against the Athenians. The Epidaurians' land bore no produce. For this reason they inquired at Delphi concerning this...
Epidaurians
77 23.079167,37.596111,0 Epidaurus ...neither, but make them of the wood of the cultivated olive. [2] So the men of Epidaurus asked the Athenians to permit them to cut down some olive trees, supposing the...
Epidaurus
80 23.079167,37.596111,0 Argives ...and earthquake came upon them 87. This, then, is the story told by the Argives and Aeginetans, and the Athenians too acknowledge that only one man of their...
Argives
74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Attic ...of the whole people to Aegina, attempted to tear the images, as being made of Attic wood, from their bases so that they might carry them away. [2] When they could...
Attic
80 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Corinth ...no word of counsel, he sent the herald away. When the herald returned to Corinth, Periander desired to hear what counsel he brought, but the man said that...
Corinth
75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinth ...the Corinthians' consent.” 93. These were the words of Socles, the envoy from Corinth, and Hippias answered, calling the same gods as Socles had invoked to witness...
Corinth
81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Petra ...to the township where Eetion dwelt to kill the child. [2] These men came to Petra and passing into Eetion's courtyard, asked for the child. Labda, knowing...
Petra
78 Acheron ...[2] Periander had sent messengers to the Oracle of the Dead on the river Acheron in Thesprotia to enquire concerning a deposit that a friend had left, but...
Acheron
75 21.75,37.75,0 Achilleum ...long period of time45 between the Athenians at Sigeum and the Mytilenaeans at Achilleum. The Mytilenaeans were demanding the place back, and the Athenians, bringing...
Achilleum
80 26.15099,39.91516,0 Lacedaimonians ...Melissa told him where the deposit of the friend had been laid. “This, then, Lacedaimonians, is the nature of tyranny, and such are its deeds. [5] We Corinthians marvelled...
Lacedaimonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Eretrians ...Athenians came with their twenty ships as well as five triremes of the Eretrians who came to the war to please not the Athenians but the Milesians themselves...
Eretrians
73 22.607216,39.290562,0 sea ...for fear of danger, the rest took their children and women and fled to the sea. After arriving there, the Paeonians crossed over to Chios. [4] They were...
sea
77 25.8829628235849,37.42245628773585,0 Ephesians ...in the Ephesian territory and marched inland with a great host, taking Ephesians to guide them on their way. They made their way along the river Caicus, and...
Ephesians
73 27.339722,37.941944,0 Caunus ...the Hellespont they gained to their cause the greater part of Caria, for even Caunus, which till then had not wanted to be their ally, now joined itself to them...
Caunus
80 28.621536,36.825909,0 Salaminians ...the Cyprian kings ordered their battle line. They drew up the best of the Salaminians and Solians against the Persians, leaving the remaining Cyprians to face the...
Salaminians
76 33.90294,35.17926,0 Salaminians ...lost and that the cities of Cyprus, with the exception of Salamis which the Salaminians had handed over to their former king Gorgus, were besieged, they sailed off to...
Salaminians
78 33.90294,35.17926,0 Salamis ...him to go to the sea, the following events took place. When Onesilus of Salamis was besieging the Amathusians, news was brought him that Artybius, a Persian...
Salamis
74 33.90294,35.17926,0 Cyprian ...were besieged, they sailed off to Ionia without delay. [2] Soli was the Cyprian city which withstood siege longest; the Persians took it in the fifth month by...
Cyprian
74 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Solians ...kings ordered their battle line. They drew up the best of the Salaminians and Solians against the Persians, leaving the remaining Cyprians to face the rest of the...
Solians
80 32.8125385,35.1406719,0 Paesus ...cities of the Hellespont and took Dardanus, Abydus, Percote, Lampsacus, and Paesus, each in a single day. Then as he marched from Paesus against Parius, news came...
Paesus
78 26.787097,40.400225,0 Maeander ...of Syennesis, king of Cilicia. He proposed that the Carians should cross the Maeander and fight with the river at their back, so that being unable to flee and...
Maeander
79 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Maeander ...the river Marsyas56 which flows from the region of Idria and issues into the Maeander. [2] When they had gathered together, many plans were laid before them, the...
Maeander
79 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Parius ...and Paesus, each in a single day. Then as he marched from Paesus against Parius, news came to him that the Carians had made common cause with the Ionians and...
Parius
75 27.0670163,40.4259096,0 White Pillars ...coming, and when the Carians heard, they mustered at the place called the White Pillars by the river Marsyas56 which flows from the region of Idria and issues into the...
White Pillars
76 Ilium ...making himself master of all the Aeolians who dwell in the territory of Ilium, and of the Gergithae, a remnant of the ancient Trojans. While he was...
Ilium
74 26.23873,39.9577,0 Propontis ...Daurises had left the Hellespont and was marching towards Caria, he left the Propontis and led his army to the Hellespont, making himself master of all the Aeolians...
Propontis
79 28.2499999,40.6666672,0 Aeolians ...demanding the place back, and the Athenians, bringing proof to show that the Aeolians had no more part or lot in the land of Ilium than they themselves and all the...
Aeolians
79 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Aeolians ...Propontis and led his army to the Hellespont, making himself master of all the Aeolians who dwell in the territory of Ilium, and of the Gergithae, a remnant of the...
Aeolians
81 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Spartan ...sea to the king. [2] Till now, Aristagoras had been cunning and fooled the Spartan well, but here he made a false step. If he desired to take the Spartans away...
Spartan
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Phoenicians ...agreement with the governor at Dascyleum, Oebares son of Megabazus. 34. The Phoenicians subdued all the cities in the Chersonese except Cardia. Miltiades son of Cimon...
Phoenicians
79 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...they had escaped from the Medes. 25. After the fight at sea for Miletus, the Phoenicians at the Persians' bidding brought Aeaces son of Syloson back to Samos, for the...
Phoenicians
80 35.25,33.25,0 Ionia ...to Phocaea, now that he knew well that it would be enslaved with the rest of Ionia; he right away sailed straight to Phoenicia instead, sunk some merchant ships...
Ionia
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...that king Darius had planned to remove the Phoenicians and settle them in Ionia, and the Ionians in Phoenicia; for this reason, he said, he had sent the order...
Ionia
76 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Phoenicians ...and crossed the Black Bay, and as he was sailing along the Chersonese the Phoenicians fell upon him with their ships. [2] Miltiades himself escaped with four of his...
Phoenicians
76 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenician ...all; the Cyzicenes had already made themselves the king's subjects before the Phoenician expedition, by an agreement with the governor at Dascyleum, Oebares son of...
Phoenician
80 35.25,33.25,0 Milesian ...who desired to have a talk with Glaucus and made him this offer: ‘I am a Milesian, and I have come to have the benefit of your justice, Glaucus. [4] Since there...
Milesian
75 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Phoenician ...Aristagoras of Miletus, just like the other Ionian tyrants. 14. Now when the Phoenician fleet came sailing against them, the Ionians put out to sea against them with...
Phoenician
80 35.25,33.25,0 Euxine ...there they encamped, and seized all the ships that were sailing out of the Euxine, except when the crews consented to serve Histiaeus. 6. Such were the doings...
Euxine
77 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Milesian ...tried to force his way into Miletus by night, he was wounded in the thigh by a Milesian. Since he was thrust out from his own city, he went back to Chios; when he...
Milesian
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Egyptians ...be reckoned, then the leaders of the Dorians will be shown to be true-born Egyptians. 54. Thus have I traced their lineage according to the Greek story; but the...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...all cities their arrears of tribute. 60. The Lacedaemonians resemble the Egyptians in that their heralds and flute-players and cooks inherit the craft from their...
Egyptians
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Samians ...But the Lesbians, seeing their neighbors fleeing, did the same as the Samians; and most of the Ionians did likewise. 15. The most roughly handled of those...
Samians
72 26.84,37.73,0 Phocaean ...the Chians. 17. So these men met with such a fate. As for Dionysius the Phocaean, when he saw that the Ionian cause was lost, he sailed away with the three...
Phocaean
75 26.75261,38.6684,0 Samos ...to their agreement with Aeaces, to have raised their sails and gone off to Samos, leaving their post, all except eleven ships. [3] The captains of these stood...
Samos
77 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...the Phoenicians at the Persians' bidding brought Aeaces son of Syloson back to Samos, for the high worth of his service to them and for his great achievements...
Samos
81 26.84,37.73,0 Samian ...stood their ground and fought, disobeying their admirals. For this deed the Samian people granted that their names and patronymics should be engraved on a pillar...
Samian
78 26.84,37.73,0 Bactra ...we will make eunuchs of their boys, and carry their maidens captive to Bactra, and hand over their land to others.” 10. So they spoke; the Ionian tyrants...
Bactra
73 66.901245,36.767444,0 Phocaeans ...near these in the line were the Erythraeans, bringing eight ships, and the Phocaeans with three, and next to these the Lesbians with seventy; last of all in the...
Phocaeans
77 26.75261,38.6684,0 Ephesians ...they came by night while the women were celebrating the Thesmophoria; then the Ephesians, never having heard the story of the Chians and seeing an army invading their...
Ephesians
81 27.339722,37.941944,0 Ephesus ...the river Phasis, and they urged the Spartans to set out and march inland from Ephesus and meet the Scythians. [3] They say that when the Scythians had come for this...
Ephesus
81 27.339722,37.941944,0 Mykale ...the Chian ships that were damaged and disabled were pursued and took refuge in Mykale. There the men beached and left their ships, and made their way across the...
Mykale
81 27.12558,37.66144,0 Carians ...to the city, and the plain, giving the hill country into the possession of Carians from Pedasa. 21. Now when the Milesians suffered all this at the hands of the...
Carians
77 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Tyrrhenians ...from this base he set himself up as a pirate, robbing Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians, but no Greeks. 18. When the Persians had conquered the Ionians by sea, they...
Tyrrhenians
74 11.752744124826158,42.42102874792005,0 Asia ...him in grand style and gave him lands and cities. [3] So Demaratus reached Asia through such chances, a man who had gained much renown in Lacedaemon by his...
Asia
77 Asia ...But the Zacynthians refused to give him up, and later he crossed from there to Asia and went to king Darius, who received him in grand style and gave him lands and...
Asia
81 Fair Coast ...the Ionians to the Fair Coast, desiring there to found an Ionian city. This Fair Coast, as it is called, is in Sicily, in that part which looks towards Tyrrhenia. At...
Fair Coast
78 14.440957,38.024241,0 Inyx ...but the Samians did not do so. 24. Scythes the monarch of Zancle escaped from Inyx to Himera, and from there he came to Asia and went up country to king Darius...
Inyx
81 Himera ...Samians did not do so. 24. Scythes the monarch of Zancle escaped from Inyx to Himera, and from there he came to Asia and went up country to king Darius. Darius...
Himera
81 13.82184,37.96884,0 Hellas ...them demand a gift of earth and water for the king. [2] He despatched some to Hellas, and he sent others to his own tributary cities of the coast, commanding that...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...matters. 61. While Cleomenes was in Aegina working for the common good of Hellas, Demaratus slandered him, not out of care for the Aeginetans, but out of...
Hellas
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...chariot, after already winning a Pythian prize, and was the cynosure of all Hellas for the lavishness of his spending; [2] and third, for his behavior regarding...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellespont ...from the mainland. These are the regions of Europe that belong to the Hellespont: the Chersonese, in which there are many cities; Perinthus, and the forts that...
Hellespont
72 26.4,40.2,0 Ionians ...state, he easily subdued them. 28. Then Histiaeus brought a great force of Ionians and Aeolians against Thasos. While he was besieging Thasos a message came that...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Thasos ...a great force of Ionians and Aeolians against Thasos. While he was besieging Thasos a message came that the Phoenicians were putting out to sea from Miletus to...
Thasos
79 24.717535,40.78201,0 Chersonese ...him appointed him tyrant. [2] His first act was to wall off the isthmus of the Chersonese from the city of Cardia across to Pactye,8 so that the Apsinthians would not be...
Chersonese
81 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...the son of his half-brother Cimon. Since his death, the people of the Chersonese offer sacrifices to him as their founder in the customary manner, instituting a...
Chersonese
72 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...as the Chersonese. [2] Miltiades did not await their attack and fled from the Chersonese, until the Scythians departed and the Dolonci brought him back again. All this...
Chersonese
80 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...of Cimon his father, which I will relate in another place. [2] Reaching the Chersonese, Miltiades kept himself within his house, professing thus to honor the memory...
Chersonese
78 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...at Athens, and he took the name Miltiades from Miltiades the founder of the Chersonese. 104. It was this Miltiades who was now the Athenian general, after coming...
Chersonese
78 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...was this Miltiades who was now the Athenian general, after coming from the Chersonese and escaping a two-fold death. The Phoenicians pursued him as far as Imbros...
Chersonese
77 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...to Athens, Miltiades son of Cimon accomplished the voyage from Elaeus on the Chersonese to Lemnos with the Etesian56 winds then constantly blowing; he proclaimed that...
Chersonese
79 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Thasos ...came in from the gold-mines of the “Dug Forest”,14 and less from the mines of Thasos itself, yet so much that the Thasians, paying no tax on their crops, drew a...
Thasos
80 24.717535,40.78201,0 Thasos ...far the most marvellous were those that were found by the Phoenicians who with Thasos colonized this island, which is now called after that Phoenician Thasos. [2]...
Thasos
81 24.717535,40.78201,0 Thasos ...with Thasos colonized this island, which is now called after that Phoenician Thasos. [2] These Phoenician mines are between the place called Aenyra and Coenyra in...
Thasos
79 24.717535,40.78201,0 Thasos ...[2] These Phoenician mines are between the place called Aenyra and Coenyra in Thasos, opposite Samothrace; they are in a great hill that has been dug up in the...
Thasos
80 24.717535,40.78201,0 Europe ...the Persians crossed the Hellespont on shipboard and marched through Europe, with Eretria and Athens as their goal. 44. This was the stated end of their...
Europe
71 Chersonese ...mainland. These are the regions of Europe that belong to the Hellespont: the Chersonese, in which there are many cities; Perinthus, and the forts that lie towards...
Chersonese
79 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Thracian ...son of Cypselus had gained the rule earlier in the following manner: the Thracian Dolonci held possession of this Chersonese. They were crushed in war by the...
Thracian
75 27.5,42.5,0 Selymbria ...there are many cities; Perinthus, and the forts that lie towards Thrace, and Selymbria and Byzantium. [2] The Byzantines and the Calchedonians beyond them did not...
Selymbria
79 28.26828999999998,41.080158,0 Apsinthians ...of the Chersonese from the city of Cardia across to Pactye,8 so that the Apsinthians would not be able to harm them by invading their land. The isthmus is...
Apsinthians
75 26.25,40.75,0 Olympic ...by Pisistratus son of Hippocrates. [2] While in exile he happened to take the Olympic prize in the four-horse chariot, and by taking this victory he won the same...
Olympic
80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Phocis ...after they left the sacred precinct. But as the Dolonci passed through Phocis and Boeotia, going along the Sacred Way,7 no one invited them, so they turned...
Phocis
73 22.25,38.25,0 Pactye ...to wall off the isthmus of the Chersonese from the city of Cardia across to Pactye,8 so that the Apsinthians would not be able to harm them by invading their...
Pactye
78 26.780688,40.485384,0 Scythians ...driven from the country three years before this9 by the Scythians. The nomadic Scythians, provoked by Darius, gathered themselves together and rode as far as the...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Imbros ...bore him children who were reckoned as Persians. Miltiades made his way from Imbros to Athens. 42. In this year10 the Persians caused no further trouble for the...
Imbros
79 25.903047,40.233058,0 Imbros ...and escaping a two-fold death. The Phoenicians pursued him as far as Imbros, considering it of great importance to catch him and bring him to the king. [2]...
Imbros
71 25.903047,40.233058,0 Athens ...when they were put up for sale by the state after Pisistratus' banishment from Athens; and he devised other acts of bitter hatred against him. 122. 50 [This Callias...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Scythians ...him. He had been driven from the country three years before this9 by the Scythians. The nomadic Scythians, provoked by Darius, gathered themselves together and...
Scythians
75 27.5,47.5,0 Athens ...41. But now, learning that the Phoenicians were in Tenedos, he sailed away to Athens with five triremes loaded with the possessions that he had nearby. He set out...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Imbros ...him with their ships. [2] Miltiades himself escaped with four of his ships to Imbros, but the fifth was pursued and overtaken by the Phoenicians. It happened that...
Imbros
80 25.903047,40.233058,0 Cilicia ...appointed generals on their way from the king reached the Aleian plain in Cilicia, bringing with them a great and well-furnished army, they camped there and were...
Cilicia
76 35.75,38.25,0 Eretria ...Persians crossed the Hellespont on shipboard and marched through Europe, with Eretria and Athens as their goal. 44. This was the stated end of their expedition, but...
Eretria
80 22.607216,39.290562,0 Eretrians ...call rhadinace, is dark and evil-smelling. [4] There king Darius settled the Eretrians, and they dwelt in that place until my time, keeping their ancient language...
Eretrians
79 22.607216,39.290562,0 Eretria ...son of Tisandrus, who surpassed the Athenians in wealth and looks. From Eretria, which at that time was prosperous, came Lysanias; he was the only man from...
Eretria
74 22.607216,39.290562,0 Macedonia ...the fleet; as for Mardonius and his land army, while they were encamped in Macedonia, the Brygi of Thrace attacked them by night and killed many of them, wounding...
Macedonia
77 21.75,41.25,0 Eretria ...expedition, and appointed other generals to lead his armies against Athens and Eretria, Datis, a Mede by birth, and his own nephew Artaphrenes son of Artaphrenes; the...
Eretria
81 22.607216,39.290562,0 Thasians ...to subdue as many of the Greek cities as they could. Their fleet subdued the Thasians, who did not so much as lift up their hands against it; their land army added...
Thasians
79 24.717535,40.78201,0 Thasians ...they had been besieged by Histiaeus of Miletus and had great revenues, the Thasians had used their wealth to build ships of war and surround themselves with...
Thasians
77 24.717535,40.78201,0 Thasians ...in a great hill that has been dug up in the searching. So much for that. The Thasians at the king's command destroyed their walls and brought all their ships to...
Thasians
79 24.717535,40.78201,0 Thasians ...46. In the next year after this,13 Darius first sent a message bidding the Thasians, who were falsely reported by their neighbors to be planning rebellion, to...
Thasians
78 24.717535,40.78201,0 Brygi ...them. [2] After conquering them, he led his army away homewards, since the Brygi had dealt a heavy blow to his army and Athos an even heavier blow to his fleet...
Brygi
77 21.5,41.5,0 Brygi ...as for Mardonius and his land army, while they were encamped in Macedonia, the Brygi of Thrace attacked them by night and killed many of them, wounding Mardonius...
Brygi
81 21.5,41.5,0 Aeginetans ...the common good of Hellas, Demaratus slandered him, not out of care for the Aeginetans, but out of jealousy and envy. Once Cleomenes returned home from Aegina, he...
Aeginetans
78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...successfully, he immediately took Leutychides with him and went to punish the Aeginetans, with whom he was terribly angry because of their insulting behavior. [2] When...
Aeginetans
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...and gave them into the keeping of the Athenians, the bitterest foes of the Aeginetans. 74. Later Cleomenes' treacherous plot against Demaratus became known; he was...
Aeginetans
77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...put off devising all mischief against Aegina. There was a notable man in Aegina, Nicodromus son of Cnoethus by name, who held a grudge against the Aeginetans...
Aegina
75 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...of these never returned, meeting their death at the hands of the Athenians in Aegina; Eurybates himself, their captain, fought in single combat and thus killed...
Aegina
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...the island. When he learned that the Athenians were now set upon harming the Aeginetans, he agreed to betray Aegina to the Athenians, naming the day when he would make...
Aeginetans
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...and those hands were left clinging fast to the door-handles. 92. Thus the Aeginetans dealt with each other. When the Athenians came, they fought them at sea with...
Aeginetans
77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...right of birth. Such is the way of these matters. 61. While Cleomenes was in Aegina working for the common good of Hellas, Demaratus slandered him, not out of care...
Aegina
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...now deemed it best to offer no further resistance; the kings chose ten men of Aegina who were most honored for wealth and lineage, among them Crius son of...
Aegina
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...Aeginetans, but out of jealousy and envy. Once Cleomenes returned home from Aegina, he planned to remove Demaratus from his kingship, using the following affair...
Aegina
78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Samothrace ...mines are between the place called Aenyra and Coenyra in Thasos, opposite Samothrace; they are in a great hill that has been dug up in the searching. So much for...
Samothrace
76 25.5302283,40.5009431,0 Aenyra ...Phoenician Thasos. [2] These Phoenician mines are between the place called Aenyra and Coenyra in Thasos, opposite Samothrace; they are in a great hill that has...
Aenyra
77 24.65,40.683333,0 Aegina ...accusation, Cleomenes son of Anaxandrides, king of Sparta, crossed over to Aegina intending to arrest the most culpable of its people. [2] But when he attempted...
Aegina
77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Messenia ...knew no better than before how to discover the elder child, and a man of Messenia, whose name was Panites, gave them advice: [6] he advised them to watch the...
Messenia
75 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Dorians ...from Danae daughter of Acrisius upward, be reckoned, then the leaders of the Dorians will be shown to be true-born Egyptians. 54. Thus have I traced their lineage...
Dorians
79 Laconia ...their rights are as follows: Horsemen proclaim their death in all parts of Laconia, and in the city women go about beating on cauldrons. When this happens, two...
Laconia
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemon ...a fixed number of their subject neighbors must come to the funeral from all Lacedaemon, besides the Spartans. [6] When these and the helots and the Spartans...
Lacedaemon
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemon ...reached Asia through such chances, a man who had gained much renown in Lacedaemon by his many achievements and his wisdom, and by conferring on the state the...
Lacedaemon
73 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemon ...excellences a reputation for justice above all men who at that time dwelt in Lacedaemon. [3] But we say that at the fitting time this befell him: There came to Sparta...
Lacedaemon
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemon ...matter of a trust. [2] We Spartans say that three generations ago there was at Lacedaemon one Glaucus, the son of Epicydes. We say that this man added to his other...
Lacedaemon
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...subject neighbors must come to the funeral from all Lacedaemon, besides the Spartans. [6] When these and the helots and the Spartans themselves have assembled in...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Olympia ...grew very rich; Alcmeon came to keep four-horse chariots and won with them at Olympia. 126. In the next generation Cleisthenes52 the tyrant of Sicyon raised that...
Olympia
80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Eleusis ...tell the tale of Demaratus. The Athenians alone say it was because he invaded Eleusis and laid waste the precinct of the gods. The Argives say it was because when...
Eleusis
80 23.538311,38.041096,0 Elis ...After learning what he desired, Demaratus took provisions and travelled to Elis, pretending that he was going to Delphi to inquire of the oracle. But the...
Elis
77 21.37493,37.89131,0 Elis ...the Dioscuri, and ever since kept open house for all men; and Onomastus from Elis, son of Agaeus. [4] These came from the Peloponnese itself; from Athens...
Elis
79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Arcadians ...Thessaly. From there he came to Arcadia and stirred up disorder, uniting the Arcadians against Sparta; among his methods of binding them by oath to follow him...
Arcadians
79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Thyrea ...Argives would not go unscathed. Then he withdrew and led his army seaward to Thyrea, where he sacrificed a bull to the sea and carried his men on shipboard to the...
Thyrea
79 22.75,37.25,0 Peloponnesians ...Phidon the tyrant of Argos, that Phidon who made weights and measures for the Peloponnesians53 and acted more arrogantly than any other Greek; he drove out the Elean...
Peloponnesians
80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesians ...and inviting them to come out, saying that he had their ransom. (Among the Peloponnesians there is a fixed ransom of two minae to be paid for every prisoner.) So...
Peloponnesians
77 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Spartans ...would attempt to invade Media by way of the river Phasis, and they urged the Spartans to set out and march inland from Ephesus and meet the Scythians. [3] They say...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...to them, “Men of Aegina, what are you planning to do? To have the king of the Spartans given up to you by the citizens and carry him away? If the Spartans have now so...
Spartans
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...had done as much as the god willed to happen. This plea of his seemed to the Spartans to be credible and reasonable, and he far outdistanced the pursuit of his...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athens ...to cry out against Leutychides concerning the hostages that were held at Athens. The Lacedaemonians then assembled a court and gave judgment that Leutychides...
Athens
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebans ...to arbitrate, they fixed the boundaries of the country on condition that the Thebans leave alone those Boeotians who were unwilling to be enrolled as Boeotian...
Thebans
79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...had made for the Plataeans, fixing the Asopus river as the boundary for the Thebans in the direction of Plataea and Hysiae. So the Plataeans had put themselves...
Thebans
78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Peloponnese ...even in Ionia, I considered the fact that Ionia is always in danger while the Peloponnese is securely established, and nowhere in Ionia are the same men seen continuing...
Peloponnese
80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...from the sight of men to the farthest parts of the Aetolian land. [3] From the Peloponnese came Leocedes, son of Phidon the tyrant of Argos, that Phidon who made weights...
Peloponnese
81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Old City ...according to his agreement with the Athenians, took possession of the Old City, as it was called; but the Athenians were not there at the right time, for they...
Old City
72 23.42372,37.74991,0 Sunium ...Eretrian slaves from the island where they had left them, and sailed around Sunium hoping to reach the city before the Athenians. There was an accusation at...
Sunium
78 25.28064,37.15168,0 Sunium ...on the Athenians, who were now celebrating a quinquennial festival at Sunium. The Aeginetans set an ambush and captured the sacred ship, with many leading...
Sunium
72 25.28064,37.15168,0 Sicyonians ...on them the payment of a fine of a thousand talents, five hundred each. The Sicyonians confessed that they had done wrong and agreed to go free with a payment of a...
Sicyonians
78 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sicyon ...with them at Olympia. 126. In the next generation Cleisthenes52 the tyrant of Sicyon raised that house still higher, so that it grew much more famous in Hellas than...
Sicyon
81 22.71135,37.98336,0 Argive ...the male29 And drives him away, winning glory in Argos, She will make many Argive women tear their cheeks. As someday one of men to come will say: The dread...
Argive
77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argive ...Aeginetans made no such confession and remained stubborn. For this cause the Argive state sent no one to aid them at their request, but about a thousand came...
Argive
79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Delians ...to their island, and Datis set the image in the temple, instructing the Delians to carry it away to Theban Delium, on the coast opposite Chalcis. [3] Datis...
Delians
74 25.268194,37.397274,0 Delos ...was sailing landwards, Datis went on ahead and bade his fleet anchor not off Delos, but across the water off Rhenaea. Learning where the Delians were, he sent a...
Delos
79 25.268194,37.397274,0 Icarian sea ...unconquered and constrained them. 96. When they approached Naxos from the Icarian sea and came to land (for it was Naxos which the Persians intended to attack...
Icarian sea
77 26.333333,37.5,0 Naxos ...they had come to great disaster by holding their course that way; moreover, Naxos was still unconquered and constrained them. 96. When they approached Naxos...
Naxos
78 25.52001,37.127,0 Carystians ...and Athens; the Persians besieged them and laid waste their land, until the Carystians too came over to their side. 100. When the Eretrians learned that the Persian...
Carystians
78 24.4204,38.0165,0 Choereae ...over to Oropus; the Persians sailed holding their course for Temenos and Choereae and Aegilea, all in Eretrian territory. Landing at these places, they...
Choereae
75 Marathon ...of doing to the Athenians exactly what they had done to the Eretrians. Marathon39 was the place in Attica most suitable for riding horses and closest to...
Marathon
73 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Attica ...Eretria, the Persians waited a few days and then sailed away to the land of Attica, pressing ahead in expectation of doing to the Athenians exactly what they had...
Attica
78 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Through the Hollow ...the town-hall. Cimon was buried in front of the city, across the road called “Through the Hollow”, and buried opposite him are the mares who won the three Olympic prizes. [4]...
Through the Hollow
80 Plataeans ...with the Boeotians. [4] So the Lacedaemonians gave this advice to the Plataeans, who did not disobey it. When the Athenians were making sacrifices to the...
Plataeans
72 23.273866,38.221019,0 Parthenian ...himself said when he brought the message to the Athenians, when he was in the Parthenian mountain above Tegea he encountered Pan. [2] Pan called out Philippides' name...
Parthenian
80 22.54788,37.48611,0 Asia ...hundred and forty thousand. [4] These, then, were the ships' companies from Asia, and the total number of them was five hundred and seventeen thousand, six...
Asia
78 Asia ...the most fitting places, carrying it to the various places from all parts of Asia in cargo ships and transports. They brought most of it to the White Headland...
Asia
79 Asia ...to march to Abydos; meanwhile his men were bridging the Hellespont from Asia to Europe. On the Chersonese, which is on the Hellespont, between the city of...
Asia
74 Asia ...and daggers. [2] They took the name of Bithynians after they crossed over to Asia; before that they were called (as they themselves say) Strymonians, since they...
Asia
79 Asia ...took their name from Lycus son of Pandion, an Athenian. 93. The Dorians of Asia furnished thirty ships; their armor was Greek; they are of Peloponnesian...
Asia
78 Hellas ...Sardis, he was now much more angry and eager to send an expedition against Hellas. [2] Immediately he sent messengers to all the cities and commanded them to...
Hellas
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Lacedaemonians ...for which I censure you, nor by putting you in turn to death will I set the Lacedaemonians free from this guilt.” 137. This conduct on the part of the Spartans succeeded...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...the purpose of their coming. Having averted that, they next said, [2] “The Lacedaemonians have sent us, O king of the Medes, in requital for the slaying of your heralds...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...and that it was better to be ruled by the foreigners than give way to the Lacedaemonians. They then bade the envoys depart from the land of Argos before sunset, for...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...trying to obtain their support, did make the claim, because they knew that the Lacedaemonians would refuse to grant it, and that they would thus have an excuse for taking no...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...command to you. If it is your will to aid Hellas, know that you must obey the Lacedaemonians; but if, as I think, you are too proud to obey, then send no aid.”...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...he had heard that a small army was gathered there and that its leaders were Lacedaemonians, including Leonidas, who was of the Heracleid clan. [2] Riding up to the camp...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Susa ...the symbols of my kingship.” 53. Xerxes spoke thus and sent Artabanus away to Susa. He next sent for the most notable among the Persians, and when they were...
Susa
81 48.24854,32.19202,0 Susa ...some other business,72 the Argives also had at this same time sent envoys to Susa, asking of Xerxes' son Artoxerxes whether the friendship which they had forged...
Susa
79 48.24854,32.19202,0 Egypt ...every part of the continent. 20. For full four years11 after the conquest of Egypt he was equipping his force and preparing all that was needed for it; before the...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...expeditions against both. 2. But while Darius was making preparations against Egypt and Athens, a great quarrel arose among his sons concerning the chief power in...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...daughter, was admiral of the Ionian and Carian fleet; the admiral of the Egyptians was Achaemenes, full brother of Xerxes; and the two others were admirals of the...
Egyptians
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Lacedaemonians ...I will tell later in my history,111 but he was given no less honor by the Lacedaemonians. It was in this way, then, that Epialtes was later killed. 214. There is...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...but they had now met with an army. Hydarnes feared that the Phocians might be Lacedaemonians and asked Epialtes what country the army was from. When he had established what...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...wall, others surrounding them on all sides. 226. This then is how the Lacedaemonians and Thespians conducted themselves, but the Spartan Dieneces is said to have...
Lacedaemonians
73 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...the Medes, was, as I suppose (reason being also my ally), no friend to the Lacedaemonians, and I leave it to be imagined whether what he did was done out of goodwill or...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonian ...161. Such was Gelon's offer, and the Athenian envoy answered him before the Lacedaemonian could speak. “King of the Syracusans,” he said, “Hellas sends us to you to ask...
Lacedaemonian
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonia ...do as was asked of them if they might first make a thirty years peace with Lacedaemonia and if the command of half the allied power were theirs. It was their right to...
Lacedaemonia
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...yet I am not going to speak these words about all of them, but only about the Lacedaemonians. First, they will never accept conditions from you that bring slavery upon...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Hellas ...you then changing your mind, Persian, and will not lead the expedition against Hellas, although you have proclaimed the mustering of the army? It is not good for you...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...of the seas. [5] As it is, to say that the Athenians were the saviors of Hellas is to hit the truth. It was the Athenians who held the balance; whichever side...
Hellas
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Athens ...rooting his sovereignty in a strong guard and revenue collected both from Athens and from the district of the river Strymon, and he took hostage the sons of the...
Athens
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...many other tribes; [2] and as for those who came from the very town-hall of Athens and think they are the best born of the Ionians, these did not bring wives with...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Megarians ...and indeed he had won a reputation in his command of the army against the Megarians, when he had taken Nisaea and performed other great exploits. [5] Taken in, the...
Megarians
76 15.18273,37.2038,0 Pelasgian ...who came to live among the Athenians, and by other towns too which were once Pelasgian and afterwards took a different name: if, as I said, one may judge by these...
Pelasgian
79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Creston ...too at the time when it became part of the Hellenes. For the people of Creston and Placia have a language of their own in common, which is not the language of...
Creston
73 17.205128,39.028864,0 Athens ...it, did now, and when they learned that he was marching from Marathon against Athens, they set out to attack him. [3] They came out with all their force to meet the...
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Olympia ...was still a private man when a great marvel happened to him when he was at Olympia to see the games: when he had offered the sacrifice, the vessels, standing...
Olympia
77 21.630126,37.637849,0 Lacedaemon ...Harpagus. [2] Among those who inhabit it are certain Cnidians, colonists from Lacedaemon. Their country (it is called the Triopion) lies between the sea and that part...
Lacedaemon
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...feet in dancing, And its fair plain to measure with a rope. ” [3] When the Lacedaemonians heard the oracle reported, they left the other Arcadians alone and marched on...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...and because he had chosen them as his friends before all the other Greeks, the Lacedaemonians accepted the alliance. So they declared themselves ready to serve him when he...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...[2] This bowl never reached Sardis, for which two reasons are given: the Lacedaemonians say that when the bowl was near Samos on its way to Sardis, the Samians...
Lacedaemonians
75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Tegeans ...off to Sparta with them. Ever since then the Spartans were far superior to the Tegeans whenever they met each other in battle. By the time of Croesus' inquiry, the...
Tegeans
81 22.429,37.464,0 Media ...and he did this even though there was much lawlessness throughout the land of Media, and though he knew that injustice is always the enemy of justice. Then the...
Media
80 46.5,34.5,0 Babylonian ...peace. Those who reconciled them were Syennesis the Cilician and Labynetus the Babylonian; [4] they brought it about that there should be a sworn agreement and a compact...
Babylonian
81 44.42082,32.53617,0 Cythera ...belonged then to the Argives, and not only the mainland, but the island of Cythera and the other islands.) [3] The Argives came out to save their territory from...
Cythera
77 22.97822,36.26229,0 Persians ...king's son who had led them there. The Lydians, then, were enslaved by the Persians. 95. But the next business of my history is to inquire who this Cyrus was who...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...be the rulers of Asia. I mean then to be guided in what I write by some of the Persians who desire not to magnify the story of Cyrus but to tell the truth, though...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Upper Asia ...other accounts of Cyrus which I could give. [2] After the Assyrians had ruled Upper Asia for five hundred and twenty years,32 the Medes were the first who began to...
Upper Asia
81 Assyrians ...he subjugated one nation of Asia after another, until he marched against the Assyrians; that is, against those of the Assyrians who held Ninus. These had formerly...
Assyrians
79 37.5,37.5,0 Persians ...inherited it, he was not content to rule the Medes alone: marching against the Persians, he attacked them first, and they were the first whom he made subject to the...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Ninus ...ruler of Sardis; he was descended from Alcaeus, son of Heracles; Agron son of Ninus, son of Belus, son of Alcaeus, was the first Heraclid king of Sardis and...
Ninus
80 Magi ...these: the Busae, the Paretaceni, the Struchates, the Arizanti, the Budii, the Magi. Their tribes are this many. 102. Deioces had a son, Phraortes, who inherited...
Magi
81 Persians ...read this, he deliberated as to what was the shrewdest way to persuade the Persians to revolt; and what he thought to be most effective, he did: [2] writing what...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to command the army. [3] So when the Medes marched out and engaged with the Persians, those who were not in on the plan fought, while others deserted to the enemy...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...is not lawful for the sacrificer; rather, he prays that the king and all the Persians be well; for he reckons himself among them. He then cuts the victim limb from...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to my former story. 141. As soon as the Lydians had been subjugated by the Persians, the Ionians and Aeolians sent messengers to Cyrus, offering to be his subjects...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Panionion ...the Ionians, despite their evil plight, nonetheless assembled at the Panionion, Bias of Priene, I have learned, gave them very useful advice, and had they...
Panionion
71 27.329993,37.703924,0 Five Cities ...to be admitted); 144. just as the Dorians of what is now the country of the “Five Cities”—formerly the country of the “Six Cities”—forbid admitting any of the...
Five Cities
80 Achaeans ...when they dwelt in the Peloponnese, just as there are twelve divisions of the Achaeans who drove the Ionians out—Pellene nearest to Sicyon; then Aegira and Aegae...
Achaeans
80 22.224585911364017,38.102121472776034,0 Halicarnassians ...share in the use of the temple. Such was the penalty imposed on the Halicarnassians. 145. As for the Ionians, the reason why they made twelve cities and would...
Halicarnassians
70 27.424112,37.037864,0 Pellene ...just as there are twelve divisions of the Achaeans who drove the Ionians out—Pellene nearest to Sicyon; then Aegira and Aegae, where is the never-failing river...
Pellene
79 22.5384,38.0446,0 Ionian ...then small, and the last of all its branches and the least regarded was the Ionian; for it had no considerable city except Athens. [3] Now the Athenians and the...
Ionian
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Euboea ...born than the other Ionians; since not the least part of them are Abantes from Euboea, who are not Ionians even in name, and there are mingled with them Minyans of...
Euboea
81 23.87,38.53,0 Cadmeans ...in the time of Dorus son of Hellen; driven from this Histiaean country by the Cadmeans, it settled about Pindus in the territory called Macedonian; from there again...
Cadmeans
80 Tritaeae ...Rhype; Patrae; Phareae; and Olenus, where is the great river Pirus; Dyme and Tritaeae, the only inland city of all these—these were the twelve divisions of the...
Tritaeae
79 21.687,37.959,0 Cadmeans ...Ionians even in name, and there are mingled with them Minyans of Orchomenus, Cadmeans, Dryopians, Phocian renegades from their nation, Molossians, Pelasgian...
Cadmeans
79 Aegaeae ...Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegaeae, Myrina, Gryneia.50 These are the ancient Aeolian cities, eleven in number; but...
Aegaeae
68 Mede ...in his anger and said he would follow Croesus' advice. Then calling Mazares, a Mede, he told him to give the Lydians the commands that Croesus advised; further, to...
Mede
81 46.5,34.5,0 Mede ...after this he died of an illness. 162. After his death, Harpagus, a Mede like Mazares, came down to succeed him in his command; this is the Harpagus who...
Mede
71 46.5,34.5,0 Ionian town ...against the walls and so take the cities. 163. Phocaea was the first Ionian town that he attacked. These Phocaeans were the earliest of the Greeks to make long...
Ionian town
72 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Phocaeans ...besieged it, but he made overtures, and said that it would suffice him if the Phocaeans would demolish one rampart of the wall and dedicate one house. [2] But the...
Phocaeans
80 26.75261,38.6684,0 Phocaeans ...the cities. 163. Phocaea was the first Ionian town that he attacked. These Phocaeans were the earliest of the Greeks to make long sea-voyages, and it was they who...
Phocaeans
78 26.75261,38.6684,0 Tartessians ...vessels. When they came to Tartessus they made friends with the king of the Tartessians, whose name was Arganthonius; he ruled Tartessus for eighty years and lived a...
Tartessians
78 -6.4119,36.93672,0 Tartessus ...it was they who discovered the Adriatic Sea, and Tyrrhenia, and Iberia, and Tartessus,52 [2] not sailing in round freightships but in fifty-oared vessels. When they...
Tartessus
78 -6.4119,36.93672,0 Phocaeans ...do what the people of Agylla do to this day: for they pay great honors to the Phocaeans, with religious rites and games and horse-races. [3] Such was the end of this...
Phocaeans
80 26.75261,38.6684,0 Ionians ...Ionia was enslaved for the second time: and when Harpagus had conquered the Ionians of the mainland, the Ionians of the islands, fearing the same fate, surrendered...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Carian Zeus ...bore the name which they bear now; [6] and they point to an ancient shrine of Carian Zeus at Mylasa, to which Mysians and Lydians, as brethren of the Carians (for Lydus...
Carian Zeus
80 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carian ...soil, but they say that they came from Crete. Their speech has become like the Carian, or the Carian like theirs (for I cannot clearly decide), but in their customs...
Carian
81 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Ionians ...Ionia, made an expedition against the Carians, Caunians, and Lycians, taking Ionians and Aeolians with him. [2] Of these, the Carians have come to the mainland from...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Pedaseans ...with his army they surrendered to him without resistance. 175. There were Pedaseans dwelling inland above Halicarnassus; when any misfortune was approaching them...
Pedaseans
77 27.42178,37.06804,0 Babylonians ...and lead. [3] Each morning, she laid square-hewn logs across it, on which the Babylonians crossed; but these logs were removed at night, lest folk always be crossing...
Babylonians
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Chaldaeans ...the night, except one native woman, chosen from all women by the god, as the Chaldaeans say, who are priests of this god. 182. These same Chaldaeans say (though I do...
Chaldaeans
79 temple of Theban Zeus ...Thebes of Egypt, as the Egyptians say [2] (for there too a woman sleeps in the temple of Theban Zeus,65 and neither the Egyptian nor the Babylonian woman, it is said, has...
temple of Theban Zeus
81 Persians ...yourself as I have said.” Hearing this, Cyrus called together the leading Persians and laid the matter before them, asking them to advise him which he should do...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...[6] As I understand, the Massagetae have no experience of the good things of Persia, and have never fared well as to what is greatly desirable. Therefore, I advise...
Persia
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...knowledge as to take fitting counsel for your safety. [3] Do you see these Persians at the banquet and that host which we left encamped by the river side? In a...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...away, though from necessity rather than willingly. [2] A few days after the Persians' coming to Thebes, a thousand Phocian men-at-arms under the leadership of...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Lacedaemonians ...for battle by Mardonius as I shall show. He posted the Persians facing the Lacedaemonians. [2] Seeing that the Persians by far outnumbered the Lacedaemonians, they were...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...they reasoned with Amompharetus, he being the only man left behind of all the Lacedaemonians and Tegeans. As for the Athenians, they stood unmoved at their post, well aware...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...Athenians of his present condition, and begged them to join themselves to the Lacedaemonians and, as for departure, to do as they did. 56. The messenger then went back to...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...fifty thousand and of the Tegeans, who had never been parted from the Lacedaemonians, three thousand. These offered sacrifice so that they would fare better in...
Lacedaemonians
72 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...present war.” 61. When the Athenians heard that, they attempted to help the Lacedaemonians and defend them with all their might. But when their march had already begun...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...the Persians stood their ground and defended themselves, overthrowing many Lacedaemonians. [2] When, however, Mardonius was killed and his guards, who were the strongest...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...and his three hundred. 65. At Plataea, however, the Persians, routed by the Lacedaemonians, fled in disorder to their own camp and inside the wooden walls which they had...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...Artabazus were fleeing, they would have pursued them as far as Thessaly. The Lacedaemonians, however, would not permit them to pursue the fleeing men. [3] So when they...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...of salvation for themselves if the Lacedaemonians sent them no help. 7. The Lacedaemonians were at this time celebrating the festival of Hyacinthus,2 and their chief...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Peloponnesians ...they did for ten days, putting it off from day to day. In the meantime all the Peloponnesians were doing all they could to fortify the Isthmus, and they had nearly completed...
Peloponnesians
81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesians ...when they had come to the Isthmus, they encamped there. When the rest of the Peloponnesians who chose the better cause heard that, seeing the Spartans setting forth to...
Peloponnesians
79 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesians ...the Persians would permit the Ionians to go unpunished. [3] In this matter the Peloponnesians who were in charge were for removing the people from the lands of those Greek...
Peloponnesians
81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Lacedaemonians ...over to Salamis. They also sent envoys to Lacedaemon, who were to upbraid the Lacedaemonians for permitting the barbarian to invade Attica and not helping the Athenians to...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...rest of the Peloponnesians who chose the better cause heard that, seeing the Spartans setting forth to war, they thought that they should not lag behind the...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...wars jointly with their kings of Heracles' line. [4] When he saw that the Spartans set great store by his friendship, he set his price higher, and made it known...
Spartans
76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...of full citizenship and all of the citizen's rights. [5] Hearing that, the Spartans at first were angry and completely abandoned their request; but when the...
Spartans
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...won of the five victories.18 36. This Tisamenus had now been brought by the Spartans and was the diviner of the Greeks at Plataea. The sacrifices boded good to the...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...set it on a pole; make them a like return, and you will win praise from all Spartans and the rest of Hellas besides. For if you impale Mardonius, you will be...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Plataea ...on their way, they joyfully shook off the horsemen and escaped to the town of Plataea. In the course of their flight they came to the temple of Hera which is outside...
Plataea
80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...of Autodicus, a Plataean. 86. As soon as the Greeks had buried their dead at Plataea, they resolved in council that they would march against Thebes and demand...
Plataea
80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...to Asia. 90. Now on the same day when the Persians were so stricken at Plataea, it so happened that they suffered a similar fate at Mykale in Ionia. When the...
Plataea
74 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...that there were precincts of Eleusinian Demeter on both battlefields; for at Plataea the fight was near the temple of Demeter, as I have already said, and so it was...
Plataea
79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...arrived amongst the Greeks the very day on which the Persians' disaster at Plataea and that other which was to befall them at Mykale took place. 101. Moreover...
Plataea
77 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...and marched along the lower slopes of Cithaeron past Hysiae to the lands of Plataea, and when they arrived, they arrayed themselves nation by nation near the...
Plataea
78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...had finished their mourning for Masistius and heard that the Greeks were at Plataea, they also came to the part of the Asopus river nearest to them. When they were...
Plataea
78 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataean ...and killed him. 38. The death of Hegesistratus, however, took place after the Plataean business. At the present he was by the Asopus, hired by Mardonius for no small...
Plataean
81 23.273866,38.221019,0 Sparta ...[3] For that deed the Deceleans have always had and still have freedom at Sparta from all dues and chief places at feasts. In fact, even as recently as the war...
Sparta
76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corinthians ...fifteen hundred men-at-arms. Next to these in the line were five thousand Corinthians, at whose desire Pausanias permitted the three hundred Potidaeans from Pallene...
Corinthians
76 22.878721,37.906045,0 Thermopylae ...events. They accordingly sent their advance guard, not expecting the war at Thermopylae to be decided so quickly. 207. This is what they intended, but the Hellenes at...
Thermopylae
78 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thessaly ...turn the river from its course and lead it into the sea by another way. 129. Thessaly, as tradition has it, was in old times a lake enclosed all round by high...
Thessaly
80 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...[2] Messengers came from Thessaly from the Aleuadae (who were princes of Thessaly) and invited the king into Hellas with all earnestness; the Pisistratidae who...
Thessaly
75 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...he met to go with his army. As I have shown earlier, all the country as far as Thessaly had been enslaved and was tributary to the king, by the conquests of Megabazus...
Thessaly
81 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...alone. This is so because there is a ring of mountains around the whole of Thessaly.” Upon hearing this Xerxes said: “These Thessalians are wise men; [2] this...
Thessaly
77 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...while they flow towards their meeting place from the mountains which surround Thessaly, have their several names, until their waters all unite and issue into the sea...
Thessaly
80 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...and came to Alus in Achaea, where they disembarked and took the road for Thessaly, leaving their ships where they were. They then came to the pass of Tempe...
Thessaly
75 22.2,39.6,0 Macedonian ...from the messengers (as they thought their advice was sound and that the Macedonian meant well by them), the Greeks followed their counsel. [4] To my thinking...
Macedonian
75 21.75,41.25,0 Thessaly ...another of the three hundred survived because he was sent as a messenger to Thessaly. His name was Pantites. When he returned to Sparta, he was dishonored and...
Thessaly
78 22.2,39.6,0 Macedonia ...they were. They then came to the pass of Tempe, which runs from the lower87 Macedonia into Thessaly along the river Peneus, between the mountains Olympus and Ossa...
Macedonia
78 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonian ...waters in one stream and so make the border between the Bottiaean and the Macedonian56 territory. [2] In this place the foreigners lay encamped; of the rivers just...
Macedonian
76 21.75,41.25,0 Salamis ...other manned ships, but they guarded their own land with these and fought at Salamis with the thirty most seaworthy. The Aeginetans are Dorians from Epidaurus, and...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...to fight in a strait and to their advantage to fight in a wide area. Second, Salamis will survive, where we have carried our children and women to safety. It also...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...those from the Peloponnese. They were afraid because they were stationed in Salamis and were about to fight at sea on behalf of the land of the Athenians, and if...
Salamis
78 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...person. 70. When the command to put out to sea was given, they set sail for Salamis and were calmly marshalled in line. There was not enough daylight left for them...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...was at stake and they did not expect the ships to win distinction. Those at Salamis heard of their labors but still were full of dread, fearing not for themselves...
Salamis
78 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...this way so that the Hellenes would have no escape: they would be trapped at Salamis and pay the penalty for the battles at Artemisium. The purpose of their landing...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...those who had conquered the barbarian. [2] With this ship that deserted at Salamis and the Lemnian which deserted earlier at Artemisium, the Hellenic fleet...
Salamis
77 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...since they knew how to swim. Those whose ships were sunk swam across to Salamis, unless they were killed in action, [2] but many of the barbarians drowned in...
Salamis
74 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...in their flight they were opposite the sacred precinct of Athena Sciras on Salamis, by divine guidance a boat encountered them. No one appeared to have sent it...
Salamis
77 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...a little before this as a valiant man, did this in the commotion that arose at Salamis: taking many of the armed men who were arrayed along the shore of Salamis, he...
Salamis
81 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...were on that islet. 96. When the battle was broken off, the Hellenes towed to Salamis as many of the wrecks as were still there and kept ready for another battle...
Salamis
81 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...the Aeginetans. From these he demanded the victor's prize for the sea-fight of Salamis. When the Aeginetans learned that, they dedicated three golden stars which are...
Salamis
81 23.51,37.93,0 Delphians ...the Corycian cave, but some escaped to Amphissa in Locris. In short, all the Delphians left the town save sixty men and the prophet. 37. Now when the barbarians drew...
Delphians
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphians ...that he was able to protect what belonged to him. [2] Upon hearing that, the Delphians took thought for themselves. They sent their children and women overseas to...
Delphians
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Macedonian ...the Hermioneans three. All of these except the Hermioneans are Dorian and Macedonian and had last come from Erineus and Pindus and the Dryopian region. The...
Macedonian
76 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonian ...said in the oracles, and presently he sent a messenger to Athens, Alexander, a Macedonian, son of Amyntas. Him he sent, partly because the Persians were akin to him...
Macedonian
81 21.75,41.25,0 Salamis ...of the Athenians, the fleet of the Hellenes came from Artemisium and put in at Salamis. The Athenians requested them to put in at Salamis so that they take their...
Salamis
81 23.51,37.93,0 Delphi ...of the army and marching this way was that they might plunder the temple at Delphi and lay its wealth before Xerxes, who (as I have been told) had better...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Macedonia ...forth when they had won that country and presently subdued also the rest of Macedonia. 139. From that Perdiccas Alexander was descended, being the son of Amyntas...
Macedonia
78 21.75,41.25,0 Hellenes ...which had gone after the sons of Aeacus arrived from Aegina. 84. Then the Hellenes set sail with all their ships, and as they were putting out to sea the...
Hellenes
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...watching him. 87. I cannot say exactly how each of the other barbarians or Hellenes fought, but this is what happened to Artemisia, and it gave her still higher...
Hellenes
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...spoke again, saying that they could be taken as hostages and killed if the Hellenes were not seen to be victorious. [4] So he and the others turned their ships...
Hellenes
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...Athenians had both a city and a land greater than theirs, and that none of the Hellenes could repel them if they attacked. 62. Next he turned his argument to...
Hellenes
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...lord, you will easily accomplish what you had in mind on coming here. [2] The Hellenes are not able to hold out against you for a long time, but you will scatter...
Hellenes
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...that your affairs prevail, not the Hellenes'. I am to tell you that the Hellenes are terrified and plan flight, and you can now perform the finest deed of all...
Hellenes
74 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Delphi ...of the great statues that stand around the tripod in front of the shrine at Delphi, and there are others like them dedicated at Abae. 28. This is what the...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Boeotia ...follow the king: the Melians and Dorians and Locrians and the whole force of Boeotia except the Thespians and Plataeans; and the Carystians and Andrians and Teneans...
Boeotia
79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Hellenic ...deserted at Salamis and the Lemnian which deserted earlier at Artemisium, the Hellenic fleet reached its full number of three hundred and eighty ships, for it had...
Hellenic
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Aeginetans ...own land with these and fought at Salamis with the thirty most seaworthy. The Aeginetans are Dorians from Epidaurus, and their island was formerly called Oenone. [2]...
Aeginetans
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...the ships at Salamis were sunk, some destroyed by the Athenians, some by the Aeginetans. Since the Hellenes fought in an orderly fashion by line, but the barbarians...
Aeginetans
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...commotion destroyed those ships which either resisted or tried to flee, the Aeginetans those sailing out of the strait. Whoever escaped from the Athenians charged...
Aeginetans
78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Peloponnese ...the Peloponnesians who took part in the war. From the mainland outside the Peloponnese came the following: the Athenians provided more than all the rest, one hundred...
Peloponnese
77 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...and the most seaworthy. 43. The following took part in the war: from the Peloponnese, the Lacedaemonians provided sixteen ships; the Corinthians the same number as...
Peloponnese
76 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnese ...said to her: “It is Mardonius' advice that I should follow here and attack the Peloponnese, for the Persians, he says, and the land army are not to blame for our...
Peloponnese
81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Megarians ...because of mere valor and zeal. The Corinthians furnished forty ships and the Megarians twenty; [2] the Chalcidians manned twenty, the Athenians furnishing the ships...
Megarians
80 15.18273,37.2038,0 Hellenic ...camp. 42. When those from Artemisium had put in at Salamis, the rest of the Hellenic fleet learned of this and streamed in from Troezen, for they had been commanded...
Hellenic
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellespont ...and Mossynoeci, Artayctes son of Cherasmis, who was governor of Sestus on the Hellespont. 79. The Mares wore on their heads their native woven helmets, and carried...
Hellespont
80 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...to boil. A strong east wind blew, which the people living in those parts call Hellespontian. [3] Those who felt the wind rising or had proper mooring dragged their...
Hellespont
80 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...show you what danger there is in this. 10B. You say that you will bridge the Hellespont and march your army through Europe to Hellas. Now suppose you happen to be...
Hellespont
79 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...the Hellespont from Asia to Europe. On the Chersonese, which is on the Hellespont, between the city of Sestus and Madytus there is a broad headland20 running out...
Hellespont
73 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...choosing and reciting such prophecies as were most favorable, telling how the Hellespont must be bridged by a man of Persia and describing the expedition. [5] So he...
Hellespont
80 26.4,40.2,0 Ister ...and Gerrhus, and Tanaïs. Their courses are as I shall indicate. 48. The Ister, the greatest of all rivers which we know, flows with the same volume in summer...
Ister
75 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...the heights of Haemus.27 The Athrys, the Noes, and the Artanes flow into the Ister from the country of the Crobyzi in Thrace; the Cius river, which cuts through...
Ister
79 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...to sail into the Pontus as far as the Ister river, and when they got to the Ister, to wait there for him, bridging the river meanwhile; for the fleet was led by...
Ister
78 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...over to Europe; he had told the Ionians to sail into the Pontus as far as the Ister river, and when they got to the Ister, to wait there for him, bridging the...
Ister
80 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...country. [2] Now I am going to describe the coast of the true Scythia from the Ister, and give its measurements. The ancient Scythian land begins at the Ister and...
Ister
81 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...the sea making it a perfect square; [2] for it is a ten days' journey from the Ister to the Borysthenes, and the same from the Borysthenes to the Maeetian lake; and...
Ister
81 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...and how having crossed it and subjugated the Thracians he was now bridging the Ister, so as to make that whole region subject to him like the others. [2] “By no...
Ister
81 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...was the loudest in the world; Darius had this man stand on the bank of the Ister and call to Histiaeus the Milesian. This the Egyptian did; Histiaeus heard and...
Ister
77 29.647293,45.16291,0 Agathyrsi ...and inland side, running from the Ister, Scythia is bounded first by the Agathyrsi, next by the Neuri, next by the Man-eaters, and last by the Black-cloaks...
Agathyrsi
75 27.5,47.5,0 Agathyrsi ...they would have to fight with the Agathyrsi first. [5] With this warning, the Agathyrsi mustered on their borders, intending to stop the invaders. When the Persians...
Agathyrsi
80 27.5,47.5,0 Agathyrsi ...fled panic-stricken north into the desolate country. [6] But warned off by the Agathyrsi, the Scythians made no second attempt on that country, but led the Persians...
Agathyrsi
81 27.5,47.5,0 Tibisis ...commingles with the Ister, flows from the Agathyrsi. The Atlas, Auras, and Tibisis, three other great rivers that pour into it, flow north from the heights of...
Tibisis
77 21.5,45.5,0 Auras ...river, which commingles with the Ister, flows from the Agathyrsi. The Atlas, Auras, and Tibisis, three other great rivers that pour into it, flow north from the...
Auras
79 Brongus ...[2] The Angrus river flows north from Illyria into the Triballic plain and the Brongus river, and the Brongus into the Ister, which receives these two great rivers...
Brongus
81 21.0386919,44.7183621,0 Brongus ...north from Illyria into the Triballic plain and the Brongus river, and the Brongus into the Ister, which receives these two great rivers into itself. The Carpis...
Brongus
77 21.0386919,44.7183621,0 Exampaeus ...there is a region between the Borysthenes and Hypanis rivers, whose name is Exampaeus; this is the land that I mentioned when I said that there is a spring of salt...
Exampaeus
78 Araxes ...[2] Cyrus and the sound portion of the Persian army marched back to the Araxes, leaving behind those that were useless; a third of the Massagetae forces...
Araxes
74 46.5,38.5,0 Massagetae ...and leave this country unpunished, even though you have savaged a third of the Massagetae army. But if you will not, then I swear to you by the sun, lord of the...
Massagetae
81 62.5,37.5,0 Araxes ...fare is their livestock and the fish which they take in abundance from the Araxes. [4] Their drink is milk. The sun is the only god whom they worship; they...
Araxes
77 46.5,38.5,0 Egypt ...Aeolians slaves inherited from his father, and prepared an expedition against Egypt, taking with him some of these Greek subjects besides others whom he ruled...
Egypt
80 Memphis ...if the people of those places would tell me the same story as the priests at Memphis; for the people of Heliopolis are said to be the most learned of the Egyptians...
Memphis
79 31.254278,29.849667,0 lake Moeris ...a marsh: all the country that we now see was then covered by water, north of lake Moeris,6 which is seven days' journey up the river from the sea. 5. And I think that...
lake Moeris
79 30.580833,29.453611,0 Casian mountain ...reaching from the Plinthinete gulf to the Serbonian marsh, which is under the Casian mountain—between these there is this length of sixty schoeni. [2] Men that have scant...
Casian mountain
80 33.0779,31.2116,0 altar of the twelve gods at Athens ...From the sea up to Heliopolis is a journey about as long as the way from the altar of the twelve gods at Athens to the temple of Olympian Zeus at Pisa. [2] If a reckoning is made, only a...
altar of the twelve gods at Athens
79 Pisa ...from the altar of the twelve gods at Athens to the temple of Olympian Zeus at Pisa. [2] If a reckoning is made, only a little difference of length, not more than...
Pisa
80 21.653041,37.639535,0 Pisa ...will be found between these two journeys; for the journey from Athens to Pisa is two miles short of two hundred, which is the number of miles between the sea...
Pisa
75 21.653041,37.639535,0 Arabian ...these are all covered with sand, and run in the same direction as those Arabian hills that run southward. [3] Beyond Heliopolis, there is no great distance—in...
Arabian
74 31.75,27.25,0 Heliopolis ...in the same direction as those Arabian hills that run southward. [3] Beyond Heliopolis, there is no great distance—in Egypt, that is:8 the narrow land has a length of...
Heliopolis
78 31.305179,30.129369,0 Thebes ...fifty miles long; and I will now declare the distance inland from the sea to Thebes : it is seven hundred and sixty-five miles. And between Thebes and the city...
Thebes
79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Memphis ...if the river rose as much as thirteen feet, it watered all of Egypt below Memphis.10 Moeris had not been dead nine hundred years when I heard this from the...
Memphis
76 31.254278,29.849667,0 Canobus ...as the city of Cercasorus,11 where the Nile divides and flows to Pelusium and Canobus, and that all the rest of Egypt is partly Libya and partly Arabia—if we follow...
Canobus
80 30.063645,31.320896,0 Libya ...and flows to Pelusium and Canobus, and that all the rest of Egypt is partly Libya and partly Arabia—if we follow this account, we can show that there was once no...
Libya
78 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Egypt ...then, our judgment of this is right, the Ionians are in error concerning Egypt; but if their opinion is right, then it is plain that they and the rest of the...
Egypt
75 Sebennytic mouth ...is seen the greatest and most famous part of its waters, and it is called the Sebennytic mouth. [5] There are also two channels which separate themselves from the Sebennytic...
Sebennytic mouth
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Nile ...other rivers which flow contrary to those winds should be affected like the Nile, and even more so, since being smaller they have a weaker current. Yet there...
Nile
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...but it flows from Libya through the midst of Ethiopia, and comes out into Egypt. [2] How can it flow from snow, then, seeing that it comes from the hottest...
Egypt
76 Nile ...what I myself think about these obscure matters, I shall say why I think the Nile floods in the summer. During the winter, the sun is driven by storms from his...
Nile
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Nile ...think that the sun never lets go of all of the water that it draws up from the Nile yearly, but keeps some back near itself. Then, as the winter becomes milder...
Nile
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Elephantine ...to look myself, and beyond that by question and hearsay. [2] Beyond Elephantine, as one travels inland, the land rises. Here one must pass with the boat roped...
Elephantine
70 32.89066,24.08292,0 Nile ...current. [3] This part of the river is a four days' journey by boat, and the Nile here is twisty just as the Maeander; a distance of twelve schoeni must be...
Nile
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Elephantine ...So many months, as reckoning shows, are found to be spent by one going from Elephantine to the country of the Deserters. The river flows from the west and the sun's...
Elephantine
78 32.89066,24.08292,0 oracle of Ammon ...I heard this from some men of Cyrene, who told me that they had gone to the oracle of Ammon, and conversed there with Etearchus king of the Ammonians, and that from other...
oracle of Ammon
78 25.54359,29.20514,0 Egypt ...farthest. [4] It must be known that the whole northern seacoast of Libya, from Egypt as far as the promontory of Soloeis, which is the end of Libya, is inhabited...
Egypt
81 region of wild beasts ...first through the inhabited country, and after passing this they came to the region of wild beasts. [6] After this, they travelled over the desert, towards the west, and crossed...
region of wild beasts
79 Ister ...the Euxine sea, at Istria, which is inhabited by Milesian colonists. 34. The Ister, since it flows through inhabited country, is known from many reports; but no...
Ister
80 29.647293,45.16291,0 Nile ...country, is known from many reports; but no one can speak of the source of the Nile; for Libya, though which it runs, is uninhabited and desert. Regarding its...
Nile
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ister ...man to Sinope on the Euxine; and Sinope lies opposite the place where the Ister falls into the sea. Thus I suppose the course of the Nile in its passage...
Ister
76 29.647293,45.16291,0 Nile ...the place where the Ister falls into the sea. Thus I suppose the course of the Nile in its passage through Libya to be like the course of the Ister. 35. It is...
Nile
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...presents works beyond description; therefore, I shall say the more concerning Egypt. [2] Just as the Egyptians have a climate peculiar to themselves, and their...
Egypt
80 Egypt ...unwilling. 36. Everywhere else, priests of the gods wear their hair long; in Egypt, they are shaven. For all other men, the rule in mourning for the dead is that...
Egypt
80 Egypt ...30. So for that reason, and to see the world, Solon went to visit Amasis in Egypt and then to Croesus in Sardis. When he got there, Croesus entertained him in...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Sardis ...to see the world, Solon went to visit Amasis in Egypt and then to Croesus in Sardis. When he got there, Croesus entertained him in the palace, and on the third or...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Delphi ...and never rose again; death held them there. The Argives made and dedicated at Delphi statues of them as being the best of men.” 32. Thus Solon granted second place...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Libya ...Croesus sent for divination: and he told others to go inquire of Ammon in Libya. His intent in sending was to test the knowledge of the oracles, so that, if...
Libya
76 27.5,32.5,0 Sardis ...this inspired utterance of the Pythian priestess, the Lydians went back to Sardis. When the others as well who had been sent to various places came bringing...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Delphi ...the Delphian message, he acknowledged it with worship and welcome, considering Delphi as the only true place of divination, because it had discovered what he himself...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Thebes ...all of solid gold, point and shaft alike. Both of these were until my time at Thebes, in the Theban temple of Ismenian Apollo. 53. The Lydians who were to bring...
Thebes
80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Histiaean ...of king Deucalion17 it inhabited the land of Phthia, then the country called Histiaean, under Ossa and Olympus, in the time of Dorus son of Hellen; driven from this...
Histiaean
79 23.06593,38.93759,0 Peloponnese ...battle. By the time of Croesus' inquiry, the Spartans had subdued most of the Peloponnese. 69. Croesus, then, aware of all this, sent messengers to Sparta with gifts to...
Peloponnese
80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Sardis ...they had received before from the king. [4] For the Lacedaemonians had sent to Sardis to buy gold, intending to use it for the statue of Apollo which now stands on...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Miletus ...year, that during the battle the day was suddenly turned to night. Thales of Miletus had foretold this loss of daylight to the Ionians, fixing it within the year in...
Miletus
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sardis ...the day after the battle Cyrus did not try attacking again, he marched away to Sardis, intending to summon the Egyptians in accordance with their treaty [2] (for...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...which the Telmessians gave Croesus, knowing as yet nothing of the fate of Sardis and of the king himself; but when they gave it, Croesus was already taken...
Sardis
76 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...80. So the armies met in the plain, wide and bare, that is before the city of Sardis: the Hyllus and other rivers flow across it and run violently together into the...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...allies; whereas the former envoys had been sent to summon them to muster at Sardis in five months' time, these were to announce that Croesus was besieged and to...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Lydia ...of the work was the greatest. [4] All the daughters of the common people of Lydia ply the trade of prostitutes, to collect dowries, until they can get themselves...
Lydia
78 27.5,37.5,0 Asia ...Then, with these two strong nations at his back, he subjugated one nation of Asia after another, until he marched against the Assyrians; that is, against those...
Asia
79 Asia ...greater soldier than his ancestors: it was he who first organized the men of Asia in companies and posted each arm apart, the spearmen and archers and cavalry...
Asia
79 Syria ...105. From there they marched against Egypt: and when they were in the part of Syria called Palestine, Psammetichus king of Egypt met them and persuaded them with...
Syria
81 37.5,37.5,0 Cyprus ...inquiry, is the oldest of all the temples of the goddess, for the temple in Cyprus was founded from it, as the Cyprians themselves say; and the temple on Cythera...
Cyprus
78 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Babylon ...in a later part of my history), and brought all Assyria except the province of Babylon under their rule. 107. Afterwards, Cyaxares died after a reign of forty years...
Babylon
81 44.42082,32.53617,0 Asia ...dreamed that she urinated so much that she filled his city and flooded all of Asia. He communicated this vision to those of the Magi who interpreted dreams, and...
Asia
80 Asia ...and the Persians rose in revolt against the Medes, and from this time ruled Asia. [3] As for Astyages, Cyrus did him no further harm, and kept him in his own...
Asia
78 Samos ...There are yet three Ionian cities, two of them situated on the islands of Samos and Chios, and one, Erythrae, on the mainland; the Chians and Erythraeans speak...
Samos
76 26.84,37.73,0 Peloponnese ...my judgment this: there were twelve divisions of them when they dwelt in the Peloponnese, just as there are twelve divisions of the Achaeans who drove the Ionians...
Peloponnese
79 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Samos ...will of the Ionians. Mykale is a western promontory of the mainland opposite Samos; the Ionians used to assemble there from their cities and keep the festival to...
Samos
79 26.84,37.73,0 Branchidae ...that Pactyes be surrendered. The Cymaeans resolved to make the god at Branchidae their judge as to what course they should take; for there was an ancient place...
Branchidae
72 27.256115,37.384829,0 Priene ...against those who had helped to besiege Tabalus, and he enslaved the people of Priene, and overran the plain of the Maeandrus, giving it to his army to pillage and...
Priene
81 27.298333,37.66,0 Delphi ...or men, became distorted and crippled and palsied. [2] The Agyllaeans sent to Delphi, wanting to mend their offense; and the Pythian priestess told them to do what...
Delphi
80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Ionia ...the south by the sea off Syme and Rhodes). Now while Harpagus was conquering Ionia, the Cnidians dug a trench across this little space, which is about two-thirds...
Ionia
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Delphi ...usual, some in other ways, but most in the eyes, the Cnidians sent envoys to Delphi to inquire what it was that opposed them. [5] Then, as they themselves say, the...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Euphrates ...from Babylon, where there is a little river, also named Is, a tributary of the Euphrates river; from the source of this river Is, many lumps of bitumen rise with the...
Euphrates
81 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Euphrates ...the city is divided into two parts; for it is cut in half by a river named Euphrates, a wide, deep, and swift river, flowing from Armenia and issuing into the Red...
Euphrates
77 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Red Sea ...a wide, deep, and swift river, flowing from Armenia and issuing into the Red Sea. [2] The angles of the wall, then, on either side are built quite down to the...
Red Sea
75 39.5,19.0,0 Red Sea ...river, the Tigris, that again passes the city of Opis and empties into the Red Sea—when, I say, Cyrus tried to cross the Gyndes, which was navigable there, one of...
Red Sea
77 39.5,19.0,0 Gyndes ...of Opis and empties into the Red Sea—when, I say, Cyrus tried to cross the Gyndes, which was navigable there, one of his sacred white horses dashed recklessly...
Gyndes
77 Babylon ...happened to fall then, until they learned the truth only too well. 192. And Babylon, then for the first time, was taken in this way. I shall show how great the...
Babylon
79 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylon ...they are watered by hand and by swinging beams.70 [2] For the whole land of Babylon, like Egypt, is cut across by canals. The greatest of these is navigable: it...
Babylon
78 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylonia ...said regarding grain is wholly disbelieved by those who have never visited Babylonia. They use no oil except what they make from sesame.71 There are palm trees...
Babylonia
77 44.5,32.5,0 Babylon ...country, next to the city itself. Their boats which ply the river and go to Babylon are all of skins, and round. [2] They make these in Armenia, higher up the...
Babylon
78 44.42082,32.53617,0 Arabia ...they will touch no vessel before this is done. This is the custom in Arabia also. 199. The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of...
Arabia
71 32.5,27.5,0 Araxes ...the Issedones; and some say that they are a Scythian people. 202. The Araxes is said by some to be greater and by some to be less than the Ister. It is...
Araxes
73 67.18936939999999,39.556608266666665,0 Red Sea ...and the sea beyond the pillars of Heracles, which they call Atlantic, and the Red Sea, are all one: 203. but the Caspian is separate and by itself. Its length is...
Red Sea
80 50.9999999,27.0000001,0 Caucasus ...is an eight days' journey. Along its western shore stretches the range of Caucasus, which has more and higher peaks than any other range. Many and all kinds of...
Caucasus
76 42.4378759,43.3525468,0 Massagetae ...his advances, well understanding that he wanted not her but the kingdom of the Massagetae. [2] So when guile was of no avail, Cyrus marched to the Araxes and openly...
Massagetae
81 62.5,37.5,0 Argos ...places to which they carried Egyptian and Assyrian merchandise, they came to Argos, [2] which was at that time preeminent in every way among the people of what is...
Argos
79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Egypt ...Io and others were seized and thrown into the ship, which then sailed away for Egypt. 2. In this way, the Persians say (and not as the Greeks), was how Io came to...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Europe ...were very much to blame; for they invaded Asia before the Persians attacked Europe. [2] “We think,” they say, “that it is unjust to carry women off. But to be...
Europe
78 Asia ...never have been carried away, had they not wanted it themselves. [3] We of Asia did not deign to notice the seizure of our women; but the Greeks, for the sake...
Asia
77 Europe ...Persians claim Asia for their own, and the foreign peoples that inhabit it; Europe and the Greek people they consider to be separate from them. 5. Such is the...
Europe
78 Troy ...them. 5. Such is the Persian account; in their opinion, it was the taking of Troy which began their hatred of the Greeks. [2] But the Phoenicians do not tell the...
Troy
80 26.23873,39.9577,0 Euxine ...from the south between Syria and Paphlagonia and empties into the sea called Euxine. [2] This Croesus was the first foreigner whom we know who subjugated some...
Euxine
79 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Sardis ...son of Ninus, son of Belus, son of Alcaeus, was the first Heraclid king of Sardis and Candaules son of Myrsus was the last. [3] The kings of this country before...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Delphi ...and took it for themselves. Having gotten it, Gyges sent many offerings to Delphi: there are very many silver offerings of his there; and besides the silver, he...
Delphi
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Miletus ...Gyges came to the throne, he too, like others, led an army into the lands of Miletus and Smyrna; and he took the city of Colophon. But as he did nothing else great...
Miletus
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Asia ...Deioces' descendant Cyaxares and the Medes, drove the Cimmerians out of Asia, took Smyrna (which was a colony from Colophon), and invaded the lands of...
Asia
74 Colophon ...Medes, drove the Cimmerians out of Asia, took Smyrna (which was a colony from Colophon), and invaded the lands of Clazomenae. But he did not return from these as he...
Colophon
80 27.142222,38.115556,0 Clazomenae ...Asia, took Smyrna (which was a colony from Colophon), and invaded the lands of Clazomenae. But he did not return from these as he wished, but with great disaster. Of...
Clazomenae
81 26.774159524999998,38.364677125,0 Italy ...that this Arion, who spent most of his time with Periander, wished to sail to Italy and Sicily, and that after he had made a lot of money there he wanted to come...
Italy
80 11.953951787557699,43.55087092641273,0 Tarentum ...none more than the Corinthians, he hired a Corinthian vessel to carry him from Tarentum.8 But when they were out at sea, the crew plotted to take Arion's money and...
Tarentum
81 17.228553,40.476034,0 Taenarus ...but a dolphin (so the story goes) took Arion on his back and bore him to Taenarus. Landing there, he went to Corinth in his regalia, and when he arrived, he...
Taenarus
75 22.4866293,36.401551,0 Delphi ...fifty-seven years. [2] He was the second of his family to make an offering to Delphi (after recovering from his illness) of a great silver bowl on a stand of welded...
Delphi
80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Mytilene ...for shipbuilding were underway, either Bias of Priene or Pittacus of Mytilene (the story is told of both) came to Sardis and, asked by Croesus for news about...
Mytilene
71 26.489422,39.05495,0 Lydians ...on Gyges' posterity in the fifth generation; an utterance to which the Lydians and their kings paid no regard until it was fulfilled. 14. Thus the Mermnadae...
Lydians
73 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...had already heard of the oracle given to Croesus, welcomed the coming of the Lydians and swore to be his friends and allies; and indeed they were obliged by certain...
Lydians
79 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...and their ships ready, a second message came that the fortification of the Lydians was taken and Croesus a prisoner. Then, though very sorry indeed, they ceased...
Lydians
77 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...Tmolus. [4] The day before, then, Hyroeades, this Mardian, had seen one of the Lydians come down by this part of the acropolis after a helmet that had fallen down...
Lydians
81 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...he married this lady of his.” This was the answer of the priestess to the Lydians. They carried it to Sardis and told Croesus, and when he heard it, he confessed...
Lydians
76 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...but Tyrrhenians, after the name of the king's son who had led them there. The Lydians, then, were enslaved by the Persians. 95. But the next business of my history...
Lydians
81 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...founded cities and have lived ever since. [7] They no longer called themselves Lydians, but Tyrrhenians, after the name of the king's son who had led them there. The...
Lydians
81 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...plea he could not change the king's mind, and feared that even if the Lydians should escape this time they might later revolt and be destroyed by the...
Lydians
72 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...in the heads of the islanders, to come on horseback against the sons of the Lydians!” Then the other answered and said: [4] “O King, you appear to me earnestly to...
Lydians
78 27.5,37.5,0 Persian ...belongs the clan of the Achaemenidae, the royal house of Persia. [4] The other Persian tribes are the Panthialaei, the Derusiaei, and the Germanii, all tillers of the...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...acted according to Croesus' advice. [2] Cyrus and the sound portion of the Persian army marched back to the Araxes, leaving behind those that were useless; a...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...Cappadocians are called by the Greeks Syrians, and these Syrians before the Persian rule were subjects of the Medes, and, at this time, of Cyrus. [2] For the...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Delphians ...whose number he had learned, with two gold staters16 apiece. [2] The Delphians, in return, gave Croesus and all Lydians the right of first consulting the...
Delphians
71 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phoenicians ...had made a treaty), and the islanders among them had nothing to fear: for the Phoenicians were not yet subjects of the Persians, nor were the Persians themselves...
Phoenicians
80 35.25,33.25,0 Milesians ...had burnt. 20. I know this much to be so because the Delphians told me. The Milesians add that Periander son of Cypselus, a close friend of the Thrasybulus who then...
Milesians
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...so that his friend, forewarned, could make his plans accordingly. 21. The Milesians say it happened so. Then, when the Delphic reply was brought to Alyattes, he...
Milesians
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...sent a herald to Miletus, offering to make a truce with Thrasybulus and the Milesians during his rebuilding of the temple. So the envoy went to Miletus. But...
Milesians
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...cities taken, they remained where they were and did as they were told. [2] The Milesians, as I have already said, made a treaty with Cyrus himself and struck no blow...
Milesians
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...the crops of the land, and so returned to where he came from; [3] for as the Milesians had command of the sea, it was of no use for his army to besiege their city...
Milesians
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...this way for eleven years, and in these years two great disasters overtook the Milesians, one at the battle of Limeneion in their own territory, and the other in the...
Milesians
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Corinthian ...treasury5 of the Corinthians; although in truth it is not the treasury of the Corinthian people but of Cypselus son of Eetion. This Gyges then was the first foreigner...
Corinthian
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Athenians ...that the chief peoples were the Lacedaemonians among those of Doric, and the Athenians among those of Ionic stock. These races, Ionian and Dorian, were the foremost...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...65. So Croesus learned that at that time such problems were oppressing the Athenians, but that the Lacedaemonians had escaped from the great evils and had mastered...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Marathon ...enemy when they had reached the temple of Pallenian Athena in their march from Marathon towards the city, and encamped face to face with them. [4] There (by the...
Marathon
81 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Aeolians ...all the Aeolians came to recover it; and an agreement was made, whereby the Aeolians would receive back their movable goods from the Ionians, and leave the city...
Aeolians
78 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Aeolians ...the walls; then they shut the gates and so got the city. [2] Then all the Aeolians came to recover it; and an agreement was made, whereby the Aeolians would...
Aeolians
76 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Aeolians ...for there was an ancient place of divination there, which all the Ionians and Aeolians used to consult; the place is in the land of Miletus, above the harbor of...
Aeolians
80 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Ionians ...The reason why Cyrus told the story to the Ionians and Aeolians was that the Ionians, who were ready to obey him when the victory was won, had before refused when...
Ionians
79 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...on the same terms as that which they had with the Lydians. The rest of the Ionians resolved to send envoys in the name of them all to Sparta, to ask help for the...
Ionians
77 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...resolved to send envoys in the name of them all to Sparta, to ask help for the Ionians. 142. Now these Ionians possessed the Panionion, and of all men whom we know...
Ionians
81 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...else's. It is thus seen that there are four modes of speech. 143. Among these Ionians, the Milesians were safe from the danger (for they had made a treaty), and the...
Ionians
81 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...cities, eleven in number; but one of them, Smyrna, was taken away by the Ionians; for these too were once twelve, on the mainland. [2] These Aeolians had...
Ionians
75 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...to fear. The rest of the cities deliberated together and decided to follow the Ionians' lead. 152. So when the envoys of the Ionians and Aeolians came to Sparta (for...
Ionians
81 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...was made, whereby the Aeolians would receive back their movable goods from the Ionians, and leave the city. After this was done, the other eleven cities divided the...
Ionians
81 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...[2] But the Lacedaemonians would not listen to him and refused to help the Ionians. So the Ionians departed; but the Lacedaemonians, though they had rejected...
Ionians
77 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...along the way. [3] But before beginning his march, he sent heralds to the Ionians to try to draw them away from Croesus. The Ionians would not be prevailed on...
Ionians
76 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...Croesus. [4] So he answered them in anger. But when the message came to the Ionians in their cities, they fortified themselves with walls, and assembled in the...
Ionians
78 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...turned to night. Thales of Miletus had foretold this loss of daylight to the Ionians, fixing it within the year in which the change did indeed happen.25 [3] So when...
Ionians
79 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Dorians ...the friendship of others: the former being the Ionians, the Aeolians, and the Dorians of Asia, and the latter the Lacedaemonians. [3] Before the reign of Croesus...
Dorians
80 Pythian priestess ...the god about his sickness. [3] But when the messengers came to Delphi, the Pythian priestess would not answer them before they restored the temple of Athena at Assesos in...
Pythian priestess
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pythian priestess ...which is bronze.” ” 48. Having written down this inspired utterance of the Pythian priestess, the Lydians went back to Sardis. When the others as well who had been sent to...
Pythian priestess
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Dorians ...Paphlagonians, the Thracian Thynians and Bithynians, Carians, Ionians, Dorians, Aeolians, and Pamphylians; 29. and after these were subdued and subject to...
Dorians
73 Delphic oracle ...he took possession of the sovereign power and was confirmed in it by the Delphic oracle. For when the Lydians took exception to what was done to Candaules, and took up...
Delphic oracle
75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lycians ...that they were casting out the alien gods. 173. Such are their ways. The Lycians were from Crete in ancient times (for in the past none that lived on Crete were...
Lycians
76 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Phrygians ...Lycians, all the rest Croesus held subject under him. These were the Lydians, Phrygians, Mysians, Mariandynians, Chalybes, Paphlagonians, the Thracian Thynians and...
Phrygians
80 29.75,38.75,0 Phrygians ...first through Cilicia and afterwards between the Matieni on the right and the Phrygians on the other hand; then, passing these and still flowing north, it separates...
Phrygians
80 29.75,38.75,0 Paphlagonians ...flowing north, it separates the Cappadocian Syrians on the right from the Paphlagonians on the left. [3] Thus the Halys river cuts off nearly the whole of the lower...
Paphlagonians
76 33.23855021666667,41.44846296666666,0 Bithynians ...Mysians, Mariandynians, Chalybes, Paphlagonians, the Thracian Thynians and Bithynians, Carians, Ionians, Dorians, Aeolians, and Pamphylians; 29. and after these...
Bithynians
77 31.501635083333333,41.01972391666666,0 Argives ...that more of their men had survived, the Lacedaemonians showing that the Argives had fled, while their man had stood his ground and stripped the enemy dead. [7]...
Argives
75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Phrygian of the royal house ...it hung. 35. Now while Croesus was occupied with the marriage of his son, a Phrygian of the royal house came to Sardis, in great distress and with unclean hands. This man came to...
Phrygian of the royal house
79 29.75,38.75,0 Athenian guest ...second place in happiness to these men. Croesus was vexed and said, “My Athenian guest, do you so much despise our happiness that you do not even make us worth as...
Athenian guest
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedaemonians ...of gold, one of silver. The golden vessel bears the inscription “Given by the Lacedaemonians,” who claim it as their offering. But they are wrong, [4] for this, too, is...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Pelasgians ...that time inhabited the country which now is called Thessalian— [2] and of the Pelasgians who inhabited Placia and Scylace on the Hellespont, who came to live among the...
Pelasgians
81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Tegea ...previous war the Lacedaemonians continually fought unsuccessfully against the Tegeans, but in the time of Croesus and the kingship of Anaxandrides and Ariston in...
Tegea
80 22.429,37.464,0 Tegea ...earth covers the son of Agamemnon. Bring him back, and you shall be lord of Tegea. ” [5] When the Lacedaemonians heard this, they were no closer to discovery...
Tegea
78 22.429,37.464,0 Arcadian land ...stronger than the Arcadians, asked the oracle at Delphi about gaining all the Arcadian land. [2] She replied in hexameter: “You ask me for Arcadia? You ask too much; I...
Arcadian land
80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Cyprian ...the Halys river cuts off nearly the whole of the lower part of Asia from the Cyprian to the Euxine sea. Here is the narrowest neck of all this land; the length of...
Cyprian
79 Euxine ...part of this country and lies on the line of the city of Sinope on the Euxine sea), where he encamped and devastated the farms of the Syrians; [2] and he...
Euxine
73 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Sardis ...to Sardis, he sent heralds to all his allies, summoning them to assemble at Sardis in five months' time; and as for the soldiers whom he had with him, who had...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Pterians ...the farms of the Syrians; [2] and he took and enslaved the city of the Pterians, and took all the places around it also, and drove the Syrians from their...
Pterians
73 35.108768,41.321531,0 Pterian country ...but when Cyrus arrived and encamped face to face with Croesus, there in the Pterian country the armies had a trial of strength. [4] The fighting was fierce, many on both...
Pterian country
78 35.108768,41.321531,0 Telmessians ...their voyage back to Sardis. [3] Nonetheless, this was the judgment of the Telmessians: that Croesus must expect a foreign army to attack his country, and that when...
Telmessians
77 29.105772,36.620899,0 Telmessians ...to inquire concerning it; but though his messengers came and learned from the Telmessians what the portent meant, they could not bring back word to Croesus, for he was a...
Telmessians
80 29.105772,36.620899,0 Hermus ...have a mule as king, Just then, tender-footed Lydian, by the stone-strewn Hermus Flee and do not stay, and do not be ashamed to be a coward.” ” 56. When he...
Hermus
76 28.1112899,38.5178164,0 Sardian herald ...company had been killed, and killed himself on the spot at Thyreae. 83. The Sardian herald came after this had happened to the Spartans to ask for their help for Croesus...
Sardian herald
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Thyreae ...no Argive grow his hair, and no Argive woman wear gold, until they recovered Thyreae; [8] and the Lacedaemonians made a contrary law, that they wear their hair long...
Thyreae
79 22.75,37.25,0 Persians ...to ask the god if he were not ashamed to have persuaded Croesus to attack the Persians, telling him that he would destroy Cyrus' power; of which power (they were to...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...right that if I have any further insight I should point it out to you. [2] The Persians being by nature violent men are poor; so if you let them seize and hold great...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Median country ...out of Europe: pursuing them in their flight, the Scythians came to the Median country.37 104. It is a thirty days' journey for an unencumbered man from the Maeetian...
Median country
74 46.5,34.5,0 Assyrians ...wanting to avenge his father and to destroy the city. [3] He defeated the Assyrians in battle; but while he was besieging their city, a great army of Scythians...
Assyrians
76 37.5,37.5,0 Saspires ...is an easy matter to cross into Media: there is only one nation between, the Saspires; to pass these is to be in Media. [2] Nevertheless, it was not by this way that...
Saspires
79 Saspires ...the rest of Media is everywhere a level plain, but here, on the side of the Saspires,41 the land is very high and mountainous and covered with woods. [3] So when...
Saspires
78 Maeetian lake ...country.37 104. It is a thirty days' journey for an unencumbered man from the Maeetian lake38 to the river Phasis and the land of the Colchi; from the Colchi it is an easy...
Maeetian lake
81 35.862586,45.814417000000006,0 Mardi ...the Derusiaei, and the Germanii, all tillers of the soil, and the Dai, the Mardi, the Dropici, the Sagartii, all wandering herdsmen. 126. So when they all came...
Mardi
77 Maraphii ...assembled and persuaded to revolt from the Medes were the Pasargadae, the Maraphii, and the Maspii. On these all the other Persians depend. The chief tribe is...
Maraphii
76 Arabians ...the Assyrians and Arabians. She is called by the Assyrians Mylitta, by the Arabians Alilat, by the Persians Mitra. 132. And this is their method of sacrifice to...
Arabians
77 39.5,37.5,0 Persians ...She is called by the Assyrians Mylitta, by the Arabians Alilat, by the Persians Mitra. 132. And this is their method of sacrifice to the aforesaid gods: when...
Persians
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Phocaea ...was the hero, and not the island. 168. Thus, then, it went with the Ionian Phocaea. The Teians did the same things as the Phocaeans: when Harpagus had taken their...
Phocaea
78 26.75261,38.6684,0 Greece ...[6] Darius answered, “Woman, since you think that we should make an attempt on Greece first, it seems to me to be best that we first send Persian spies with the man...
Greece
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Persian ...and, hard-pressed, the guards retreated into the acropolis. 147. The Persian captain Otanes, seeing how big a loss the Persians had suffered, deliberately...
Persian
72 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Cnidians ...a great expedition sailed against Italy, he said that it was enough that the Cnidians alone be his escort; for he supposed that the Tarentines would be the readier...
Cnidians
79 27.37404,36.686188,0 Iapygia ...then put out from Croton; but their ships were wrecked on the coast of Iapygia, and they were made slaves in the country until Gillus, an exile from Tarentum...
Iapygia
73 18.368275,39.796261,0 Athenians ...was the father of Megabyzus, who was general of an army in Egypt against the Athenians and their allies; and Megabyzus' son was that Zopyrus who deserted from the...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Milesians ...them the Aeolians who dwell in Lesbos. This was their order of battle: The Milesians themselves had the eastern wing, bringing eighty ships; next to them were the...
Milesians
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...when I come to that part of my history; this was the prophecy given to the Milesians in their absence: “Then, Miletus, contriver of evil deeds, For many will you...
Milesians
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...Tyrrhenia. At this invitation, the Samians alone of the Ionians, with those Milesians who had escaped, set forth. 23. In their journey a thing happened to them such...
Milesians
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Spartan ...third which is their own.22 58. The kings are granted these rights from the Spartan commonwealth while they live; when they die, their rights are as follows...
Spartan
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Arcadia ...of stones runs round the pool. Nonacris, where this spring rises, is a city of Arcadia near Pheneus. 75. When the Lacedaemonians learned that Cleomenes was doing...
Arcadia
81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 the Chians ...robbers come after their women; so they mustered all their force and killed the Chians. 17. So these men met with such a fate. As for Dionysius the Phocaean, when he...
the Chians
78 26.053,38.414,0 the Chians ...threaten cities or nations; for before all this plain signs had been sent to the Chians. [2] Of a band of a hundred youths whom they had sent to Delphi only two...
the Chians
79 26.053,38.414,0 the Chians ...to its knees; on top of the sea-fight came Histiaeus and the Lesbians. Since the Chians were in such a bad state, he easily subdued them. 28. Then Histiaeus brought a...
the Chians
79 26.053,38.414,0 the Chians ...and left their ships, and made their way across the mainland. [2] But when the Chians entered the lands of Ephesus on their march, they came by night while the women...
the Chians
77 26.053,38.414,0 Chios ...and, when the Chian guardships would not receive him, fought in the Hollows of Chios (as they are called). [2] Many of their crews he killed; the rest of the people...
Chios
81 26.053,38.414,0 the Ionians ...Egyptians. 7. These were coming to attack Miletus and the rest of Ionia. When the Ionians learned of it, they sent deputies to take counsel for them in the Panionium.1...
the Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Argives ...response for the Milesians. [2] I will mention the part concerning the Argives when I come to that part of my history; this was the prophecy given to the...
Argives
73 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...and laid waste the precinct of the gods. The Argives say it was because when Argives had taken refuge after the battle in their temple of Argus27 he brought them...
Argives
79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...by the spear. ” [3] All these things coming together spread fear among the Argives. Therefore they resolved to defend themselves by making use of the enemies'...
Argives
77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...[2] The Lacedaemonians performed this command, and when they assaulted the Argives they caught them at breakfast in obedience to the herald's signal; they killed...
Argives
77 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...the signal for breakfast, they should then put on their armor and attack the Argives. [2] The Lacedaemonians performed this command, and when they assaulted the...
Argives
79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Ionian ...advance over the whole island hunting the people down. They also captured the Ionian cities of the mainland in the same way, but not by netting the people; for that...
Ionian
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Lesbians ...charge of Bisaltes of Abydos, son of Apollophanes, he himself sailed with the Lesbians to Chios and, when the Chian guardships would not receive him, fought in the...
Lesbians
80 26.10052,39.20874,0 Scythian ...the horsemen always withdrawing before them; and then, making for the one Scythian division, the Persians held on in pursuit toward the east and the Tanaïs river...
Scythian
76 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...the time when Darius' men were foraging, and did as they had planned. [3] The Scythian horse always routed the Persian horse, and when the Persian cavalry would fall...
Scythian
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...ranks were set in order, a rabbit ran out between the armies; and every Scythian that saw it gave chase. So there was confusion and shouting among the...
Scythian
74 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...to him; for Sitalces' brother had fled from him and was with Octamasades. The Scythian agreed to this, and took his brother Scyles, giving up his own uncle to...
Scythian
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...was Ariantas, desiring to know the census of the Scythians, commanded every Scythian to bring him the point from an arrow, threatening death to all who did not. [6]...
Scythian
78 27.5,47.5,0 Cimmerians ...now inhabit is said to have belonged to the Cimmerians before), [2] and the Cimmerians, at the advance of the Scythians, deliberated as men threatened by a great...
Cimmerians
78 36.2317044,45.0437458,0 Maeetian lake ...were at the mercy of waves and winds, until they came to the Cliffs by the Maeetian lake; this place is in the country of the free Scythians. The Amazons landed there...
Maeetian lake
77 35.862586,45.814417000000006,0 Maeetian lake ...belongs to the Sauromatae, whose country begins at the inner end of the Maeetian lake and stretches fifteen days' journey north, and is quite bare of both wild and...
Maeetian lake
74 35.862586,45.814417000000006,0 Maeetian lake ...by digging a wide trench from the Tauric mountains to the broadest part of the Maeetian lake;3 and then, when the Scythians tried to force a passage, they camped opposite...
Maeetian lake
81 35.862586,45.814417000000006,0 Tenedos ...that now engaged him. 41. But now, learning that the Phoenicians were in Tenedos, he sailed away to Athens with five triremes loaded with the possessions that...
Tenedos
76 26.05,39.816667,0 Pontus ...from some of the Greeks, too, from the Borysthenes port and the other ports of Pontus; such Scythians as visit them transact their business with seven interpreters...
Pontus
81 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Greeks ...[2] Geryones lived west of the Pontus,7 settled in the island called by the Greeks Erythea, on the shore of Ocean near Gadira, outside the pillars of Heracles. As...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...land, turning inland on their way. That is the other story current among Greeks and foreigners alike. 13. There is also a story related in a poem by Aristeas...
Greeks
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...there, they are brought on to the south, the people of Dodona being the first Greeks to receive them. From Dodona they come down to the Melian gulf, and are carried...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...then, was how Anacharsis fared, owing to his foreign ways and consorting with Greeks; and a great many years afterward, Scyles, son of Ariapithes, suffered a like...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...kind of learning, except the Lacedaemonians; but that these were the only Greeks who spoke and listened with discretion. [2] But this is a tale pointlessly...
Greeks
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...the less performed the rite to the end. [3] Now the Scythians reproach the Greeks for this Bacchic revelling, saying that it is not reasonable to set up a god...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...the god, believing in no other god but their own. 95. I understand from the Greeks who live beside the Hellespont and Pontus, that this Salmoxis was a man who was...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...they are altogether unlike the Budini in form and in coloring. Yet the Greeks call the Budini too Geloni; but this is wrong. [2] Their whole country is...
Greeks
73 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...would seem that the robe and aegis of the images of Athena were copied by the Greeks from the Libyan women; for except that Libyan women dress in leather, and that...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Borysthenes river ...was then desolate. They say that his parents were Zeus and a daughter of the Borysthenes river (I do not believe the story, but it is told).4 [2] Such was Targitaüs' lineage...
Borysthenes river
79 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Ocean ...Pontus,7 settled in the island called by the Greeks Erythea, on the shore of Ocean near Gadira, outside the pillars of Heracles. As for Ocean, the Greeks say that...
Ocean
79 Proconnesus ...forty years after the second disappearance of Aristeas, as reckoning made at Proconnesus and Metapontum shows me: [2] Aristeas, so the Metapontines say, appeared in...
Proconnesus
79 27.55568,40.591686,0 Proconnesus ...of Abydos, Hippoclus of Lampsacus, Herophantus of Parium, Metrodorus of Proconnesus, Aristagoras of Cyzicus, Ariston of Byzantium, [2] all from the Hellespont and...
Proconnesus
74 27.55568,40.591686,0 Hyperboreans ...any others do. They say that offerings wrapped in straw are brought from the Hyperboreans to Scythia; when these have passed Scythia, each nation in turn receives them...
Hyperboreans
79 77.5,32.5,0 Hyperboreans ...would have told, just as they tell of the one-eyed men. But Hesiod speaks of Hyperboreans, and Homer too in his poem The Heroes' Sons,17 if that is truly the work of...
Hyperboreans
79 77.5,32.5,0 Cimmeria ...are Cimmerian walls in Scythia, and a Cimmerian ferry, and there is a country Cimmeria9 and a strait named Cimmerian. [2] Furthermore, it is evident that the...
Cimmeria
80 36.2317044,45.0437458,0 strait named Cimmerian ...in Scythia, and a Cimmerian ferry, and there is a country Cimmeria9 and a strait named Cimmerian. [2] Furthermore, it is evident that the Cimmerians in their flight from the...
strait named Cimmerian
76 36.65,45.35,0 Delphi ...son of Aesanius, king of Thera, a descendant of this same Theras, came to Delphi bringing a hecatomb from his city; among others of his people, Battus son of...
Delphi
76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...coming to Libya, taking this new name because of the oracle given to him at Delphi and the honorable office which he received. For the Libyan word for king is...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...Theraeans; and when, ignorant of the cause of their misfortunes, they sent to Delphi to ask about their present ills, [2] the priestess declared that they would...
Delphi
80 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...they lived for two years; but as everything went wrong, the rest sailed to Delphi leaving one behind, and on their arrival questioned the oracle, and said that...
Delphi
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...The Cyrenaeans, in view of the affliction that had overtaken them, sent to Delphi to ask what political arrangement would enable them to live best; [2] the...
Delphi
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Neuri ...and the Greeks settled in Scythia, say that once a year every one of the Neuri becomes a wolf for a few days and changes back again to his former shape. Those...
Neuri
75 Borysthenites ...sacred mysteries, he saw the greatest vision. [2] He had in the city of the Borysthenites a spacious house, grand and costly (the same house I just mentioned), all...
Borysthenites
78 31.9056,46.69238,0 Callippidae ...which lies midway along the coast of Scythia, the first inhabitants are the Callippidae, who are Scythian Greeks; and beyond them another tribe called Alazones; these...
Callippidae
78 Tanaïs river ...marched that way, this group was to retire before him and fall back toward the Tanaïs river, by the Maeetian lake, and if the Persian turned to go back, then they were to...
Tanaïs river
81 40.7291755,47.5437096,0 Tanaïs ...land is all marshes and uninhabited by men, so far as we know. 21. Across the Tanaïs it is no longer Scythia; the first of the districts belongs to the Sauromatae...
Tanaïs
81 40.7291755,47.5437096,0 Tanaïs ...and Hypanis, and Borysthenes, and Panticapes, and Hypacuris, and Gerrhus, and Tanaïs. Their courses are as I shall indicate. 48. The Ister, the greatest of all...
Tanaïs
80 40.7291755,47.5437096,0 The Cliffs ...the trench that was dug by the sons of the blind men, and to the port called The Cliffs15 on the Maeetian lake; and part of it stretches to the Tanaïs river. [2] North...
The Cliffs
79 35.841144,46.672101,0 Tanaïs river ...wives, do this with us: come, let us leave this country and live across the Tanaïs river.” 116. To this too the youths agreed; and crossing the Tanaïs, they went a...
Tanaïs river
78 40.7291755,47.5437096,0 Gerrus ...that stretches fourteen days' journey to the Gerrus river.14 20. Across the Gerrus are those lands called Royal, where the best and most numerous of the Scythians...
Gerrus
79 35.44448538716876,46.87699559686738,0 Libyans ...pursued them until he came in his pursuit to Leucon in Libya, where the Libyans resolved to attack him; they engaged, and so wholly overcame the Cyrenaeans...
Libyans
74 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...from the Cyrenaeans. [2] Then Arcesilaus led an army into the country of the Libyans who had received his brothers and had also revolted; and they fled in fear of...
Libyans
79 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...part cared nothing for Darius. 168. Now, concerning the lands inhabited by Libyans, the Adyrmachidae are the people that live nearest to Egypt; they follow...
Libyans
78 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...territory. These drive four-horse chariots to a greater extent than any other Libyans; it is their practice to imitate most of the Cyrenaean customs. 171. Next west...
Libyans
80 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...catches her own lice, then bites and throws them away. [2] They are the only Libyans that do this, and who show the king all virgins that are to be married; the...
Libyans
79 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...a remedy; they soothe them by applications of goats' urine. This is what the Libyans themselves say. 188. The nomads' way of sacrificing is to cut a piece from the...
Libyans
79 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...is wholly without moisture. 186. Thus from Egypt to the Tritonian lake, the Libyans are nomads that eat meat and drink milk; for the same reason as the Egyptians...
Libyans
79 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...as far as we know, inhabit it, two of which are aboriginal and two not; the Libyans in the north and the Ethiopians in the south of Libya are aboriginal; the...
Libyans
78 26.5,31.5,0 Libyan ...believe) is why the Pythian priestess called him so in her prophecy, using a Libyan name because she knew that he was to be king in Libya. [3] For when he grew to...
Libyan
79 26.5,31.5,0 Libyan ...but I myself think that the troops were sent to subjugate Libya. For the Libyan tribes are many and of different kinds, and though a few of them were the...
Libyan
75 26.5,31.5,0 Libyan ...stalks63 twined about reeds; they can be carried here and there. Such are the Libyan customs. 191. West of the Triton river and next to the Aseans begins the...
Libyan
80 26.5,31.5,0 Royal ...course to the sea it divides the country of the Nomads and the country of the Royal Scythians, and empties into the Hypacuris. 57. The eighth is the Tanaïs...
Royal
80 33.5,45.5,0 Royal ...and Ares. All the Scythians worship these as gods; the Scythians called Royal sacrifice to Poseidon also. [2] In the Scythian tongue, Hestia is called...
Royal
74 33.5,45.5,0 Libya ...whenever autumn came they would put in and plant the land in whatever part of Libya they had reached, and there await the harvest; [4] then, having gathered the...
Libya
80 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...who divided the world, or where they got the names which they used. [3] For Libya is said by most Greeks to be named after a native woman of that name, and Asia...
Libya
78 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...messengers to Crete to find any Cretan or traveller there who had travelled to Libya. In their travels about the island, these came to the town of Itanus, where...
Libya
81 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...her prophecy, using a Libyan name because she knew that he was to be king in Libya. [3] For when he grew to adulthood, he went to Delphi to inquire about his...
Libya
79 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...a distribution of land; [3] and this was the oracle: ““Whoever goes to beloved Libya after The fields are divided, I say shall be sorry afterward.” ” [4] So a great...
Libya
81 26.5,31.5,0 Delians ...his poem The Heroes' Sons,17 if that is truly the work of Homer. 33. But the Delians18 say much more about them than any others do. They say that offerings wrapped...
Delians
80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Ionians ...are even eaten. The Egyptians do not call them crocodiles, but khampsae. The Ionians named them crocodiles, from their resemblance to the lizards which they have in...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Aeolians slaves ...Cambyses was the son of this woman and of Cyrus. He considered the Ionians and Aeolians slaves inherited from his father, and prepared an expedition against Egypt, taking...
Aeolians slaves
81 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Greeks ...by rain, but not by river water like theirs, they said that one day the Greeks would be let down by what they counted on, and miserably starve: meaning that...
Greeks
74 Greeks ...them except Zeus alone. 14. And this prediction of the Egyptians about the Greeks was true enough. But now let me show the prospect for the Egyptians themselves...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...a recollection, if indeed they were already making sea voyages and some Greeks, too, were seafaring men, as I expect and judge; so that the names of these...
Greeks
74 Greeks ...was built. [3] I found that their account did not tally with the belief of the Greeks, either; for they said that the temple of the god was founded when Tyre first...
Greeks
81 Greeks ...the image of Pan is made with the head and the legs of a goat, as among the Greeks; not that he is thought to be in fact such, or unlike other gods; but why they...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...who came after him made a fuller revelation; but it was from him that the Greeks learned to bear the phallus along in honor of Dionysus, and they got their...
Greeks
76 Greeks ...besides many other things which he learned from Egypt, he also taught the Greeks things concerning Dionysus, altering few of them; for I will not say that what...
Greeks
76 Egyptians ...then, when the Ethiopian departed because of what he saw in a dream, the Egyptians of the district of Saïs brought him back from Syria. [2] Psammetichus was king...
Egyptians
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...by a prophetic utterance that he was toiling beforehand for the barbarian. The Egyptians call all men of other languages barbarians. 159. Necos, then, stopped work on...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...as the Egyptians (he said) surpassed all others in craft, so he surpassed the Egyptians. 122. They said that later this king went down alive to what the Greeks call...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...daughter to marry on the grounds that he was the cleverest of men; for as the Egyptians (he said) surpassed all others in craft, so he surpassed the Egyptians...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...size. This image is carried out of the chamber once every year, whenever the Egyptians mourn the god whose name I omit in speaking of these matters: [3] then the cow...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...his rage and fury had Patarbemis' ears and nose cut off. [6] The rest of the Egyptians, who were until now Apries' friends, seeing this outrage done to the man who...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...a god's image, which he set in a most conspicuous spot in the city; and the Egyptians came frequently to this image and held it in great reverence. [4] When Amasis...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...calling. 167. Now whether this, too, the Greeks have learned from the Egyptians, I cannot confidently judge. I know that in Thrace and Scythia and Persia and...
Egyptians
73 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...the Egyptians (they said) first used the names of twelve gods4 (which the Greeks afterwards borrowed from them); and it was they who first assigned to the...
Greeks
76 Phrygians ...wished to find out which people were the oldest, they have believed that the Phrygians were older than they, and they than everybody else. [2] Psammetichus, when he...
Phrygians
79 29.75,38.75,0 Phrygians ...signifying bread. [5] Reasoning from this, the Egyptians acknowledged that the Phrygians were older than they. This is the story which I heard from the priests of...
Phrygians
81 29.75,38.75,0 Achelous ...great effects; I could rehearse their names, but principal among them is the Achelous, which, flowing through Acarnania and emptying into the sea, has already made...
Achelous
79 21.1067111,38.3388321,0 Nile ...the Nile has five mouths. [3] There are also other rivers, not so great as the Nile, that have had great effects; I could rehearse their names, but principal among...
Nile
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Arabian mountains ...it seemed to me that there were no more than thirty miles between the Arabian mountains and those that are called Libyan. Beyond this Egypt is a wide land again. Such...
Arabian mountains
72 Syria ...Egypt is like neither the neighboring land of Arabia nor Libya, not even like Syria (for Syrians inhabit the seaboard of Arabia); it is a land of black and...
Syria
80 37.5,37.5,0 Acarnania ...their names, but principal among them is the Achelous, which, flowing through Acarnania and emptying into the sea, has already made half of the Echinades Islands...
Acarnania
80 21.317874500000002,38.672287499999996,0 Aethiopia ...crumbling earth, as if it were alluvial deposit carried down the river from Aethiopia; [3] but we know that the soil of Libya is redder and somewhat sandy, and...
Aethiopia
78 38.721522,14.125005,0 Arabia ...[3] but we know that the soil of Libya is redder and somewhat sandy, and Arabia and Syria are lands of clay and stones. 13. This, too, that the priests told...
Arabia
75 42.5,27.5,0 Delta ...lands lower down the river than lake Moeris, and especially what is called the Delta—if this land of theirs rises in the same proportion and broadens likewise in...
Delta
81 Cercasorus ...to the Salters' at Pelusium, while inland it stretches as far as the city of Cercasorus,11 where the Nile divides and flows to Pelusium and Canobus, and that all the...
Cercasorus
79 31.2187,30.09313,0 Watchtower of Perseus ...that only the Delta is Egypt, and that its seaboard reaches from the so-called Watchtower of Perseus forty schoeni to the Salters' at Pelusium, while inland it stretches as far as...
Watchtower of Perseus
81 30.41677,31.46119,0 Asia ...reckon truly, when they divide the whole earth into three parts, Europe, Asia, and Libya; [2] they must add to these a fourth part, the Delta of Egypt, if it...
Asia
75 Salters ...came to Egypt, to the mouth of the Nile called the Canopic mouth, and to the Salters'. [2] Now there was (and still is) on the coast a temple of Heracles; if a...
Salters
79 Salters ...seaboard reaches from the so-called Watchtower of Perseus forty schoeni to the Salters' at Pelusium, while inland it stretches as far as the city of Cercasorus,11...
Salters
81 Libya ...Libya; for by their showing the Nile is not the river that separates Asia and Libya; the Nile divides at the apex of this Delta, so that this land must be between...
Libya
80 26.5,31.5,0 Assyria ...Egypt is all that country which is inhabited by Egyptians, just as Cilicia and Assyria are the countries inhabited by Cilicians and Assyrians, and we know of no...
Assyria
81 37.5,37.5,0 Cataracts ...the belief of the Greeks, we shall consider all Egypt commencing from the Cataracts and the city of Elephantine12 to be divided into two parts, and to claim both...
Cataracts
76 33.97,17.677,0 Asia ...must add to these a fourth part, the Delta of Egypt, if it belongs neither to Asia nor to Libya; for by their showing the Nile is not the river that separates...
Asia
80 Assyrians ...just as Cilicia and Assyria are the countries inhabited by Cilicians and Assyrians, and we know of no boundary line (rightly so called) below Asia and Libya...
Assyrians
75 37.5,37.5,0 Saïtic ...separate themselves from the Sebennytic and so flow into the sea: by name, the Saïtic and the Mendesian. [6] The Bolbitine and Bucolic mouths are not natural but...
Saïtic
81 30.192032,31.13965,0 Bolbitine ...and so flow into the sea: by name, the Saïtic and the Mendesian. [6] The Bolbitine and Bucolic mouths are not natural but excavated channels. 18. The response of...
Bolbitine
75 30.39142,31.44957,0 Saïs ...show that they are foreigners and not Egyptians. 62. When they assemble at Saïs on the night of the sacrifice, they keep lamps burning outside around their...
Saïs
78 30.7695,30.96716,0 Greek ...the sources of the Nile, no one that conversed with me, Egyptian, Libyan, or Greek, professed to know them, except the recorder of the sacred treasures of Athena...
Greek
79 Phoenicians ...Then I went to Thasos, too, where I found a temple of Heracles built by the Phoenicians, who made a settlement there when they voyaged in search of Europe; now they...
Phoenicians
78 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...Dodona similarly held it true. 56. But my own belief about it is this. If the Phoenicians did in fact carry away the sacred women and sell one in Libya and one in...
Phoenicians
81 35.25,33.25,0 Libyans ...knowledge of whom they learned from the Libyans. [3] Alone of all nations the Libyans have had among them the name of Poseidon from the beginning, and they have...
Libyans
80 26.5,31.5,0 Phoenicia ...of theirs is this, that they have one song, the Linus-song,38 which is sung in Phoenicia and Cyprus and elsewhere; each nation has a name of its own for this, [2] but...
Phoenicia
81 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicia ...of Dionysus chiefly from Cadmus of Tyre and those who came with Cadmus from Phoenicia to the land now called Boeotia. 50. In fact, the names of nearly all the gods...
Phoenicia
78 35.25,33.25,0 Tyre ...during which he sent an army against Sidon and fought at sea with the king of Tyre. [3] But when it was fated that evil should overtake him, the cause of it was...
Tyre
80 35.209358,33.268071,0 Tyre ...information about this matter where it was possible so to do, I took ship for Tyre in Phoenicia, where I had learned by inquiry that there was a holy temple of...
Tyre
80 35.209358,33.268071,0 Egypt ...the Graces, and the Nereids, the names of all the gods have always existed in Egypt. I only say what the Egyptians themselves say. The gods whose names they say...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Athenians ...of Hermes; the production of these came from the Pelasgians, from whom the Athenians were the first Greeks to take it, and then handed it on to others. [2] For the...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Libya ...and therefore established the oracular shrine. [3] The dove which came to Libya told the Libyans (they say) to make an oracle of Ammon; this also is sacred to...
Libya
76 26.5,31.5,0 Greek ...had promised. [2] Moreover, he put Egyptian boys in their hands to be taught Greek, and from these, who learned the language, are descended the present-day...
Greek
79 Greek ...for Amasis gave them a thousand talents' weight of astringent earth,74 and the Greek settlers in Egypt twenty minae. 181. Amasis made friends and allies of the...
Greek
81 Buto ...to be avenged on those who had expelled him. He sent to inquire in the town of Buto, where the most infallible oracle in Egypt is; the oracle answered that he...
Buto
81 31.95395,30.87763,0 Buto ...is the name of the city where this oracle is; I have already mentioned it. In Buto there is a temple of Apollo and Artemis. The shrine of Leto where the oracle...
Buto
80 31.95395,30.87763,0 Buto ...great city by the Sebennytic arm of the Nile, on the way up from the sea. [2] Buto is the name of the city where this oracle is; I have already mentioned it. In...
Buto
80 31.95395,30.87763,0 Heliopolis ...is at Saïs in honor of Athena; the fourth is the festival of the sun at Heliopolis, the fifth of Leto at Buto, and the sixth of Ares at Papremis. 60. When the...
Heliopolis
74 31.305179,30.129369,0 Bubastis ...most enthusiastically celebrated is that in honor of Artemis at the town of Bubastis31 , and the next is that in honor of Isis at Busiris. [2] This town is in the...
Bubastis
78 31.51591,30.56826,0 Egyptian ...town. It may be that there was another Arkhandrus; but the name is not Egyptian. 99. So far, all I have said is the record of my own autopsy and judgment and...
Egyptian
73 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Colchians ...Colchians remembered the Egyptians better than the Egyptians remembered the Colchians; [2] the Egyptians said that they considered the Colchians part of Sesostris'...
Colchians
78 42.5,42.5,0 Palestine ...countries, most of them are no longer to be seen. But I myself saw them in the Palestine district of Syria, with the aforesaid writing and the women's private parts on...
Palestine
81 37.5,32.5,0 Egyptian army ...defeated the Scythians and Thracians. Thus far and no farther, I think, the Egyptian army went; for the pillars can be seen standing in their country, but in none beyond...
Egyptian army
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ethiopian ...a great army of Ethiopians.56 [2] The blind man fled to the marshes, and the Ethiopian ruled Egypt for fifty years, during which he distinguished himself for the...
Ethiopian
79 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopian ...in his dream, Sabacos departed from Egypt of his own volition. 140. When the Ethiopian left Egypt, the blind man (it is said) was king once more, returning from the...
Ethiopian
80 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopian ...of ashes and earth; for the Egyptians who were to bring him food without the Ethiopian's knowledge were instructed by the king to bring ashes whenever they came, to...
Ethiopian
79 38.721522,14.125005,0 Smyrna ...one on the road from Ephesus to Phocaea, and the other on that from Sardis to Smyrna. [3] In both places, the figure is over twenty feet high, with a spear in his...
Smyrna
80 27.1383,38.41905,0 Sidon ...during his rule of twenty-five years, during which he sent an army against Sidon and fought at sea with the king of Tyre. [3] But when it was fated that evil...
Sidon
77 35.37564,33.55993,0 Ilion ...behalf. After disembarking and disposing their forces, they sent messengers to Ilion, one of whom was Menelaus himself. [3] When these were let inside the city...
Ilion
81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Syria ...verses the poet shows that he knew of Alexander's wanderings to Egypt; for Syria borders on Egypt, and the Phoenicians, to whom Sidon belongs, dwell in Syria...
Syria
77 37.5,37.5,0 Syrtis ...the natives said that this lake drains underground into the Libyan Syrtis, and extends under the mountains that are above Memphis, having the inland...
Syrtis
69 18.0,31.5,0 Libyan ...150. Furthermore, the natives said that this lake drains underground into the Libyan Syrtis, and extends under the mountains that are above Memphis, having the...
Libyan
81 26.5,31.5,0 Egyptian caretakers ...seen, but we learned through conversation about the underground chambers; the Egyptian caretakers would by no means show them, as they were, they said, the burial vaults of the...
Egyptian caretakers
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 The Camps ...and Carians who had helped him, Psammetichus gave places to live in called The Camps, opposite each other on either side of the Nile; and besides this, he paid them...
The Camps
77 Nile ...for a long time in these places, which are near the sea, on the arm of the Nile called the Pelusian, a little way below the town of Bubastis. Long afterwards...
Nile
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Syria ...he saw in a dream, the Egyptians of the district of Saïs brought him back from Syria. [2] Psammetichus was king for the second time when he found himself driven...
Syria
81 37.5,37.5,0 Persian ...began building the canal into the Red Sea,65 which was finished by Darius the Persian. This is four days' voyage in length, and it was dug wide enough for two...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Casian promontory ...most direct passage from the northern to the southern or Red Sea is from the Casian promontory, the boundary between Egypt and Syria, to the Arabian Gulf, and this is a...
Casian promontory
79 33.0779,31.2116,0 Red Sea ...who became king of Egypt. It was he who began building the canal into the Red Sea,65 which was finished by Darius the Persian. This is four days' voyage in...
Red Sea
76 39.5,19.0,0 Mendes ...say is Dionysus; these are worshipped by all alike. Those who have a temple of Mendes24 or are of the Mendesian district sacrifice sheep, but will not touch goats...
Mendes
81 31.51667,30.95833,0 Mendes ...be great mourning in all the Mendesian district. [4] In the Egyptian language Mendes is the name both for the he-goat and for Pan. In my lifetime a strange thing...
Mendes
80 31.51667,30.95833,0 Pharbaïthis ...districts of Thebes , Bubastis, Aphthis, Tanis, Mendes, Sebennys, Athribis, Pharbaïthis, Thmuis, Onuphis, Anytis, Myecphoris (this last is in an island opposite the...
Pharbaïthis
78 31.61491,30.73874,0 Persia ...Egyptians, I cannot confidently judge. I know that in Thrace and Scythia and Persia and Lydia and nearly all foreign countries, those who learn trades are held in...
Persia
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Dorian cities ...jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene...
Dorian cities
76 Lindus ...the friendship between Amasis and Polycrates,75 son of Aeaces; what he gave to Lindus was not out of friendship for anyone, but because the temple of Athena in...
Lindus
81 28.15629,36.41451,0 Cyrene ...in Egypt twenty minae. 181. Amasis made friends and allies of the people of Cyrene. And he decided to marry from there, either because he had his heart set on a...
Cyrene
79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...[5] Ladice paid her vow to the goddess; she had an image made and sent it to Cyrene, where it stood safe until my time, facing outside the city. Cambyses, when he...
Cyrene
79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Naucratis ...in barges around the Delta until he came to Naucratis. In such esteem was Naucratis held. 180. When the Amphictyons paid three hundred talents to have the temple...
Naucratis
76 30.5925,30.89722,0 Persians ...this to her father as soon as it was morning. 70. Otanes then took aside two Persians of the highest rank whom he thought worthiest of trust, Aspathines and Gobryas...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Prexaspes said that he was ready to do this too, the Magi summoned the Persians together, and brought him up on to a tower and bade him speak. Then...
Persians
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...been the slayer; but besides this, because he was in great repute among the Persians. [2] For these reasons they summoned him and tried to make him a friend, having...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...chance to win back the kingship, or, if we cannot, to die, since we who are Persians are ruled by a Mede, a Magus, and he a man that has no ears? [2] Those of you...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the Magi's heads ran outside with much shouting and commotion, calling all Persians to aid, telling what they had done and showing the heads; at the same time they...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...of the seven men preferred the last. Then Otanes, whose proposal to give the Persians equality was defeated, spoke thus among them all: [2] “Fellow partisans, it is...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to them by friendship, having given Cambyses passage into Egypt, which the Persians could not enter without the consent of the Arabians. [2] Darius took wives from...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...so much power you are idle, acquiring no additional people or power for the Persians. [2] The right thing for a man who is both young and the master of great wealth...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...did this, O King, because I felt it terribly that Assyrians were laughing at Persians.” [3] Darius answered, “Unfeeling man, you give a pretty name to an ugly act if...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...gesture and word, and one of them uttered this mot: [2] “Why loiter there, Persians, and not go away? You will take us when mules give birth.” One of the...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...been made, and were taken unawares; the guard fell upon them and killed the Persians of highest rank, those who were carried in litters. [4] They were engaged in...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Charilaus armed all the guards, opened the acropolis' gates, and attacked the Persians. These supposed that a full agreement had been made, and were taken unawares...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...as much as he could before surrendering it, for he was well aware that if the Persians were hurt they would be furiously angry with the Samians. Besides, he knew that...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...men, they gave the gifts to their king and said: “Cambyses, the king of the Persians, wishing to become your friend and ally, sent us with orders to address...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...subjects to such an extent that after his death all the Asiatics except the Persians wished him back; for he sent to every nation he ruled and proclaimed an...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...that Cambyses wept bitterly for all that had happened to him. 66. When the Persians saw their king weep, they all tore the clothing which they wore and wailed loud...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...more by what was written in them, he gave another, in which were these words: “Persians! King Darius forbids you to be Oroetes' guard.” Hearing this, they lowered...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to the following expedient: having summoned an assembly of the most prominent Persians, he addressed them as follows: “Persians, which of you will promise to do this...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and the master of great wealth is to be seen aggrandizing himself, so that the Persians know too that they are ruled by a man. On two counts it is in your interest to...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...of Egypt; but at that time a drizzle of rain fell at Thebes .5 11. When the Persians had crossed the waterless country and encamped near the Egyptians intending to...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...be a god; [3] therefore neither nation thinks it right to burn the dead, the Persians for the reason given, as they say it is wrong to give the dead body of a man to...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the Persian power, would have given him up; but others resisted and beat the Persians with their sticks. “Men of Croton, watch what you do,” said the Persians; “you...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...plight, Democedes made his way to Croton; and Aristophilides did not set the Persians free and give them back what he had taken from their ships until the physician...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...occurred turned Cyrus' son Cambyses, furiously angry, against Egypt. So the Persians say. 2. But the Egyptians, who say that Cambyses was the son of this daughter...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Sardis ...of the robbery of the bowl. [2] Periander son of Cypselus sent to Alyattes at Sardis three hundred boys, sons of notable men in Corcyra, to be made eunuchs. The...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...After the death of Cambyses and the rule of the Magi, Oroetes stayed in Sardis, where he did not help the Persians in any way to regain the power taken from...
Sardis
74 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...pain. On the eighth day, when he was doing poorly, someone who had heard in Sardis of the skill of Democedes of Croton told Darius of him; and he told them to...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Syrian ...which paid no tribute) between Posideion, a city founded on the Cilician and Syrian border by Amphilochus son of Amphiaraus, and Egypt; this paid three hundred and...
Syrian
79 37.5,37.5,0 Casian promontory ...are Syrian again from Ienysus as far as the Serbonian marsh, beside which the Casian promontory stretches seawards; [3] from this Serbonian marsh, where Typho is supposed to...
Casian promontory
80 33.0779,31.2116,0 Syrian ...to the city of Ienysus the seaports belong to the Arabians; then they are Syrian again from Ienysus as far as the Serbonian marsh, beside which the Casian...
Syrian
76 37.5,37.5,0 Ienysus ...Typho is supposed to have been hidden,3 the country is Egypt. Now between Ienysus and the Casian mountain and the Serbonian marsh there lies a wide territory for...
Ienysus
76 Carians ...the Egyptians intending to engage them, the Egyptian mercenaries, Greeks and Carians, devised a plan to punish Phanes, angered at him for leading a foreign army...
Carians
79 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...worked for their well-being. 90. The Ionians, Magnesians of Asia, Aeolians, Carians, Lycians, Milyans, and Pamphylians, on whom Darius laid one joint tribute, paid...
Carians
79 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Cyrene ...physicians in Greek countries were those of Croton, and next to them those of Cyrene. About the same time the Argives had the name of being the best musicians]...
Cyrene
80 21.856169,32.818736,0 Libyans ...were besieged, and after a long while surrendered; but the neighboring Libyans, frightened by what had happened in Egypt, surrendered without a fight, laying...
Libyans
73 26.5,31.5,0 Phoenicians ...Arabians to get. [2] They gather frankincense by burning that storax36 which Phoenicians carry to Hellas; they burn this and so get the frankincense; for the...
Phoenicians
79 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...were fetching them, he ordered his fleet to sail against Carthage. But the Phoenicians said they would not do it; for they were bound, they said, by strong oaths, and...
Phoenicians
77 35.25,33.25,0 Ethiopians ...and an alabaster box of incense and an earthenware jar of palm wine. These Ethiopians, to whom Cambyses sent them, are said to be the tallest and most handsome of...
Ethiopians
77 38.721522,14.125005,0 Elephantine ...to aid the Persians against Egypt. 20. When the Fish-eaters arrived from Elephantine at Cambyses' summons, he sent them to Ethiopia, with orders what to say, and...
Elephantine
76 32.89066,24.08292,0 Ethiopian ...offers you as gifts these things which he enjoys using himself.” [2] But the Ethiopian, perceiving that they had come as spies, spoke thus to them: “It is not because...
Ethiopian
79 38.721522,14.125005,0 Samians ...years; indeed, the temples now at Cydonia and the shrine of Dictyna are the Samians' work; [3] but in the sixth year Aeginetans and Cretans came and defeated them...
Samians
78 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...who was killed fighting bravely at Samos. The reason that he honored the Samians, he said, was that they had given his grandfather a public funeral. 56. So when...
Samians
75 26.84,37.73,0 Oasis ...from Thebes with guides; and it is known that they came to the city of Oasis,12 inhabited by Samians said to be of the Aeschrionian tribe, seven days' march...
Oasis
73 30.73046277641199,25.596754764260208,0 Persian ...the Ethiopian by the Fish-eaters as far as two fingerbreadths, but no other Persian could draw it. [2] Smerdis having gone to Persia, Cambyses saw in a dream a...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Indians ...was said) what would make them willing to burn their fathers at death. The Indians cried aloud, that he should not speak of so horrid an act. So firmly rooted are...
Indians
77 77.5,22.5,0 Indians ...whom we know - even those about whom something is said with precision - the Indians dwell nearest to the dawn and the rising sun; for on the eastern side of India...
Indians
78 77.5,22.5,0 Indians ...becomes ever cooler, until at sunset it is exceedingly cold. 105. So when the Indians come to the place with their sacks, they fill these with the sand and drive...
Indians
81 77.5,22.5,0 Indians ...the tail between the hindlegs. 104. Thus and with teams so harnessed the Indians ride after the gold, being careful to be engaged in taking it when the heat is...
Indians
76 77.5,22.5,0 Susa ...of being the best musicians]. 132. So now because he had healed Darius at Susa Democedes had a very grand house and ate at the king's table; he had...
Susa
77 48.24854,32.19202,0 Susa ...power was the man to whom he had given the garment in Egypt; so he went up to Susa and sat in the king's antechamber, saying that he was one of Darius'...
Susa
80 48.24854,32.19202,0 Indians ...there was no price for which they would do it. [4] Then Darius summoned those Indians who are called Callatiae,18 who eat their parents, and asked them (the Greeks...
Indians
80 77.5,22.5,0 Corcyraeans ...and sent them to Sardis to be made eunuchs as an act of vengeance; for the Corcyraeans had first begun the quarrel by committing a terrible crime against him...
Corcyraeans
77 19.92178,39.60733,0 Corcyra ...guards left their charge and departed; then the Samians took the boys back to Corcyra. 49. If after the death of Periander, the Corinthians had been friendly...
Corcyra
80 19.92178,39.60733,0 Corcyra ...Cypselus sent to Alyattes at Sardis three hundred boys, sons of notable men in Corcyra, to be made eunuchs. The Corinthians who brought the boys put in at Samos; and...
Corcyra
81 19.92178,39.60733,0 Corinthian ...boys might snatch these and have food. [4] This continued to be done until the Corinthian guards left their charge and departed; then the Samians took the boys back to...
Corinthian
81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corcyraean ...to which it was made a custom to bring cakes of sesame and honey, so that the Corcyraean boys might snatch these and have food. [4] This continued to be done until the...
Corcyraean
80 19.92178,39.60733,0 Asia ...and longest-lived people. 115. These then are the most distant lands in Asia and Libya. But concerning those in Europe that are the farthest away towards...
Asia
75 Asia ...things which we think the finest and the rarest. 117. There is a plain in Asia shut in on all sides by mountains through which there are five passes.37 This...
Asia
77 Asia ...[4] This is what happened, and these Persians were the first who came from Asia into Hellas, and they came to view the country for this reason. 139. After...
Asia
77 Corinth ...the goods which I now possess? [4] Though my son and a prince of prosperous Corinth, you prefer the life of a vagrant, by opposing and being angry with me with...
Corinth
78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthian ...you, march against Hellas. I have heard of Laconian and Argive and Attic and Corinthian women, and would like to have them as servants. You have a man who is fitter...
Corinthian
79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Peloponnesus ...had besieged Samos for forty days with no success, they went away to the Peloponnesus. [2] There is a foolish tale abroad that Polycrates bribed them to depart by...
Peloponnesus
75 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Median ...those Achaemenids that are here, not to let the sovereignty fall again into Median hands; if they have it after getting it by trickery, take it back through...
Median
78 46.5,34.5,0 Persia ...then he must not get away with sleeping with you and sitting on the throne of Persia, but be punished. [3] Now, then, when he lies with you and you see that he is...
Persia
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Babylonians ...took it, and every other stratagem and device, yet with no success; for the Babylonians kept a vigilant watch, and he could not take them. 153. But in the twentieth...
Babylonians
78 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylonians ...way to bring the city down than to mutilate himself and then desert to the Babylonians; so, making light of it, he mutilated himself beyond repair, and after cutting...
Babylonians
77 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylonians ...heard this, the gatekeepers brought him before the general assembly of the Babylonians, where he made a pitiful sight, saying that he had suffered at the hands of...
Babylonians
77 44.42082,32.53617,0 Euboic ...gold, of a Euboic talent; the Babylonian talent being equal to seventy-eight Euboic minae. [3] In the reigns of Cyrus and Cambyses after him there was no fixed...
Euboic
79 23.87,38.53,0 Persia ...got possession of the kingdom of Persia.” 89. Having done these things in Persia, he divided his dominions into twenty provinces, which they call satrapies;29...
Persia
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Euxine sea ...the Pactyic country and Armenia and the lands adjoining as far as the Euxine sea; these paid four hundred. [2] The fourteenth province was made up of the...
Euxine sea
72 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Pactyic ...of King Darius. 102. Other Indians dwell near the town of Caspatyrus and the Pactyic country,34 north of the rest of India; these live like the Bactrians; they are...
Pactyic
80 72.5,32.5,0 Europe ...our tin and amber come from the most distant parts. 116. But in the north of Europe there is by far the most gold. In this matter again I cannot say with assurance...
Europe
80 Europe ...have I been able to learn from one who has seen it that there is a sea beyond Europe. All we know is that our tin and amber come from the most distant parts...
Europe
80 Hellas ...the present; you shall have them whenever you like; I tell you, march against Hellas. I have heard of Laconian and Argive and Attic and Corinthian women, and would...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 India ...have lately said, India lies at the world's most distant eastern limit; and in India all living creatures four-footed and flying are much bigger than those of other...
India
81 77.5,22.5,0 India ...has drawn the possession of far the best seasons. [2] As I have lately said, India lies at the world's most distant eastern limit; and in India all living...
India
79 77.5,22.5,0 India ...dwell nearest to the dawn and the rising sun; for on the eastern side of India all is desolate because of the sand. [3] There are many Indian nations, none...
India
75 77.5,22.5,0 Arabia ...and gather them up. Thus is cinnamon said to be gathered, and so to come from Arabia to other lands. 112. But ledanon, which the Arabians call ladanon, is produced...
Arabia
80 42.5,27.5,0 Croton ...calling them spies. While they were in this plight, Democedes made his way to Croton; and Aristophilides did not set the Persians free and give them back what he...
Croton
80 17.205128,39.028864,0 Croton ...where they found him in the marketplace and tried to seize him. [2] Some Crotoniats, who feared the Persian power, would have given him up; but others resisted...
Croton
75 17.205128,39.028864,0 Croton ...we attack first here? Which will we try to enslave first?” [4] But the men of Croton paid no attention to them; so the Persians lost Democedes and the galley with...
Croton
80 17.205128,39.028864,0 Scythians ...and this will be done in a short time.” [5] “Look,” Atossa said, “let the Scythians go for the present; you shall have them whenever you like; I tell you, march...
Scythians
76 27.5,47.5,0 Laconian ...have them whenever you like; I tell you, march against Hellas. I have heard of Laconian and Argive and Attic and Corinthian women, and would like to have them as...
Laconian
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Argive ...you like; I tell you, march against Hellas. I have heard of Laconian and Argive and Attic and Corinthian women, and would like to have them as servants. You...
Argive
75 22.719464,37.631561,0 Persian ...make an attempt on Greece first, it seems to me to be best that we first send Persian spies with the man whom you mention, who shall tell us everything that they...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Clazomenae ...in Caria, and they have a common language; Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea, all of them in Lydia, [4] have a language in common which is wholly...
Clazomenae
79 26.78715,38.37322,0 Phocaea ...and they have a common language; Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea, all of them in Lydia, [4] have a language in common which is wholly different...
Phocaea
81 26.75261,38.6684,0 Olenus ...were worsted in battle by the Achaeans; Aegion; Rhype; Patrae; Phareae; and Olenus, where is the great river Pirus; Dyme and Tritaeae, the only inland city of all...
Olenus
78 21.640599,38.153707,0 Helice ...river Crathis, from which the river in Italy took its name; Bura and Helice, where the Ionians fled when they were worsted in battle by the Achaeans...
Helice
71 22.14015,38.22257,0 Caucones ...some of them chose Lycian descendants of Glaucus son of Hippolochus, and some Caucones of Pylus, descendants of Codrus son of Melanthus, and some both. Yet since they...
Caucones
80 21.75,37.25,0 Pelasgian Arcadians ...Cadmeans, Dryopians, Phocian renegades from their nation, Molossians, Pelasgian Arcadians, Dorians of Epidaurus, and many other tribes; [2] and as for those who came...
Pelasgian Arcadians
72 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Aeolian ...Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegaeae, Myrina, Gryneia.50 These are the ancient Aeolian cities, eleven in number; but one of them, Smyrna, was taken away by the...
Aeolian
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Aeolian ...among themselves and made them citizens of their own. 151. These then are the Aeolian cities on the mainland, besides those that are situated on Ida and are...
Aeolian
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Cyme ...at the hands of the Persians; and they demand him of us, telling the men of Cyme to surrender him. [2] But we, as much as we fear the Persian power, have not...
Cyme
78 26.936283,38.75953,0 Cyme ...“Lord,” he said, “will you save your own suppliants, yet tell the men of Cyme to deliver up theirs?” But the god replied, “Yes, I do command them, so that...
Cyme
75 26.936283,38.75953,0 Persians ...of all the Greeks alike, end in the same letter, just as do the names of the Persians. 149. Those are the Ionian cities, and these are the Aeolian: Cyme (called...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Temnos ...these are the Aeolian: Cyme (called “Phriconian”),49 Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegaeae, Myrina, Gryneia.50 These are the...
Temnos
78 27.197,38.6719,0 Lerisae ...the Ionian cities, and these are the Aeolian: Cyme (called “Phriconian”),49 Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegaeae, Myrina...
Lerisae
78 Ionia ...men in a ship of fifty oars to see (as I suppose) the situation with Cyrus and Ionia. [3] These, after coming to Phocaea, sent Lacrines, who was the most esteemed...
Ionia
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Lacedaemonians ...esteemed among them, to Sardis, to repeat there to Cyrus a proclamation of the Lacedaemonians, that he was to harm no city on Greek territory, or else the Lacedaemonians...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Mysia ...up by the Chians, [4] who received in return Atarneus, which is a district in Mysia opposite Lesbos. The Persians thus received Pactyes and kept him guarded, so...
Mysia
80 27.184419878077563,39.13112815791898,0 Mytilenaeans ...Mazares sent a message to Mytilene demanding the surrender of Pactyes, and the Mytilenaeans prepared to give him, for a price; I cannot say exactly how much it was, for...
Mytilenaeans
81 26.489422,39.05495,0 Magnesia ...and overran the plain of the Maeandrus, giving it to his army to pillage and Magnesia likewise. Immediately after this he died of an illness. 162. After his death...
Magnesia
79 27.52785,37.8507,0 Tyrrhenians ...Rhegium. 167. As for the crews of the disabled ships, the Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians drew lots for them, and of the Tyrrhenians the Agyllaioi57 were allotted by far...
Tyrrhenians
79 11.752744124826158,42.42102874792005,0 Sardonian ...also manned their ships, sixty in number, and met the enemy in the sea called Sardonian. They engaged and the Phocaeans won, yet it was only a kind of Cadmean...
Sardonian
80 8.5,40.5,0 Ionians ...Thales of Miletus, a Phoenician by descent, was good too; he advised that the Ionians have one place of deliberation, and that it be in Teos (for that was the center...
Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Caunians ...So Harpagus gained Xanthus, and Caunus too in a somewhat similar manner, the Caunians following for the most part the example of the Lycians. 177. Harpagus, then...
Caunians
79 28.621536,36.825909,0 Ionians ...put out to sea and sail all together to Sardo and then found one city for all Ionians: thus, possessing the greatest island in the world and ruling others, they...
Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionia ...one place of deliberation, and that it be in Teos (for that was the center of Ionia), and that the other cities be considered no more than demes. Thus Bias and...
Ionia
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Milyan land ...drove out Sarpedon and his partisans; who, after being driven out, came to the Milyan land in Asia. What is now possessed by the Lycians was in the past Milyan, and the...
Milyan land
81 29.75,36.75,0 Milyans ...in Asia. What is now possessed by the Lycians was in the past Milyan, and the Milyans were then called Solymi. [3] For a while Sarpedon ruled them, and the people...
Milyans
80 29.75,36.75,0 Triopion ...certain Cnidians, colonists from Lacedaemon. Their country (it is called the Triopion) lies between the sea and that part of the peninsula which belongs to Bubassus...
Triopion
79 27.493021,36.684805,0 Cnidians ...they were all enslaved by Harpagus. [2] Among those who inhabit it are certain Cnidians, colonists from Lacedaemon. Their country (it is called the Triopion) lies...
Cnidians
81 27.37404,36.686188,0 Persians ...had known beforehand or learned what Cyrus was up to, they would have let the Persians enter the city and have destroyed them utterly; for then they would have shut...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...sink until its former channel could be forded. [4] When this happened, the Persians who were posted with this objective made their way into Babylon by the channel...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Assyria ...of the rest of Asia providing for the other eight. [2] Thus the wealth of Assyria is one third of the entire wealth of Asia. The governorship of this land, which...
Assyria
76 37.5,37.5,0 Babylonian ...in honey for burial, and their dirges are like the dirges of Egypt. Whenever a Babylonian has had intercourse with his wife, they both sit before a burnt offering of...
Babylonian
81 44.42082,32.53617,0 Assyrians ...of them yielding fruit, from which food is made and wine and honey. [5] The Assyrians tend these like figs, and chiefly in this respect, that they tie the fruit of...
Assyrians
78 37.5,37.5,0 Ninus ...from the Euphrates to another river, the Tigris, on which stood the city of Ninus. This land is by far the most fertile in grain which we know. [3] It does not...
Ninus
78 43.1609,36.34773,0 Eneti ...our judgment, is one which I have learned by inquiry is also a custom of the Eneti in Illyria. It is this: once a year in every village all the maidens as they...
Eneti
79 Egyptians ...and kill them. [4] The Arabians say that the ibis is greatly honored by the Egyptians for this service, and the Egyptians give the same reason for honoring these...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...son of their first king, who died prematurely, and this dirge was sung by the Egyptians in his honor; and this, they said, was their earliest and their only chant...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...and is handled and buried by the priests of the Nile themselves. 91. The Egyptians shun using Greek customs, and (generally speaking) the customs of all other...
Egyptians
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...they said, that they celebrated the games. 92. All these are the customs of Egyptians who live above the marsh country. Those who inhabit the marshes have the same...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...slain by his subjects, who then gave Nitocris the sovereignty) put many of the Egyptians to death by treachery. [3] She built a spacious underground chamber; then, with...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...and it is seen that they do just as the Egyptians. [4] But as to the Egyptians and Ethiopians themselves, I cannot say which nation learned it from the other...
Egyptians
71 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...are the only nations that circumcise, and it is seen that they do just as the Egyptians. [4] But as to the Egyptians and Ethiopians themselves, I cannot say which...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...therefore, I shall say the more concerning Egypt. [2] Just as the Egyptians have a climate peculiar to themselves, and their river is different in its...
Egyptians
69 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...but inside it in Egypt. The Greeks write and calculate from left to right; the Egyptians do the opposite; yet they say that their way of writing is towards the right...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...knead dough with their feet, and gather mud and dung with their hands. The Egyptians and those who have learned it from them are the only people who practise...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...Io, and cows are held by far the most sacred of all beasts of the herd by all Egyptians alike. [3] For this reason, no Egyptian man or woman will kiss a Greek man, or...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...is over, they set out a meal of what is left of the victim. 41. All Egyptians sacrifice unblemished bulls and bull-calves; they may not sacrifice cows: these...
Egyptians
71 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...from this that the Egyptian images of Zeus have a ram's head; and in this, the Egyptians are imitated by the Ammonians, who are colonists from Egypt and Ethiopia and...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...the name of Heracles. [4] But Heracles is a very ancient god in Egypt; as the Egyptians themselves say, the change of the eight gods to the twelve, one of whom they...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...from their women; but swineherds intermarry among themselves. [2] Nor do the Egyptians think it right to sacrifice swine to any god except the Moon and Dionysus; to...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...with a woman. This came to be publicly known. 47. Swine are held by the Egyptians to be unclean beasts. In the first place, if an Egyptian touches a hog in...
Egyptians
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...Greeks show themselves altogether ignorant of the character and customs of the Egyptians; for how should they sacrifice men when they are forbidden to sacrifice even...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...of Poseidon from the beginning, and they have always honored this god. The Egyptians, however, are not accustomed to pay any honors to heroes. 51. These customs...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...are manifestly very ancient, and the Greek are of recent origin. 59. The Egyptians hold solemn assemblies not once a year, but often. The principal one of these...
Egyptians
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...on their heads, and many, I expect, even die from their wounds; although the Egyptians said that nobody dies. [4] The natives say that they made this assembly a...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...is pleased by this service and does the sandpiper no harm. 69. Some of the Egyptians consider crocodiles sacred; others do not, but treat them as enemies. Those who...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...should increase in height in the same proportion as formerly, will not the Egyptians who inhabit it go hungry, as there is no rain in their country and the river...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...what language the children would first speak. [3] I maintain, rather, that the Egyptians did not come into existence together with what the Ionians call the Delta, but...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...part of Egypt bordering on Libya, believing themselves to be Libyans and not Egyptians, and disliking the injunction of the religious law that forbade them to eat...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...found it to be a Phrygian word, signifying bread. [5] Reasoning from this, the Egyptians acknowledged that the Phrygians were older than they. This is the story which I...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...Memphis; for the people of Heliopolis are said to be the most learned of the Egyptians. [2] Now, such stories as I heard about the gods I am not ready to relate...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...source of water for them except Zeus alone. 14. And this prediction of the Egyptians about the Greeks was true enough. But now let me show the prospect for the...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...others whom he ruled. 2. Now before Psammetichus became king of Egypt,1 the Egyptians believed that they were the oldest people on earth. But ever since Psammetichus...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...reign of former kings. [2] So when presently king Sanacharib57 came against Egypt, with a great force of Arabians and Assyrians, the warrior Egyptians would not...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...came up where he now goes down, and twice went down where he now comes up; yet Egypt at these times underwent no change, either in the produce of the river and the...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...any such either before or after those years among the rest of the kings of Egypt. [4] Four times in this period (so they told me) the sun rose contrary to...
Egypt
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...and Carians, voyaging for plunder, were forced to put in on the coast of Egypt, where they disembarked in their armor of bronze; and an Egyptian came into the...
Egypt
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...settle in that country) that we Greeks have exact knowledge of the history of Egypt from the reign of Psammetichus onwards. [5] There still remained in my day, in...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...for their ships and the ruins of their houses. This is how Psammetichus got Egypt. 155. I have often mentioned the Egyptian oracle, and shall give an account of...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...days, yet when not only many of the Trojans were slain in fighting against the Greeks, but Priam himself lost to death two or three or even more of his sons in every...
Greeks
81 Greeks ...with or without the will of Alexandrus she would have been given back to the Greeks. [2] For surely Priam was not so mad, or those nearest to him, as to consent to...
Greeks
79 Greeks ...[2] if one were to collect the walls and evidence of other efforts of the Greeks, the sum would not amount to the labor and cost of this labyrinth. And yet the...
Greeks
76 Greeks ...but war, which is their hereditary calling. 167. Now whether this, too, the Greeks have learned from the Egyptians, I cannot confidently judge. I know that in...
Greeks
79 Egypt ...relative of his there. [3] Furthermore, in his desire to excel all who ruled Egypt before him, this king left a pyramid of brick to commemorate his name, on which...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...customs, then, and others besides, which I shall indicate, were taken by the Greeks from the Egyptians. It was not so with the ithyphallic images of Hermes; the...
Greeks
79 Greeks ...than four hundred years earlier than I; and these are the ones who taught the Greeks the descent of the gods, and gave the gods their names, and determined their...
Greeks
80 Greeks ...[5] But since they did not have Helen there to give back, and since the Greeks would not believe them although they spoke the truth—I am convinced and...
Greeks
74 Egypt ...mention. [3] The daughters of Danaus were those who brought this rite out of Egypt and taught it to the Pelasgian women; afterwards, when the people of the...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...livelihood be punishable with death. Solon the Athenian got this law from Egypt and established it among his people; may they always have it, for it is a...
Egypt
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ammon ...gone to the oracle of Ammon, and conversed there with Etearchus king of the Ammonians, and that from other subjects the conversation turned to the Nile, how no...
Ammon
78 25.54359,29.20514,0 Ocean ...none of these things would happen, as necessity proves. 23. The opinion about Ocean is grounded in obscurity and needs no disproof; for I know of no Ocean river...
Ocean
81 Ethiopians ...In his reign Egypt was invaded by Sabacos king of Ethiopia and a great army of Ethiopians.56 [2] The blind man fled to the marshes, and the Ethiopian ruled Egypt for...
Ethiopians
81 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopians ...Takhompso. [4] The country above Elephantine now begins to be inhabited by Ethiopians: half the people of the island are Ethiopians, and half Egyptians. Near the...
Ethiopians
77 38.721522,14.125005,0 Nile ...the river bank for forty days; for there are sharp projecting rocks in the Nile and many reefs, through which no boat can pass. [6] Having traversed this part...
Nile
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ethiopia ...you come to a great city called Meroe, which is said to be the capital of all Ethiopia. [7] The people of the place worship no other gods but Zeus and Dionysus;16...
Ethiopia
80 38.721522,14.125005,0 Meroe ...boat again and so travel for twelve days until you come to a great city called Meroe, which is said to be the capital of all Ethiopia. [7] The people of the place...
Meroe
81 33.75,16.94,0 Nile ...manner. After that, you come to a level plain, where there is an island in the Nile, called Takhompso. [4] The country above Elephantine now begins to be inhabited...
Nile
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ethiopia ...wherever that was, they would have wives and children. [5] So they came to Ethiopia, and gave themselves up to the king of the country; who, to make them a gift in...
Ethiopia
77 38.721522,14.125005,0 Pelusium ...there were watchposts at Elephantine facing Ethiopia, at Daphnae of Pelusium facing Arabia and Assyria, and at Marea facing Libya. [3] And still in my time...
Pelusium
70 32.540631,31.042265,0 Ethiopia ...In the reign of Psammetichus, there were watchposts at Elephantine facing Ethiopia, at Daphnae of Pelusium facing Arabia and Assyria, and at Marea facing Libya...
Ethiopia
76 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ister ...unknown from visible signs, it rises proportionally as far away as does the Ister.18 [3] For the Ister flows from the land of the Celts and the city of Pyrene...
Ister
78 29.647293,45.16291,0 Nasamonians ...of the Syrtis and a little way to the east of the Syrtis. [3] When these Nasamonians were asked on their arrival if they brought any news concerning the Libyan...
Nasamonians
75 20.5,30.5,0 Europe ...of the Cynesii, who are the westernmost of all the peoples inhabiting Europe. [4] The Ister, then, flows clean across Europe and ends its course in the...
Europe
72 Cynesii ...now the Celts live beyond the Pillars of Heracles, being neighbors of the Cynesii, who are the westernmost of all the peoples inhabiting Europe. [4] The Ister...
Cynesii
76 Mendesian district ...when he dies, it is ordained that there should be great mourning in all the Mendesian district. [4] In the Egyptian language Mendes is the name both for the he-goat and for...
Mendesian district
78 31.75,31.25,0 Delta ...comes to each city from the island called Prosopitis, [5] an island in the Delta, nine schoeni in circumference. There are many other towns on Prosopitis; the...
Delta
77 Greek man ...all Egyptians alike. [3] For this reason, no Egyptian man or woman will kiss a Greek man, or use a knife, or a spit, or a cauldron belonging to a Greek, or taste the...
Greek man
81 Pelasgians ...understands what my meaning is. [3] Samothrace was formerly inhabited by those Pelasgians who came to live among the Athenians, and it is from them that the...
Pelasgians
81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Samothracians ...as Greeks. Whoever has been initiated into the rites of the Cabeiri, which the Samothracians learned from the Pelasgians and now practice, understands what my meaning is...
Samothracians
81 25.5302283,40.5009431,0 Egyptian ...are held by the Egyptians to be unclean beasts. In the first place, if an Egyptian touches a hog in passing, he goes to the river and dips himself in it, clothed...
Egyptian
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greek ...land of the Deserters. These Deserters are called Asmakh, which translates, in Greek, as “those who stand on the left hand of the king”. [2] These once revolted and...
Greek
81 Egyptian ceremonies ...the Greeks learned all that from them. I consider this proved, because the Egyptian ceremonies are manifestly very ancient, and the Greek are of recent origin. 59. The...
Egyptian ceremonies
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greek ...proved, because the Egyptian ceremonies are manifestly very ancient, and the Greek are of recent origin. 59. The Egyptians hold solemn assemblies not once a...
Greek
79 Carians ...feet high for pillars. Apis in Greek is Epaphus. 154. To the Ionians and Carians who had helped him, Psammetichus gave places to live in called The Camps...
Carians
76 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...that men of bronze would come to aid him. But after a short time, Ionians and Carians, voyaging for plunder, were forced to put in on the coast of Egypt, where they...
Carians
80 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...numbers; but it is not pious for me to say who it is for whom they lament. [2] Carians who live in Egypt do even more than this, inasmuch as they cut their foreheads...
Carians
81 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Heliopolis ...showing why this night is lit up thus and honored. 63. When the people go to Heliopolis and Buto, they offer sacrifice only. At Papremis sacrifice is offered and rites...
Heliopolis
80 31.305179,30.129369,0 Khemmis ...from Libya—and recognized all his relatives; and how he had heard the name of Khemmis from his mother before he came to Egypt. It was at his bidding, they said, that...
Khemmis
80 31.746075,26.565878,0 Egyptian ...[2] They agree in this with practices called Orphic and Bacchic, but in fact Egyptian and Pythagorean: for it is impious, too, for one partaking of these rites to be...
Egyptian
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Cyprus ...Egyptus. Such were Amasis' offerings. Moreover, he was the first conqueror of Cyprus, which he made tributary to himself.
Cyprus
80 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Libya ...reason alleged by the Greeks as well—namely, to bring the Gorgon's head from Libya—and recognized all his relatives; and how he had heard the name of Khemmis from...
Libya
79 26.5,31.5,0 Greece ...Perseus was by lineage of their city; for Danaus and Lynceus, who travelled to Greece, were of Khemmis; and they traced descent from these down to Perseus. [6] They...
Greece
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Nile ...[6] Where these probably come from, I believe that I can guess. When the Nile falls, the fish have dropped their eggs into the mud before they leave with the...
Nile
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Memphis ...off, he first founded in it that city which is now called Memphis (for even Memphis lies in the narrow part of Egypt), and outside of it he dug a lake from the...
Memphis
78 31.254278,29.849667,0 Egyptian ...is called by the Greeks Sardonian46 ; that which comes from Egypt is called Egyptian. 106. As to the pillars that Sesostris, king of Egypt, set up in the...
Egyptian
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Phocaea ...two figures47 of this man carved in rock, one on the road from Ephesus to Phocaea, and the other on that from Sardis to Smyrna. [3] In both places, the figure is...
Phocaea
76 26.75261,38.6684,0 Sparta ...they told me that this was the story of Helen. After carrying off Helen from Sparta, Alexandrus sailed away for his own country; violent winds caught him in the...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sidon ...how he and Helen were carried off course, and wandered to, among other places, Sidon in Phoenicia. [3] This is in the story of the Prowess of Diomedes, where the...
Sidon
81 35.37564,33.55993,0 Egyptian king ...killed fleeing unarmed the next day. [6] And to this day a stone statue of the Egyptian king stands in Hephaestus' temple, with a mouse in his hand, and an inscription to...
Egyptian king
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Delphi ...no one else had thought of or dedicated in a temple and presenting this at Delphi to preserve her memory; [4] so she spent one tenth of her substance on the...
Delphi
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pelusium ...the vision, and together with those Egyptians who would follow him camped at Pelusium, where the road comes into Egypt; and none of the warriors would go with him...
Pelusium
79 32.540631,31.042265,0 Egyptian oracle ...houses. This is how Psammetichus got Egypt. 155. I have often mentioned the Egyptian oracle, and shall give an account of this, as it deserves. This oracle is sacred to...
Egyptian oracle
79 25.54359,29.20514,0 Eleans ...discover any juster way. [3] The Egyptians deliberated, and then asked the Eleans if their own citizens took part in the contests. The Eleans answered that they...
Eleans
77 21.37493,37.89131,0 Eleans ...to the contest, and not Eleans.” Such was the counsel of the Egyptians to the Eleans. 161. Psammis reigned over Egypt for only six years; he invaded Ethiopia, and...
Eleans
80 21.37493,37.89131,0 Eleans ...this Psammis was king of Egypt, he was visited by ambassadors from Elis, the Eleans boasting that they had arranged the Olympic games with all the justice and...
Eleans
79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Elis ...160. While this Psammis was king of Egypt, he was visited by ambassadors from Elis, the Eleans boasting that they had arranged the Olympic games with all the...
Elis
81 21.25,37.75,0 Athenian ...prove that one had a legitimate livelihood be punishable with death. Solon the Athenian got this law from Egypt and established it among his people; may they always...
Athenian
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Arcadians ...out by the Dorians, it was lost, except in so far as it was preserved by the Arcadians, the Peloponnesian people which was not driven out but left in its home...
Arcadians
79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Peloponnesian people ...it was lost, except in so far as it was preserved by the Arcadians, the Peloponnesian people which was not driven out but left in its home. 172. After Apries was deposed...
Peloponnesian people
74 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Siuph ...172. After Apries was deposed, Amasis became king; he was from a town called Siuph in the district of Saïs. [2] Now at first he was scorned and held in low regard...
Siuph
80 Hermotubies ...(for all divisions in Egypt are made according to districts). 165. The Hermotubies are from the districts of Busiris, Saïs, Khemmis, and Papremis, the island...
Hermotubies
74 Delta ...sail against contrary winds, he had to carry his cargo in barges around the Delta until he came to Naucratis. In such esteem was Naucratis held. 180. When the...
Delta
78 Egyptus ...daughters of Danaus, when they landed there in their flight from the sons of Egyptus. Such were Amasis' offerings. Moreover, he was the first conqueror of Cyprus...
Egyptus
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...certainly not unaware (for if any understand the customs of the Persians the Egyptians do) firstly, that it is not their custom for illegitimate offspring to rule...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...royal judges, that every man's death be paid for by the deaths of ten noble Egyptians. [6] When Psammenitus saw them passing and perceived that his son was being led...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...country and encamped near the Egyptians intending to engage them, the Egyptian mercenaries, Greeks and Carians, devised a plan to punish Phanes, angered at...
Egyptian
72 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...he had everything, except permission to return to the Greeks. [2] When the Egyptian physicians who until now had attended the king were about to be impaled for...
Egyptian
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...the priests buried him without Cambyses' knowledge. 30. But Cambyses, the Egyptians say, owing to this wrongful act immediately went mad, although even before he...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...of flesh and blood that can feel weapons of iron? That is a god worthy of the Egyptians. But for you, you shall suffer for making me your laughing-stock.” So saying he...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...or Epaphus, is a calf born of a cow that can never conceive again. By what the Egyptians say, the cow is made pregnant by a light from heaven, and thereafter gives...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...they gave him the same account, he said that if a tame god had come to the Egyptians he would know it; and with no more words he bade the priests bring Apis. So...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...the rulers of Memphis; when they came before him, he asked them why the Egyptians behaved so at the moment he returned with so many of his army lost, though they...
Egyptians
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ionians ...arrogant, Cyrus was merciful and always worked for their well-being. 90. The Ionians, Magnesians of Asia, Aeolians, Carians, Lycians, Milyans, and Pamphylians, on...
Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Egypt ...it was thus that when he grew up and became king, he made the campaign against Egypt. 4. It so happened, too, that something else occurred contributing to this...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...built for him in the temple. [3] While his son Psammenitus was king of Egypt, the people saw an extraordinary thing, namely, rain at Thebes of Egypt, where...
Egypt
73 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...surrendered; but the neighboring Libyans, frightened by what had happened in Egypt, surrendered without a fight, laying tribute on themselves and sending gifts...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...say, Croesus wept (for it happened that he too had come with Cambyses to Egypt) and the Persians that were there wept; Cambyses himself felt some pity, and he...
Egypt
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...to appear after long intervals of time, had now appeared to them; and that all Egypt rejoiced and made holiday whenever he so appeared. At this Cambyses said that...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...62. So this proclamation was made everywhere. The herald appointed to go to Egypt, finding Cambyses and his army at Ecbatana in Syria, came out before them all...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...themselves and decided to sail no further; others say that they did come to Egypt and there escaped from the guard that was set over them. [2] But as they sailed...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...Pindar's poem that custom is lord of all.19 39. While Cambyses was attacking Egypt, the Lacedaemonians too were making war upon Samos and upon Aeaces' son...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...but who rendered gifts instead, they were, firstly, the Ethiopians nearest to Egypt, whom Cambyses conquered in his march towards the long-lived Ethiopians; and...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...of varied color, many around each tree; these are the snakes that attack Egypt. Nothing except the smoke of storax will drive them away from the trees...
Egypt
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...126. This was the end of Polycrates' string of successes [as Amasis king of Egypt had forewarned him]. But not long after, atonement for Polycrates overtook...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...the reason for his conquest being this: when Cambyses, son of Cyrus, invaded Egypt, many Greeks came with the army, some to trade, as was natural, and some to see...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Persia ...and declare that it was Smerdis son of Cyrus and no other who was king of Persia. [4] They gave him this charge, because they thought him to be the man most...
Persia
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...the horse's name) “and of Oebares his groom, got possession of the kingdom of Persia.” 89. Having done these things in Persia, he divided his dominions into twenty...
Persia
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...they die or are detected in some injustice; it is they who decide suits in Persia and interpret the laws of the land; all matters are referred to them. [4] These...
Persia
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Egypt ...this crime that occurred turned Cyrus' son Cambyses, furiously angry, against Egypt. So the Persians say. 2. But the Egyptians, who say that Cambyses was the son...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Arabians ...much smaller than Sardis) to the city of Ienysus the seaports belong to the Arabians; then they are Syrian again from Ienysus as far as the Serbonian marsh, beside...
Arabians
78 42.5,27.5,0 Arabians ...91. The fifth province was the country (except the part belonging to the Arabians, which paid no tribute) between Posideion, a city founded on the Cilician and...
Arabians
76 42.5,27.5,0 Arabians ...in every land) these are all in Arabia and are found nowhere else. 110. The Arabians get frankincense in the foregoing way, and casia in the following way: when...
Arabians
79 42.5,27.5,0 Syrians ...straits, the Phrygians, Thracians of Asia, Paphlagonians, Mariandynians, and Syrians; these paid three hundred and sixty talents of tribute. [3] The fourth province...
Syrians
79 37.5,37.5,0 Memphis ...that these signs of joy were for his misfortunes, and summoned the rulers of Memphis; when they came before him, he asked them why the Egyptians behaved so at the...
Memphis
79 31.254278,29.849667,0 Memphis ...of grain were also assigned to the Persians quartered at the White Wall of Memphis and their allies. [4] The Sattagydae, Gandarii, Dadicae, and Aparytae paid...
Memphis
77 31.254278,29.849667,0 Memphis ...Samos. [2] This Syloson had a stroke of good luck. He was in the market at Memphis wearing a red cloak, when Darius, at that time one of Cambyses' guard and as...
Memphis
77 31.254278,29.849667,0 Syria ...herald appointed to go to Egypt, finding Cambyses and his army at Ecbatana in Syria, came out before them all and proclaimed the message given him by the Magus...
Syria
80 37.5,37.5,0 Syria ...hundred and fifty talents; in this province was all Phoenicia, and the part of Syria called Palestine, and Cyprus. [2] The sixth province was Egypt and the...
Syria
81 37.5,37.5,0 Arabian ...that do no harm to men, lay eggs and hatch out a vast number of young. The Arabian winged serpents do indeed seem to be numerous; but that is because (although...
Arabian
77 42.5,27.5,0 Casian mountain ...to have been hidden,3 the country is Egypt. Now between Ienysus and the Casian mountain and the Serbonian marsh there lies a wide territory for as much as three days'...
Casian mountain
74 33.0779,31.2116,0 Memphis ...must gather in all the earthen pots from his own township and take them to Memphis, and the people of Memphis must fill them with water and carry them to those...
Memphis
77 31.254278,29.849667,0 Ethiopia ...the Ammonians and burn the oracle of Zeus; and he himself went on towards Ethiopia with the rest of his host. [4] But before his army had accomplished the fifth...
Ethiopia
76 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ammonians ...they neither reached the Ammonians nor returned back. [3] But this is what the Ammonians themselves say: when the Persians were crossing the sand from Oasis to attack...
Ammonians
81 25.54359,29.20514,0 Ammonians ...heard from them, no man can say anything of them; for they neither reached the Ammonians nor returned back. [3] But this is what the Ammonians themselves say: when the...
Ammonians
81 25.54359,29.20514,0 Libya ...less than ten. 96. This was Darius' revenue from Asia and a few parts of Libya. But as time went on he drew tribute also from the islands and the dwellers in...
Libya
76 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...Ammonians, and against the “long-lived”9 Ethiopians, who inhabit that part of Libya that is on the southern sea. [2] He decided after consideration to send his...
Libya
80 26.5,31.5,0 Barca ...on themselves and sending gifts; and so too did the people of Cyrene and Barca, frightened like the Libyans. [4] Cambyses received in all kindness the gifts...
Barca
75 20.892778,32.498333,0 Samians ...then equipped and sent an army to Samos, returning a favor, as the Samians say, because they first sent a fleet to help the Lacedaemonians against...
Samians
69 26.84,37.73,0 Ethiopians ...to a prison where all the men were bound with fetters of gold. Among these Ethiopians there is nothing so scarce and so precious as bronze. Then, having seen the...
Ethiopians
77 38.721522,14.125005,0 Lacedaemonians ...but to my thinking this is untrue; for they need not have invited the Lacedaemonians if in fact they had been able to master Polycrates by themselves. Besides, it...
Lacedaemonians
72 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...It was for this that Periander desired vengeance on the Corcyraeans. 54. The Lacedaemonians then came with a great army, and besieged Samos. They advanced to the wall and...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...was that they had given his grandfather a public funeral. 56. So when the Lacedaemonians had besieged Samos for forty days with no success, they went away to the...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Samos ...them was Syloson, son of Aeaces, who was Polycrates' brother and in exile from Samos. [2] This Syloson had a stroke of good luck. He was in the market at Memphis...
Samos
81 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...with no trouble. [2] He wanted therefore by provoking the Persians to weaken Samos as much as he could before surrendering it, for he was well aware that if the...
Samos
79 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...55. Had all the Lacedaemonians there that day been like Archias and Lycopas, Samos would have been taken. These two alone entered the fortress along with the...
Samos
80 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...his grandfather a public funeral. 56. So when the Lacedaemonians had besieged Samos for forty days with no success, they went away to the Peloponnesus. [2] There...
Samos
80 26.84,37.73,0 Callatiae ...which they would do it. [4] Then Darius summoned those Indians who are called Callatiae,18 who eat their parents, and asked them (the Greeks being present and...
Callatiae
80 Samos ...them to death, banished the younger, Syloson, and so made himself lord of all Samos; then he made a treaty with Amasis king of Egypt, sending to him and receiving...
Samos
80 26.84,37.73,0 Cydonia ...the Lacedaemonians now made war, invited by the Samians who afterwards founded Cydonia in Crete. Polycrates had without the knowledge of his subjects sent a herald to...
Cydonia
81 24.019611,35.517333,0 Crete ...now made war, invited by the Samians who afterwards founded Cydonia in Crete. Polycrates had without the knowledge of his subjects sent a herald to...
Crete
73 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Greek lands ...this, Polycrates grew to such power that he was famous in Ionia and all other Greek lands; for all his military affairs succeeded. He had a hundred fifty-oared ships...
Greek lands
80 Siphnians ...a wooden force and a red herald. [3] The messengers, then, demanded from the Siphnians a loan of ten talents; when the Siphnians refused them, the Samians set about...
Siphnians
79 24.70109,36.9678,0 Ecbatana ...his capital city; but as the event proved, the oracle prophesied his death at Ecbatana of Syria. [5] So when he now inquired and learned the name of the town, the...
Ecbatana
80 48.51696,34.80523,0 Samian ...drew their scimitars and killed him at once. Thus atonement for Polycrates the Samian overtook Oroetes the Persian. 129. Oroetes' slaves and other possessions were...
Samian
81 26.84,37.73,0 Ecbatana ...The herald appointed to go to Egypt, finding Cambyses and his army at Ecbatana in Syria, came out before them all and proclaimed the message given him by the...
Ecbatana
72 48.51696,34.80523,0 Lycians ...for their well-being. 90. The Ionians, Magnesians of Asia, Aeolians, Carians, Lycians, Milyans, and Pamphylians, on whom Darius laid one joint tribute, paid a...
Lycians
81 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Mariandynians ...the entrance of the straits, the Phrygians, Thracians of Asia, Paphlagonians, Mariandynians, and Syrians; these paid three hundred and sixty talents of tribute. [3] The...
Mariandynians
80 31.603681575,41.091651424999995,0 Parthians ...the Chorasmians', being at the boundaries of the Chorasmians, the Hyrcanians, Parthians, Sarangians, and Thamanaei, but since the Persians have held power it has been...
Parthians
80 57.5,38.5,0 Arii ...paying two hundred and fifty. The Parthians, Chorasmians, Sogdi, and Arii were the sixteenth, paying three hundred. 94. The Paricanii and Ethiopians of...
Arii
71 61.5,34.5,0 Parthians ...[3] The Sacae and Caspii were the fifteenth, paying two hundred and fifty. The Parthians, Chorasmians, Sogdi, and Arii were the sixteenth, paying three hundred...
Parthians
81 57.5,38.5,0 Myci ...fourteenth province was made up of the Sagartii, Sarangeis, Thamanaei, Utii, Myci, and the inhabitants of those islands of the southern sea on which the king...
Myci
79 56.2,25.8,0 Chorasmians ...passes.37 This plain was once the Chorasmians', being at the boundaries of the Chorasmians, the Hyrcanians, Parthians, Sarangians, and Thamanaei, but since the Persians...
Chorasmians
81 Thamanaei ...the boundaries of the Chorasmians, the Hyrcanians, Parthians, Sarangians, and Thamanaei, but since the Persians have held power it has been the king's. [2] Now from...
Thamanaei
80 Callantiae ...These Ethiopians and their neighbors use the same seed as the Indian Callantiae, and they live underground. [3] These together brought every other year and...
Callantiae
71 Persian ...going to each through a different pass, but since the beginning of the Persian rule [3] the king has blocked the mountain passes, and closed each passage with...
Persian
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Sarangians ...being at the boundaries of the Chorasmians, the Hyrcanians, Parthians, Sarangians, and Thamanaei, but since the Persians have held power it has been the king's...
Sarangians
73 62.5,32.5,0 Maeander ...the consequence was that Oroetes, then at Magnesia which is above the river Maeander, sent Myrsus son of Gyges, a Lydian, with a message to Samos, having learned...
Maeander
78 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Greek ...days' march from Thebes across sandy desert; this place is called, in the Greek language, Islands of the Blest. [2] Thus far, it is said, the army came; after...
Greek
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...brought from. [2] The very name Eridanus betrays itself as not a foreign but a Greek name, invented by some poet; nor for all my diligence have I been able to learn...
Greek
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...this, King Darius conquered Samos, the greatest of all city states, Greek or barbarian, the reason for his conquest being this: when Cambyses, son of...
Greek
70 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Phrygian ...having a guard of a thousand Persian spearmen and being governor of the Phrygian and Lydian and Ionian province. [2] He had recourse, then, to the following...
Phrygian
74 29.75,38.75,0 Lydian ...a guard of a thousand Persian spearmen and being governor of the Phrygian and Lydian and Ionian province. [2] He had recourse, then, to the following expedient...
Lydian
80 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Tarentines ...Gillus back to Tarentum. They obeyed Darius; but they could not persuade the Tarentines, and were not able to apply force. [4] This is what happened, and these...
Tarentines
79 17.228553,40.476034,0 Tarentum ...to give him whatever he wanted in return. [2] Gillus chose to be restored to Tarentum and told the story of his misfortune; but, so as not to be the occasion of...
Tarentum
79 17.228553,40.476034,0 Sidon ...too, Darius sent them all to the coast. 136. They came down to the city of Sidon in Phoenicia, and there chartered two triremes, as well as a great galley laden...
Sidon
78 35.371208,33.560243,0 Greece ...for Democedes, and asked of him that when he had shown and made clear all of Greece to the Persians, he would come back; and he told him to take all his movable...
Greece
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Babylon ...away all their gates, neither of which Cyrus had done at the first taking of Babylon; moreover he impaled about three thousand men that were prominent among them...
Babylon
79 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylon ...that each of the neighboring nations should send a certain number of women to Babylon; the sum of the women thus collected was fifty thousand: these were the mothers...
Babylon
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylon ...passed, and Darius and his whole army were bitter because they could not take Babylon. Yet Darius had used every trick and every device against it. He tried the...
Babylon
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylon ...“Now,” he said in his speech to them, “I come as a great boon to you, men of Babylon, and as a great bane to Darius and to his army and to the Persians; for he...
Babylon
79 44.42082,32.53617,0 Persia ...what he said. 157. When the Babylonians saw the most well-respected man in Persia without his nose and ears and all lurid with blood from the scourging, they...
Persia
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Sparta ...that Cleomenes was doing this, they took fright and brought him back to Sparta to rule on the same terms as before. Cleomenes had already been not entirely in...
Sparta
74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...Sparta and spread evil reports of Cleomenes. This Demaratus was also king of Sparta, but of the inferior house; not indeed inferior in any other regard (for they...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...[3] But we say that at the fitting time this befell him: There came to Sparta a certain man of Miletus, who desired to have a talk with Glaucus and made him...
Sparta
73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...nor any household that bears Glaucus' name; he has been utterly rooted out of Sparta. So good is it not even to think anything concerning a trust except giving it...
Sparta
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...had prayed that Ariston, the man most highly esteemed out of all the kings of Sparta, might have a son. Thus he was named Demaratus, which means “answer to the...
Sparta
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Zancle ...and persuaded them to leave off their voyage to the Fair Coast and seize Zancle while it was deserted by its men. [3] The Samians consented and seized Zancle...
Zancle
75 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Sicily ...remain and be slaves of the Medes and Aeaces. [2] The people of Zancle5 in Sicily about this time sent messengers to Ionia inviting the Ionians to the Fair...
Sicily
77 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Zancle ...when he came bringing his army to aid them, put Scythes the monarch of Zancle and his brother Pythogenes in chains for losing the city, and sent them away to...
Zancle
73 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Zancle ...to be put to death, but the Samians did not do so. 24. Scythes the monarch of Zancle escaped from Inyx to Himera, and from there he came to Asia and went up country...
Zancle
81 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Delphi ...took provisions and travelled to Elis, pretending that he was going to Delphi to inquire of the oracle. But the Lacedaemonians suspected that he planned to...
Delphi
73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...sacred grove and set it on fire. 76. As Cleomenes was seeking divination at Delphi, the oracle responded that he would take Argos. When he came with Spartans to...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...for this. Since they now had respite from the siege, they sent messengers to Delphi to ask if they should put the under-priestess to death for guiding their...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 the Ionians ...This happened immediately after the Persians arrived at Miletus. 11. Then the Ionians who had gathered at Lade held assemblies; among those whom I suppose to have...
the Ionians
77 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...governor of Sardis summoned ambassadors from the cities and compelled the Ionians to make agreements among themselves that they would abide by the law and not...
the Ionians
72 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...his hostility to the king, they set him free. 3. Then Histiaeus was asked by the Ionians why he had so zealously ordered Aristagoras to revolt from the king and done...
the Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Miletus ...and had fled to the Medes, and who now were with the army that was led against Miletus. They gathered as many of these men as were with them and said to them: [3]...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Scythians ...as by day. 129. Very strange to say, what aided the Persians and thwarted the Scythians in their attacks on Darius' army was the braying of the asses and the...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...once they had driven in the horse, turned back for fear of the infantry. The Scythians attacked in this fashion by night as well as by day. 129. Very strange to say...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...with those Ionians guarding the bridge over the Ister; as for those of the Scythians who remained behind, it was decided that they should no longer decoy the...
Scythians
77 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...when they heard the word “slavery”. [2] They then sent the division of the Scythians to which the Sauromatae were attached, and which was led by Scopasis, to speak...
Scythians
77 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...of their infirmity, he pretended were to guard the camp while he attacked the Scythians with the fit part of his army. [3] Giving this order to those who were left...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...Persians reasoned thus about the gifts. But when the first division of the Scythians came to the bridge—the division that had first been appointed to stand on guard...
Scythians
77 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...great rivers of the world. This spring is on the border between the farming Scythians29 and the Alazones; the name of it and of the place where it rises is in...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...these, Apollo, and the Heavenly Aphrodite, and Heracles, and Ares. All the Scythians worship these as gods; the Scythians called Royal sacrifice to Poseidon also...
Scythians
77 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...to the sea it divides the country of the Nomads and the country of the Royal Scythians, and empties into the Hypacuris. 57. The eighth is the Tanaïs river;31 in its...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...they braid and unbraid these in their fingers. 68. Whenever the king of the Scythians falls ill, he sends for the three most reputable diviners, who prophesy in the...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...two cups apiece and drink out of both. 67. There are many diviners among the Scythians, who divine by means of many wi!low wands as I will show. They bring great...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...end of the navigation of the Borysthenes. Whenever their king has died, the Scythians dig a great four-cornered pit in the ground there; when this is ready, they...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...where it is, leaving those who made it to guard it. [4] Thus, if we find the Scythians and do what we want, we have a way of return; and even if we do not find them...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...they are very numerous, and some that they are few, so far as they are true Scythians. [2] But this much they let me see for myself: there is a region between the...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...to the ground, Scyles none the less performed the rite to the end. [3] Now the Scythians reproach the Greeks for this Bacchic revelling, saying that it is not...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...of horses they met, they mounted them and raided the Scythian lands. 111. The Scythians could not understand the business; for they did not recognize the women's...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...story is as follows. When the Greeks were at war with the Amazons (whom the Scythians call Oiorpata, a name signifying in our tongue killers of men, for in Scythian...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...half finished, and he too doubled about and marched west, thinking that those Scythians were the whole army, and that they were fleeing toward the west. 125. But when...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...and Persians burst into their land, agitating them; and from there, the Scythians led the Persians into the country of the Man-eaters, agitating them too; from...
Scythians
74 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...mountains to the broadest part of the Maeetian lake;3 and then, when the Scythians tried to force a passage, they camped opposite them and engaged them in battle...
Scythians
75 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...Paralatae. [2] All these together bear the name of Skoloti, after their king; “Scythians” is the name given them by Greeks. This, then, is the Scythians' account of...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...to the Cimmerians before), [2] and the Cimmerians, at the advance of the Scythians, deliberated as men threatened by a great force should. Opinions were divided...
Scythians
75 27.5,47.5,0 Asia ...is said by most Greeks to be named after a native woman of that name, and Asia after the wife of Prometheus;25 yet the Lydians claim a share in the latter...
Asia
76 Greek ...the tribe of the Woodlands; and north of these live Scythian farmers, whom the Greek colonists on the Hypanis river (who call themselves Olbiopolitae) call...
Greek
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...in no way content with the Scythian way of life, and was much more inclined to Greek ways, from the upbringing that he had received. So this is what he would do: he...
Greek
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...walls and shutting the gates, would take off his Scythian apparel and put on Greek dress; and in it he would go among the townsfolk unattended by spearmen or any...
Greek
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...a city in Libya, nurse of sheep,” ” just as if she addressed him using the Greek word for “king,” “Basileus, you have come for a voice,” et cetera. [4] But he...
Greek
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Cimmerian ...with each other until they were all killed by each other's hands; then the Cimmerian people buried them by the Tyras river, where their tombs are still to be seen...
Cimmerian
77 36.2317044,45.0437458,0 Cimmerian ...Colchian Phasis river (though some say that the Maeetian Tanaïs river and the Cimmerian Ferries24 are boundaries); and I cannot learn the names of those who divided...
Cimmerian
80 36.2317044,45.0437458,0 Cimmerian ...hard pressed in war by the Massagetae, fled across the Araxes8 river to the Cimmerian country (for the country which the Scythians now inhabit is said to have...
Cimmerian
78 36.2317044,45.0437458,0 Massagetae ...effect. The nomadic Scythians inhabiting Asia, when hard pressed in war by the Massagetae, fled across the Araxes8 river to the Cimmerian country (for the country which...
Massagetae
81 62.5,37.5,0 Greek ...to drive four-horse chariots. 190. The dead are buried by the nomads in Greek fashion, except by the Nasamones. They bury their dead sitting, being careful...
Greek
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Cyzicus ...many examples of his wisdom, he sailed through the Hellespont and put in at Cyzicus; [3] where, finding the Cyzicenes celebrating the feast of the Mother of the...
Cyzicus
78 27.874127,40.389806,0 Cyzicus ...of Aristeas' death being spread about in the city was disputed by a man of Cyzicus, who had come from the town of Artace,10 and said that he had met Aristeas...
Cyzicus
77 27.874127,40.389806,0 Issedones ...comes from the report of these latter. 26. It is said to be the custom of the Issedones that, whenever a man's father dies, all the nearest of kin bring beasts of the...
Issedones
81 92.5,37.5,0 Proconnesian ...altar to Apollo, and set beside it a statue bearing the name of Aristeas the Proconnesian; for, he said, Apollo had come to their country alone of all Italian lands, and...
Proconnesian
79 27.55568,40.591686,0 Arimaspea ...appeared at Proconnesus and made that poem which the Greeks now call the Arimaspea, after which he vanished once again. 15. Such is the tale told in these two...
Arimaspea
75 62.5,32.5,0 Borysthenes ...whom it is easy to get knowledge, and from some of the Greeks, too, from the Borysthenes port and the other ports of Pontus; such Scythians as visit them transact their...
Borysthenes
79 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Borysthenes ...it flows into the woodland country, after passing which it mingles with the Borysthenes. 55. The sixth is the Hypacuris river,30 which rises from a lake, and flowing...
Borysthenes
78 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Man-eaters ...the Persians and the Scythians broke into their lands, the Blackcloaks and Man-eaters and Neuri put up no resistance, but forgot their threats and fled...
Man-eaters
77 Borysthenes ...far as we know. 18. These are the tribes by the Hypanis river,12 west of the Borysthenes. But on the other side of the Borysthenes, the tribe nearest to the sea is the...
Borysthenes
80 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Panticapes ...Ister, which has five mouths, and the Tyras, and Hypanis, and Borysthenes, and Panticapes, and Hypacuris, and Gerrhus, and Tanaïs. Their courses are as I shall indicate...
Panticapes
81 32.5,46.5,0 Hypanis river ...much they let me see for myself: there is a region between the Borysthenes and Hypanis rivers, whose name is Exampaeus; this is the land that I mentioned when I said that...
Hypanis river
81 31.3343727,47.5349319,0 Budini ...Neuri were so afflicted that they left their own country and lived among the Budini. It may be that these people are wizards; [2] for the Scythians, and the Greeks...
Budini
79 Budini ...from which they get their name; their customs are Scythian. 108. The Budini are a great and populous nation; the eyes of them all are very bright, and they...
Budini
72 Budini ...altogether unlike the Budini in form and in coloring. Yet the Greeks call the Budini too Geloni; but this is wrong. [2] Their whole country is thickly wooded with...
Budini
80 Budini ...king was Taxakis, were to unite, and taking with them also the Geloni and Budini, to draw off like the others at the Persian approach, always keeping one day's...
Budini
76 Budini ...until they had marched through the land of the Sauromatae to the land of the Budini. 123. As long as the Persians were traversing the Scythian and Sauromatic...
Budini
79 Sauromatae ...which they now live, they settled there. [2] Ever since then the women of the Sauromatae have followed their ancient ways; they ride out hunting, with their men or...
Sauromatae
80 39.5,45.5,0 Sauromatae ...their opinions were divided. The kings of the Geloni and the Budini and the Sauromatae were of one mind and promised to help the Scythians; but the kings of the...
Sauromatae
78 39.5,45.5,0 Sauromatae ...of the Tauri, Agathyrsi, Neuri, Maneaters, Black-cloaks, Geloni, Budini, and Sauromatae. 103. Among these, the Tauri have the following customs: all ship-wrecked men...
Sauromatae
79 39.5,45.5,0 Tenians ...Andros is left out of their journey, for Carystians carry them to Tenos, and Tenians to Delos. [3] Thus (they say) these offerings come to Delos. But on the first...
Tenians
79 25.167742,37.577564,0 Carystus ...across to Euboea, and one city sends them on to another until they come to Carystus; after this, Andros is left out of their journey, for Carystians carry them to...
Carystus
77 24.4204,38.0165,0 Dodona ...their journey; [2] from there, they are brought on to the south, the people of Dodona being the first Greeks to receive them. From Dodona they come down to the...
Dodona
81 20.78784,39.54648,0 Delos ...coming from Lycia, also made the other and ancient hymns that are sung at Delos). [4] Furthermore, they say that when the thighbones are burnt in sacrifice on...
Delos
76 25.268194,37.397274,0 Ionians ...and had now been sent to the Ister to speak with the Ionians—they said, [2] “Ionians, we have come to bring you freedom, if you will only listen to us. We...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...by the Maeetian lake and had now been sent to the Ister to speak with the Ionians—they said, [2] “Ionians, we have come to bring you freedom, if you will only...
Ionians
76 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Europe ...respects like Libya. 45. But it is plain that none have obtained knowledge of Europe's eastern or northern regions, so as to be able say if it is bounded by seas...
Europe
81 Europe ...dwellers in Europe, except for the Cynetes, and flowing thus clean across Europe it issues forth along the borders of Scythia. 50. With these rivers aforesaid...
Europe
76 Europe ...builder of the bridge. 89. Darius, after rewarding Mandrocles, crossed over to Europe; he had told the Ionians to sail into the Pontus as far as the Ister river, and...
Europe
81 Persians ...be dismissed. 97. Such were the ways of the Getae, who were subdued by the Persians and followed their army. When Darius and the land army with him had come to the...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...but until we see that, we shall keep to ourselves. For in our judgment the Persians have not come for us but for those who were the agents of wrong.” 120. When...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...with you. [3] But as it is, you invaded their land without us and ruled the Persians for as long as god granted; and the Persians, urged on by the same god, are...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Lycia ...the Greeks now call Europe, but only from Phoenicia to Crete and from Crete to Lycia. Thus much I have said of these matters, and let it suffice; we will use the...
Lycia
81 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Persians ...the extent of the two, and how each should be drawn. 37. The land where the Persians live extends to the southern sea which is called Red; beyond these to the north...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the enemy and set about scorching the earth of all living things. [2] When the Persians saw the Scythian cavalry appear, they marched on its track, the horsemen always...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Scythia. Then, when they had altogether vanished and were no longer within the Persians' sight, Darius left those forts only half finished, and he too doubled about...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...their alliance, to the land of the Black-cloaks first. [3] The Scythians and Persians burst into their land, agitating them; and from there, the Scythians led the...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...who remained behind, it was decided that they should no longer decoy the Persians, but attack them whenever they were foraging for provision. So they watched for...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...thus gained very little in the war, for when the Scythians saw that the Persians were shaken, they formed a plan to have them remain longer in Scythia and...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the lakes, you will be shot by these arrows and never return home.” 133. The Persians reasoned thus about the gifts. But when the first division of the Scythians...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...brayed the louder for it; and the Scythians heard them and assumed that the Persians were in the place. 136. But when it was day, the men left behind perceived...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...while we are breaking the bridge, this is your opportunity to go and find the Persians, and when you have found them, punish them as they deserve on our behalf and on...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Scythians, trusting the Ionians' word once more, turned back to look for the Persians; but they missed the way by which their enemies returned. The Scythians...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...all the ships to ferry the army over, and repaired the bridge. 142. Thus the Persians escaped. The Scythians sought the Persians, but missed them again. Their...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...lasting eight months. Enough of these matters, then. 200. Now when the Persians that Aryandes sent from Egypt to avenge Pheretime came to Barce,67 they laid...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the wall in like manner. [2] As for the rest of the Barcaeans, she told the Persians to take them as their booty, except those who were of the house of Battus and...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...city, and let all their enemies who so desired enter within the walls. But the Persians broke down the hidden bridge and ran into the city. They broke down the bridge...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...was unchanged; the Barcaeans promised to pay a due sum to the king, and the Persians to do the Barcaeans no harm. [3] When the sworn agreement was made, the...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...whose whole people were accessory to the deed, would not yield. [2] The Persians besieged Barce for nine months, digging underground passages leading to the...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Red ...land where the Persians live extends to the southern sea which is called Red; beyond these to the north are the Medes, and beyond the Medes the Saspires...
Red
75 39.5,19.0,0 Greeks ...and he accordingly reckoned that thus he would have the upper hand of the Greeks. This chanced to be the prediction of the oracles which counseled him to make...
Greeks
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Athenians ...manner of those men's departure from the temple. 40. At the request of the Athenians, the fleet of the Hellenes came from Artemisium and put in at Salamis. The...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...they wished to obey the oracle, and also not least because of this: the Athenians say that a great snake lives in the sacred precinct guarding the acropolis...
Athenians
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the Peloponnese the most important thing, disregarding all the rest. When the Athenians learned this, they asked the fleet to put in at Salamis. 41. While the others...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...their households. In bringing these to safety they were left behind. [2] The Athenians, while the Pelasgians ruled what is now called Hellas, were Pelasgians, bearing...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...it is obvious that this voice is divine and comes from Eleusis to help the Athenians and their allies. [3] If it descends upon the Peloponnese, the king himself and...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and set them on fire, and then shot them at the barricade. Still the besieged Athenians defended themselves, although they had come to the utmost danger and their...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...persuade the greater part of them to sail to the Hellespont, he turned to the Athenians (for they were the angriest at the Persians' escape, and they were minded to...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...not all this alone but slavery too should be brought upon the Greeks by you Athenians, who have always been known as givers of freedom to many. Nevertheless, we...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedaemonians ...furnishing the ships; the Aeginetans eighteen, the Sicyonians twelve, the Lacedaemonians ten, the Epidaurians eight, the Eretrians seven, the Troezenians five, the...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Athenian ...if any ill should befall the land army, Abronichus son of Lysicles, an Athenian, was with Leonidas, ready for his part to bring the news in a thirty-oared bark...
Athenian
73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...of all the Athenians. 22. Themistocles, however, picked out the seaworthiest Athenian ships and made his way to the places where drinking water could be found. Here...
Athenian
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...to back water and tried to beach their ships, but Ameinias of Pallene, an Athenian, charged and rammed a ship. When his ship became entangled and the crew could...
Athenian
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...the worthiest and wisest, has sent me to tell you this: Themistocles the Athenian has out of his desire to do you a service stayed the Greeks when they wanted to...
Athenian
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...went up to Xerxes; [3] “Themistocles son of Neocles,” he said, “who is the Athenian general and of all the allies the worthiest and wisest, has sent me to tell you...
Athenian
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedaemonians ...seaworthy. 43. The following took part in the war: from the Peloponnese, the Lacedaemonians provided sixteen ships; the Corinthians the same number as at Artemisium; the...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...the same who a little while before that had gone to Sparta and entreated the Lacedaemonians to free Ionia. [2] One of these was Herodotus the son of Basileides. These, who...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...to Alexander, but to the Spartan envoys they said, “It was most human that the Lacedaemonians should fear our making an agreement with the barbarian. We think that it is an...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonian ...army and there were no Athenians in the country, he was with Demaratus the Lacedaemonian on the Thriasian plain and saw advancing from Eleusis a cloud of dust as if...
Lacedaemonian
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Athenian ...we do not want those who are our friends and protectors to suffer any harm at Athenian hands.” 144. Such was their answer to Alexander, but to the Spartan envoys...
Athenian
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persian ...and were driven onto the rocks. All this was done by the god so that the Persian power might be more equally matched with the Greek, and not much greater than...
Persian
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...their general who said that he would not quit the king's person, and next, the Persian cuirassiers and the thousand horse and the Medes and Sacae and Bactrians and...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athens ...so necessary for you to risk everything by fighting at sea? Do you not possess Athens, for which you set out on this march, and do you not have the rest of Hellas?...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...while the king was at Sardis and preparing to lead his Persian army against Athens, Hermotimus came for some business down to the part of Mysia which is inhabited...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...slain your servant. As for you, you will be marching home after the burning of Athens, which thing was the whole purpose of your expedition.” 103. Artemisia's...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persians ...their ship because of his virtue. This Sidonian ship carrying him with the Persians was now captured, so Pytheas came back safe to Aegina. [2] When Polycritus saw...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...came to Susa, saying that Xerxes had taken Athens, it gave such delight to the Persians who were left at home that they strewed all the roads with myrtle boughs and...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the best men and those whom he knew to have done some good service. The Persians whom he chose (men who wore torques and bracelets) were more in number than...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...themselves off the wall and were killed, and others fled into the chamber. The Persians who had come up first turned to the gates, opened them, and murdered the...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...he departed. 76. Finding the message credible, they first landed many of the Persians on the islet of Psyttalea, which lies between Salamis and the mainland. When it...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...be washed ashore, for the island lay in the path of the impending battle. The Persians would be able to save some of those who washed up and kill the others. [3] They...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...bearing the harder upon him by reason of the heavy load of the ship (for the Persians of his company who were on the deck were so many), the king grew afraid and...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the Lacedaemonians were going to hear that the messenger had come from the Persians for an agreement. They had heard that the Lacedaemonians would send their...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athens ...saying that the honors he had from the Lacedaemonians were paid him for Athens' sake and not for his own. [2] This he kept saying until Themistocles replied...
Athens
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Hellas ...of prime importance and seeing that if they quarrelled over the leadership, Hellas must perish. In this they judged rightly, for civil strife is as much worse...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Persians ...the Greeks were ordered to give the barbarian no entry into Hellas, and the Persians to destroy the Greek host and win the strait. 16. So when Xerxes' men ordered...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...or whether they were not intending to depart, and to ask Pausanias what the Athenians should do. 55. When the messenger arrived among the Lacedaemonians, he saw...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...over the Lacedaemonians who had no skill in the assault of walls. When the Athenians came up, however, the fight for the wall became intense and lasted for a long...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...result of this, three hundred of their first and best were killed there by the Athenians. At last, however, the Boeotians too yielded and they fled to Thebes, but not...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Contests. Long after this, Sophanes met his death when he was general of the Athenians with Leagrus, son of Glaucon. He was killed at Datus28 by the Edonians in a...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...you, men of Lacedaemon, and others besides. It is accordingly we and not the Athenians who should hold the second wing, for neither at some earlier period nor...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the lower slopes of Cithaeron in order to stay clear of the Persian horse. The Athenians marched down into the plain instead. 57. Now Amompharetus at first supposed...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Hellas ...for any cause they so wished, but they would not willingly betray the cause of Hellas. 31. When this answer was returned to them, the Thessalians in their wrath...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...countries to take part in the war. The only ones living beyond these to help Hellas in its danger were the Crotonians, with one ship. Its captain was Phayllus...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...their fleet, and so you will lead them to the Peloponnese and risk all Hellas. 60B. But if you do what I say, you will find it useful in these ways: first...
Hellas
73 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...Athens, for which you set out on this march, and do you not have the rest of Hellas? No one stands in your way. Those who opposed you have received what they...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...Hellas and that it was better for him to risk the chance of either subduing Hellas or dying honorably while engaged in a noble cause; yet his hope rather inclined...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Athenians ...envoys from Megara and Plataea, they came before the ephors and said: 7A. “The Athenians have sent us with this message: the king of the Medes is ready to give us back...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...also and the omens were favorable, they continued their march, having now the Athenians with them, who had crossed over from Salamis and joined with them at Eleusis...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and Carystians, and lay dead on Geraestus. Those who fought best after the Athenians were the men of Corinth and Troezen and Sicyon. 106. When the Greeks had made...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...day met his death in a battle at Cyrnus in Carystus during a war between the Athenians and Carystians, and lay dead on Geraestus. Those who fought best after the...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Athenians what had happened, and opened their gates. The greater part of the Athenians then went in pursuit, while the rest stayed to hold the town. 119. As Oeobazus...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Hellas ...that, by compact. He will then live on whatever yearly fruits of the earth Hellas produces. [4] But, as I think that the Persian will not remain in Europe after...
Hellas
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Persian ...the Isthmus, a means of access into the Peloponnese lies wide open for the Persian. No, give heed to what they say before the Athenians take some new resolve...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...on the plain by themselves. [3] When they had done so, the whole of the Persian cavalry appeared, and presently word was spread through all of the Greek army...
Persian
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...[2] “From the men of Megara to their allies: we cannot alone withstand the Persian cavalry (although we have till now held our ground with patience and valor...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...and the thousand that came from Phocis; for not all the Phocians took the Persian side, but some of them gave their aid to the Greek cause; these had been...
Persian
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the battle and surrounded by a thousand picked men who were the flower of the Persians, there they pressed their adversaries hardest. So long as Mardonius was alive...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...what remained, and each received, according to his worth, concubines of the Persians and gold and silver, and all the rest of the stuff and the beasts of burden...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the temple of Hera which is in those parts, and prepared for a sea-fight. The Persians, learning of their approach, also put out to sea and made for the mainland with...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...vehemently: “If the Ionians but see you,” he said, “they will revolt from the Persians, and the barbarians will not remain; but if they do remain, you will have such...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...this he did being so informed and taught by the Thebans. [3] Next to the Persians he posted the Medes opposite the men of Corinth, Potidaea, Orchomenus, and...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...on guiding the horsemen to the encounter; thereafter it was the turn of the Persians and Medes, and they and none other would do deeds of valor. 41. Until ten days...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...that these verses and others very similar to them from Musaeus referred to the Persians. As for the river Thermodon, it flows between Tanagra and Glisas.21 44. After...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...tell you based on the full knowledge that I have. [3] There is an oracle that Persians are fated to come to Hellas and all perish there after they have plundered the...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...were with him and asked them if they knew any oracle which prophesied that the Persians should perish in Hellas. [2] Those who were summoned said nothing, some not...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...make their way to the army. 51. So they resolved in their council that if the Persians held off through that day from giving battle, they would go to the Island.22...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...The Samians had sent these, keeping their despatch secret from the Persians and the tyrant Theomestor son of Androdamas, whom the Persians had made tyrant...
Persians
69 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...In such a way Artabazus returned to Asia. 90. Now on the same day when the Persians were so stricken at Plataea, it so happened that they suffered a similar fate...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and killed them. In this way Ionia revolted for the second time from the Persians. 105. In that battle those of the Greeks who fought best were the Athenians...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...who was crucified was the grandson of that Artembares41 who instructed the Persians in a design which they took from him and laid before Cyrus; this was its...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...the battle was right by the grove of Demeter, there was no sign that any Persian had been killed in the precinct or entered into it; most of them fell near the...
Persian
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...would march against Thebes and demand surrender of those who had taken the Persian side—particularly of Timagenidas and Attaginus, who were chief among their...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...barbarian away. [3] That, he said, would be an easy matter for them, “for the Persian ships are unseaworthy and no match for yours; and if you have any suspicion...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...few men and fought with whatever Greeks came rushing within the walls. Of the Persian leaders two escaped by flight and two were killed; Artayntes and Ithanitres...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...the road, Masistes son of Darius, who happened to have been present at the Persian disaster, reviled the admiral Artayntes very bitterly, telling him (with much...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...royal feast. This banquet is served once a year, on the king's birthday; the Persian name for it is “tukta,” which is in the Greek language “perfect.” On that day...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...Cyrus; this was its purport: [2] “Seeing that Zeus grants lordship to the Persian people, and to you, Cyrus, among them, let us, after reducing Astyages, depart...
Persian
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Thebans ...Scolus, where he was in Theban territory. There he laid waste the lands of the Thebans, though they sided with the Persian part. This he did, not for any ill-will...
Thebans
81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...to overcome them by force of arms; “but if you do as we advise,” said the Thebans, “you will without trouble be master of all their battle plans. [3] Send money...
Thebans
76 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...so the Boeotians; they fought for a long time against the Athenians. For those Thebans who were on the Persian side had great enthusiasm in the battle, and did not...
Thebans
81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...harrying and nineteen days had passed, Timagenidas spoke as follows to the Thebans: “Men of Thebes, since the Greeks have resolved that they will not raise the...
Thebans
77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...sons were not accessory to the treason. As for the rest of the men whom the Thebans surrendered, they supposed that they would be put on trial, and were confident...
Thebans
78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Persians ...finds no one to believe it. [5] What I have said is known to many of us Persians, but we follow, in the bonds of necessity. It is the most hateful thing for a...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Saspires ...called Red; beyond these to the north are the Medes, and beyond the Medes the Saspires, and beyond the Saspires the Colchians, whose country extends to the northern...
Saspires
80 Hellespont ...river meanwhile; for the fleet was led by Ionians and Aeolians and men of the Hellespont. [2] So the fleet passed between the Dark Rocks and sailed straight for the...
Hellespont
80 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...Miltiades the Athenian, general and sovereign of the Chersonesites of the Hellespont, advised that they do as the Scythians said and set Ionia free. [2] But...
Hellespont
76 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...of Proconnesus, Aristagoras of Cyzicus, Ariston of Byzantium, [2] all from the Hellespont and sovereigns of cities there; and from Ionia, Strattis of Chios, Aiaces of...
Hellespont
81 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...of his army. 144. This Megabazus is forever remembered by the people of the Hellespont for replying, [2] when he was told at Byzantium that the people of Calchedon...
Hellespont
79 26.4,40.2,0 Troad ...stretches seaward along the Pontus and the Hellespont, as far as Sigeum in the Troad; on the south side, the same peninsula has a seacoast beginning at the...
Troad
81 26.341361553099542,39.82696158473712,0 Egyptians ...marched out to Irasa and the Thestes spring, and there fought with the Egyptians and beat them; [6] for the Egyptians had as yet had no experience of Greeks...
Egyptians
73 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...to Egypt. Because of this misfortune, and because they blamed him for it, the Egyptians revolted from Apries.55 160. This Battus had a son Arcesilaus; on his first...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...this, and Sataspes went to Egypt where he received a ship and a crew from the Egyptians, and sailed past the Pillars of Heracles. [4] Having sailed out beyond them...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Persian ...will not help us? And afterward it will not be easy for you, either; for the Persian has come to attack you no less than us, and when he has subjugated us he will...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...at that former time, nor do we intend now to wrong them first; but if the Persian comes against our land too and begins the wrong-doing, then we will not accept...
Persian
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...one of their divisions, which Scopasis ruled, the Sauromatae be added; if the Persian marched that way, this group was to retire before him and fall back toward the...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...and did as they had planned. [3] The Scythian horse always routed the Persian horse, and when the Persian cavalry would fall back in flight on their...
Persian
72 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...over with his ships to Asia, leaving Megabazus as his commander in Europe, a Persian whom he once honored by saying among the Persians what I note here: [2] Darius...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...their garments and possessions; until at last they came to Egypt. 204. This Persian force advanced as far as Euhesperidae in Libya and no farther. As for the...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...Scythians, the best and finest man of all, Darius son of Hystaspes, king of Persia and all the continent.” Such was the inscription. 92. From there, Darius set...
Persia
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Arabian Gulf ...known. When he had finished digging the canal which leads from the Nile to the Arabian Gulf, he sent Phoenicians in ships, instructing them to sail on their return voyage...
Arabian Gulf
81 50.9999999,27.0000001,0 Arabian Gulf ...compelled to sail around Libya, until he completed his voyage and came to the Arabian Gulf. Xerxes agreed to this, and Sataspes went to Egypt where he received a ship and...
Arabian Gulf
80 50.9999999,27.0000001,0 Nile ...common consent) at the Arabian Gulf, to which Darius brought a canal from the Nile. [2] Now from the Persian country to Phoenicia there is a wide and vast tract...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Arabian Gulf ...Arabia; this peninsula ends (not truly but only by common consent) at the Arabian Gulf, to which Darius brought a canal from the Nile. [2] Now from the Persian...
Arabian Gulf
76 50.9999999,27.0000001,0 Persians ...the women entered and sat down in a row opposite the Persians. [4] Then the Persians, seeing beautiful women before them, spoke to Amyntas and said that there was...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...dinner of great splendor and receiving them hospitably. [2] After dinner, the Persians said to Amyntas as they sat drinking together, “Macedonian, our host, it is our...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...disbanded, each going his own way, and surrendered themselves to the Persians. Thus of the Paeonians the Siriopaeones and Paeoplae and all who lived as far...
Persians
71 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to the plan, he equipped two hundred triremes and a very great company of Persians and their allies in addition. For their general he appointed Megabates, a...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...city that they attacked, and for four months they besieged it. [3] When the Persians had exhausted all the money with which they had come, and Aristagoras himself...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and for a long time, but at the last they were overcome by the odds. Of the Persians, as many as two thousand men fell, and of the Carians ten thousand. [2] Those...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...they would not escape but be hurled into the river. 119. Presently, when the Persians had come and had crossed the Maeander, they and the Carians joined battle by...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...washed, wait for them to come to you again.” [3] When he had said this and the Persians had given their consent, he sent the women out and away to their apartments...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the woman as she passed by him, for what she did was not in the manner of the Persians or Lydians or any of the peoples of Asia. Having taken note of this, he sent...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians Herodotus The Histories Book 5 Those Persians whom Darius had left in Europe under the command of Megabazus, finding the...
Persians
40 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...he escaped after they had destroyed the rest of the Athenian force, while the Athenians claim that the whole thing was to be attributed to divine power. This one man...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...them and therefore assured themselves of help from the Argives. So when the Athenians disembarked on the land of Aegina, the Argives came to aid the Aeginetans...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Aeginetans answered that they had nothing to do with the Athenians. 85. The Athenians report that after making this demand, they despatched one trireme with certain...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...be paying. Ask your dues of the men of Aegina, who have the images.” [2] The Athenians therefore sent to Aegina and demanded that the images be restored, but the...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...their land brought forth fruit, and they fulfilled their agreement with the Athenians. 83. Now at this time, as before it, the Aeginetans were in all matters still...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...was the beginning of the Aeginetans' long-standing debt of enmity against the Athenians. The Epidaurians' land bore no produce. For this reason they inquired at Delphi...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...having come from Lacedaemon into Asia, left no stone unturned, maligning the Athenians to Artaphrenes, and doing all he could to bring Athens into subjection to...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...[2] for there was constant war over a long period of time45 between the Athenians at Sigeum and the Mytilenaeans at Achilleum. The Mytilenaeans were demanding...
Athenians
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...back, when the time appointed should come for them to be vexed by the Athenians. [2] Hippias made this answer, inasmuch as he had more exact knowledge of the...
Athenians
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...back, if they wanted to be safe.When his words were brought back to the Athenians, they would not consent to them, and since they would not consent, it was...
Athenians
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...The Boeotians came to the Euripus to help the Chalcidians and as soon as the Athenians saw these allies, they resolved to attack the Boeotians before the Chalcidians...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...while the Chalcidians attacked on another side and raided lands in Attica. The Athenians, who were now caught in a ring of foes, decided to oppose the Spartans at...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...increasing in power and in no way inclined to obey them, realized that if the Athenians remained free, they would be equal in power with themselves, but that if they...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persian ...and their allies in addition. For their general he appointed Megabates, a Persian of the Achaemenid family, cousin to himself and to Darius. This was he whose...
Persian
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...their former plans, and prepared to wage a new war over again. They met the Persian attack and suffered a heavier defeat in the battle than the first; many of...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...temple of tufa, they made its front of Parian marble. 63. These men, as the Athenians say, established themselves at Delphi and bribed the Pythian priestess to bid...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...to depart from Attica within five days on the terms prescribed to them by the Athenians in return for the recovery of their children. [3] Afterwards they departed to...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...him after Pisistratus the son of Nestor. [5] This is the way, then, that the Athenians got rid of their tyrants. As regards all the noteworthy things which they did...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedaemonians ...and secondly the Pisistratidae were well furnished with food and drink. The Lacedaemonians would only have besieged the place for a few days and then returned to Sparta...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...tyrants' family within the Pelasgic wall29 and besieged them there. 65. The Lacedaemonians would never have taken the Pisistratid stronghold. First of all they had no...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...and besieged them for two days. On the third day as many of them as were Lacedaemonians left the country under truce. [3] The prophetic voice that Cleomenes heard...
Lacedaemonians
75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Athens ...from their position by the presidents of the naval boards,33 the rulers of Athens at that time. Although they were subject to any penalty save death, they were...
Athens
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...of action which the Athenians took, and the Thebans, desiring vengeance on Athens, afterwards appealed to Delphi for advice. The Pythian priestess said that the...
Athens
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...who were enjoying great prosperity and remembered their old feud with Athens, accordingly made war on the Athenians at the entreaty of the Thebans without...
Athens
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...declare the purpose for which he mustered it, namely to avenge himself on the Athenian people and set up Isagoras, who had come with him out of the acropolis, as...
Athenian
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...the women than changing their dress to the Ionian fashion. Until then the Athenian women had worn Dorian dress, which is very like the Corinthian. It was changed...
Athenian
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...the Solians, Aristocyprus son of Philocyprus, that Philocyprus whom Solon of Athens, when he came to Cyprus, extolled in a poem above all other tyrants. 114. As...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...were left behind but were later compelled by the Boeotians to withdraw to Athens. They have certain set forms of worship at Athens in which the rest of the...
Athens
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Greeks ...Persians was kept silent. 22. Now that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, as they themselves say, I myself chance to know and will prove it in the later...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...of learning, the alphabet, which had been unknown before this, I think, to the Greeks. As time went on the sound and the form of the letters were changed. [2] At...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...for ship-building, much wood for oars, mines of silver, and many people both Greek and foreign dwelling around, who, when they have a champion to lead them, will...
Greek
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Sparta ...was the manner of Dorieus' death. Had he endured Cleomenes' rule and stayed at Sparta he would have been king of Lacedaemon, for Cleomenes reigned no long time, and...
Sparta
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...was in the reign of Cleomenes that Aristagoras the tyrant of Miletus came to Sparta. When he had an audience with the king, as the Lacedaemonians report, he...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...would only have besieged the place for a few days and then returned to Sparta. As it was, however, there was a turn of fortune which harmed the one party and...
Sparta
73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Persians ...this now came upon the Milesians, since most of their men were slain by the Persians, who wore long hair, and their women and children were accounted as slaves, and...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...from Pedasa. 21. Now when the Milesians suffered all this at the hands of the Persians, the Sybarites (who had lost their city and dwelt in Laus and Scidrus) did not...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the Ionians been enslaved, first by the Lydians and now twice in a row by the Persians. 33. Then the fleet departed from Ionia and captured everything which lies to...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Corinthians ...attempt to bring Hippias back, be assured that you are proceeding without the Corinthians' consent.” 93. These were the words of Socles, the envoy from Corinth, and...
Corinthians
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthian ...by the greater part of their allies. The rest then keeping silence, Socles, a Corinthian, said, 92A. “In truth heaven will be beneath the earth and the earth aloft...
Corinthian
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...the allies saw that the Lacedaemonian kings were not of one mind and that the Corinthians had left their host, they too went off. 76. This was the fourth time that...
Corinthians
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Persians ...letters to those for whom he was bringing them, and give him those which the Persians sent in answer to Histiaeus. Thus these men became known, and then Artaphrenes...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...using Hermippus, a man of Atarneus, as messenger, sent letters to the Persians at Sardis, because they had previously talked with him about revolt. But...
Persians
72 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to Histiaeus. Thus these men became known, and then Artaphrenes put many Persians to death. 5. So troubles arose in Sardis. Since he failed in this hope, the...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Corinthians ...and Chalcidians later. 75. When the armies were about to join battle, the Corinthians, coming to the conclusion that they were acting wrongly, changed their minds...
Corinthians
77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Persian ...that he loved his life too well. [2] He was overtaken in his flight by a Persian, and when he was caught and about to be stabbed, he cried out in the Persian...
Persian
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...a Persian, and when he was caught and about to be stabbed, he cried out in the Persian language and revealed himself to be Histiaeus the Milesian. 30. Now if he had...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...way, but not by netting the people; for that was not possible. 32. Then the Persian generals were not false to the threats they had made against the Ionians when...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...joined in friendship as these. [2] The Athenians acted very differently. The Athenians made clear their deep grief for the taking of Miletus in many ways, but...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the islanders who gave earth and water to Darius were the Aeginetans. [3] The Athenians immediately came down upon them for doing this, for they supposed the...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...for Aegina, but they came a day later than the time agreed. 90. When the Athenians did not show up at the right time, Nicodromus took ship and escaped from...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persians ...to Hellas than in twenty generations before Darius; some coming from the Persians, some from the wars for preeminence among the chief of the nations themselves...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...at Marathon. In the center of the line the foreigners prevailed, where the Persians and Sacae were arrayed. The foreigners prevailed there and broke through in...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...who were said to have arranged to hold up a shield as a signal once the Persians were in their ships. 116. They sailed around Sunium, but the Athenians marched...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...three ways: the asphalt and the salt congeal immediately; the oil,49 which the Persians call rhadinace, is dark and evil-smelling. [4] There king Darius settled the...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...which we know were ever so closely joined in friendship as these. [2] The Athenians acted very differently. The Athenians made clear their deep grief for the...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...them what he had been ordered to say, and they resolved to send help to the Athenians, but they could not do this immediately, for they were unwilling to break the...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...appeared to him. He came to the magistrates and said, [2] “Lacedaemonians, the Athenians ask you to come to their aid and not allow the most ancient city among the...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...gave this advice to the Plataeans, who did not disobey it. When the Athenians were making sacrifices to the twelve gods,43 they sat at the altar as...
Athenians
70 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...mine.” 108. Hippias supposed that the dream had in this way come true. As the Athenians were marshalled in the precinct of Heracles, the Plataeans came to help them in...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...prays for good things for the Athenians and Plataeans together. [3] As the Athenians were marshalled at Marathon, it happened that their line of battle was as long...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...hand cut off with an ax as he grabbed a ship's figurehead. Many other famous Athenians also fell there. 115. In this way the Athenians overpowered seven ships. The...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...so they went to Marathon and saw them. Then they departed again, praising the Athenians and their achievement. 121. It is a wonder to me, and I do not believe the...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...son of Ariphron, who prosecuted Miltiades before the people for deceiving the Athenians and called for the death penalty. [2] Miltiades was present but could not speak...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...they could not make a free gift of them. Taking these ships and their own, the Athenians manned seventy in all and sailed for Aegina, but they came a day later than the...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...was sailing to attack them, they asked for help from the Athenians. The Athenians did not refuse the aid, but gave them for defenders the four thousand tenant...
Athenians
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Persian expedition was sailing to attack them, they asked for help from the Athenians. The Athenians did not refuse the aid, but gave them for defenders the four...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...to depart to their own country so they would not perish like the rest. The Athenians followed Aeschines' advice. 101. So they saved themselves by crossing over to...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...The Pythian priestess ordered them to pay the Athenians whatever penalty the Athenians themselves judged. The Pelasgians went to Athens and offered to pay the penalty...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...going along the Sacred Way,7 no one invited them, so they turned toward Athens. 35. At that time in Athens, Pisistratus held all power, but Miltiades son of...
Athens
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedaemonians ...to wear mourning, or incur heavy penalties if they fail to do so. [2] The Lacedaemonians have the same custom at the deaths of their kings as the foreigners in Asia...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...are no assemblies or elections, and they mourn during these days. 59. The Lacedaemonians also resemble the Persians in this: when one king is dead and another takes his...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...where this spring rises, is a city of Arcadia near Pheneus. 75. When the Lacedaemonians learned that Cleomenes was doing this, they took fright and brought him back to...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...breakfast, they should then put on their armor and attack the Argives. [2] The Lacedaemonians performed this command, and when they assaulted the Argives they caught them at...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...said that Pan had appeared to him. He came to the magistrates and said, [2] “Lacedaemonians, the Athenians ask you to come to their aid and not allow the most ancient city...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...as wishing to cause trouble for the Athenians with the Boeotians. [4] So the Lacedaemonians gave this advice to the Plataeans, who did not disobey it. When the Athenians...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...said this because she desired that by some means both might be made kings. The Lacedaemonians were at a loss, so they sent to Delphi to inquire how they should deal with the...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...most foreigners use the same custom at their kings' deaths. When a king of the Lacedaemonians dies, a fixed number of their subject neighbors must come to the funeral from...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Greeks ...coast of Asia, he did a thing which I here set down for the wonder of those Greeks who will not believe Otanes to have declared his opinion among the Seven that...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...height where it was most assailable, and also by other devices. 134. All the Greeks tell the same story up to this point; after this the Parians themselves say...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...the stated end of their expedition, but they intended to subdue as many of the Greek cities as they could. Their fleet subdued the Thasians, who did not so much as...
Greek
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...killed most of his army. 29. Histiaeus was taken prisoner in this way: the Greeks fought with the Persians at Malene in the country of Atarneus; the armies...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Persian ...of Darius' sister, was with the king and had more influence with him than any Persian. He argued as follows: “Master, it is not fitting that the Athenians should go...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...him and he recited from his oracles; all that portended disaster to the Persian he left unspoken, choosing and reciting such prophecies as were most favorable...
Persian
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...carrying their spears in the customary manner; after them a thousand picked Persian horsemen, and after the horse ten thousand that were foot soldiers, chosen out...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...Persian in speech, and the fashion of their equipment is somewhat between the Persian and the Pactyan; they furnished eight thousand horsemen. It is their custom to...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...I have already said who were the generals of supreme authority and the Persian commanders of each nation. 97. The admirals of the navy were Ariabignes son of...
Persian
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...The Magi interpreted it in this way, and immediately every single man of the Persians who had been assembled rode away to his own province and there used all zeal to...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...I myself change and correct my judgment. Now declare the gods' message to the Persians, and bid them obey your first command for all due preparation. Do this, so that...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...money for the war. [2] When Pythius offered the money, Xerxes asked the Persians present who this Pythius was and how much wealth he possessed in making the...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...by nations. 61. The men who served in the army were the following: the Persians were equipped in this way: they wore on their heads loose caps called tiaras...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...was chosen so that they were never more or fewer than ten thousand. [3] The Persians showed the richest adornment of all, and they were the best men in the army...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and ceased. 9. After him Mardonius said: “Master, you surpass not only all Persians that have been but also all that shall be; besides having dealt excellently and...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...10. Thus Mardonius smoothed Xerxes' resolution and stopped. The rest of the Persians held their peace, not daring to utter any opinion contrary to what had been put...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...“Son of Darius, have you then plainly renounced your army's march among the Persians, and made my words of no account, as though you had not heard them? Know for...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...also dug. [2] Bubares son of Megabazus and Artachaees son of Artaeus, both Persians, were the overseers of the workmen. Athos is a great and famous mountain...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...however, he was not to escape a second time, for when the Greeks saw the Persians bearing down on them, they perceived their mistake and putting to sea, easily...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...lay toward the south on the mainland.106 202. The Hellenes who awaited the Persians in that place were these: three hundred Spartan armed men; one thousand from...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...I have learned by inquiry the names of all three hundred.115 [2] Many famous Persians also fell there, including two sons of Darius, Abrocomes and Hyperanthes, born...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and prepared to meet their destruction. This is what they intended, but the Persians with Epialtes and Hydarnes paid no attention to the Phocians and went down the...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...of Anticyra are the ones who gave the king this information and guided the Persians around the mountain, but I find it totally incredible. [2] One must judge by...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Persians. A few of the Spartans themselves were also slain. When the Persians could gain no inch of the pass, attacking by companies and in every other...
Persians
71 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and we similarly for ourselves. As for the Lacedaemonians, if they meet the Persians in the field, they will in no way repair their most recent losses.”...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greek ...with a four-horse chariot, Cleisthenes made a proclamation that whichever Greek thought himself worthy to be his son-in-law should come on the sixtieth day...
Greek
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Persian ...sending the spies, those of the Greeks who had sworn alliance against the Persian next sent messengers to Argos. [2] Now this is what the Argives say of their...
Persian
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...treaty—so they reasoned—then, if after the evil that had befallen them the Persian should deal them yet another blow, it was to be feared that they would be at...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...When they learned that the Greeks would attempt to gain their aid against the Persian, they sent messengers to Delphi to inquire of the god how it would be best for...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...the foreigner, for it cannot be, we think, that you have no knowledge of the Persian invader of Hellas, how he proposes to bridge the Hellespont and lead all the...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...incline. They had no hope that the Greeks would prevail, but thought that the Persian would win a great victory and be lord of all Hellas. [3] Their course of...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...they were with the Hellenes and under compulsion. When, however, they saw the Persian side prevailing and the Hellenes with Leonidas hurrying toward the hill, they...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...was sure to prevail. choosing that Greece should preserve her freedom, the Athenians roused to battle the other Greek states which had not yet gone over to the...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...to perish. [2] Correctly understood, the gods' oracle was spoken not of the Athenians but of their enemies, and his advice was that they should believe their ships...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...mouth of the Peneus; the barbarians took her hull but not the crew, for the Athenians, as soon as they had run their craft aground, leapt out and made their way...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persia ...all. When they were assembled, Xerxes spoke to them as follows: 8A. “Men of Persia, I am not bringing in and establishing a new custom, but following one that I...
Persia
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...affairs are so great. [2] Cyrus son of Cambyses subdued and made tributary to Persia all Ionians except only the Athenians. I advise you by no means to lead these...
Persia
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...this man, and gave very great honor to his sons who were left alive in Persia; indeed Boges proved himself worthy of all praise. When he was besieged by the...
Persia
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...than any Persian. He argued as follows: “Master, it is not fitting that the Athenians should go unpunished for their deeds, after all the evil they have done to the...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the men are said to be valiant, and we may well guess that it is so, since the Athenians alone destroyed the great army that followed Datis and Artaphrenes to Attica...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...his behalf and that of all the Persians, I will never rest until I have taken Athens and burnt it, for the unprovoked wrong that its people did to my father and me...
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the cause of Boreas falling upon the barbarians as they lay at anchor, but the Athenians say that he had come to their aid before and that he was the agent this time...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...of meals for the king. He sent demands for earth everywhere except to Athens and Lacedaemon. The reason for his sending for earth and water the second time...
Athens
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...against both. 2. But while Darius was making preparations against Egypt and Athens, a great quarrel arose among his sons concerning the chief power in the land...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Spartans ...fame, and the prosperity of Sparta would not be blotted out. [3] When the Spartans asked the oracle about this war when it broke out, the Pythia had foretold that...
Spartans
76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartan ...Syagrus' words were, for the last time declared his opinion to them: “My Spartan friend, the hard words that a man hears are likely to arouse his anger; but for...
Spartan
75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartan ...was disgraced and without honor. He was deprived of his honor in this way: no Spartan would give him fire or speak with him, and they taunted him by calling him...
Spartan
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...the Persians. Such was the agreement sworn by the Greeks. 133. To Athens and Sparta Xerxes sent no heralds to demand earth, and this he did for the following...
Sparta
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenian ...here without such allies as we are.” 161. Such was Gelon's offer, and the Athenian envoy answered him before the Lacedaemonian could speak. “King of the...
Athenian
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...even more than they did. [3] They had come up to Sardis with Onomacritus, an Athenian diviner4 who had set in order the oracles of Musaeus. They had reconciled their...
Athenian
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Greeks ...there are some among my Persian spearmen who will gladly fight with three Greeks at once. You have no knowledge of this and are spouting a lot of nonsense.”...
Greeks
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...except the governor of Doriscus, were after this expedition captured by the Greeks; but no one could ever drive out Mascames in Doriscus, though many tried. For...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...march was to attack Athens, but in truth all Hellas was his aim. This the Greeks had long since learned, but not all of them regarded the matter alike. [2]...
Greeks
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...some to Crete. This they did in the hope that since the danger threatened all Greeks alike, all of Greek blood might unite and work jointly for one common end. Now...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...had seen all and returned to Europe. After sending the spies, those of the Greeks who had sworn alliance against the Persian next sent messengers to Argos. [2]...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...an excuse for taking no part in the war. 151. This is borne out, some of the Greeks say, by the tale of a thing which happened many years afterwards. It happened...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Sparta ...if he remained, he would leave a name of great fame, and the prosperity of Sparta would not be blotted out. [3] When the Spartans asked the oracle about this war...
Sparta
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Greeks ...their heads, and the people wore tunics, but in all else they were like the Greeks. These are their tribes:43 some are from Salamis and Athens, some from Arcadia...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...Pontus who came with the army furnished a hundred ships and were equipped like Greeks. They were settlers from the Ionians and Dorians. 96. Persians and Medes and...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...neither the least nor the weakest of Greek cities. [2] So tell me: will the Greeks offer battle and oppose me? I think that even if all the Greeks and all the men...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...wish to know. You are a Greek, and, as I am told both by you and by the other Greeks whom I have talked to, a man from neither the least nor the weakest of Greek...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...for twenty; in this way you would prove that what you say is true. But if you Greeks who so exalt yourselves are just like you and the others who come to speak with...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...their advice was sound and that the Macedonian meant well by them), the Greeks followed their counsel. [4] To my thinking, however, what persuaded them was...
Greeks
74 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...and nearer home. [2] The pass, then, which brought about the fall of those Greeks who fell at Thermopylae, was unknown to them until they came to Thermopylae and...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...expected to obtain provisions. 177. These places, then, were thought by the Greeks to suit their purpose. After making a thorough survey, they concluded that the...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...who can demonstrate the longest lineage of all and who alone among the Greeks have never changed our place of habitation;81 of our stock too was the man of...
Greeks
73 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...[4] They were, however, also ready with an excuse which they could make to the Greeks, and in the end they made it; when the Greeks blamed them for sending no help...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...Xerxes traversed the plain of Syleus (as they call it), passing by the Greek town of Stagirus, and came to Acanthus. He took along with him all these tribes...
Greek
73 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...these means Gelon had grown to greatness as a tyrant, and now, when the Greek envoys had come to Syracuse, they had audience with him and spoke as follows...
Greek
74 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...while the sound part of Hellas is but small, then it is to be feared that all Greek lands alike will be destroyed. [3] Do not for a moment think that if the...
Greek
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...going to free Hellas, and aid them in so doing. The uniting of all those of Greek stock entails the mustering of a mighty host able to meet our invaders in the...
Greek
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...Torone. [3] On this isthmus which is at the end of Athos, there stands a Greek town, Sane; there are others situated seaward of Sane and landward of Athos...
Greek
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...94. The Ionians furnished a hundred ships; their equipment was like the Greek. These Ionians, as long as they were in the Peloponnese, dwelt in what is now...
Greek
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Corinthians ...defeated in battle on the river Elorus. [3] They were, however, rescued by the Corinthians and Corcyraeans, who made a peace for them on the condition that the Syracusans...
Corinthians
81 22.878721,37.906045,0 Delphi ...the envoys, writing it down, departed for Athens. When the messengers had left Delphi and laid the oracle before the people, there was much inquiry concerning its...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...to meet the invader of their country. 140. The Athenians had sent messages to Delphi asking that an oracle be given them, and when they had performed all due rites...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Greece ...the balance; whichever side they joined was sure to prevail. choosing that Greece should preserve her freedom, the Athenians roused to battle the other Greek...
Greece
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...than Delos. It was fear which kept the middle space between them. 133. The Greeks, then, sailed to Delos, and Mardonius wintered in Thessaly. Having his...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...Themistocles far outstripped them in votes for the second place. 124. The Greeks were too jealous to assign the prize and sailed away each to his own place...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...To this he said that he was content with what he had received from all other Greeks, but not from the Aeginetans. From these he demanded the victor's prize for the...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...Themistocles the Athenian has out of his desire to do you a service stayed the Greeks when they wanted to pursue your ships and break the bridges of the Hellespont...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...from the Lacedaemonians. All that, however, took place later. 4. But now, the Greeks who had at last come to Artemisium saw a multitude of ships launched at Aphetae...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...fought, to defend Euboea. 5. This was the way in which Themistocles made the Greeks stay where they were: he gave Eurybiades for his share five talents of that...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...to flee with night close upon them as they fled; it was their belief that the Greeks would save themselves by flight, and they did not want even so much as a...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...They supposed that not one of them would return home, so powerless did the Greeks seem to them to be. [3] Those who were glad about the business, however, vied...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...and of the ships that had been sent round Euboea. 9. Hearing that, the Greeks took counsel together; there was much talk, but the opinion prevailed that they...
Greeks
74 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...they parted, and each hurried gladly to his own place of anchorage. When the Greeks had withdrawn and come out of the battle, they were left in possession of the...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...to be no match for us. [2] We were even formerly preferred to you by the Greeks, as long as we were on their side, and now we bear such weight with the...
Greeks
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Athenians ...would rather make an end of the fleet that was assembling than be led by the Athenians. 3. In the first days, before the sending to Sicily for alliance, there had...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...a hundred and twenty-seven ships; the Plataeans manned these ships with the Athenians, not that they had any knowledge of seamanship, but because of mere valor and...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...received a part of it supposed that it had been sent for that purpose by the Athenians. 6. So the Greeks remained in Euboea and fought there; this came about as I...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Ethiopians ...Ethiopians above Egypt and the Arabians had Arsames for commander, while the Ethiopians of the east37 (for there were two kinds of them in the army) served with the...
Ethiopians
79 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopians ...best of his wives; he had an image made of her of hammered gold. 70. The Ethiopians above Egypt and the Arabians had Arsames for commander, while the Ethiopians of...
Ethiopians
76 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopians ...were not different in appearance from the others, only in speech and hair: the Ethiopians from the east are straight-haired, but the ones from Libya have the woolliest...
Ethiopians
81 38.721522,14.125005,0 Scythians ...and daggers, and also axes which they call “sagaris.” These were Amyrgian Scythians, but were called Sacae; that is the Persian name for all Scythians. The...
Scythians
76 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...Amyrgian Scythians, but were called Sacae; that is the Persian name for all Scythians. The commander of the Bactrians and Sacae was Hystaspes, son of Darius and...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Dorians ...sons, those who dwell in our land and are called Ionians and Aeolians and Dorians. [2] I myself have made trial of these men, when by your father's command I...
Dorians
76 Scythians ...who have no cities anywhere to dwell in. But he hoped to subdue the nomadic Scythians and would not obey me; he went on the expedition and returned after losing many...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Media ...most splendidly. [3] The horses are called Nesaean because there is in Media a wide plain of that name, where the great horses are bred. [4] Behind these...
Media
73 46.5,34.5,0 Phrygian ...we subdue those men, and their neighbors who dwell in the land of Pelops the Phrygian, we will make the borders of Persian territory and of the firmament of heaven...
Phrygian
79 29.75,38.75,0 Massagetae ...to have many desires, and remembering the end of Cyrus' expedition against the Massagetae and of Cambyses' against the Ethiopians, and I myself marched with Darius...
Massagetae
81 62.5,37.5,0 Phoenicians ...of the river Strymon by a bridge. 25. Thus Xerxes did this. He assigned the Phoenicians and Egyptians to make ropes of papyrus and white flax for the bridges,15 and to...
Phoenicians
79 35.25,33.25,0 Strymon ...all the gold and silver from the city and scattered it from the walls into the Strymon; after he had done this, he cast himself into the fire. Thus he is justly...
Strymon
81 23.848889,40.785833,0 Thessaly ...these, he arrayed the Macedonians also and those who lived in the area of Thessaly opposite the Athenians. 32. These which I have named were the greatest of the...
Thessaly
76 22.2,39.6,0 Lacedaemon ...envoys were sent there by the allies to hold converse with Gelon, Syagrus from Lacedaemon among them. The ancestor of this Gelon, who settled at Gela, was from the...
Lacedaemon
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemon ...oracle about this war when it broke out, the Pythia had foretold that either Lacedaemon would be destroyed by the barbarians or their king would be killed. She gave...
Lacedaemon
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemon ...of their cities. But what you would like to know, I will tell you: there is in Lacedaemon a city called Sparta, a city of about eight thousand men, all of them equal to...
Lacedaemon
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemon ...tablet might not be troubled by the way-wardens. [4] When the tablet came to Lacedaemon, the Lacedaemonians could not guess its meaning, until at last (as I have been...
Lacedaemon
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Bosporus ...the one of the Mysians and Teucrians which before the Trojan war crossed the Bosporus into Europe,13 subdued all the Thracians, and came down to the Ionian sea...
Bosporus
79 29.075278,41.119444,0 Lacedaemon ...Persia, and has been torn apart by dogs and birds in the land of Athens or of Lacedaemon, if not even before that on the way there; and that you have learned what kind...
Lacedaemon
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Ister ...father, making a highway over the Thracian Bosporus and bridging the river Ister, crossed over to attack the Scythians. At that time the Scythians used every...
Ister
77 29.647293,45.16291,0 Attica ...alone destroyed the great army that followed Datis and Artaphrenes to Attica. [2] Suppose they do not succeed in both ways; but if they attack with their...
Attica
72 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Peneus ...[2] A number of rivers pour into this vale, the most notable of which are Peneus, Apidanus, Onochonus, Enipeus, Pamisus. These five, while they flow towards...
Peneus
76 21.75,39.75,0 Acanthus ...oppressed as they were, nevertheless did as they were commanded. Upon leaving Acanthus, Xerxes sent his ships on their course away from him, giving orders to his...
Acanthus
80 23.88504,40.39427,0 Chersonese ...meanwhile his men were bridging the Hellespont from Asia to Europe. On the Chersonese, which is on the Hellespont, between the city of Sestus and Madytus there is a...
Chersonese
77 26.5,40.33333,0 Ionians ...so great. [2] Cyrus son of Cambyses subdued and made tributary to Persia all Ionians except only the Athenians. I advise you by no means to lead these Ionians...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...all Ionians except only the Athenians. I advise you by no means to lead these Ionians against the land of their fathers, since even without their aid we are well...
Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...a hundred ships and were equipped like Greeks. They were settlers from the Ionians and Dorians. 96. Persians and Medes and Sacae served as soldiers on all the...
Ionians
77 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...dealt excellently and truly with all other matters, you will not suffer the Ionians7 who dwell in Europe to laugh at us, which they have no right to do. [2] It...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ethiopians ...strange indeed if we who have subdued and made slaves of Sacae and Indians and Ethiopians and Assyrians and many other great nations, for no wrong done to the Persians...
Ethiopians
81 38.721522,14.125005,0 Media ...joined battle with the Hellenes, they fared neither better nor worse than the Median army, since they used shorter spears than the Hellenes and could not use their...
Media
80 46.5,34.5,0 Mysians ...Atreus against Troy is also nothing by comparison; neither is the one of the Mysians and Teucrians which before the Trojan war crossed the Bosporus into Europe,13...
Mysians
79 28.25,38.75,0 Mysians ...the Strymon; they say that they were driven from their homes by Teucrians and Mysians. The commander of the Thracians of Asia was Bassaces son of Artabanus. 76. The...
Mysians
80 28.25,38.75,0 Teucrians ...Troy is also nothing by comparison; neither is the one of the Mysians and Teucrians which before the Trojan war crossed the Bosporus into Europe,13 subdued all the...
Teucrians
76 26.609255,39.898491,0 Medes ...bidding them to send help, since they were too few to ward off the army of the Medes. 208. While they debated in this way, Xerxes sent a mounted scout to see how...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...folly and lack of due respect. On the fifth day he became angry and sent the Medes and Cissians against them, bidding them take them prisoner and bring them into...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...[2] He was not at all disturbed by this and made light of the multitude of the Medes, saying that their Trachinian foreigner brought them good news. If the Medes...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...They say that he made the following speech before they joined battle with the Medes: he had learned from a Trachinian that there were so many of the barbarians...
Medes
80 46.5,34.5,0 Europe ...but I will make all into one country, when I have passed over the whole of Europe. [3] I learn that this is the situation: no city of men or any human nation...
Europe
77 Europe ...the fairest season of the year, and we will return home the conquerors of all Europe without suffering famine or any other harm anywhere. First, we carry ample...
Europe
80 Europe ...148. So the spies were sent back after they had seen all and returned to Europe. After sending the spies, those of the Greeks who had sworn alliance against...
Europe
76 Europe ...of their expedition into Thessaly, while the king was planning to cross into Europe from Asia and was already at Abydos. The Thessalians, now bereft of their...
Europe
79 Medes ...[2] 93On board all these ships were thirty fighting men of the Persians and Medes and Sacae in addition to the company which each had of native fighters; the...
Medes
78 46.5,34.5,0 Libyan ...and eighty thousand cavalrymen; to these I add the Arabian camel-riders and Libyan charioteers, estimating them to have been twenty thousand in number. [5] The...
Libyan
78 26.5,31.5,0 Olophyxus ...now intended to make them into island and not mainland towns; they are Dion, Olophyxus, Acrothoum, Thyssus, and Cleonae. 23. These are the towns situated on Athos...
Olophyxus
79 24.190639,40.330422,0 Sane ...[3] On this isthmus which is at the end of Athos, there stands a Greek town, Sane; there are others situated seaward of Sane and landward of Athos, and the...
Sane
79 23.33484,40.07254,0 Torone ...and then headed for the Thermaic gulf. Then rounding Ampelus, the headland of Torone, it passed the Greek towns of Torone, Galepsus, Sermyle, Mecyberna, and...
Torone
80 23.9008123,39.9770534,0 Hellas ...of the first overthrow of Ionia. 92. There are many offerings of Croesus' in Hellas, and not only those of which I have spoken. There is a golden tripod at Thebes...
Hellas
80 22.5,37.5,0 Hellas ...was equipped for war. [2] The light-armed from the rest of Lacedaemon and Hellas were as one to every man-at-arms, and their number was thirty-four thousand and...
Hellas
76 Hellas ...if they knew any oracle which prophesied that the Persians should perish in Hellas. [2] Those who were summoned said nothing, some not knowing the prophecies, and...
Hellas
78 Hellas ...me too from slavery, who have done so desperate a deed as this for the sake of Hellas in my desire to declare to you Mardonius' intent so that the barbarians may not...
Hellas
81 Hellas ...to Arimnestus, a Plataean, that it was not a source of grief to him to die for Hellas' sake; his sorrow was rather that he had struck no blow and achieved no deed...
Hellas
81 Hellas ...[2] The Peloponnesians then who were with Leutychides decided to sail away to Hellas, but the Athenians, with Xanthippus their general, that they would remain there...
Hellas
80 Sardis ...of mere perversity, and partly because he intended to signify to the king at Sardis by a line of beacons across the islands that he held Athens. [2] When he came...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...escaped were driven to the heights of Mykale, and made their way from there to Sardis. While they were making their way along the road, Masistes son of Darius, who...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...Then they went on their way without anything further happening and came to Sardis. 108. Now it happened that the king had been at Sardis ever since he came...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...in flight from Athens after his overthrow in the sea-fight. Being then at Sardis he became enamored of Masistes' wife, who was also there. But as all his...
Sardis
76 28.040278,38.488333,0 Hellenes ...forgotten in time, and that great and marvelous deeds, some displayed by the Hellenes, some by the barbarians, not lose their glory, including among others what was...
Hellenes
79 Egyptians ...whose name was Sethos. He despised and had no regard for the warrior Egyptians, thinking he would never need them; besides otherwise dishonoring them, he took...
Egyptians
71 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...lake was dug, except that the work went on not by night but by day. The Egyptians bore the earth dug out by them to the Nile, to be caught and scattered (as was...
Egyptians
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...Amasis removed them and settled them at Memphis to be his guard against the Egyptians. [4] It is a result of our communication with these settlers in Egypt (the...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...it—will forever after be in the same straits as they themselves once said the Greeks would be; [3] for, learning that all the Greek land is watered by rain, but not...
Greeks
80 Greeks ...why no breezes blew from it as from every other river13. 20. But some of the Greeks, wishing to be notable for cleverness, put forward three opinions about this...
Greeks
80 Greeks ...throughout its length by Libyans, many tribes of them, except the part held by Greeks and Phoenicians; the region of Libya that is above the sea and the inhabitants...
Greeks
81 Greeks ...For the images of Isis are in woman's form, horned like a cow, exactly as the Greeks picture Io, and cows are held by far the most sacred of all beasts of the herd...
Greeks
80 Greeks ...among the gods of Egypt. [3] Yet if they got the name of any deity from the Greeks, of these not least but in particular would they preserve a recollection, if...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...inquiry plainly shows that Heracles is an ancient god. And furthermore, those Greeks, I think, are most in the right, who have established and practise two worships...
Greeks
80 Greeks ...of the festival of Dionysus is observed by the Egyptians much as it is by the Greeks, except for the dances; but in place of the phallus, they have invented the use...
Greeks
80 Greeks ...the Samothracians take their rites. [4] The Athenians, then, were the first Greeks to make ithyphallic images of Hermes, and they did this because the Pelasgians...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...that time onwards they used the names of the gods in their sacrifices; and the Greeks received these later from the Pelasgians. 53. But whence each of the gods came...
Greeks
81 Greeks ...how one will fare and how one will end and what one will be like; those Greeks occupied with poetry exploit this. [2] More portents have been discovered by...
Greeks
74 Egyptians ...the Egyptians better than the Egyptians remembered the Colchians; [2] the Egyptians said that they considered the Colchians part of Sesostris' army. I myself...
Egyptians
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...proved by this: that Phoenicians who traffic with Hellas cease to imitate the Egyptians in this matter and do not circumcise their children. 105. Listen to something...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...[2] From the descent of Rhampsinitus, when he came back, they said that the Egyptians celebrate a festival, which I know that they celebrate to this day, but whether...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...the food they eat that all sicknesses come to men. [3] Even without this, the Egyptians are the healthiest of all men, next to the Libyans; the explanation of which...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...that the ibis is greatly honored by the Egyptians for this service, and the Egyptians give the same reason for honoring these birds. 76. Now this is the appearance...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...custom, too, which no Greeks except the Lacedaemonians have in common with the Egyptians: younger men, encountering their elders, yield the way and stand aside, and...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...[5] When I asked why Perseus appeared only to them, and why, unlike all other Egyptians, they celebrate games, they told me that Perseus was by lineage of their city...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...quite another intent in her mind, she gave a great feast, inviting to it those Egyptians whom she knew to have had the most complicity in her brother's murder; and...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...and the Syrians of Palestine acknowledge that they learned the custom from the Egyptians, and the Syrians of the valleys of the Thermodon and the Parthenius, as well as...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...163. Learning of this, too, Apries armed his guard and marched against the Egyptians; he had a bodyguard of Carians and Ionians, thirty thousand of them, and his...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...of this, Apries sent Amasis to dissuade them. When Amasis came up with the Egyptians, he exhorted them to desist; but as he spoke an Egyptian came behind him and...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...[4] Apries sent a great force against Cyrene and suffered a great defeat. The Egyptians blamed him for this and rebelled against him; for they thought that Apries had...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...of Saïs, a great and marvellous palace. [2] Apries' men marched against the Egyptians, and so did Amasis' men against the foreigners. So they both came to Momemphis...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...that artisans are held in least contempt. 168. The warriors were the only Egyptians, except the priests, who had special privileges: for each of them an untaxed...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...it before, he can readily see, if he has sense, that that Egypt to which the Greeks sail is land deposited for the Egyptians, the river's gift—not only the lower...
Greeks
79 Ammonians ...of Zeus have a ram's head; and in this, the Egyptians are imitated by the Ammonians, who are colonists from Egypt and Ethiopia and speak a language compounded of...
Ammonians
76 25.54359,29.20514,0 Theban district ...may not be killed. 42. All that have a temple of Zeus of Thebes or are of the Theban district sacrifice goats, but will not touch sheep. [2] For no gods are worshipped by...
Theban district
81 32.65285,25.70247,0 Mendesian district ...are worshipped by all alike. Those who have a temple of Mendes24 or are of the Mendesian district sacrifice sheep, but will not touch goats. [3] The Thebans, and those who by...
Mendesian district
81 31.75,31.25,0 Hellas ...Heracles did not come from Hellas to Egypt, but from Egypt to Hellas (and in Hellas to those Greeks who gave the name Heracles to the son of Amphitryon), besides...
Hellas
79 Ethiopian stone ...it stands near the great pyramid; the lowest layer of it is of variegated Ethiopian stone. Both of them stand on the same ridge, which is about a hundred feet high...
Ethiopian stone
76 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopian stone ...three hundred feet long, square at the base, and as much as half its height of Ethiopian stone. Some Greeks say that it was built by Rhodopis, the courtesan, but they are...
Ethiopian stone
81 38.721522,14.125005,0 Khemmis ...is a shrine with an image of Perseus standing in it. [3] The people of this Khemmis say that Perseus is seen often up and down this land, and often within the...
Khemmis
78 31.746075,26.565878,0 Egyptian ...fresh corpse of a woman, and was denounced by his fellow-workman. 90. Anyone, Egyptian or foreigner, known to have been carried off by a crocodile or drowned by the...
Egyptian
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Arabians ...So when presently king Sanacharib57 came against Egypt, with a great force of Arabians and Assyrians, the warrior Egyptians would not march against him. [3] The...
Arabians
80 42.5,27.5,0 Arabians ...but the ibis birds encounter the invaders in this pass and kill them. [4] The Arabians say that the ibis is greatly honored by the Egyptians for this service, and the...
Arabians
80 42.5,27.5,0 Cyprus ...that they have one song, the Linus-song,38 which is sung in Phoenicia and Cyprus and elsewhere; each nation has a name of its own for this, [2] but it happens...
Cyprus
76 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Red Sea ...of long ships45 from the Arabian Gulf and subjugated all those living by the Red Sea, until he came to a sea which was too shallow for his vessels. [3] After...
Red Sea
79 39.5,19.0,0 Nile ...and outside of it he dug a lake from the river to its north and west (for the Nile itself bounds it on the east); and secondly, he built in it the great and most...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Sidon ...run as follows: “There were the robes, all embroidered, The work of women of Sidon, whom godlike Alexandrus himself Brought from Sidon, crossing the broad...
Sidon
80 35.37564,33.55993,0 Camp of the Tyrians ...the precinct live Phoenicians of Tyre, and the whole place is called the Camp of the Tyrians. There is in the precinct of Proteus a temple called the temple of the Stranger...
Camp of the Tyrians
75 Arabian Gulf ...is from the Casian promontory, the boundary between Egypt and Syria, to the Arabian Gulf, and this is a distance of one hundred and twenty five miles, neither more nor...
Arabian Gulf
78 50.9999999,27.0000001,0 Syria ...years, twenty-nine of which he spent before Azotus, a great city in Syria, besieging it until he took it. Azotus held out against a siege longer than any...
Syria
70 37.5,37.5,0 Aphthis ...arms alone. 166. The Kalasiries are from the districts of Thebes , Bubastis, Aphthis, Tanis, Mendes, Sebennys, Athribis, Pharbaïthis, Thmuis, Onuphis, Anytis...
Aphthis
80 Thmuis ...of Thebes , Bubastis, Aphthis, Tanis, Mendes, Sebennys, Athribis, Pharbaïthis, Thmuis, Onuphis, Anytis, Myecphoris (this last is in an island opposite the city of...
Thmuis
81 31.51667,30.93889,0 Natho ...Saïs, Khemmis, and Papremis, the island called Prosopitis, and half of Natho—from all of these; their number, at its greatest, attained to a hundred and...
Natho
73 31.26477,30.71762,0 Athribis ...are from the districts of Thebes , Bubastis, Aphthis, Tanis, Mendes, Sebennys, Athribis, Pharbaïthis, Thmuis, Onuphis, Anytis, Myecphoris (this last is in an island...
Athribis
81 31.18806,30.47056,0 Egypt ...Serbonian marsh, where Typho is supposed to have been hidden,3 the country is Egypt. Now between Ienysus and the Casian mountain and the Serbonian marsh there lies...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...them to those arid lands of Syria; so the earthen pottery that is brought to Egypt and unloaded or emptied there is carried to Syria to join the stock that has...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...“Cambyses was the better man; for he had all of Cyrus' possessions and had won Egypt and the sea besides.” [5] So said the Persians; but Croesus, who was present...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...after Cambyses, son of Cyrus, had lost his mind, while he was still in Egypt, two Magus brothers rebelled against him.26 One of them had been left by...
Egypt
73 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...the men back. 45. Some say that these Samians who were sent never came to Egypt, but that when they had sailed as far as Carpathus discussed the matter among...
Egypt
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Persia ...in the contest but stood aside; and to this day his house (and no other in Persia) remains free, and is ruled only so far as it is willing to be, so long as it...
Persia
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...the consent of the Arabians. [2] Darius took wives from the noblest houses of Persia, marrying Cyrus' daughters Atossa and Artystone; Atossa had been a wife of her...
Persia
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...millet and sesame. [5] So whenever no water is given to them, they come into Persia with their women, and cry and howl before the door of the king's palace, until...
Persia
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...saw in a dream a vision, in which it seemed to him that a messenger came from Persia and told him that Smerdis sitting on the royal throne touched heaven with his...
Persia
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...Amasis had dragged him away from his wife and children and sent him up to Persia when Cyrus sent to Amasis asking for the best eye-doctor in Egypt. [2] Out of...
Persia
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Cyrene ...[2] The sixth province was Egypt and the neighboring parts of Libya, and Cyrene and Barca, all of which were included in the province of Egypt. From here came...
Cyrene
75 21.856169,32.818736,0 Libyans ...gifts; and so too did the people of Cyrene and Barca, frightened like the Libyans. [4] Cambyses received in all kindness the gifts of the Libyans; but he seized...
Libyans
76 26.5,31.5,0 Mytilenean ...overtaken in Memphis, Cambyses sent a Persian herald up the river aboard a Mytilenean boat to invite the Egyptians to an accord. [2] But when they saw the boat...
Mytilenean
77 26.489422,39.05495,0 Cyrene ...laying tribute on themselves and sending gifts; and so too did the people of Cyrene and Barca, frightened like the Libyans. [4] Cambyses received in all kindness...
Cyrene
79 21.856169,32.818736,0 Ethiopia ...the Carthaginians and a part of his land army against the Ammonians; to Ethiopia he would first send spies, to see what truth there was in the story of a Table...
Ethiopia
74 38.721522,14.125005,0 Medes ...armor is Median, not Persian. Their commander was Tigranes, an Achaemenid. The Medes were formerly called by everyone Arians,33 but when the Colchian woman Medea...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...Athens to the Arians they changed their name, like the Persians. This is the Medes' own account of themselves. [2] The Cissians in the army were equipped like the...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...that, they next said, [2] “The Lacedaemonians have sent us, O king of the Medes, in requital for the slaying of your heralds at Sparta, to make atonement for...
Medes
76 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...informed of this was strange. [2] Demaratus son of Ariston, an exile among the Medes, was, as I suppose (reason being also my ally), no friend to the...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Libyans ...and upright; for shields they had bucklers of the skin of cranes. 71. The Libyans came in leather garments, using javelins of burnt wood. Their commander was...
Libyans
77 26.5,31.5,0 Medes ...peace ever since Cyrus deposed Astyages and we won this sovereignty from the Medes. It is the will of heaven; and we ourselves win advantage by our many...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Thracians ...thousand men. [2] As regards the land army supplied by all the nations—Thracians, Paeonians, Eordi, Bottiaei, Chalcidians, Brygi, Pierians, Macedonians...
Thracians
73 27.5,42.5,0 Teucrians ...they lived by the Strymon; they say that they were driven from their homes by Teucrians and Mysians. The commander of the Thracians of Asia was Bassaces son of...
Teucrians
80 26.609255,39.898491,0 Thracians ...in his land army. [3] The entire road along which king Xerxes led his army the Thracians neither break up nor sow, but they hold it in great reverence to this day...
Thracians
81 27.5,42.5,0 Sardis ...these Cycladic islands was as yet subject to Darius. 31. Aristagoras came to Sardis and told Artaphrenes that Naxos was indeed an island of no great size, but that...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Hellespont ...from Miletus, the Ionian army, and the Naxians, pretended to be sailing to the Hellespont, but when he came to Chios, he put in with his ships at Caucasa14 so that he...
Hellespont
81 26.4,40.2,0 Miletus ...displeasure against him. It was likely, he thought, that his lordship of Miletus would be taken away from him. [2] With all these fears in his mind, he began to...
Miletus
75 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Persia ...and all his power, advised them that they should not make war on the king of Persia. When, however, he failed to persuade them, he counselled them that their next...
Persia
79 Miletus ...of tyrants in the cities. After doing away with the tyrants, Aristagoras of Miletus ordered all the peoples to set up governors in each city. Then he went on an...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...the sum of days spent is ninety, neither more nor less. 54. Aristagoras of Miletus accordingly spoke the truth to Cleomenes the Lacedaemonian when he said that...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sardis ...their way along the river Caicus, and after crossing the Tmolus, they came to Sardis and captured it without any resistance. They took all of it except the citadel...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...Hermippus, a man of Atarneus, as messenger, sent letters to the Persians at Sardis, because they had previously talked with him about revolt. But Hermippus did...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Miletus ...enslaved the city, and thus the calamity agreed with the oracle concerning Miletus. 19. When the Argives inquired at Delphi about the safety of their city, a...
Miletus
77 26.974176,39.528399,0 Miletus ...were the only rebel people whose city and temples were not burnt. [2] After Miletus was captured, the Persians at once gained possession of Caria. Some of the...
Miletus
78 26.974176,39.528399,0 Sardis ...would have forgiven his guilt; but as it was, when Histiaeus was brought to Sardis, both because of what he had done, and for fear that he might escape and again...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Ionia ...captains led the land army to the Hellespont. [3] When Mardonius arrived in Ionia in his voyage along the coast of Asia, he did a thing which I here set down for...
Ionia
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Miletus ...at the fitting time this befell him: There came to Sparta a certain man of Miletus, who desired to have a talk with Glaucus and made him this offer: ‘I am a...
Miletus
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Ionia ...the horses into these, and embarked the land army in the ships, they sailed to Ionia with six hundred triremes. From there they held their course not by the...
Ionia
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Athens ...hoping to reach the city before the Athenians. There was an accusation at Athens that they devised this by a plan of the Alcmaeonidae, who were said to have...
Athens
76 Theban Delium ...Datis set the image in the temple, instructing the Delians to carry it away to Theban Delium, on the coast opposite Chalcis. [3] Datis gave this order and sailed away, but...
Theban Delium
81 12.30363,45.52962,0 Asia ...it to Delium by command of an oracle. 119. When Datis and Artaphrenes reached Asia in their voyage, they carried the enslaved Eretrians inland to Susa. [2] Before...
Asia
81 22.283,37.405,0 Cissian land ...them no harm, but settled them in a domain of his own called Ardericca in the Cissian land; this place is two hundred and ten stadia distant from Susa, and forty from the...
Cissian land
80 Athens ...the Eretrians. 120. After the full moon two thousand Lacedaemonians came to Athens, making such great haste to reach it that they were in Attica on the third day...
Athens
79 Athens ...Persian disaster at Marathon, the reputation of Miltiades, already great at Athens, very much increased. He asked the Athenians for seventy ships, an army, and...
Athens
78 Marathon ...court on a couch, and his friends spoke for him, often mentioning the fight at Marathon and the conquest of Lemnos: how Miltiades had punished the Pelasgians and taken...
Marathon
81 35.907067,34.838764,0 Hellas ...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 and to...
Hellas
78 oracle of Ammon ...Bucolic mouths are not natural but excavated channels. 18. The response of oracle of Ammon in fact bears witness to my opinion, that Egypt is of such an extent as I have...
oracle of Ammon
78 25.54359,29.20514,0 Libya ...[2] The men of the cities of Marea and Apis, in the part of Egypt bordering on Libya, believing themselves to be Libyans and not Egyptians, and disliking the...
Libya
81 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...driven by storms from his customary course and passes over the inland parts of Libya. [2] For the briefest demonstration, everything has been said; for whatever...
Libya
81 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...demonstration goes as follows. In its passage over the inland parts of Libya, the sun does this: as the air is always clear in that region, the land warm...
Libya
73 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...it burns its way through it; hence, it is always summer in the inland part of Libya. [2] But were the stations of the seasons changed, so that the south wind and...
Libya
80 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Egypt ...are bottomless, rise between these hills; half the water flows north towards Egypt, and the other half south towards Ethiopia. [4] He said that Psammetichus king...
Egypt
79 Elephantine ...most extensive investigation that I could make, going as far as the city of Elephantine to look myself, and beyond that by question and hearsay. [2] Beyond...
Elephantine
78 32.89066,24.08292,0 Elephantine ...as they were held in the days of Psammetichus; there are Persian guards at Elephantine and at Daphnae. Now the Egyptians had been on guard for three years, and no one...
Elephantine
77 32.89066,24.08292,0 Ethiopia ...and making common cause, they revolted from Psammetichus and went to Ethiopia. [4] Psammetichus heard of it and pursued them; and when he overtook them, he...
Ethiopia
71 38.721522,14.125005,0 Egypt ...water, then, there is knowledge of the Nile, besides the part of it that is in Egypt. So many months, as reckoning shows, are found to be spent by one going from...
Egypt
81 Syrtis ...inhabiting the country of the Syrtis and a little way to the east of the Syrtis. [3] When these Nasamonians were asked on their arrival if they brought any...
Syrtis
75 18.0,31.5,0 Libya ...guessed it to be the Nile; and reason proves as much. For the Nile flows from Libya, right through the middle of it; and as I guess, reasoning about things unknown...
Libya
80 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Pillars of Heracles ...of Pyrene through the very middle of Europe; now the Celts live beyond the Pillars of Heracles, being neighbors of the Cynesii, who are the westernmost of all the peoples...
Pillars of Heracles
77 Ister ...Cynesii, who are the westernmost of all the peoples inhabiting Europe. [4] The Ister, then, flows clean across Europe and ends its course in the Euxine sea, at...
Ister
81 29.647293,45.16291,0 Euxine sea ...[4] The Ister, then, flows clean across Europe and ends its course in the Euxine sea, at Istria, which is inhabited by Milesian colonists. 34. The Ister, since it...
Euxine sea
76 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Cilicia ...it issues into Egypt. Now Egypt lies about opposite to the mountainous part of Cilicia; [2] from there, it is a straight five days' journey for an unencumbered man to...
Cilicia
81 33.25,36.25,0 Euxine ...it is a straight five days' journey for an unencumbered man to Sinope on the Euxine; and Sinope lies opposite the place where the Ister falls into the sea. Thus I...
Euxine
79 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Libya ...into the sea. Thus I suppose the course of the Nile in its passage through Libya to be like the course of the Ister. 35. It is sufficient to say this much...
Libya
77 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Asia ...of Hystapes' sons with wings on his shoulders, the one wing overshadowing Asia and the other Europe. [2] Hystaspes son of Arsames was an Achaemenid, and...
Asia
76 Massagetae ...back to the Araxes, leaving behind those that were useless; a third of the Massagetae forces attacked those of the army who were left behind and destroyed them...
Massagetae
77 62.5,37.5,0 Massagetae ...of Cyrus' death; this, that I have told, is the most credible. 215. These Massagetae are like the Scythians in their dress and way of life. They are both cavalry...
Massagetae
77 62.5,37.5,0 Massagetae ...all. The Greeks say this is a Scythian custom; it is not, but a custom of the Massagetae. There, when a man desires a woman, he hangs his quiver before her wagon, and...
Massagetae
80 62.5,37.5,0 Thebes ...at Memphis in conversation with the priests of Hephaestus;3 and I visited Thebes and Heliopolis, too, for this very purpose, because I wished to know if the...
Thebes
76 32.65285,25.70247,0 Plinthinete gulf ...sixty “schoeni”7 —of Egypt, that is, as we judge it to be, reaching from the Plinthinete gulf to the Serbonian marsh, which is under the Casian mountain—between these there...
Plinthinete gulf
79 Serbonian marsh ...that is, as we judge it to be, reaching from the Plinthinete gulf to the Serbonian marsh, which is under the Casian mountain—between these there is this length of sixty...
Serbonian marsh
75 33.25,31.25,0 Egypt ...Egyptian measure, is twice that. 7. By this reckoning, then, the seaboard of Egypt will be four hundred and fifty miles in length. Inland from the sea as far as...
Egypt
80 Heliopolis ...Egypt is a wide land, all flat and watery and marshy. From the sea up to Heliopolis is a journey about as long as the way from the altar of the twelve gods at...
Heliopolis
75 31.305179,30.129369,0 Heliopolis ...miles short of two hundred, which is the number of miles between the sea and Heliopolis. 8. Beyond and above Heliopolis, Egypt is a narrow land. For it is bounded on...
Heliopolis
79 31.305179,30.129369,0 Egypt ...of miles between the sea and Heliopolis. 8. Beyond and above Heliopolis, Egypt is a narrow land. For it is bounded on the one side by the mountains of Arabia...
Egypt
76 Red Sea ...which run north to south, always running south towards the sea called the Red Sea. In these mountains are the quarries that were hewn out for making the pyramids...
Red Sea
76 50.9999999,27.0000001,0 Elephantine ...is seven hundred and sixty-five miles. And between Thebes and the city called Elephantine there are two hundred and twenty-five miles. 10. The greater portion, then, of...
Elephantine
80 32.89066,24.08292,0 Nile ...is none worthy to be compared for greatness with even one of the mouths of the Nile, and the Nile has five mouths. [3] There are also other rivers, not so great as...
Nile
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...made half of the Echinades Islands mainland. 11. Now in Arabia, not far from Egypt, there is a gulf extending inland from the sea called Red9 , whose length and...
Egypt
80 Nile ...each other, and but a little space of land separated them. [4] Now, if the Nile inclined to direct its current into this Arabian gulf, why should the latter...
Nile
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...if we agree with the opinion of the Ionians, who say that only the Delta is Egypt, and that its seaboard reaches from the so-called Watchtower of Perseus forty...
Egypt
78 Nile ...while inland it stretches as far as the city of Cercasorus,11 where the Nile divides and flows to Pelusium and Canobus, and that all the rest of Egypt is...
Nile
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...the Nile divides and flows to Pelusium and Canobus, and that all the rest of Egypt is partly Libya and partly Arabia—if we follow this account, we can show that...
Egypt
79 Hellas ...you still have held your former opinion and advised me not to march against Hellas, or would you have changed your mind? Come, tell me this truly.” [2] Artabanus...
Hellas
78 Hellas ...governor Darius had appointed, Xerxes marched his army through Thrace towards Hellas. 106. Xerxes left behind this Mascames, who so conducted himself that to him...
Hellas
80 Hellas ...harm by putting three men to death. Xerxes said that if they should return to Hellas, the Greeks would hear of his power and would surrender their peculiar freedom...
Hellas
80 Hellas ...to which it would seem that it was the Argives who invited the Persian into Hellas, because the war with the Lacedaemonians was going badly, and they would prefer...
Hellas
78 Hellas ...it cannot be, we think, that you have no knowledge of the Persian invader of Hellas, how he proposes to bridge the Hellespont and lead all the hosts of the east...
Hellas
79 Hellas ...your minds that we will give up the command to you. If it is your will to aid Hellas, know that you must obey the Lacedaemonians; but if, as I think, you are too...
Hellas
80 Hellas ...This pass they were resolved to guard and so stay the barbarian's passage into Hellas, while their fleet should sail to Artemisium in the territory of Histiaea...
Hellas
81 Hellas ...fleet on guard. There was nothing for them to be afraid of. [2] The invader of Hellas was not a god but a human being, and there was not, and never would be, any...
Hellas
81 Hellas ...“You have already heard about these men from me, when we were setting out for Hellas, but when you heard, you mocked me, although I told you how I expected things...
Hellas
80 Artemisium ...however, took place later. 4. But now, the Greeks who had at last come to Artemisium saw a multitude of ships launched at Aphetae and forces everywhere, and...
Artemisium
77 23.220954,39.017832,0 Artemisium ...the Corinthian admiral, who said that he would not remain but sail away from Artemisium; to him Themistocles, adding an oath, said: [2] “No, you of all men will not...
Artemisium
79 23.220954,39.017832,0 Artemisium ...with doubtful issue, and nightfall ended the battle; the Greeks sailed back to Artemisium, and the barbarians to Aphetae, after faring far below their hopes in the...
Artemisium
81 23.220954,39.017832,0 Artemisium ...with the Athenians at Salamis for this reason: when the Hellenes departed from Artemisium and were off Chalcis, the Plataeans landed on the opposite shore of Boeotia and...
Artemisium
81 23.220954,39.017832,0 Euboea ...king, Mardonius, that I, who neither was most cowardly in the sea battles off Euboea nor performed the least feats of arms, say this: ‘Master, it is just for me to...
Euboea
80 23.87,38.53,0 Artemisium ...this ship that deserted at Salamis and the Lemnian which deserted earlier at Artemisium, the Hellenic fleet reached its full number of three hundred and eighty ships...
Artemisium
79 23.220954,39.017832,0 Athens ...was their counsel, but he would not follow it. What he desired was to take Athens once more; this was partly out of mere perversity, and partly because he...
Athens
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Salamis ...as before, for, as he learned, the majority of them were on shipboard at Salamis. So he took the city, but without any of its men. There were ten months between...
Salamis
75 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...their march, having now the Athenians with them, who had crossed over from Salamis and joined with them at Eleusis. [3] When they came (as it is said) to Erythrae...
Salamis
77 23.51,37.93,0 Athens ...the men to the outposts. When they had come, Alexander said to them: “Men of Athens, I give you this message in trust as a secret which you must reveal to no one...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Hellas ...now called Boeotia. 50. In fact, the names of nearly all the gods came to Hellas from Egypt. For I am convinced by inquiry that they have come from foreign...
Hellas
77 Egypt ...they have come from foreign parts, and I believe that they came chiefly from Egypt. [2] Except the names of Poseidon and the Dioscuri, as I have already said, and...
Egypt
79 Hellas ...about the names; for this place of divination, held to be the most ancient in Hellas, was at that time the only one. [3] When the Pelasgians, then, asked at Dodona...
Hellas
80 Thebes ...of Zeus of Thebes told me that two priestesses had been carried away from Thebes by Phoenicians; one, they said they had heard was taken away and sold in Libya...
Thebes
76 32.75,26.25,0 Dodona ...then, I heard from the Theban priests; and what follows, the prophetesses of Dodona say: that two black doves had come flying from Thebes in Egypt, one to Libya...
Dodona
79 20.78784,39.54648,0 Thebes ...the prophetesses of Dodona say: that two black doves had come flying from Thebes in Egypt, one to Libya and one to Dodona; [2] the latter settled on an oak...
Thebes
76 32.75,26.25,0 Libya ...If the Phoenicians did in fact carry away the sacred women and sell one in Libya and one in Hellas, then, in my opinion, the place where this woman was sold in...
Libya
77 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Hellas ...did in fact carry away the sacred women and sell one in Libya and one in Hellas, then, in my opinion, the place where this woman was sold in what is now...
Hellas
75 Egypt ...that the woman was Egyptian30. [3] The fashions of divination at Thebes of Egypt and at Dodona are like one another; moreover, the practice of divining from the...
Egypt
78 Busiris ...Artemis at the town of Bubastis31 , and the next is that in honor of Isis at Busiris. [2] This town is in the middle of the Egyptian Delta, and there is in it a...
Busiris
79 30.72205,27.87313,0 Busiris ...they do there; I have already described how they keep the feast of Isis at Busiris. There, after the sacrifice, all the men and women lament, in countless...
Busiris
77 30.72205,27.87313,0 Egypt ...a narrow mountain pass opens into a great plain, which adjoins the plain of Egypt. [3] Winged serpents are said to fly from Arabia at the beginning of spring...
Egypt
78 Egypt ...the same song that the Greeks sing, and call Linus; so that of many things in Egypt that amaze me, one is: where did the Egyptians get Linus? Plainly they have...
Egypt
80 Canobus ...by the Delta's point and the town Cercasorus; but your voyage from the sea and Canobus to Naucratis will take you over the plain near the town of Anthylla and that...
Canobus
81 30.063645,31.320896,0 Nile ...Min was the first king of Egypt, and that first he separated Memphis from the Nile by a dam. All the river had flowed close under the sandy mountains on the...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...burnt but the rest escaped alive with their father. 108. After returning to Egypt, and avenging himself on his brother, Sesostris found work for the multitude...
Egypt
79 Egypt ...these verses the poet shows that he knew of Alexander's wanderings to Egypt; for Syria borders on Egypt, and the Phoenicians, to whom Sidon belongs, dwell...
Egypt
72 Egypt ...that they did not have Helen or the property claimed, but all of that was in Egypt, and they could not justly make reparation for what Proteus the Egyptian had...
Egypt
79 Egypt ...testimony, they sent Menelaus himself to Proteus. 119. Menelaus then went to Egypt and up the river to Memphis; there, relating the truth of the matter, he met...
Egypt
80 Nile ...no underground chambers, nor is it entered like the other by a canal from the Nile, but the river comes in through a built passage and encircles an island, in...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...Philitis, who then pastured his flocks in this place54. 129. The next king of Egypt, they said, was Kheops' son Mycerinus. Disliking his father's doings, he opened...
Egypt
81 Egypt ...among all the kings. [2] This is why he is praised above all the rulers of Egypt; for not only were his judgments just, but Mycerinus would give any who were...
Egypt
77 Egypt ...son, another Iadmon; hence Aesop, too, was Iadmon's. 135. Rhodopis came to Egypt to work, brought by Xanthes of Samos, but upon her arrival was freed for a lot...
Egypt
78 Egypt ...one who stood over him and urged him to gather together all the Priests in Egypt and cut them in half, he fled from the country. [2] Seeing this vision, he...
Egypt
77 Delos ...left out of their journey, for Carystians carry them to Tenos, and Tenians to Delos. [3] Thus (they say) these offerings come to Delos. But on the first journey...
Delos
80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Egypt ...and came to the Arabian Gulf. Xerxes agreed to this, and Sataspes went to Egypt where he received a ship and a crew from the Egyptians, and sailed past the...
Egypt
76 32.5,32.5,0 Asia ...it is bounded by seas; its length is known to be enough to stretch along both Asia and Libya. [2] I cannot guess for what reason the earth, which is one, has...
Asia
80 Scythian ...region of the Pontus has any cleverness, nor do we know of (overlooking the Scythian nation and Anacharsis) any notable man born there. [2] But the Scythian race...
Scythian
78 Scythia ...by the Peloponnesians; namely, that Anacharsis had been sent by the king of Scythia and had been a student of the ways of Hellas, and after his return told the...
Scythia
78 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...to settle among the Budini; and they speak a language half Greek and half Scythian. But the Budini do not speak the same language as the Geloni, nor is their...
Scythian
76 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...the law. 118. The kings of the aforesaid nations having gathered, then, the Scythian messengers came and laid everything before them, explaining how the Persian...
Scythian
79 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...to the land of the Budini. 123. As long as the Persians were traversing the Scythian and Sauromatic territory there was nothing for them to harm, as the land was...
Scythian
79 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...speech.” 128. So the herald went to carry this message to Darius; but the Scythian kings were filled with anger when they heard the word “slavery”. [2] They then...
Scythian
77 27.5,42.5,0 Asia ...to Sestos on the Chersonesus; from there, he crossed over with his ships to Asia, leaving Megabazus as his commander in Europe, a Persian whom he once honored...
Asia
78 Libya ...about other matters, the priestess' answer was that he should found a city in Libya. “Lord, I am too old and heavy to stir; command one of these younger men to do...
Libya
80 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Egypt ...of their lands and treated violently by the Cyrenaeans, these then sent to Egypt together with their king, whose name was Adicran, and put their affairs in the...
Egypt
77 32.5,32.5,0 Egypt ...[2] But when she learned of her son's death at Barce, she made her escape to Egypt, trusting to the good service which Arcesilaus had done Cambyses the son of...
Egypt
79 32.5,32.5,0 Egypt ...himself with the Medes. 166. This Aryandes had been appointed viceroy of Egypt by Cambyses; at a later day, he was put to death for making himself equal to...
Egypt
76 32.5,32.5,0 Libya ...too, except deer and wild boar; of these two kinds there are none at all in Libya. [3] There are in this country three kinds of mice, the two-footed,65 the...
Libya
78 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...by our utmost enquiry we have been able to learn. 193. Next to the Maxyes of Libya are the Zauekes, whose women drive their chariots to war. 194. Next to these...
Libya
80 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Libya ...too. 196. Another story is told by the Carthaginians. There is a place in Libya, they say, where men live beyond the Pillars of Heracles; they come here and...
Libya
77 22.08409203276879,28.91884175132798,0 Egypt ...For as soon as she had revenged herself on the Barcaeans and returned to Egypt, she met an awful death. For while still alive she teemed with maggots: thus...
Egypt
75 32.5,32.5,0 Sardis ...to the Persians. 11. As soon as Darius had crossed the Hellespont and come to Sardis,4 he remembered the good service done him by Histiaeus of Miletus and the...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...be rulers of their countrymen. When Darius had crossed into Asia, they came to Sardis, bringing with them their sister, a tall and beautiful woman. [2] There...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Hellespont ...women, and children. [2] Immediately a horseman sped with this message to the Hellespont, and upon crossing it, gave the letter to Megabazus, who, after reading it...
Hellespont
80 26.4,40.2,0 Olympia ...part of my history. Furthermore, the Hellenodicae11 who manage the contest at Olympia determined that it is so, [2] for when Alexander chose to contend and entered...
Olympia
80 21.630126,37.637849,0 Byzantium ...seat, was now made successor to Megabazus in his governorship. He captured Byzantium, Calchedon, Antandrus in the Troad, and Lamponium, and with ships he had taken...
Byzantium
77 28.975926,41.012379,0 Lemnos ...Troad, and Lamponium, and with ships he had taken from the Lesbians, he took Lemnos and Imbros, both of which were still inhabited by Pelasgians. 27. The Lemnians...
Lemnos
79 25.25,39.916667,0 Imbros ...Lamponium, and with ships he had taken from the Lesbians, he took Lemnos and Imbros, both of which were still inhabited by Pelasgians. 27. The Lemnians fought...
Imbros
79 25.903047,40.233058,0 Miletus ...evils, trouble began once more to come on the Ionians, and this from Naxos and Miletus. Naxos surpassed all the other islands in prosperity, and at about the same...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Pythian priestess ...he asked was whether his sovereignty would be of long duration. To this the Pythian priestess answered as follows: [2] ““When the Medes have a mule as king, Just then...
Pythian priestess
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Pythian priestess ...[2] The Agyllaeans sent to Delphi, wanting to mend their offense; and the Pythian priestess told them to do what the people of Agylla do to this day: for they pay great...
Pythian priestess
76 22.501169,38.482289,0 Dorians ...the country of the “Six Cities”—forbid admitting any of the neighboring Dorians to the Triopian temple, and even barred from using it those of their own group...
Dorians
74 Cimmerians ...who waged war against Deioces' descendant Cyaxares and the Medes, drove the Cimmerians out of Asia, took Smyrna (which was a colony from Colophon), and invaded the...
Cimmerians
78 24.93869,41.14788,0 Ionians ...took tribute from them, and won the friendship of others: the former being the Ionians, the Aeolians, and the Dorians of Asia, and the latter the Lacedaemonians. [3]...
Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Corinthians ...they could no longer deny what was proved against them. [8] This is what the Corinthians and Lesbians say, and there is a little bronze memorial of Arion on Taenarus...
Corinthians
79 22.878721,37.906045,0 Milesian territory ...not answer them before they restored the temple of Athena at Assesos in the Milesian territory, which they had burnt. 20. I know this much to be so because the Delphians...
Milesian territory
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Cilicians ...Croesus subjugated almost all the nations west of the Halys; for except the Cilicians and Lycians, all the rest Croesus held subject under him. These were the...
Cilicians
78 33.25,36.25,0 Mysians ...satisfied with it. But the son of Croesus now entered, having heard what the Mysians had asked for; and when Croesus refused to send his son with them, the young...
Mysians
79 28.25,38.75,0 Mysians ...you to drive the beast out of the country.” 37. This was his answer, and the Mysians were satisfied with it. But the son of Croesus now entered, having heard what...
Mysians
80 28.25,38.75,0 Lycians ...fighting, all the men of Xanthus. [3] Of the Xanthians who claim now to be Lycians the greater number, all except eighty households, are of foreign descent; these...
Lycians
77 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Lycians ...at length taken, and when Harpagus led his army into the plain of Xanthus, the Lycians came out to meet him, and showed themselves courageous fighting few against...
Lycians
81 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Mysians ...the rest Croesus held subject under him. These were the Lydians, Phrygians, Mysians, Mariandynians, Chalybes, Paphlagonians, the Thracian Thynians and Bithynians...
Mysians
78 28.25,38.75,0 Lycians ...almost all the nations west of the Halys; for except the Cilicians and Lycians, all the rest Croesus held subject under him. These were the Lydians...
Lycians
73 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 Mount Olympus ...thus, they went out provided with chosen young men and dogs. When they came to Mount Olympus, they hunted for the beast and, finding him, formed a circle and threw their...
Mount Olympus
81 29.2215753,40.0710098,0 Acropolis ...him carried wooden clubs. [6] These rose with Pisistratus and took the Acropolis; and Pisistratus ruled the Athenians, disturbing in no way the order of offices...
Acropolis
73 23.726166,37.971421,0 Pelasgian stock ...the Pelasgians spoke a language which was not Greek. [3] If, then, all the Pelasgian stock spoke so, then the Attic nation, being of Pelasgian blood, must have changed...
Pelasgian stock
77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Tegea ...by a combination of luck and skill. At that time there was free access to Tegea, so he went into a blacksmith's shop and watched iron being forged, standing...
Tegea
76 22.429,37.464,0 Tegea ...in their efforts. 68. It was Lichas, one of these men, who found the tomb in Tegea by a combination of luck and skill. At that time there was free access to...
Tegea
80 22.429,37.464,0 Tegea ...made a pretence of bringing a charge against him and banishing him. Coming to Tegea, he explained his misfortune to the smith and tried to rent the courtyard, but...
Tegea
80 22.429,37.464,0 Crete ...the Caunians are aborigines of the soil, but they say that they came from Crete. Their speech has become like the Carian, or the Carian like theirs (for I...
Crete
76 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Crete ...Lycians were from Crete in ancient times (for in the past none that lived on Crete were Greek). [2] Now there was a dispute in Crete about the royal power between...
Crete
79 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Spartan king ...brought it from Crete when he was guardian of his nephew Leobetes, the Spartan king. [5] Once he became guardian, he changed all the laws and took care that no one...
Spartan king
73 22.42454,37.08149,0 Tegea ...eaters of acorns, Who will hinder you. But I grudge you not. I will give you Tegea to beat with your feet in dancing, And its fair plain to measure with a rope. ”...
Tegea
79 22.429,37.464,0 Cilicia ...was the river Halys, which flows from the Armenian mountains first through Cilicia and afterwards between the Matieni on the right and the Phrygians on the other...
Cilicia
77 35.75,38.25,0 Media ...tribe of wandering Scythians separated itself from the rest, and escaped into Median territory. This was then ruled by Cyaxares, son of Phraortes, son of Deioces...
Media
80 46.5,34.5,0 Media ...and the land of the Colchi; from the Colchi it is an easy matter to cross into Media: there is only one nation between, the Saspires; to pass these is to be in...
Media
81 46.5,34.5,0 Budii ...tribes are these: the Busae, the Paretaceni, the Struchates, the Arizanti, the Budii, the Magi. Their tribes are this many. 102. Deioces had a son, Phraortes, who...
Budii
81 Pylus ...chose Lycian descendants of Glaucus son of Hippolochus, and some Caucones of Pylus, descendants of Codrus son of Melanthus, and some both. Yet since they set more...
Pylus
79 21.69583,36.91198,0 Molossians ...of Orchomenus, Cadmeans, Dryopians, Phocian renegades from their nation, Molossians, Pelasgian Arcadians, Dorians of Epidaurus, and many other tribes; [2] and as...
Molossians
75 20.924639999999997,39.271716,0 Athenian descent ...that those of pure birth are Ionians; [2] and all are Ionians who are of Athenian descent and keep the feast Apaturia.48 All do keep it, except the men of Ephesus and...
Athenian descent
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lesbos ...[4] who received in return Atarneus, which is a district in Mysia opposite Lesbos. The Persians thus received Pactyes and kept him guarded, so that they might...
Lesbos
77 26.10052,39.20874,0 Methymna ...a sixth on Lesbos, Arisba, but its people were enslaved by their kinfolk of Methymna); there is one on Tenedos, and one again in the “Hundred Isles,”51 as they are...
Methymna
78 26.489422,39.05495,0 Arisba ...on the islands, five divide Lesbos among them (there was a sixth on Lesbos, Arisba, but its people were enslaved by their kinfolk of Methymna); there is one on...
Arisba
78 26.2272,39.2393,0 Mytilenaeans ...the bargain was never fulfilled; [3] for when the Cymaeans learned what the Mytilenaeans were about, they sent a ship to Lesbos and took Pactyes away to Chios. From...
Mytilenaeans
78 26.489422,39.05495,0 Mytilene ...to be besieged for keeping him with them. [2] Then Mazares sent a message to Mytilene demanding the surrender of Pactyes, and the Mytilenaeans prepared to give him...
Mytilene
79 26.55529,39.10772,0 Cyrnus ...before the iron should appear again. But while they prepared to sail to Cyrnus, more than half of the citizens were overcome with longing and pitiful sorrow...
Cyrnus
74 9.200077440000001,42.103331615555554,0 Phocaeans ...for Chios; and the Persians took Phocaea, left thus uninhabited. 165. The Phocaeans would have bought the islands called Oenussae from the Chians;54 but the Chians...
Phocaeans
77 26.75261,38.6684,0 Chios ...bronze or stonework or painting, and then embarked themselves and set sail for Chios; and the Persians took Phocaea, left thus uninhabited. 165. The Phocaeans...
Chios
81 26.053,38.414,0 Alalia ...that remained were useless, their rams twisted awry. [3] Then sailing to Alalia they took their children and women and all of their possessions that their...
Alalia
75 9.509064,42.10268,0 Caunian men ...inclined otherwise, and wanted to worship only the gods of their fathers, all Caunian men of full age put on their armor and went together as far as the boundaries of...
Caunian men
80 28.621536,36.825909,0 Carian ...say that they came from Crete. Their speech has become like the Carian, or the Carian like theirs (for I cannot clearly decide), but in their customs they diverge...
Carian
81 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Mylasa ...which they bear now; [6] and they point to an ancient shrine of Carian Zeus at Mylasa, to which Mysians and Lydians, as brethren of the Carians (for Lydus and Mysus...
Mylasa
81 27.75,37.25,0 Assyria ...of skins, and round. [2] They make these in Armenia, higher up the stream than Assyria. First they cut frames of willow, then they stretch hides over these for a...
Assyria
81 37.5,37.5,0 Assyria ...Such were the riches of the governor of Babylon. 193. There is little rain in Assyria. This nourishes the roots of the grain; but it is irrigation from the river...
Assyria
81 37.5,37.5,0 Persians ...the river banks, and so caught their enemies in a trap. [6] But as it was, the Persians took them unawares, and because of the great size of the city (those who dwell...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...fear: for the Phoenicians were not yet subjects of the Persians, nor were the Persians themselves mariners. [2] But those of Asia were cut off from the rest of the...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...should escape this time they might later revolt and be destroyed by the Persians. [2] Cyrus was pleased by this counsel; he relented in his anger and said he...
Persian
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...157. After giving these commands on his journey, he marched away into the Persian country. But Pactyes, learning that an army sent against him was approaching...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...telling the men of Cyme to surrender him. [2] But we, as much as we fear the Persian power, have not dared give up this suppliant of ours until it is clearly made...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...[2] So then Hystaspes replied with this: “O King, may there not be any Persian born who would plot against you! But if there is, may he perish suddenly; for...
Persian
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...years. [4] Tomyris filled a skin with human blood, and searched among the Persian dead for Cyrus' body; and when she found it, she pushed his head into the skin...
Persian
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...but at last the Massagetae got the upper hand. [3] The greater part of the Persian army was destroyed there on the spot, and Cyrus himself fell there, after...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...and the Greek people they consider to be separate from them. 5. Such is the Persian account; in their opinion, it was the taking of Troy which began their hatred...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...his mourning; and he determined, if he could, to forestall the increase of the Persian power before they became great. [2] Having thus determined, he at once made...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...meaning of the oracle, invaded Cappadocia, expecting to destroy Cyrus and the Persian power. [2] But while he was preparing to march against the Persians, a certain...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...For myself, then, I thank the gods that they do not put it in the heads of the Persians to march against the Lydians.” Sandanis spoke thus but he did not persuade...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...him whether he were struck and killed. [4] But this mute son, when he saw the Persian coming on, in fear and distress broke into speech and cried, “Man, do not kill...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...shall he first speak.” ” [3] So at the taking of the fortification a certain Persian, not knowing who Croesus was, came at him meaning to kill him. Croesus saw him...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...the paper and declared that in it Astyages appointed him leader of the Persian armies. “Now,” he said in his speech, “I command you, men of Persia, to come...
Persian
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...prosper: for otherwise, it passes from your nation to this boy who is a Persian, and so we Medes are enslaved and held of no account by the Persians, as we are...
Persian
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...after a reign of thirty-five years: and the Medes had to bow down before the Persians because of Astyages' cruelty. They had ruled all Asia beyond the Halys for one...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Colchians ...of the second wrong. [2] They sailed in a long ship to Aea, a city of the Colchians, and to the river Phasis:2 and when they had done the business for which they...
Colchians
76 39.228819,38.52585,0 Phoenicians ...cause of their waging war on each other. The Persian learned men say that the Phoenicians were the cause of the dispute. These (they say) came to our seas from the sea...
Phoenicians
81 35.25,33.25,0 Milesians ...were destroyed. [2] And the offerings of Croesus at Branchidae of the Milesians, as I learn by inquiry, are equal in weight and like those at Delphi. Those...
Milesians
72 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...thus seen that there are four modes of speech. 143. Among these Ionians, the Milesians were safe from the danger (for they had made a treaty), and the islanders among...
Milesians
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...it on vigorously. [3] None of the Ionians helped to lighten this war for the Milesians, except the Chians: these lent their aid in return for a similar service done...
Milesians
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...an account contrary to his expectations; [4] so presently the Lydians and Milesians ended the war and agreed to be friends and allies, and Alyattes built not one...
Milesians
76 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...his illness. That is the story of Alyattes' war against Thrasybulus and the Milesians. 23. Periander, who disclosed the oracle's answer to Thrasybulus, was the son...
Milesians
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Delphic ...his plans accordingly. 21. The Milesians say it happened so. Then, when the Delphic reply was brought to Alyattes, he promptly sent a herald to Miletus, offering...
Delphic
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Sparta ...there. He dug up the grave and collected the bones, then hurried off to Sparta with them. Ever since then the Spartans were far superior to the Tegeans...
Sparta
74 22.42454,37.08149,0 the Lacedaemonians ...that at that time such problems were oppressing the Athenians, but that the Lacedaemonians had escaped from the great evils and had mastered the Tegeans in war. In the...
the Lacedaemonians
74 22.42454,37.08149,0 the Lacedaemonians ...mastered the Tegeans in war. In the kingship of Leon and Hegesicles at Sparta, the Lacedaemonians were successful in all their other wars but met disaster only against the...
the Lacedaemonians
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Greeks ...destroy a great empire. And they advised him to discover the mightiest of the Greeks and make them his friends. 54. When the divine answers had been brought back...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...Such then is this tomb. 94. The customs of the Lydians are like those of the Greeks, except that they make prostitutes of their female children. They were the...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...because, I suppose, they have never believed the gods to be like men, as the Greeks do; [2] but they call the whole circuit of heaven Zeus, and to him they...
Greeks
79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...and had they followed it they might have been the most prosperous of all Greeks: [2] for he advised them to put out to sea and sail all together to Sardo and...
Greeks
75 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...or concubine, the children are dishonored. 174. Neither the Carians nor any Greeks who dwell in this country did any thing notable before they were all enslaved...
Greeks
79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...then sailed away for Egypt. 2. In this way, the Persians say (and not as the Greeks), was how Io came to Egypt, and this, according to them, was the first wrong...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...the account between them was balanced. But after this (they say), it was the Greeks who were guilty of the second wrong. [2] They sailed in a long ship to Aea, a...
Greeks
79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...purified him ( [2] the Lydians have the same manner of purification as the Greeks), and when he had done everything customary, he asked the Phrygian where he...
Greeks
77 22.5,37.5,0 Persians ...say), the Greeks were very much to blame; for they invaded Asia before the Persians attacked Europe. [2] “We think,” they say, “that it is unjust to carry women...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...4. So far it was a matter of mere seizure on both sides. But after this (the Persians say), the Greeks were very much to blame; for they invaded Asia before the...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greeks ...is a sea by itself, not joined to the other sea. For that on which the Greeks sail, and the sea beyond the pillars of Heracles, which they call Atlantic, and...
Greeks
73 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...their customs: each man marries a wife, but the wives are common to all. The Greeks say this is a Scythian custom; it is not, but a custom of the Massagetae...
Greeks
79 22.5,37.5,0 Delphian message ...all the writings. Some of them in no way satisfied him. But when he read the Delphian message, he acknowledged it with worship and welcome, considering Delphi as the only...
Delphian message
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lacedaemonians ...[2] “Croesus, King of Lydia and other nations, has sent us with this message: ‘Lacedaemonians, the god has declared that I should make the Greek my friend; now, therefore...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Athens ...to his home. 64. The Athenians did, and by this means Pisistratus gained Athens for the third time, rooting his sovereignty in a strong guard and revenue...
Athens
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...conveyed them to another part of Delos. [3] So Pisistratus was sovereign of Athens: and as for the Athenians, some had fallen in the battle, and some, with the...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...made common cause and drove him out. In this way Pisistratus first got Athens and, as he had a sovereignty that was not yet firmly rooted, lost it. Presently...
Athens
73 23.726464,37.971687,0 Argive mercenaries ...to make a long story, everything was ready for their return: for they brought Argive mercenaries from the Peloponnese, and there joined them on his own initiative a man of...
Argive mercenaries
80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thebans ...all the cities that owed them anything. Many of these gave great amounts, the Thebans more than any, [4] and in course of time, not to make a long story, everything...
Thebans
80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Eretria ...and brought them money and men. 62. So after ten years they set out from Eretria and returned home. The first place in Attica which they took and held was...
Eretria
76 22.607216,39.290562,0 Naxos ...Athenians who remained and did not leave the city at once, and placed these in Naxos. [2] (He had conquered Naxos too and put Lygdamis in charge.) And besides this...
Naxos
81 25.37699,37.10595,0 Laconian guest ...perceived that he was amazed, so he stopped what he was doing and said, “My Laconian guest, if you had seen what I saw, then you would really be amazed, since you marvel...
Laconian guest
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartan state ...year in which they retire from the knights being sent here and there by the Spartan state, never resting in their efforts. 68. It was Lichas, one of these men, who...
Spartan state
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Tegeans ...gained the upper hand. This is how: [2] when they kept being defeated by the Tegeans, they sent ambassadors to Delphi to ask which god they should propitiate to...
Tegeans
79 22.429,37.464,0 Pythia ...which god they should propitiate to prevail against the Tegeans in war. The Pythia responded that they should bring back the bones of Orestes, son of Agamemnon...
Pythia
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Tegean plain ...bound in the very chains they had brought with them, and they measured the Tegean plain with a rope21 by working the fields. The chains in which they were bound were...
Tegean plain
77 22.429,37.464,0 Phocaea ...sacred to the Mother Dindymene27 and empties into the sea near the city of Phocaea). [2] When Cyrus saw the Lydians maneuvering their battle-lines here, he was...
Phocaea
77 26.75261,38.6684,0 Argive woman ...and made a law, with a curse added to it, that no Argive grow his hair, and no Argive woman wear gold, until they recovered Thyreae; [8] and the Lacedaemonians made a...
Argive woman
81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athenian ...he had said, [5] persistently harassing him. He explained that first Solon the Athenian had come and seen all his fortune and spoken as if he despised it. Now...
Athenian
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persians ...was silent, deep in thought. [2] Presently he turned and said (for he saw the Persians sacking the city of the Lydians), “O King, am I to say to you what is in my...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...days. Fulfilling the oracle, he had destroyed his own great empire. The Persians took him and brought him to Cyrus, [2] who erected a pyre and mounted Croesus...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...wrote what he thought best. Then he sewed up the hare's belly, and sent it to Persia by the most trusted of his servants, giving him nets to carry as if he were a...
Persia
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...Pasargadae; to them belongs the clan of the Achaemenidae, the royal house of Persia. [4] The other Persian tribes are the Panthialaei, the Derusiaei, and the...
Persia
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...laid bare his whole purpose, and said: [5] “This is your situation, men of Persia: obey me and you shall have these good things and ten thousand others besides...
Persia
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Pasargadae ...Maspii. On these all the other Persians depend. The chief tribe is that of the Pasargadae; to them belongs the clan of the Achaemenidae, the royal house of Persia. [4]...
Pasargadae
81 53.17334,30.1985,0 Persians ...you shall rule all the country which is now ruled by Astyages. Persuade the Persians to rebel, and lead their army against the Medes; [3] then you have your wish...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Assyrians ...they learned later to sacrifice to the “heavenly”44 Aphrodite from the Assyrians and Arabians. She is called by the Assyrians Mylitta, by the Arabians Alilat...
Assyrians
73 37.5,37.5,0 Persians ...for they do not conceal the practice. But this is certain, that before the Persians bury the body in earth they embalm it in wax. These Magi are as unlike the...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Aegae ...Achaeans who drove the Ionians out—Pellene nearest to Sicyon; then Aegira and Aegae, where is the never-failing river Crathis, from which the river in Italy took...
Aegae
80 22.3484,38.1478,0 Achaeans ...these—these were the twelve divisions of the Ionians, as they are now of the Achaeans. 146. For this reason, and for no other, the Ionians too made twelve cities...
Achaeans
79 22.224585911364017,38.102121472776034,0 Crathis ...nearest to Sicyon; then Aegira and Aegae, where is the never-failing river Crathis, from which the river in Italy took its name; Bura and Helice, where the...
Crathis
77 22.25,38.25,0 Orchomenus ...who are not Ionians even in name, and there are mingled with them Minyans of Orchomenus, Cadmeans, Dryopians, Phocian renegades from their nation, Molossians...
Orchomenus
79 22.959486,38.495082,0 Minyans ...from Euboea, who are not Ionians even in name, and there are mingled with them Minyans of Orchomenus, Cadmeans, Dryopians, Phocian renegades from their nation...
Minyans
81 Cyme ...that an army sent against him was approaching, was frightened and fled to Cyme. [2] Mazares the Mede, when he came to Sardis with the part that he had of...
Cyme
76 26.936283,38.75953,0 Cyme ...is in the land of Miletus, above the harbor of Panormus. 158. The men of Cyme, then, sent to Branchidae to inquire of the shrine what they should do in the...
Cyme
76 26.936283,38.75953,0 Cyme ...son of Heraclides, a notable man among the citizens, stopped the men of Cyme from doing it; for he did not believe the oracle and thought that those who had...
Cyme
74 26.936283,38.75953,0 Aeolian ...were the first whom Croesus attacked; afterwards he made war on the Ionian and Aeolian cities in turn, upon different pretexts: he found graver charges where he...
Aeolian
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Aeolian ...names of the Persians. 149. Those are the Ionian cities, and these are the Aeolian: Cyme (called “Phriconian”),49 Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion...
Aeolian
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Helicon ...is a sacred ground in Mykale, facing north; it was set apart for Poseidon of Helicon by the joint will of the Ionians. Mykale is a western promontory of the...
Helicon
79 Mede ...Now one of these boys playing with him was the son of Artembares, a notable Mede; when he did not perform his assignment from Cyrus, Cyrus told the other boys...
Mede
78 46.5,34.5,0 Egyptians ...[4] For he had Babylon on his hands and the Bactrian nation and the Sacae and Egyptians; he meant to lead the army against these himself, and to send another commander...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Bactrian nation ...taking no notice of the Ionians. [4] For he had Babylon on his hands and the Bactrian nation and the Sacae and Egyptians; he meant to lead the army against these himself...
Bactrian nation
79 67.5,37.5,0 Cymaeans ...exactly how much it was, for the bargain was never fulfilled; [3] for when the Cymaeans learned what the Mytilenaeans were about, they sent a ship to Lesbos and took...
Cymaeans
81 26.936283,38.75953,0 Sacae ...Ionians. [4] For he had Babylon on his hands and the Bactrian nation and the Sacae and Egyptians; he meant to lead the army against these himself, and to send...
Sacae
79 72.5,37.5,0 Oenotrian ...fled to Rhegium set out from there and gained possession of that city in the Oenotrian58 country which is now called Hyele;59 [4] they founded this because they...
Oenotrian
79 15.00532475,40.42064875,0 Posidonia ...now called Hyele;59 [4] they founded this because they learned from a man of Posidonia that the Cyrnus whose establishment the Pythian priestess ordained was the...
Posidonia
79 15.005102,40.421378,0 Abdera ...out by the Thracians. This Timesius is now honored as a hero by the Teians of Abdera. 169. These were the only Ionians who left their native lands, unable to...
Abdera
80 24.97363,40.93119,0 Ninus ...where the royal dwelling had been established after the destruction of Ninus.61 Babylon was a city such as I will now describe. [2] It lies in a great...
Ninus
73 43.1609,36.34773,0 Chaldaeans ...the god, as the Chaldaeans say, who are priests of this god. 182. These same Chaldaeans say (though I do not believe them) that the god himself is accustomed to visit...
Chaldaeans
80 Zeus Belus ...and in the middle of the other is still to this day the sacred enclosure of Zeus Belus,64 a square of four hundred and forty yards each way, with gates of bronze. [3]...
Zeus Belus
78 Massagetae ...it which is of least value. For if I am not mistaken in my judgment, when the Massagetae see so many good things they will give themselves over to feasting on them; and...
Massagetae
80 62.5,37.5,0 Persians ...against you! But if there is, may he perish suddenly; for you have made the Persians free men instead of slaves and rulers of all instead of subjects of any. [3]...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greeks ...another plan. [4] Do not, O king, make the Persians the laughing-stock of the Greeks, for if you have suffered harm, it is by no fault of the Persians. Nor can you...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...ships should do them hurt and fearing Xerxes' anger, waited no longer for the Greeks to begin the fight, but gave the word and put out to sea about midday. So it...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...to do nothing for the moment. Now fifty-three Attic ships came to aid the Greeks, [2] who were encouraged both by the ships coming and by the news that the...
Greeks
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...the strait. 16. So when Xerxes' men ordered their battle and advanced, the Greeks remained in their station off Artemisium, and the barbarians made a half circle...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...present and soon to come they suffered the greatest calamity. 21. While the Greeks were doing as I have said, there came to them their lookout from Trachis. There...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...achieved, they took five Greek ships together with their crews. As regards the Greeks, it was the Athenians who bore themselves best on that day, and of the...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...half circle of their ships striving to encircle and enclose them. At that the Greeks charged and joined battle. In that sea-fight both had equal success. [2]...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...this question in the name of all. [2] When the Arcadians told them that the Greeks were holding the Olympic festival and viewing sports and horseraces, the...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...ridiculous; of the Persians a thousand lay dead before their eyes, but the Greeks lay all together assembled in one place, to the number of four thousand. [3]...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Athenians ...it was untouched. When the priestess interpreted the significance of this, the Athenians were all the more eager to abandon the city since the goddess had deserted the...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the fleet of the Hellenes came from Artemisium and put in at Salamis. The Athenians requested them to put in at Salamis so that they take their children and women...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...of Euryclides, a Spartan but not of royal descent. The ships provided by the Athenians were by far the most numerous and the most seaworthy. 43. The following took...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...at Salamis, the king will be in danger of losing his fleet. [4] Every year the Athenians observe this festival for the Mother and the Maiden, and any Athenian or other...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...that the Athenians might desert them if they set sail for the Isthmus. If the Athenians left, the rest would be no match for the enemy, so he made the choice to remain...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...in the shrine are an olive tree and a pool of salt water. The story among the Athenians is that they were set there by Poseidon and Athena as tokens when they...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and the likeness of our way of life, to all of which it would not befit the Athenians to be false. [3] Know this now, if you knew it not before, that as long as one...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the command at sea to the Athenians. However, when the allies resisted, the Athenians waived their claim, considering the safety of Hellas of prime importance and...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the Greeks siding with the Persian, deserted to the Greeks, and for that the Athenians gave him land in Salamis. 12. When darkness came on, the season being then...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Greeks, it was the Athenians who bore themselves best on that day, and of the Athenians Clinias son of Alcibiades. He brought to the war two hundred men and a ship of...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the wrecks. They had, however, had a rough time of it themselves, chiefly the Athenians, half of whose ships had suffered some damage. Now their counsel was to flee to...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Greeks ...or if it pleases you to wait, that also we can do. Do not be downcast, for the Greeks have no way of escaping guilt for their former and their later deeds and from...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Persians ...of Ionia, you who hear us, understand what I say, for by no means will the Persians understand anything I charge you with when we join battle; first of all it is...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the other Ionians saw the Samians set the example, they also abandoned the Persians and attacked the foreigners. 104. The Persians had for their own safety...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...forever. If, however, they should not so stand, they had no hope that the Persians would permit the Ionians to go unpunished. [3] In this matter the...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...fruits of the earth and valiant warriors grow not from the same soil.” [4] The Persians now realized that Cyrus reasoned better than they, and they departed, choosing...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...do them and for lack of allies, the Athenians, will make their peace with the Persian as best they can, [2] and thereafter, in so far as we will be king's allies, we...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...shall see but a small remnant left alive of all these.” As he said this, the Persian wept bitterly. [4] Marvelling at these words, Thersander answered: “Must you...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...to Mardonius and those honorable Persians who are with him?” “Sir,” said the Persian, “that which a god wills to send no man can turn aside, for even truth...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...and completely abandoned their request; but when the dreadful menace of this Persian host hung over them, they consented and granted his demand. When he saw their...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...pressing upon and troubling the Greeks, for the Thebans, in their zeal for the Persian part, waged war heartily, and kept on guiding the horsemen to the encounter...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...was Masistius (whom the Greeks call Macistius), a man much honored among the Persians; he rode a Nesaean horse which had a golden bit and was elaborately adorned all...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...for gain. [2] When no favorable omens for battle could be won either by the Persians themselves or by the Greeks who were with them (for they too had a diviner of...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...morning. 43. Now for this prophecy, which Mardonius said was spoken of the Persians, I know it to have been made concerning not them but the Illyrians and the army...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...they pressed their adversaries hardest. So long as Mardonius was alive the Persians stood their ground and defended themselves, overthrowing many Lacedaemonians...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...before the actual closing of battle and was prompted because they saw the Persians flee, proves to me that it was on the Persians that the fortune of the...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...treasury (for it was by the common will and not ours alone that we took the Persian side). If, however, they are besieging the town for no other reason than to...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...[3] Breaking down the shields they charged all together into the midst of the Persians, who received the onset and stood their ground for a long time, but at last...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...acted wholly contrary to the charge laid upon them; they misguided the fleeing Persians by ways that led them among their enemies, and at last they themselves became...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...hinges on that, none awaits us. [4] Therefore, as many of you as wish the Persian well may rejoice in that we will overcome the Greeks.” Having spoken in this...
Persian
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...ran to their generals and told them that a horseman had ridden in from the Persian camp, imparting no other word save that he desired to speak to the generals and...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...broken ground and the lower slopes of Cithaeron in order to stay clear of the Persian horse. The Athenians marched down into the plain instead. 57. Now Amompharetus...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Hellespont ...journeyed onward; the land army was with him. 58. His navy sailed out of the Hellespont and travelled along the land, going across from the land army. [2] The ships...
Hellespont
80 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...son of Pytheas of Abdera, they were made captive at Bisanthe on the Hellespont, and carried away to Attica, where the Athenians put them, and with them...
Hellespont
70 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...no knowledge of the Persian invader of Hellas, how he proposes to bridge the Hellespont and lead all the hosts of the east from Asia against us, making an open show of...
Hellespont
79 26.4,40.2,0 Peloponnese ...him out, wanting to talk to him. He had already heard that those from the Peloponnese were anxious to set sail for the Isthmus, [3] so when Themistocles came out he...
Peloponnese
76 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Hellespont ...lay obliquely to the line of the Pontus and parallel with the current of the Hellespont.22 [2] After putting the ships together they let down very great anchors, both...
Hellespont
79 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...I may impart to you what I intend to do. 8B. It is my intent to bridge the Hellespont and lead my army through Europe to Hellas, so I may punish the Athenians for...
Hellespont
77 26.4,40.2,0 Ister ...Naparis, and Ordessus flow between these two and pour their waters into the Ister. 49. These are the native-born Scythian rivers that help to swell it; but the...
Ister
78 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...53. The fourth is the Borysthenes river. This is the next greatest after the Ister, and the most productive, in our judgment, not only of the Scythian but of all...
Ister
80 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...when Octamasades heard this he led his army there. But when he was beside the Ister, the Thracians barred his way; and when the armies were about to engage...
Ister
80 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...followed their army. When Darius and the land army with him had come to the Ister, and all had crossed, he had the Ionians break the bridge and follow him in his...
Ister
78 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...appointed to stand on guard by the Maeetian lake and had now been sent to the Ister to speak with the Ionians—they said, [2] “Ionians, we have come to bring you...
Ister
80 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...here, and ourselves depart, before the Scythians can march straight to the Ister to break up the bridge, or the Ionians take some action by which we may well be...
Ister
77 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...were left behind, and lighting campfires, Darius made all haste to reach the Ister. When the asses found themselves deserted by the multitude, they brayed the...
Ister
79 29.647293,45.16291,0 Ister ...that was with the Sauromatae and Budini and Geloni, and made straight for the Ister in pursuit of the Persians. [2] And as the Persian army was for the most part...
Ister
80 29.647293,45.16291,0 Hypanis ...nor, I think, can any Greek. When the Borysthenes comes near the sea, the Hypanis mingles with it, running into the same marsh; [6] the land between these...
Hypanis
76 31.3343727,47.5349319,0 Ister ...of these rivers is a great stream flowing east and uniting its waters with the Ister; the second, the Tiarantus, is more westerly and smaller; the Ararus, Naparis...
Ister
81 29.647293,45.16291,0 Hypanis ...I shall name. There is the Ister, which has five mouths, and the Tyras, and Hypanis, and Borysthenes, and Panticapes, and Hypacuris, and Gerrhus, and Tanaïs. Their...
Hypanis
78 31.3343727,47.5349319,0 Ordessus ...Pyretus,26 and besides this the Tiarantus, the Ararus, the Naparis, and the Ordessus. [3] The first-named of these rivers is a great stream flowing east and uniting...
Ordessus
78 Ararus ...Scythians Porata and by Greeks Pyretus,26 and besides this the Tiarantus, the Ararus, the Naparis, and the Ordessus. [3] The first-named of these rivers is a great...
Ararus
80 Hypacuris ...after passing which it mingles with the Borysthenes. 55. The sixth is the Hypacuris river,30 which rises from a lake, and flowing through the midst of the nomadic...
Hypacuris
77 33.5,46.5,0 Hypacuris ...five mouths, and the Tyras, and Hypanis, and Borysthenes, and Panticapes, and Hypacuris, and Gerrhus, and Tanaïs. Their courses are as I shall indicate. 48. The...
Hypacuris
80 33.5,46.5,0 Tiarantus ...stream flowing east and uniting its waters with the Ister; the second, the Tiarantus, is more westerly and smaller; the Ararus, Naparis, and Ordessus flow between...
Tiarantus
77 20.2732883,46.847661,0 Boeotians ...Gephyraeans were forced to go to Athens after being expelled in turn by the Boeotians. The Athenians received them as citizens of their own on set terms, debarring...
Boeotians
78 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotians ...and as soon as the Athenians saw these allies, they resolved to attack the Boeotians before the Chalcidians. [2] When they met the Boeotians in battle, they won a...
Boeotians
77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotians ...as many of these as they took alive and kept them imprisoned with the captive Boeotians. In time, however, they set them free, each for an assessed ransom of two...
Boeotians
80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotians ...Thebans without sending a herald. [3] While the Athenians were busy with the Boeotians, they descended on Attica in ships of war, and ravaged Phaleron and many other...
Boeotians
79 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Boeotians ...and now at the Thebans' call the Aeginetans came readily to the aid of the Boeotians, remembering the matter of the images. [2] While the Aeginetans were laying...
Boeotians
77 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Thessalians ...to depart. Amyntas king of the Macedonians offered him Anthemus, and the Thessalians Iolcus, but he would have neither. He withdrew to Sigeum, which Pisistratus had...
Thessalians
75 22.2,39.6,0 Conium ...at their entreaty, joined together and sent their own king, Cineas of Conium, with a thousand horsemen. When the Pisistratidae got these allies, they...
Conium
72 30.05891,38.947498,0 Thessalian ...army they sent not by sea but by land. [2] When they broke into Attica, the Thessalian horsemen were the first to meet them. They were routed after only a short time...
Thessalian
78 22.2,39.6,0 Heracleum ...army drew off, and Anchimolius' tomb is at Alopecae in Attica, near to the Heracleum in Cynosarges.28 64. After this the Lacedaemonians sent out a greater army to...
Heracleum
77 Sigeum ...his armor was taken by the Athenians and hung up in the temple of Athena at Sigeum. [2] Alcaeus wrote a poem about this and sent it to Mytilene. In it he relates...
Sigeum
78 26.18372,39.98975,0 Caria ...but his lineage I cannot say. His kinsfolk, at any rate, sacrifice to Zeus of Caria. [2] These men with their factions fell to contending for power, Cleisthenes...
Caria
80 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Sicyonians ...Assites and Porkites. [2] These were the names of the tribes which the Sicyonians used under Cleisthenes' rule and for sixty years more after his death...
Sicyonians
73 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sicyonian ...they called Aegialeis after Aegialeus son of Adrastus. 69. This is what the Sicyonian Cleisthenes had done, and the Athenian Cleisthenes, following the lead of his...
Sicyonian
79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Epidaurians ...from the Epidaurians. [2] In the course of this struggle, they did the Epidaurians much damage and stole their images of Damia and Auxesia. These they took away...
Epidaurians
73 23.079167,37.596111,0 Aegina ...it is not just that we should still be paying. Ask your dues of the men of Aegina, who have the images.” [2] The Athenians therefore sent to Aegina and demanded...
Aegina
77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...be used. 89. Ever since that day even to my time the women of Argos and Aegina wore brooch-pins longer than before, by reason of the feud with the Athenians...
Aegina
75 23.42372,37.74991,0 Medes ...out of the gates. [3] Gorgus, after having lost his city, took refuge with the Medes, and Onesilus, now king of Salamis, persuaded all Cyprus to revolt with him...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Salamis ...Gorgus, he and his faction waited till his brother had gone out of the city of Salamis, and shut him out of the gates. [3] Gorgus, after having lost his city, took...
Salamis
81 33.90294,35.17926,0 Maeander ...it was decided instead that the Persians and not the Cilicians should have the Maeander at their back, the intent being that if the Persians were overcome in the...
Maeander
81 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Maeander ...the river. 119. Presently, when the Persians had come and had crossed the Maeander, they and the Carians joined battle by the river Marsyas. The Carians fought...
Maeander
77 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Propontis ...went in pursuit of the Ionians who marched on Sardis, now turned towards the Propontis, and there took Cius in Mysia. [2] When he had taken this place and heard that...
Propontis
79 28.2499999,40.6666672,0 Idria ...called the White Pillars by the river Marsyas56 which flows from the region of Idria and issues into the Maeander. [2] When they had gathered together, many plans...
Idria
81 28.25,37.25,0 Medes ...among the Samians were displeased by the dealings of their generals with the Medes, so after the sea-fight they took counsel immediately and resolved that before...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...in that most excellent city of Zancle, after they had escaped from the Medes. 25. After the fight at sea for Miletus, the Phoenicians at the Persians'...
Medes
73 46.5,34.5,0 Samos ...and straight towards the Hellespont and Thrace, but setting forth from Samos they sailed by the Icarian sea and from island to island; this, to my thinking...
Samos
73 26.84,37.73,0 Sicilian ...the people of Zancle and their king (whose name was Scythes) were besieging a Sicilian town desiring to take it. [2] Learning this, Anaxilaus the tyrant of Rhegium...
Sicilian
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Rhegium ...Sicilian town desiring to take it. [2] Learning this, Anaxilaus the tyrant of Rhegium, being then in a feud with the Zanclaeans, joined forces with the Samians and...
Rhegium
80 15.649244,38.111146,0 Chersonese ...of Cimon's sons, was then being brought up with his uncle Miltiades in the Chersonese. The younger was with Cimon at Athens, and he took the name Miltiades from...
Chersonese
77 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...met him. They brought him to court and prosecuted him for tyranny in the Chersonese, but he was acquitted and appointed Athenian general, chosen by the people...
Chersonese
75 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Chersonese ...The isthmus is thirty-six stadia across, and to the south of the isthmus the Chersonese is four hundred and twenty stadia in length. 37. After Miltiades had pushed...
Chersonese
79 33.4922867,44.6109122,0 Sardis ...who visited the oracle of Alcmeon's benefits to him, he summoned Alcmeon to Sardis, and there made him a gift of as much gold as he could carry away at one time...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Perinthus ...that belong to the Hellespont: the Chersonese, in which there are many cities; Perinthus, and the forts that lie towards Thrace, and Selymbria and Byzantium. [2] The...
Perinthus
81 27.95454,40.97089,0 Sardis ...he might escape and again win power at the court, Artaphrenes, governor of Sardis, and Harpagus, who had captured him, impaled his body on the spot, and sent his...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Styx ...of the Styx.26 [2] Near this city is said to be the Arcadian water of the Styx, and this is its nature: it is a stream of small appearance, dropping from a...
Styx
76 22.25,38.25,0 Olympia ...to wed her to the best man he could find in Hellas. [2] It was the time of the Olympian games, and when he was victor there with a four-horse chariot, Cleisthenes...
Olympia
81 21.630126,37.637849,0 Spartans ...instigation he took an oath against him, saying that he was not king of the Spartans by right, since he was not Ariston's son. After making this oath, he prosecuted...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Nonacris ...dropping from a cliff into a pool; a wall of stones runs round the pool. Nonacris, where this spring rises, is a city of Arcadia near Pheneus. 75. When the...
Nonacris
75 22.241203,38.014421,0 Spartans ...so he married a third time. This is how it came about: he had among the Spartans a friend to whom he was especially attached. This man's wife was by far the...
Spartans
74 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sicyon ...to be his son-in-law should come on the sixtieth day from then or earlier to Sicyon, and Cleisthenes would make good his promise of marriage in a year from that...
Sicyon
79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Sicyon ...sacrificed a hundred oxen and gave a feast to the suitors and to the whole of Sicyon. [2] After dinner the suitors vied with each other in music and in anecdotes...
Sicyon
80 22.71135,37.98336,0 Corinthians ...were asking the Corinthians to lend them ships, the affair was ruined. The Corinthians at that time were their close friends, so they consented to the Athenians' plea...
Corinthians
77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Mede ...other generals to lead his armies against Athens and Eretria, Datis, a Mede by birth, and his own nephew Artaphrenes son of Artaphrenes; the order he gave...
Mede
73 46.5,34.5,0 Marathon ...of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic. 113. They fought a long time at Marathon. In the center of the line the foreigners prevailed, where the Persians and...
Marathon
78 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Persians ...after they had had their fill of food and wine, they fell asleep. [3] Then the Persians attacked them, killing many and taking many more alive, among whom was the son...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Heliopolis ...this Egypt is a wide land again. Such is the nature of this country. 9. From Heliopolis to Thebes is nine days' journey by river, and the distance is six hundred and...
Heliopolis
80 31.305179,30.129369,0 Echinades Islands ...through Acarnania and emptying into the sea, has already made half of the Echinades Islands mainland. 11. Now in Arabia, not far from Egypt, there is a gulf extending...
Echinades Islands
76 21.25,38.25,0 Teuthrania ...to me to have once been a gulf of the sea, just as the country about Ilion and Teuthrania and Ephesus and the plain of the Maeander, to compare these small things with...
Teuthrania
81 27.054771,39.035223,0 Theban district ...who stayed behind, and many who spread down over it. Be that as it may, the Theban district, a land of seven hundred and sixty-five miles in circumference, was in the past...
Theban district
78 32.65285,25.70247,0 Pelusium ...as far as the city of Cercasorus,11 where the Nile divides and flows to Pelusium and Canobus, and that all the rest of Egypt is partly Libya and partly...
Pelusium
74 32.540631,31.042265,0 Egypt ...of seven hundred and sixty-five miles in circumference, was in the past called Egypt. 16. If, then, our judgment of this is right, the Ionians are in error...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Libya ...to be divided into two parts, and to claim both the names, the one a part of Libya and the other of Asia. [3] For the Nile, beginning from the Cataracts, divides...
Libya
79 26.5,31.5,0 Asia ...and Assyrians, and we know of no boundary line (rightly so called) below Asia and Libya except the borders of the Egyptians. [2] But if we follow the belief...
Asia
75 Delta ...of the Nile, when the river in its downward course reaches the apex of the Delta, flows thereafter clean through the middle of the Delta into the sea; in this...
Delta
77 Nile ...flows west, and is called the Canobic mouth. But the direct channel of the Nile, when the river in its downward course reaches the apex of the Delta, flows...
Nile
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Libyan ...Nile is in flood, it overflows not only the Delta but also the lands called Libyan and Arabian, as far as two days' journey from either bank in places, and...
Libyan
78 26.5,31.5,0 Delta ...given to them. 19. When the Nile is in flood, it overflows not only the Delta but also the lands called Libyan and Arabian, as far as two days' journey from...
Delta
75 Delta ...they had no part of or lot with Egypt: for they lived (they said) outside the Delta and did not consent to the ways of its people, and they wished to be allowed to...
Delta
80 Ocean ...the ear: according to it, the river effects what it does because it flows from Ocean, which flows around the whole world. 22. The third opinion is by far the most...
Ocean
81 Scythia ...nations as Darius had conquered, and Darius had not been able to overcome the Scythians; [3] therefore, it was not just that Darius should set his statue before the...
Scythia
80 27.5,47.5,0 Libyan ...But as to the sources of the Nile, no one that conversed with me, Egyptian, Libyan, or Greek, professed to know them, except the recorder of the sacred treasures...
Libyan
78 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...north wind, would pass over the inland parts of Europe as it now passes over Libya, and I think that in its passage over all Europe it would have the same effect...
Libya
79 26.5,31.5,0 Nile ...they are low, lacking the rain and being drawn up too by the sun. [5] But the Nile, being fed by no rain, and being the only river drawn up by the sun in winter...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Libyans ...Even without this, the Egyptians are the healthiest of all men, next to the Libyans; the explanation of which, in my opinion, is that the climate in all seasons is...
Libyans
78 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...adventures, had chosen by lot five of their company to visit the deserts of Libya and see whether they could see any farther than those who had seen the...
Libya
78 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...tribes of them, except the part held by Greeks and Phoenicians; the region of Libya that is above the sea and the inhabitants of the coast is infested by wild...
Libya
80 26.5,31.5,0 Libyan people ...told them that once he had been visited by some Nasamonians. [2] These are a Libyan people, inhabiting the country of the Syrtis and a little way to the east of the...
Libyan people
79 26.5,31.5,0 Phoenicians ...its length by Libyans, many tribes of them, except the part held by Greeks and Phoenicians; the region of Libya that is above the sea and the inhabitants of the coast is...
Phoenicians
81 35.25,33.25,0 Theban priests ...later the story which they were telling me. 55. That, then, I heard from the Theban priests; and what follows, the prophetesses of Dodona say: that two black doves had...
Theban priests
80 32.65285,25.70247,0 Pelasgia ...place where this woman was sold in what is now Hellas, but was formerly called Pelasgia, was Thesprotia; [2] and then, being a slave there, she established a shrine of...
Pelasgia
81 22.8398,38.94813,0 Dodona ...and the youngest Nicandra; and the rest of the servants of the temple at Dodona similarly held it true. 56. But my own belief about it is this. If the...
Dodona
75 20.78784,39.54648,0 Greece ...with great wealth. For Rhodopis desired to leave a memorial of herself in Greece, by having something made which no one else had thought of or dedicated in a...
Greece
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greece ...of Rhodopis, and later on a certain Archidice was the theme of song throughout Greece, although less celebrated than the other. [6] Kharaxus, after giving Rhodopis...
Greece
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Theban district ...though the rest are wary of this, there is a great city called Khemmis, in the Theban district, near the New City. [2] In this city is a square temple of Perseus son of...
Theban district
81 32.65285,25.70247,0 Ethiopian ...fled from Sabacos the Ethiopian, who killed his father Necos; then, when the Ethiopian departed because of what he saw in a dream, the Egyptians of the district of...
Ethiopian
79 38.721522,14.125005,0 Delphi ...of iron beef spits, as many as the tenth would pay for, and sent them to Delphi; these lie in a heap to this day, behind the altar set up by the Chians and in...
Delphi
75 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...Amphictyons paid three hundred talents to have the temple that now stands at Delphi finished (as that which was formerly there burnt down by accident), it was the...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Chians ...to Delphi; these lie in a heap to this day, behind the altar set up by the Chians and in front of the shrine itself. [5] The courtesans of Naucratis seem to be...
Chians
77 26.053,38.414,0 Mytilene ...cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene. [3] It is to these that the precinct belongs, and these are the cities that...
Mytilene
79 26.489422,39.05495,0 Arabia ...him to take heart, that he would come to no harm encountering the power of Arabia: “I shall send you champions,” said the god. [4] So he trusted the vision, and...
Arabia
77 42.5,27.5,0 Eleans ...Egyptians, although the wisest of all men, could not do better. [2] When the Eleans came to Egypt and announced why they had come, Psammis assembled the Egyptians...
Eleans
79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Eleans ...all that the Eleans were to do regarding the games; after explaining this, the Eleans said that they had come to learn whether the Egyptians could discover any...
Eleans
81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Eleans ...the Egyptians reputed to be wisest. These assembled and learned all that the Eleans were to do regarding the games; after explaining this, the Eleans said that...
Eleans
79 21.37493,37.89131,0 Eleans ...Egypt for that reason, you should admit only strangers to the contest, and not Eleans.” Such was the counsel of the Egyptians to the Eleans. 161. Psammis reigned...
Eleans
81 21.37493,37.89131,0 Libyan ...was something that I will now deal with briefly, and at greater length in the Libyan part of this history. [4] Apries sent a great force against Cyrene and suffered...
Libyan
80 26.5,31.5,0 Egyptian ...Apries. [3] When Apries heard of it, he sent against Amasis an esteemed Egyptian named Patarbemis, one of his own court, instructing him to take the rebel alive...
Egyptian
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...Cambyses was back at Memphis, there appeared in Egypt that Apis13 whom the Greeks call Epaphus; at whose epiphany the Egyptians put on their best clothing and...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...this belief about their customs. [3] When Darius was king, he summoned the Greeks who were with him and asked them for what price they would eat their fathers'...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Thebans ...saw an extraordinary thing, namely, rain at Thebes of Egypt, where, as the Thebans themselves say, there had never been rain before, nor since to my lifetime; for...
Thebans
77 32.65285,25.70247,0 Thebes ...at all in the upper parts of Egypt; but at that time a drizzle of rain fell at Thebes .5 11. When the Persians had crossed the waterless country and encamped near...
Thebes
81 32.65285,25.70247,0 Ammonians ...his fleet against the Carthaginians and a part of his land army against the Ammonians; to Ethiopia he would first send spies, to see what truth there was in the...
Ammonians
78 25.54359,29.20514,0 Ammonians ...expedition against Ethiopia. As for those who were sent to march against the Ammonians, they set out and journeyed from Thebes with guides; and it is known that they...
Ammonians
79 25.54359,29.20514,0 Ammonians ...Cambyses planned three expeditions, against the Carchedonians,8 against the Ammonians, and against the “long-lived”9 Ethiopians, who inhabit that part of Libya that...
Ammonians
78 25.54359,29.20514,0 Persian ...further what food their king ate, and what was the greatest age to which a Persian lived. [4] They told him their king ate bread, showing him how wheat grew; and...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Samians ...land battle, and so sailed to Lacedaemon. [3] There are those who say that the Samians from Egypt defeated Polycrates; but to my thinking this is untrue; for they...
Samians
81 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...Messenia; but the Lacedaemonians say that they sent this army less to aid the Samians in their need than to avenge the robbery of the bowl which they had been...
Samians
80 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...too if their men should desert to the returned Samians. 46. When the Samians who were expelled by Polycrates came to Sparta, they came before the ruling men...
Samians
72 26.84,37.73,0 Indians ...catch from reed boats. Each boat is made of one joint of reed.33 [4] These Indians wear clothes of bullrushes; they mow and cut these from the river, then weave...
Indians
77 77.5,22.5,0 Indians ...the Persians southwards, and were not subjects of King Darius. 102. Other Indians dwell near the town of Caspatyrus and the Pactyic country,34 north of the rest...
Indians
77 77.5,22.5,0 Indians ...give chase. They say nothing is equal to them for speed, so that unless the Indians have a headstart while the ants were gathering, not one of them would get away...
Indians
78 77.5,22.5,0 Indians ...is the tale. Most of the gold (say the Persians) is got in this way by the Indians; they dig some from mines in their country, too, but it is less abundant...
Indians
77 77.5,22.5,0 Indians ...excellent than the wool of sheep grows on wild trees; these trees supply the Indians with clothing. 107. Again, Arabia is the most distant to the south of all...
Indians
79 77.5,22.5,0 Lacedaemonians ...for a friend. 44. It was against this ever-victorious Polycrates that the Lacedaemonians now made war, invited by the Samians who afterwards founded Cydonia in Crete...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Cabeiri ...figures: it is the likeness of a dwarf. [3] Also he entered the temple of the Cabeiri, into which no one may enter save the priest; the images here he even burnt...
Cabeiri
80 Asia ...on the right of the entrance of the straits, the Phrygians, Thracians of Asia, Paphlagonians, Mariandynians, and Syrians; these paid three hundred and sixty...
Asia
75 Asia ...way. [2] To the east of the Indian country is sand. Of all the people of Asia whom we know - even those about whom something is said with precision - the...
Asia
75 Asia ...of gilded lead coins, as a native currency. This was the first expedition to Asia made by Dorians of Lacedaemon.23 57. When the Lacedaemonians were about to...
Asia
79 Persian ...that they were spoken. [2] Otanes was for turning the government over to the Persian people: “It seems to me,” he said, “that there can no longer be a single...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Sarangeis ...paid four hundred. [2] The fourteenth province was made up of the Sagartii, Sarangeis, Thamanaei, Utii, Myci, and the inhabitants of those islands of the southern...
Sarangeis
78 62.5,32.5,0 Thamanaei ...hundred. [2] The fourteenth province was made up of the Sagartii, Sarangeis, Thamanaei, Utii, Myci, and the inhabitants of those islands of the southern sea on which...
Thamanaei
79 Sagartii ...sea; these paid four hundred. [2] The fourteenth province was made up of the Sagartii, Sarangeis, Thamanaei, Utii, Myci, and the inhabitants of those islands of the...
Sagartii
79 India ...is nearly the same in India as elsewhere. As it goes to afternoon, the sun of India has the power of the morning sun in other lands; as day declines it becomes...
India
80 77.5,22.5,0 Persian ...In this sandy desert are ants,35 not as big as dogs but bigger than foxes; the Persian king has some of these, which have been caught there. These ants live...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greece ...of the world have somehow drawn the finest things as their lot, exactly as Greece has drawn the possession of far the best seasons. [2] As I have lately said...
Greece
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Tarentum ...until the physician was in his own country. 137. The Persians sailed from Tarentum and pursued Democedes to Croton, where they found him in the marketplace and...
Tarentum
77 17.228553,40.476034,0 Tarentum ...they came; until having viewed the greater and most famous parts they reached Tarentum in Italy. [2] There Aristophilides, king of the Tarentines, out of sympathy for...
Tarentum
80 17.228553,40.476034,0 Persian ...those who now inhabit the city. 160. There never was in Darius' judgment any Persian before or after who did better service than Zopyrus, except Cyrus, with whom no...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athens ...allies; and Megabyzus' son was that Zopyrus who deserted from the Persians to Athens.
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Milesians ...resolved not to collect a land army to meet the Persians, but to leave the Milesians to defend their walls themselves, and to man their fleet to the last ship and...
Milesians
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...regarding the Argives themselves, but there was an additional response for the Milesians. [2] I will mention the part concerning the Argives when I come to that part of...
Milesians
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...the hill country into the possession of Carians from Pedasa. 21. Now when the Milesians suffered all this at the hands of the Persians, the Sybarites (who had lost...
Milesians
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesians ...making my decision for you until the fourth month from this day.’ 86C. So the Milesians went away in sorrow, as men robbed of their possessions; but Glaucus journeyed...
Milesians
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sicily ...come up to him from Hellas; [2] for he returned by the king's permission to Sicily and from Sicily back again to Darius, until in old age he ended his life in...
Sicily
78 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Milesians ...I have often spoken elsewhere in my history. 20. After that, the captive Milesians were brought to Susa. King Darius did them no further harm, settling them by...
Milesians
76 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sicily ...there to found an Ionian city. This Fair Coast, as it is called, is in Sicily, in that part which looks towards Tyrrhenia. At this invitation, the Samians...
Sicily
73 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sparta ...not the only one; you are in company with many women. There is much talk at Sparta that Ariston did not have child-bearing seed in him, or his former wives would...
Sparta
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...after Darius had invaded their land, were eager for revenge, so they sent to Sparta and made an alliance. They agreed that the Scythians would attempt to invade...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...long time had passed, the sons of the man who had deposited the money came to Sparta; they spoke with Glaucus, showing him the tokens and demanding the money back...
Sparta
80 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lydians ...the time of Alcmeon51 and then Megacles their renown increased. [2] When the Lydians from Sardis came from Croesus to the Delphic oracle, Alcmeon son of Megacles...
Lydians
79 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Lydians ...worked with them and zealously aided them; when Croesus heard from the Lydians who visited the oracle of Alcmeon's benefits to him, he summoned Alcmeon to...
Lydians
73 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Zancle ...Without trouble the Samians planted themselves in that most excellent city of Zancle, after they had escaped from the Medes. 25. After the fight at sea for...
Zancle
80 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Zancle ...Zancle while it was deserted by its men. [3] The Samians consented and seized Zancle; when they learned that their city was taken, the Zanclaeans came to deliver...
Zancle
80 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Lydians ...their temples. Thus three times had the Ionians been enslaved, first by the Lydians and now twice in a row by the Persians. 33. Then the fleet departed from Ionia...
Lydians
78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Zancle ...came to the country of the Epizephyrian6 Locrians at a time when the people of Zancle and their king (whose name was Scythes) were besieging a Sicilian town desiring...
Zancle
81 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Samos ...Corcyraeans. 54. The Lacedaemonians then came with a great army, and besieged Samos. They advanced to the wall and entered the tower that stands by the seaside in...
Samos
81 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...with the fleeing crowd of Samians, and were cut off and killed in the city of Samos. [2] I myself have met in his native town of Pitana22 another Archias son of...
Samos
80 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...because he was the son of that Archias who was killed fighting bravely at Samos. The reason that he honored the Samians, he said, was that they had given his...
Samos
76 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...Samians; for previously the Samians, in the days when Amphicrates was king of Samos, sailing in force against Aegina, had hurt the Aeginetans and been hurt by...
Samos
80 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...reproach. 121. A few people, however, say that when Oroetes sent a herald to Samos with some request (it is not said what this was), the herald found Polycrates...
Samos
80 26.84,37.73,0 Lacedaemon ...as a native currency. This was the first expedition to Asia made by Dorians of Lacedaemon.23 57. When the Lacedaemonians were about to abandon them, the Samians who had...
Lacedaemon
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemon ...inside the temples and outside the temples alike. 148. Maeandrius sailed to Lacedaemon, escaping from Samos; and after he arrived there and brought up the possessions...
Lacedaemon
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Crete ...it to men of Troezen for safekeeping; they themselves settled at Cydonia in Crete, though their voyage had been made with no such intent, but rather to drive...
Crete
78 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Lacedaemon ...landed on the island, but were there beaten in a land battle, and so sailed to Lacedaemon. [3] There are those who say that the Samians from Egypt defeated Polycrates...
Lacedaemon
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...with a sack, and said nothing but this: “The sack wants flour.” To this the Spartans replied that they were over-wordy with “the sack”;21 but they did resolve to...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Samos ...and as this continued to increase greatly, he wrote this letter and sent it to Samos: “Amasis addresses Polycrates as follows. [2] It is pleasant to learn that a...
Samos
81 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...son of Cyrus, then raising an army against Egypt, inviting Cambyses to send to Samos too and request men from him. [2] At this message Cambyses very readily sent to...
Samos
81 26.84,37.73,0 Aeginetans ...he had no equipment nor any medical implements. [2] In his second year the Aeginetans40 paid him a talent to be their public physician; in the third year the...
Aeginetans
77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...Amphicrates was king of Samos, sailing in force against Aegina, had hurt the Aeginetans and been hurt by them. This was the cause. 60. I have written at such length...
Aeginetans
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Zacynthians ...though their voyage had been made with no such intent, but rather to drive Zacynthians out of the island. [2] Here they stayed and prospered for five years; indeed...
Zacynthians
77 20.76,37.77,0 Euboic ...of gold dust. 95. Now if these Babylonian silver talents be calculated in Euboic money, the sum is seen to be nine thousand eight hundred and eighty Euboic...
Euboic
77 23.87,38.53,0 Babylonians ...When the agreed number of days was past, he led out once more a chosen body of Babylonians, and slaughtered the two thousand men of Darius' army. [4] When the Babylonians...
Babylonians
81 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylonians ...Persians, and not go away? You will take us when mules give birth.” One of the Babylonians said this, by no means expecting that a mule would give birth. 152. A year and...
Babylonians
81 44.42082,32.53617,0 Persian ...is ruled only so far as it is willing to be, so long as it does not transgress Persian law. 84. The rest of the seven then considered what was the fairest way of...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Indian ...to the king, they obtain in the following way. [2] To the east of the Indian country is sand. Of all the people of Asia whom we know - even those about whom...
Indian
72 77.5,22.5,0 Caucasus ...(which is as far as the Persian rule reaches, the country north of the Caucasus paying no regard to the Persians); these were rendered every four years and are...
Caucasus
73 42.4378759,43.3525468,0 Nysa ...towards the long-lived Ethiopians; and also those who dwell about the holy Nysa,31 where Dionysus is the god of their festivals. These Ethiopians and their...
Nysa
77 Padaei ...Indians, to the east of these, are nomads and eat raw flesh; they are called Padaei. It is said to be their custom that when anyone of their fellows, whether man...
Padaei
79 Greek ...and of his aims; for, except for the sovereigns of Syracuse, no sovereign of Greek race is fit to be compared with Polycrates for magnificence. [3] Having killed...
Greek
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Islands ...race Polycrates was the first, and he had great hope of ruling Ionia and the Islands. [3] Learning then that he had this intention, Oroetes sent him this message...
Islands
79 Babylon ...that it was Babylon's fate to fall, he came and inquired of Darius if taking Babylon were very important to him; and when he was assured that it was, he then cast...
Babylon
79 44.42082,32.53617,0 Babylon ...he sent him such gifts as the Persians hold most precious, and let him govern Babylon all his life with no tribute to pay, giving him many other things besides. This...
Babylon
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 the Ionians ...Ionian tyrants. 14. Now when the Phoenician fleet came sailing against them, the Ionians put out to sea against them with their ships in column. When they drew near and...
the Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...the Persian generals were not false to the threats they had made against the Ionians when they were encamped opposite them. When they had gained mastery over the...
the Ionians
75 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...another one five times as large would come. [2] Therefore, as soon as they saw the Ionians refusing to be useful, they took up that for a pretext, considering it...
the Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...seeing their neighbors fleeing, did the same as the Samians; and most of the Ionians did likewise. 15. The most roughly handled of those that stood their ground in...
the Ionians
75 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Ionians ...Artaphrenes, the governor of Sardis, asked him for what reason he supposed the Ionians had rebelled; Histiaeus said that he did not know and marvelled at what had...
the Ionians
77 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 the Chians ...out from his own city, he went back to Chios; when he could not persuade the Chians to give him ships, he then crossed over to Mytilene and persuaded the Lesbians...
the Chians
75 26.053,38.414,0 the Ionians ...the order. The king had made no such plan, but Histiaeus wanted to frighten the Ionians. 4. Then Histiaeus, using Hermippus, a man of Atarneus, as messenger, sent...
the Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Scythian ...unattended by spearmen or any others (who would guard the gates, lest any Scythian see him wearing this apparel), and in every way follow the Greek manner of...
Scythian
76 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...that he had received. So this is what he would do: he would lead the Scythian army to the city of the Borysthenites (who say that they are Milesians), and...
Scythian
71 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...[3] So Scyles was king of Scythia; but he was in no way content with the Scythian way of life, and was much more inclined to Greek ways, from the upbringing that...
Scythian
75 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...For anyone who has not yet seen the latter, I will make my meaning plain: the Scythian bronze vessel easily contains five thousand four hundred gallons, and it is of...
Scythian
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...for your boast that you are my master, I say ‘Weep!’” Such is the proverbial “Scythian speech.” 128. So the herald went to carry this message to Darius; but the...
Scythian
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...an ass or a mule, because of the cold. Therefore the asses frightened the Scythian horses when they brayed loudly; [3] and often, when they were in the act of...
Scythian
76 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...Scythians and left their country. Thus Aristeas' story does not agree with the Scythian account about this country. 14. Where Aristeas who wrote this came from, I...
Scythian
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythian ...the Scythian nation and Anacharsis) any notable man born there. [2] But the Scythian race has made the cleverest discovery that we know in what is the most...
Scythian
78 27.5,47.5,0 Cimmerians ...the Scythians pursued them and invaded Media, missing their way; [3] for the Cimmerians always fled along the coast, and the Scythians pursued with the Caucasus on...
Cimmerians
79 36.2317044,45.0437458,0 Medes ...but fled. Thus, the Scythians ruled Asia and were driven out again by the Medes, and returned to their own country in such a way. Desiring to punish them for...
Medes
76 46.5,34.5,0 Median ...Scythians pursued with the Caucasus on their right until they came into the Median land, turning inland on their way. That is the other story current among Greeks...
Median
78 46.5,34.5,0 Cimmerians ...upper Asia1 for twenty-eight years; they invaded Asia in their pursuit of the Cimmerians, and ended the power of the Medes, who were the rulers of Asia before the...
Cimmerians
80 36.2317044,45.0437458,0 Athenians ...and water for the king from these locations. [2] What calamity befell the Athenians for dealing in this way with the heralds I cannot say, save that their land and...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...but I will not refrain from saying what seems to me to be true. [2] Had the Athenians been panic-struck by the threatened peril and left their own country, or had...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Greeks who were so minded. 145. These oracles, then, had been given to the Athenians. All the Greeks who were concerned about the general welfare of Hellas met in...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...in her need. These ships, then, had been made and were already there for the Athenians' service, and now they had to build yet others. [3] In their debate after the...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...This was in fact the war the outbreak of which saved Hellas by compelling the Athenians to become seamen. The ships were not used for the purpose for which they were...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Spartans ...once fought three million. ” [2] That inscription is for them all, but the Spartans have their own: “Foreigner, go tell the Spartans that we lie here obedient to...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athens ...signified that the acropolis should be saved, for in old time the acropolis of Athens had been fenced by a thorn hedge, [2] which, by their interpretation, was the...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...more merciful than the first, and the envoys, writing it down, departed for Athens. When the messengers had left Delphi and laid the oracle before the people...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...of the east from Asia against us, making an open show of marching against Athens, but actually with intent to subdue all Hellas to his will. [2] Now you are...
Athens
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...had run their craft aground, leapt out and made their way through Thessaly to Athens. 183. The Greeks who were stationed at Artemisium were informed of these...
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Spartans ...Lacedaemonians free from this guilt.” 137. This conduct on the part of the Spartans succeeded for a time in allaying the anger of Talthybius, in spite of the fact...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Athenian ...were once called Termilae; they took their name from Lycus son of Pandion, an Athenian. 93. The Dorians of Asia furnished thirty ships; their armor was Greek; they...
Athenian
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...the ships, then, were made captive, and the third trireme, of which Phormus an Athenian was captain, ran aground in her flight at the mouth of the Peneus; the...
Athenian
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...ancient king of Athens. [2] Because of this connection, so the tale goes, the Athenians considered Boreas to be their son-in-law. They were stationed off Chalcis in...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Cecrops' daughter Aglaurus, although the place was a sheer cliff. [2] When the Athenians saw that they had ascended to the acropolis, some threw themselves off the wall...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...took the town it was deserted, but in the sacred precinct they found a few Athenians, stewards of the sacred precinct and poor people, who defended themselves...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...the Athenians. Among individuals they were Polycritus the Aeginetan and the Athenians Eumenes of Anagyrus and Aminias of Pallene, the one who pursued Artemisia. If...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Hellenes with the reputation as most courageous were the Aeginetans, then the Athenians. Among individuals they were Polycritus the Aeginetan and the Athenians Eumenes...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...lay in wait for them in the strait and then performed deeds worth telling. The Athenians in the commotion destroyed those ships which either resisted or tried to flee...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Greeks ...make pacts with the perpetrator of these things, and next the kinship of all Greeks in blood and speech, and the shrines of gods and the sacrifices that we have in...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...unbearable that not all this alone but slavery too should be brought upon the Greeks by you Athenians, who have always been known as givers of freedom to many...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...to dare to sail farther west than Samos, while at the same time the Greeks dared to go at the Chians' request no farther east than Delos. It was fear...
Greeks
70 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...to Sparta and now to Aegina, entreating the Greeks to sail to Ionia. [3] The Greeks took them as far as Delos, and that not readily, for they, having no knowledge...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...out of Chios, from where they went to Sparta and now to Aegina, entreating the Greeks to sail to Ionia. [3] The Greeks took them as far as Delos, and that not...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...angle, nearest to Croesus' bowl. 123. After the division of the spoils, the Greeks sailed to the Isthmus, there to award the prize of excellence to him who had...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...of Alexander the Macedonian. 122. Having sent the first-fruits to Delphi, the Greeks, in the name of the country generally, made inquiry of the god whether the...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...you.” With that message, the men returned in their boat. 111. But the Greeks, now that they were no longer minded to pursue the barbarians' ships farther or...
Greeks
73 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...disaster befalls him, it is does not much matter, nor will any victory of the Greeks be a real victory when they have but slain your servant. As for you, you will...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Myecphoris ...Tanis, Mendes, Sebennys, Athribis, Pharbaïthis, Thmuis, Onuphis, Anytis, Myecphoris (this last is in an island opposite the city of Bubastis）— [2] from all of...
Myecphoris
75 Egyptian cubit ...set apart. This acre is a square of a hundred Egyptian cubits each way, the Egyptian cubit being equal to the Samian. [2] These lands were set apart for all; it was never...
Egyptian cubit
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Corinth ...Greeks and particularly by the Lacedaemonians, is of foreign origin. It is in Corinth that artisans are held in least contempt. 168. The warriors were the only...
Corinth
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Lydia ...I cannot confidently judge. I know that in Thrace and Scythia and Persia and Lydia and nearly all foreign countries, those who learn trades are held in less...
Lydia
79 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Persians ...by the drink—signifying to the Fish-eaters the wine—for in this, he said, the Persians excelled the Ethiopians. 23. The Fish-eaters then in turn asking of the...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...might slay him and so be king, he sent Prexaspes, the most trusted of his Persians, to Persia to kill him. Prexaspes went up to Susa and killed Smerdis; some say...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...months, but was altogether childless, without male or female issue. [3] To the Persians who were present it was quite incredible that the Magi were masters of the...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...in another, where the armies had first separately stood), the skulls of the Persians are so brittle that if you throw no more than a pebble it will pierce them, but...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...they wear. Such is the truth of the matter. I saw too the skulls of those Persians at Papremis who were killed with Darius' son Achaemenes by Inaros the Libyan...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to pieces), Cambyses gave orders to burn it, a sacrilegious command; for the Persians hold fire to be a god; [3] therefore neither nation thinks it right to burn the...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...whom this was done, but another Egyptian of the same age as Amasis, whom the Persians abused thinking that they were abusing Amasis. [6] For their story is that...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Egyptians ...battle. The fighting was fierce, and many of both armies fell; but at last the Egyptians were routed. 12. I saw a strange thing on the site of the battle, of which the...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...plotted evil and got his reward; for he was caught raising a revolt among the Egyptians; and when Cambyses heard of it, Psammenitus drank bull's blood7 and died. Such...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...Cassandane, the daughter of Pharnaspes, who was an Achaemenid, and not of the Egyptian woman. But they falsify the story, pretending to be related to the house of...
Egyptian
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...and to kill any other Egyptian whom they found holiday-making. [3] So the Egyptian festival ended, and the priests were punished, and Apis lay in the temple and...
Egyptian
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Persians ...inadequate fighters. [3] Thus the Carthaginians escaped being enslaved by the Persians; for Cambyses would not use force with the Phoenicians, seeing that they had...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Phoenicians ...birds, it is said, that take these dry sticks which we have learned from the Phoenicians to call cinnamon and carry them off to nests stuck with mud to precipitous...
Phoenicians
79 35.25,33.25,0 Ethiopian ...he sent for those Fish-eaters from the city of Elephantine who understood the Ethiopian language. [2] While they were fetching them, he ordered his fleet to sail...
Ethiopian
80 38.721522,14.125005,0 Sacae ...axes which they call “sagaris.” These were Amyrgian Scythians, but were called Sacae; that is the Persian name for all Scythians. The commander of the Bactrians and...
Sacae
81 72.5,37.5,0 Indians ...It would be strange indeed if we who have subdued and made slaves of Sacae and Indians and Ethiopians and Assyrians and many other great nations, for no wrong done to...
Indians
81 77.5,22.5,0 Phoenicians ...this assignment made bridges starting from Abydos across to that headland; the Phoenicians one of flaxen cables, and the Egyptians a papyrus one. From Abydos to the...
Phoenicians
81 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...of Acragas, at this very time brought against Gelon three hundred thousand Phoenicians, Libyans, Iberians, Ligyes, Elisyci, Sardinians, and Cyrnians,85 led by Amilcas...
Phoenicians
77 35.25,33.25,0 Strymon ...to Tyrodiza in the Perinthian country or to Doriscus, others to Eion on the Strymon or to Macedonia. 26. While these worked at their appointed task, all the land...
Strymon
78 23.848889,40.785833,0 Strymon ...crossed over to Asia; before that they were called (as they themselves say) Strymonians, since they lived by the Strymon; they say that they were driven from their...
Strymon
78 23.848889,40.785833,0 Strymon ...the Pangaean mountains,53 he kept going westwards, until he came to the river Strymon and the city of Eion; its governor was that Boges, then still alive, whom I...
Strymon
80 23.848889,40.785833,0 Phoenicians ...were highest; these carried it out and threw it away. [2] For all except the Phoenicians, the steep sides of the canal caved in, doubling their labor; since they made...
Phoenicians
79 35.25,33.25,0 Tyrrhenia ...these, they say, were invented among them at the time when they colonized Tyrrhenia. This is their story: [3] In the reign of Atys son of Manes there was great...
Tyrrhenia
76 11.752744124826158,42.42102874792005,0 Assyrians ...no less than three other accounts of Cyrus which I could give. [2] After the Assyrians had ruled Upper Asia for five hundred and twenty years,32 the Medes were the...
Assyrians
80 37.5,37.5,0 Ombrici ...at last, after sojourning with one people after another, they came to the Ombrici,31 where they founded cities and have lived ever since. [7] They no longer...
Ombrici
76 Germanii ...[4] The other Persian tribes are the Panthialaei, the Derusiaei, and the Germanii, all tillers of the soil, and the Dai, the Mardi, the Dropici, the Sagartii...
Germanii
75 Sagartii ...Germanii, all tillers of the soil, and the Dai, the Mardi, the Dropici, the Sagartii, all wandering herdsmen. 126. So when they all came with sickles as ordered...
Sagartii
78 Dai ...Panthialaei, the Derusiaei, and the Germanii, all tillers of the soil, and the Dai, the Mardi, the Dropici, the Sagartii, all wandering herdsmen. 126. So when...
Dai
81 56.5,38.5,0 Persians ...of two and one quarter or two and one half miles each way in extent. [2] The Persians accomplished the task appointed; Cyrus then commanded them to wash themselves...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Ninus ...took back their empire and all that they had formerly possessed; and they took Ninus (how, I will describe in a later part of my history), and brought all Assyria...
Ninus
81 43.1609,36.34773,0 Persians ...neighbors in turn those who came next to them, on the same scheme by which the Persians assign honor; for the nation kept advancing its rule and dominion.45 135. But...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Phocaea ...by this time dead. While getting ready for their voyage, they first sailed to Phocaea, where they destroyed the Persian guard to whom Harpagus had entrusted the...
Phocaea
80 26.75261,38.6684,0 Phocaea ...this, but they sank a mass of iron in the sea, and swore never to return to Phocaea before the iron should appear again. But while they prepared to sail to Cyrnus...
Phocaea
78 26.75261,38.6684,0 Phocaeans ...he ruled Tartessus for eighty years and lived a hundred and twenty.53 [3] The Phocaeans won this man's friendship to such a degree that he invited them to leave Ionia...
Phocaeans
80 26.75261,38.6684,0 Maeandrus ...Tabalus, and he enslaved the people of Priene, and overran the plain of the Maeandrus, giving it to his army to pillage and Magnesia likewise. Immediately after this...
Maeandrus
78 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Phocaeans ...in number, and met the enemy in the sea called Sardonian. They engaged and the Phocaeans won, yet it was only a kind of Cadmean victory;56 for they lost forty of their...
Phocaeans
81 26.75261,38.6684,0 Rhegium ...[3] Such was the end of this part of the Phocaeans. Those of them who fled to Rhegium set out from there and gained possession of that city in the Oenotrian58...
Rhegium
80 15.649244,38.111146,0 Babylonian temple ...she is appointed she is shut up in the temple during the night. 183. In the Babylonian temple there is another shrine below, where there is a great golden image of Zeus...
Babylonian temple
79 44.42082,32.53617,0 Hellas ...them here. Had Dionysus son of Semele and Pan son of Penelope appeared in Hellas and lived there to old age, like Heracles the son of Amphitryon, it might have...
Hellas
76 Memphis ...into the Libyan Syrtis, and extends under the mountains that are above Memphis, having the inland country on its west. [2] When I could not see anywhere the...
Memphis
73 31.254278,29.849667,0 Egypt ...had done, and remembered the oracle that promised the sovereignty of all Egypt to whoever poured a libation from a vessel of bronze; therefore, though they...
Egypt
75 Egypt ...and those Egyptians who volunteered. 153. Having made himself master of all Egypt, he made the southern outer court of Hephaestus' temple at Memphis, and built...
Egypt
79 Nile ...places to live in called The Camps, opposite each other on either side of the Nile; and besides this, he paid them all that he had promised. [2] Moreover, he put...
Nile
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Memphis ...of Bubastis. Long afterwards, king Amasis removed them and settled them at Memphis to be his guard against the Egyptians. [4] It is a result of our communication...
Memphis
77 31.254278,29.849667,0 Nile ...sacred to Leto, and is situated in a great city by the Sebennytic arm of the Nile, on the way up from the sea. [2] Buto is the name of the city where this oracle...
Nile
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...city of which we know. 158. Psammetichus had a son, Necos, who became king of Egypt. It was he who began building the canal into the Red Sea,65 which was finished...
Egypt
81 Bubastis ...rowed abreast. [2] It is fed by the Nile, and is carried from a little above Bubastis by the Arabian town of Patumus; it issues into the Red Sea. Digging began in...
Bubastis
79 31.51591,30.56826,0 Egypt ...was the counsel of the Egyptians to the Eleans. 161. Psammis reigned over Egypt for only six years; he invaded Ethiopia, and immediately thereafter died, and...
Egypt
77 Busiris ...made according to districts). 165. The Hermotubies are from the districts of Busiris, Saïs, Khemmis, and Papremis, the island called Prosopitis, and half of...
Busiris
80 30.72205,27.87313,0 Bubastis ...of arms alone. 166. The Kalasiries are from the districts of Thebes , Bubastis, Aphthis, Tanis, Mendes, Sebennys, Athribis, Pharbaïthis, Thmuis, Onuphis...
Bubastis
73 31.51591,30.56826,0 Memphis ...for the building. [2] Some of these he brought from the stone quarries of Memphis; the largest came from the city of Elephantine,73 twenty days' journey distant...
Memphis
76 31.254278,29.849667,0 Egypt ...other services which he did for some of the Greeks, he gave those who came to Egypt the city of Naucratis to live in; and to those who travelled to the country...
Egypt
80 Egypt ...Milesians for Apollo. 179. Naucratis was in the past the only trading port in Egypt. Whoever came to any other mouth of the Nile had to swear that he had not come...
Egypt
81 Nile ...past the only trading port in Egypt. Whoever came to any other mouth of the Nile had to swear that he had not come intentionally, and had then to take his ship...
Nile
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...safe until my time, facing outside the city. Cambyses, when he had conquered Egypt and learned who Ladice was, sent her away to Cyrene unharmed. 182. Moreover...
Egypt
79 Hellas ...her away to Cyrene unharmed. 182. Moreover, Amasis dedicated offerings in Hellas. He gave to Cyrene a gilt image of Athena and a painted picture of himself; to...
Hellas
77 sea called Red ...they tell it. There is a great river in Arabia called Corys, emptying into the sea called Red. [3] From this river (it is said) the king of the Arabians brought water by an...
sea called Red
81 39.5,19.0,0 Egypt ...evil acts; next, he destroyed his full sister, who had come with him to Egypt, and whom he had taken to wife. [2] He married her in this way (for before...
Egypt
74 Phoenicia ...and Egypt; this paid three hundred and fifty talents; in this province was all Phoenicia, and the part of Syria called Palestine, and Cyprus. [2] The sixth province was...
Phoenicia
81 37.5,32.5,0 Babylon Herodotus The Histories Book 4 After taking Babylon, Darius himself marched against the Scythians. For since Asia was bursting with...
Babylon
47 44.42082,32.53617,0 Scythians ...Histories Book 4 After taking Babylon, Darius himself marched against the Scythians. For since Asia was bursting with men and vast revenues were coming in, Darius...
Scythians
78 27.5,42.5,0 Asia ...taking Babylon, Darius himself marched against the Scythians. For since Asia was bursting with men and vast revenues were coming in, Darius desired to...
Asia
74 Scythians ...with men and vast revenues were coming in, Darius desired to punish the Scythians for the wrong they had begun when they invaded Media first and defeated those...
Scythians
74 27.5,42.5,0 Scythians ...when their husbands were away for so long, turned to their slaves. 2. Now the Scythians blind all their slaves, because of the milk2 they drink; and this is how they...
Scythians
81 27.5,42.5,0 Asia ...what they saw, did not think of fighting, but fled. Thus, the Scythians ruled Asia and were driven out again by the Medes, and returned to their own country in...
Asia
80 Scythians ...this festival in the open air, having the sacred gold with him, is said by the Scythians not to live out the year; for which reason5 (they say) as much land as he can...
Scythians
81 27.5,42.5,0 Gadira ...settled in the island called by the Greeks Erythea, on the shore of Ocean near Gadira, outside the pillars of Heracles. As for Ocean, the Greeks say that it flows...
Gadira
81 -6.294444,36.528381,0 Asia ...especially incline. It is to this effect. The nomadic Scythians inhabiting Asia, when hard pressed in war by the Massagetae, fled across the Araxes8 river to...
Asia
77 Scythia ...of the country left empty. 12. And to this day there are Cimmerian walls in Scythia, and a Cimmerian ferry, and there is a country Cimmeria9 and a strait named...
Scythia
79 Scythians ...the Issedones were pushed from their lands by the Arimaspians, and the Scythians by the Issedones, and the Cimmerians, living by the southern sea, were hard...
Scythians
73 27.5,42.5,0 Scythian ...nearest to the sea is the tribe of the Woodlands; and north of these live Scythian farmers, whom the Greek colonists on the Hypanis river (who call themselves...
Scythian
76 Scythians ...(who call themselves Olbiopolitae) call Borystheneïtae. [2] These farming Scythians inhabit a land stretching east a three days' journey to a river called...
Scythians
76 27.5,42.5,0 Scythians ...the dog follows close behind. [3] Beyond these and somewhat to the east live Scythians again, who revolted from the Royal Scythians and came to this country. 23. As...
Scythians
79 27.5,42.5,0 Scythia ...too, if there is an earthquake summer or winter, it is considered a portent in Scythia. [4] Horses have the endurance to bear the Scythian winter; mules and asses...
Scythia
81 Scythia ...it is for this reason that the hornless kind of cattle grow no horns in Scythia. A verse of Homer in the Odyssey attests to my opinion: ““Libya, the land...
Scythia
74 Scythia ...whereas in very cold countries beasts hardly grow horns, or not at all. 30. In Scythia, then, this happens because of the cold. But I think it strange (for it was...
Scythia
81 Miletus ...Parians reconciled them in the following manner. Their best men came to Miletus, and seeing the Milesian households sadly wasted, they said that they desired...
Miletus
74 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Samians ...to burn them and the boathouses too if their men should desert to the returned Samians. 46. When the Samians who were expelled by Polycrates came to Sparta, they...
Samians
81 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...be done until the Corinthian guards left their charge and departed; then the Samians took the boys back to Corcyra. 49. If after the death of Periander, the...
Samians
79 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...from the temple; and when the Corinthians tried to starve the boys out, the Samians held a festival which they still celebrate in the same fashion; throughout the...
Samians
78 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...the Samians; who presently exacted from them a hundred talents. 59. Then the Samians took from the men of Hermione, instead of money, the island Hydrea which is...
Samians
80 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...minae, and Polycrates in the fourth year for two talents. Thus he came to Samos, and not least because of this man the physicians of Croton were well-respected...
Samos
76 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...asked. So Otanes went down to the coast and got his army ready. 142. Now Samos was ruled by Maeandrius, son of Maeandrius, who had authority delegated by...
Samos
76 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...likely to die, and, so that he might the more easily make himself master of Samos, he put all the prisoners to death. They had, it would seem, no desire to be...
Samos
78 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...seem, no desire to be free. 144. So when the Persians brought Syloson back to Samos, no one raised a hand against them, but Maeandrius and those of his faction...
Samos
81 26.84,37.73,0 Lacedaemonians ...back, with the Lacedaemonians pursuing and destroying them. 55. Had all the Lacedaemonians there that day been like Archias and Lycopas, Samos would have been taken...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Ionia ...[2] Very soon after this, Polycrates grew to such power that he was famous in Ionia and all other Greek lands; for all his military affairs succeeded. He had a...
Ionia
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Lesbians ...the islands, and many of the mainland cities. Among others, he conquered the Lesbians; they had brought all their force to aid the Milesians, and Polycrates defeated...
Lesbians
79 26.10052,39.20874,0 Samos ...Cambyses was attacking Egypt, the Lacedaemonians too were making war upon Samos and upon Aeaces' son Polycrates, who had revolted and won Samos.20 [2] And...
Samos
76 26.84,37.73,0 Babylonian ...namely three hundred and sixty talents of gold dust. 95. Now if these Babylonian silver talents be calculated in Euboic money, the sum is seen to be nine...
Babylonian
73 44.42082,32.53617,0 Cabalians ...This was established as his first province. The Mysians, Lydians, Lasonians, Cabalians, and Hytennians paid five hundred talents; this was the second province. [2]...
Cabalians
79 29.75,36.75,0 Pactyic ...the land of the Aegli; these paid three hundred and sixty. The thirteenth, the Pactyic country and Armenia and the lands adjoining as far as the Euxine sea; these...
Pactyic
81 72.5,32.5,0 Caspii ...these together paid a tribute of six hundred talents. [3] The Sacae and Caspii were the fifteenth, paying two hundred and fifty. The Parthians, Chorasmians...
Caspii
74 Tibareni ...and two hundred talents were the appointed tribute. [2] The Moschi, Tibareni, Macrones, Mossynoeci, and Mares, the nineteenth province, were ordered to pay...
Tibareni
70 37.5,40.5,0 Mossynoeci ...talents were the appointed tribute. [2] The Moschi, Tibareni, Macrones, Mossynoeci, and Mares, the nineteenth province, were ordered to pay three hundred. The...
Mossynoeci
74 37.5,40.5,0 Ethiopians ...and Arii were the sixteenth, paying three hundred. 94. The Paricanii and Ethiopians of Asia, the seventeenth, paid four hundred; the Matieni, Saspiri, and Alarodii...
Ethiopians
76 38.721522,14.125005,0 Croton ...[ [3] for at this time the best physicians in Greek countries were those of Croton, and next to them those of Cyrene. About the same time the Argives had the name...
Croton
78 17.205128,39.028864,0 Croton ...him up; but others resisted and beat the Persians with their sticks. “Men of Croton, watch what you do,” said the Persians; “you are harboring an escaped slave of...
Croton
79 17.205128,39.028864,0 Croton ...in his own country as well as in Persia. 138. The Persians then put out from Croton; but their ships were wrecked on the coast of Iapygia, and they were made...
Croton
80 17.205128,39.028864,0 Scythians ...bridge from this continent to the other continent and lead an army against the Scythians; and this will be done in a short time.” [5] “Look,” Atossa said, “let the...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Persian ...moreover he heard that Oroetes was very powerful, having a guard of a thousand Persian spearmen and being governor of the Phrygian and Lydian and Ionian province. [2]...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Medes ...not help the Persians in any way to regain the power taken from them by the Medes, [2] but, to the contrary, in this confusion killed two prominent Persians...
Medes
78 46.5,34.5,0 Croton ...was doing poorly, someone who had heard in Sardis of the skill of Democedes of Croton told Darius of him; and he told them to bring him as quickly as possible. When...
Croton
81 17.205128,39.028864,0 Lydian ...saw all this, gave Thrasybulus the message he had been instructed by the Lydian to deliver, and returned to Sardis; and this, as I learn, was the sole reason...
Lydian
75 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Lydian ...in what was being done. “Since the gods have made me your slave,” replied the Lydian, “it is right that if I have any further insight I should point it out to you...
Lydian
80 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Lydian ...entrusting Sardis to a Persian called Tabalus, and instructing Pactyes, a Lydian, to take charge of the gold of Croesus and the Lydians, he himself marched away...
Lydian
76 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Cnidian territory ...of the peninsula which belongs to Bubassus, and all but a small part of the Cnidian territory is washed by the sea [3] (for it is bounded on the north by the gulf of...
Cnidian territory
78 27.37404,36.686188,0 Babylonian ...before this is done. This is the custom in Arabia also. 199. The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land to sit in the temple of...
Babylonian
76 44.42082,32.53617,0 Medes ...busy at this, Tomyris sent a herald to him with this message: “O king of the Medes, stop hurrying on what you are hurrying on, for you cannot know whether the...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Red ...not far from Egypt, there is a gulf extending inland from the sea called Red9 , whose length and width are such as I shall show: [2] in length, from its...
Red
75 39.5,19.0,0 Syrians ...He used these ships when needed, and with his land army met and defeated the Syrians at Magdolus,66 taking the great Syrian city of Cadytis67 after the battle. [3]...
Syrians
79 37.5,37.5,0 Libya ...carried down the river from Aethiopia; [3] but we know that the soil of Libya is redder and somewhat sandy, and Arabia and Syria are lands of clay and...
Libya
74 26.5,31.5,0 Milesian colonists ...Europe and ends its course in the Euxine sea, at Istria, which is inhabited by Milesian colonists. 34. The Ister, since it flows through inhabited country, is known from many...
Milesian colonists
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Cyrene ...the Ammonian; except he said that the Nasamonians returned, as the men of Cyrene told me, and that the people to whose country they came were all wizards; [2]...
Cyrene
76 21.856169,32.818736,0 Egyptian ...all others live on wheat and barley, it is the greatest disgrace for an Egyptian to live so; they make food from a coarse grain which some call spelt. [3] They...
Egyptian
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Tyre ...I believe that Melampus learned the worship of Dionysus chiefly from Cadmus of Tyre and those who came with Cadmus from Phoenicia to the land now called Boeotia...
Tyre
81 35.209358,33.268071,0 Tyre ...the Greeks, either; for they said that the temple of the god was founded when Tyre first became a city, and that was two thousand three hundred years ago. At Tyre...
Tyre
80 35.209358,33.268071,0 Thasian Heracles ...three hundred years ago. At Tyre I saw yet another temple of the so-called Thasian Heracles. [4] Then I went to Thasos, too, where I found a temple of Heracles built by...
Thasian Heracles
77 24.717535,40.78201,0 Buto ...before, Leto, one of the eight gods who first came to be, who was living at Buto where this oracle of hers is, taking charge of Apollo from Isis, hid him for...
Buto
78 31.95395,30.87763,0 Papremis ...light matter, without that. 71. Hippopotamuses are sacred in the district of Papremis, but not elsewhere in Egypt. They present the following appearance...
Papremis
80 30.52701,30.7765,0 Egyptian Delta ...is that in honor of Isis at Busiris. [2] This town is in the middle of the Egyptian Delta, and there is in it a very great temple of Isis, who is Demeter in the Greek...
Egyptian Delta
77 Trojans ...was the cause of great calamity to Hector himself and all the rest of the Trojans. [5] But since they did not have Helen there to give back, and since the Greeks...
Trojans
76 26.23873,39.9577,0 Ilion ...I myself believe their story about Helen, for I reason thus: had Helen been in Ilion, then with or without the will of Alexandrus she would have been given back to...
Ilion
81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Trojans ...Menelaus and carried off, and they demanded reparation for the wrongs; but the Trojans gave the same testimony then and later, sworn and unsworn: that they did not...
Trojans
81 26.23873,39.9577,0 Troy ...But, when I asked the priests whether the Greek account of what happened at Troy were idle or not, they gave me the following answer, saying that they had...
Troy
78 26.23873,39.9577,0 Egyptian ...children of Dionysus and Isis, and Leto was made their nurse and preserver; in Egyptian, Apollo is Horus, Demeter Isis, Artemis Bubastis. [6] It was from this legend...
Egyptian
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Hellas ...[4] In Siris he had left the sacred chariot of Zeus when he was marching to Hellas, but on his return he did not get it back again. The Paeonians had given it to...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...pay the penalty for the death of their king, whom you killed while he defended Hellas.” At that Xerxes laughed, and after a long while, he pointed to Mardonius, who...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Corinthians ...body to the Isthmus: the Lacedaemonians and all the Arcadians, the Eleans and Corinthians and Sicyonians and Epidaurians and Phliasians and Troezenians and Hermioneans...
Corinthians
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Persian ...Amyntas. Him he sent, partly because the Persians were akin to him; Bubares, a Persian, had taken to wife Gygaea Alexander's sister and Amyntas' daughter, who had...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Lacedaemonians ...what the Athenians should do. 55. When the messenger arrived among the Lacedaemonians, he saw them arrayed where they had been, and their chief men by now in hot...
Lacedaemonians
74 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...Athens, in this great contest which must give freedom or slavery to Hellas, we Lacedaemonians and you Athenians have been betrayed by the flight of our allies in the night...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...the barbarians, and immediately after Pausanias' prayer the sacrifices of the Lacedaemonians became favorable. Now they too charged the Persians, and the Persians met them...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...came a message that in addition to the others, an advance guard of a thousand Lacedaemonians had arrived at Megara. When he heard this, he deliberated how he might first...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...service.”8 This is how the matter of the Phocians turned out. 19. As for the Lacedaemonians, when they had come to the Isthmus, they encamped there. When the rest of the...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...of winning the Olympic prize, in a match with Hieronymus of Andros. [3] The Lacedaemonians, however, perceived that the oracle given to Tisamenus spoke of the lists not...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...as a diviner; he was an Elean by birth, a Clytiad of the Iamid clan,15 and the Lacedaemonians gave him the freedom of their city. [2] This they did, for when Tisamenus was...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...stood unmoved at their post, well aware that the purposes and the promises of Lacedaemonians were not alike. [2] But when the army left its station, they sent a horseman of...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Peloponnesians ...be risked against army in battle, but that that champion in the host of the Peloponnesians whom they chose as their best should fight with him in single combat on agreed...
Peloponnesians
78 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Peloponnesians ...the war which was waged many years after this time between the Athenians and Peloponnesians, the Lacedaemonians laid no hand on Decelea when they harried the rest of...
Peloponnesians
79 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Lacedaemonians ...were next to them, their way lay through a ravine and among hills. While the Lacedaemonians were making a circuit, those others on the other wing were already fighting...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...land army, were killed fighting. 103. While the Persians still fought, the Lacedaemonians and their comrades came up and finished what was left of the business. The...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...that the Athenians would devise some means of salvation for themselves if the Lacedaemonians sent them no help. 7. The Lacedaemonians were at this time celebrating the...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Plataeans ...by them stood three thousand men of Megara, and next to these six hundred Plataeans. At the end, and first in the line, were the Athenians who held the left wing...
Plataeans
76 23.273866,38.221019,0 Hellenes ...so they made preparations for the next day. [2] Fear and dread possessed the Hellenes, especially those from the Peloponnese. They were afraid because they were...
Hellenes
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...to happen. Know that I am the cause of what the Medes are doing. When the Hellenes would not willingly enter battle, it was necessary to force them against their...
Hellenes
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...putting out to sea the barbarians immediately attacked them. The rest of the Hellenes began to back water and tried to beach their ships, but Ameinias of Pallene, an...
Hellenes
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellenes ...said, [3] “Adeimantus, you have turned your ships to flight and betrayed the Hellenes, but they are overcoming their enemies to the fulfillment of their prayers for...
Hellenes
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Aeginetans ...battle. [2] The Athenians say that the fighting at sea began this way, but the Aeginetans say that the ship which had been sent to Aegina after the sons of Aeacus was...
Aeginetans
81 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...these he demanded the victor's prize for the sea-fight of Salamis. When the Aeginetans learned that, they dedicated three golden stars which are set on a bronze mast...
Aeginetans
78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Scythia ...doing, and establish a nightly rite of worship. [4] So when he came to Scythia, he hid himself in the country called Woodland (which is beside the Race of...
Scythia
73 27.5,47.5,0 Scythia ...name was Opoea, and she bore Scyles a son, Oricus. [3] So Scyles was king of Scythia; but he was in no way content with the Scythian way of life, and was much more...
Scythia
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythia ...as I reckon a day's journey at two hundred stades, the cross-measurement of Scythia would be a distance of five hundred miles, and the line drawn straight up...
Scythia
78 27.5,47.5,0 Cynetes ...among the Celts, who are the most westerly dwellers in Europe, except for the Cynetes, and flowing thus clean across Europe it issues forth along the borders of...
Cynetes
80 Tyritae ...at the mouth of the river there is a settlement of Greeks, who are called Tyritae. 52. The third river is the Hypanis; this comes from Scythia, flowing out of a...
Tyritae
76 Ionian ...Hellas. [3] Now, therefore, we entreat you by the gods of Hellas to save your Ionian kinsmen from slavery. This is a thing which you can easily achieve, for the...
Ionian
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Cilicians ...yearly tribute which they pay to the king is five hundred talents. Next to the Cilicians, are the Armenians, another people rich in flocks, and after the Armenians, the...
Cilicians
81 33.25,36.25,0 Tigris ...land flow four navigable rivers which must be passed by ferries, first the Tigris, then a second and a third of the same name, yet not the same stream nor...
Tigris
77 41.97437876666667,37.8488001,0 Euphrates ...boundary of Cilicia and Armenia is a navigable river, the name of which is the Euphrates. In Armenia there are fifteen resting-stages and fifty-six and a half...
Euphrates
81 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Cilicia ...the passage into Cappadocia, the road in that land as far as the borders of Cilicia is of twenty-eight stages and one hundred and four parasangs. On this frontier...
Cilicia
78 35.75,38.25,0 Samnians ...surpassing excellence that day, overcame the Phoenicians, and it was the Samnians who were most brave. On land, when the armies met, they charged and fought. [2]...
Samnians
75 26.84,37.73,0 Lydians ...house to house all over the whole city. [2] While the city was burning, the Lydians and all the Persians who were in the citadel, being hemmed in on every side...
Lydians
78 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 sea ...from Tmolus and issues into the river Hermus, which in turn issues into the sea. They assembled in the marketplace by this Pactolus and were forced to defend...
sea
78 25.8829628235849,37.42245628773585,0 Phoenicians ...seen these mines; by far the most marvellous were those that were found by the Phoenicians who with Thasos colonized this island, which is now called after that...
Phoenicians
81 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...general, after coming from the Chersonese and escaping a two-fold death. The Phoenicians pursued him as far as Imbros, considering it of great importance to catch him...
Phoenicians
79 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...and fled away into the Euxine, and there settled in the city of Mesambria. The Phoenicians burnt the aforementioned places and turned against Proconnesus and Artace...
Phoenicians
81 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...and the Calchedonians beyond them did not even wait for the attack of the Phoenicians, but left their own land and fled away into the Euxine, and there settled in...
Phoenicians
76 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenician ...told, but as soon as day broke Datis made a search of his ships. He found in a Phoenician ship a gilded image of Apollo, and asked where this plunder had been taken...
Phoenician
81 35.25,33.25,0 Ionia ...all the rest of Hellas, and even in Ionia, I considered the fact that Ionia is always in danger while the Peloponnese is securely established, and nowhere...
Ionia
72 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Phoenicians ...to them, telling them instead that king Darius had planned to remove the Phoenicians and settle them in Ionia, and the Ionians in Phoenicia; for this reason, he...
Phoenicians
75 35.25,33.25,0 Hellespont ...multitude of ships and a great army were assembled, the Persians crossed the Hellespont on shipboard and marched through Europe, with Eretria and Athens as their goal...
Hellespont
79 26.4,40.2,0 Hellas ...way: if you vote with me, your country will be free and your city the first in Hellas. But if you side with those eager to avoid battle, you will have the opposite...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...among the suitors; and thus the fame of the Alcmeonidae resounded throughout Hellas. From this marriage was born that Cleisthenes, named after his mother's father...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Asia ...have the same custom at the deaths of their kings as the foreigners in Asia; most foreigners use the same custom at their kings' deaths. When a king of the...
Asia
73 Mysian ...from hunger, he crossed over to reap from Atarneus the corn there and the Mysian corn of the Caicus plain. Now it chanced that in that region was Harpagus, a...
Mysian
76 28.25,38.75,0 Hellespont ...he had news of the business of Miletus. Leaving all matters concerning the Hellespont in charge of Bisaltes of Abydos, son of Apollophanes, he himself sailed with...
Hellespont
77 26.4,40.2,0 Asia ...the monarch of Zancle escaped from Inyx to Himera, and from there he came to Asia and went up country to king Darius. Darius considered him the most honest man...
Asia
79 Thasians ...“Dug Forest”,14 and less from the mines of Thasos itself, yet so much that the Thasians, paying no tax on their crops, drew a yearly revenue from the mainland and the...
Thasians
81 24.717535,40.78201,0 Abdera ...to be planning rebellion, to destroy their walls and bring their ships to Abdera. [2] Since they had been besieged by Histiaeus of Miletus and had great...
Abdera
76 24.97363,40.93119,0 Laconian ...while and ordered a table to be brought in; when the table arrived, he danced Laconian figures on it first, and then Attic; last of all he rested his head on the...
Laconian
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Laconian ...month, a full-grown victim for Apollo's temple, a bushel of barley-meal, and a Laconian quart20 of wine are given to each from the public store, and chief seats are...
Laconian
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...Argives say this was the reason Cleomenes went mad and met an evil end; the Spartans themselves say that Cleomenes' madness arose from no divine agent, but that by...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...with them more than was fitting he learned from them to drink strong wine. The Spartans consider him to have gone mad from this. Ever since, as they themselves say...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Media ...and made an alliance. They agreed that the Scythians would attempt to invade Media by way of the river Phasis, and they urged the Spartans to set out and march...
Media
79 46.5,34.5,0 Hellenes ...ask you to come to their aid and not allow the most ancient city among the Hellenes to fall into slavery at the hands of the foreigners. Even now Eretria has been...
Hellenes
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Sparta ...by the people. 105. While still in the city, the generals first sent to Sparta the herald Philippides, an Athenian and a long-distance runner who made that...
Sparta
75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Hellenes ...wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic. 113. They fought a long time at Marathon. In the center of the line...
Hellenes
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Asia ...way to Susa, they came to Hydarnes, a Persian, who was general of the coast of Asia. He entertained and feasted them as his guests, and as they sat at his board...
Asia
81 Asia ...that Xerxes was at Sardis with his army, they planned to send men into Asia to spy out the king's doings and to despatch messengers, some to Argos, who...
Asia
73 Egyptians ...Abydos across to that headland; the Phoenicians one of flaxen cables, and the Egyptians a papyrus one. From Abydos to the opposite shore it is a distance of seven...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Asia ...infer from what they have done already, for they burnt Sardis and marched into Asia. [3] It is not possible for either of us to turn back: to do or to suffer is...
Asia
81 Asia ...place for buying and marketing; much ground grain frequently came to them from Asia. 24. As far as I can judge by conjecture, Xerxes gave the command for this...
Asia
81 Egyptians ...years2 in all, and it was not granted to him to punish either the revolted Egyptians or the Athenians. 5. After Darius' death, the royal power descended to his son...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ionians ...have conquered and hold their sons, those who dwell in our land and are called Ionians and Aeolians and Dorians. [2] I myself have made trial of these men, when by...
Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...Pelasgian stock, which was later called Ionian for the same reason as were the Ionians of the twelve cities,47 who came from Athens. The Aeolians furnished sixty...
Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ethiopians ...end of Cyrus' expedition against the Massagetae and of Cambyses' against the Ethiopians, and I myself marched with Darius against the Scythians. [3] Knowing this, I...
Ethiopians
79 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ethiopians ...girded up, and carried at their right side long bows curving backwards.36 The Ethiopians were wrapped in skins of leopards and lions, and carried bows made of palmwood...
Ethiopians
80 38.721522,14.125005,0 Ionians ...believe that men of bronze would come to aid him. But after a short time, Ionians and Carians, voyaging for plunder, were forced to put in on the coast of Egypt...
Ionians
76 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Egyptians ...Psammetichus; there are Persian guards at Elephantine and at Daphnae. Now the Egyptians had been on guard for three years, and no one came to relieve them; so...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...Egyptian customs and have become milder-mannered by intermixture with the Egyptians. 31. To a distance of four months' travel by land and water, then, there is...
Egyptians
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...for the dead is that those most nearly concerned have their heads shaven; Egyptians are shaven at other times, but after a death they let their hair and beard...
Egyptians
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...at the same time, in the same season of full moon; then they eat the meat. The Egyptians have an explanation of why they sacrifice swine at this festival, yet abominate...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...circle of seasons is made to agree with the calendar. [2] Furthermore, the Egyptians (they said) first used the names of twelve gods4 (which the Greeks afterwards...
Egyptians
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...or twenty-five feet, the land is not flooded. [2] And, in my opinion, the Egyptians who inhabit the lands lower down the river than lake Moeris, and especially...
Egyptians
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...and others besides, which I shall indicate, were taken by the Greeks from the Egyptians. It was not so with the ithyphallic images of Hermes; the production of these...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...foreheads with knives; and by this they show that they are foreigners and not Egyptians. 62. When they assemble at Saïs on the night of the sacrifice, they keep lamps...
Egyptians
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...given by others for practices which I, for my part, dislike; 65. but the Egyptians in this and in all other matters are exceedingly strict against desecration of...
Egyptians
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...[3] And when a fire breaks out, very strange things happen among the cats. The Egyptians stand around in a broken line, thinking more of the cats than of quenching the...
Egyptians
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...eaten raw; all other kinds of birds, as well as fish (except those that the Egyptians consider sacred) are eaten roasted or boiled. 78. After rich men's repasts, a...
Egyptians
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptians ...and joined themselves to the Ethiopians, two hundred and forty thousand Egyptians of fighting age. The reason was as follows. In the reign of Psammetichus, there...
Egyptians
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Ionians ...also. [2] Cambyses was the son of this woman and of Cyrus. He considered the Ionians and Aeolians slaves inherited from his father, and prepared an expedition...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ethiopians ...country; who, to make them a gift in return, told them to dispossess certain Ethiopians with whom he was feuding, and occupy their land. These Ethiopians then learned...
Ethiopians
79 38.721522,14.125005,0 Saïs ...175. Amasis made a marvellous outer court for the temple of Athena71 at Saïs, far surpassing all in its height and size, and in the size and quality of the...
Saïs
75 30.7695,30.96716,0 Saïs ...was not buried in the earth but was to be seen even in my time, in the town of Saïs, where it stood in a furnished room of the palace; incense of all kinds is...
Saïs
81 30.7695,30.96716,0 Saïs ...departed because of what he saw in a dream, the Egyptians of the district of Saïs brought him back from Syria. [2] Psammetichus was king for the second time when...
Saïs
79 30.7695,30.96716,0 Cyrene ...is desolate because of the heat. 32. But I heard this from some men of Cyrene, who told me that they had gone to the oracle of Ammon, and conversed there...
Cyrene
74 21.856169,32.818736,0 Takhompso ...that, you come to a level plain, where there is an island in the Nile, called Takhompso. [4] The country above Elephantine now begins to be inhabited by Ethiopians...
Takhompso
80 32.69747,23.05605,0 Pelasgians ...to others. [2] For the Athenians were then already counted as Greeks when the Pelasgians came to live in the land with them and thereby began to be considered as...
Pelasgians
80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pelasgians ...into the rites of the Cabeiri, which the Samothracians learned from the Pelasgians and now practice, understands what my meaning is. [3] Samothrace was formerly...
Pelasgians
74 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pelasgians ...images of Hermes, and they did this because the Pelasgians taught them. The Pelasgians told a certain sacred tale about this, which is set forth in the Samothracian...
Pelasgians
78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Pelasgians ...of the gods in their sacrifices; and the Greeks received these later from the Pelasgians. 53. But whence each of the gods came to be, or whether all had always been...
Pelasgians
80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Colchians ...wanderings, and stayed by the Phasis. 104. For it is plain to see that the Colchians are Egyptians; and what I say, I myself noted before I heard it from others...
Colchians
78 42.5,42.5,0 Parthenius ...from the Egyptians, and the Syrians of the valleys of the Thermodon and the Parthenius, as well as their neighbors the Macrones, say that they learned it lately from...
Parthenius
78 32.5,41.5,0 Colchian ...alike in all their way of life, and in their speech. Linen has two names: the Colchian kind is called by the Greeks Sardonian46 ; that which comes from Egypt is...
Colchian
80 42.5,42.5,0 Phasis ...be that some of his soldiers grew weary of his wanderings, and stayed by the Phasis. 104. For it is plain to see that the Colchians are Egyptians; and what I say...
Phasis
79 42.2161531,42.1237505,0 Phasis ...[2] From there, he turned around and went back home; and when he came to the Phasis river, that King, Sesostris, may have detached some part of his army and left...
Phasis
79 42.2161531,42.1237505,0 Ninus ...them, for I had heard of a similar thing happening in the Assyrian city of Ninus. [3] Sardanapallus king of Ninus had great wealth, which he kept in an...
Ninus
77 43.1609,36.34773,0 Assyrian city ...I readily believed them, for I had heard of a similar thing happening in the Assyrian city of Ninus. [3] Sardanapallus king of Ninus had great wealth, which he kept in an...
Assyrian city
79 37.5,37.5,0 Nysa ...was Dionysus born than Zeus sewed him up in his thigh and carried him away to Nysa in Ethiopia beyond Egypt; and as for Pan, the Greeks do not know what became of...
Nysa
80 Chios ...is that which is called the Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus...
Chios
81 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Clazomenae ...Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one...
Clazomenae
79 26.78715,38.37322,0 Persians ...the city's fall would be accomplished by him alone; for good service among the Persians is very much esteemed, and rewarded by high preferment. [2] He could think of...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...a flag of truce; Otanes agreed to this, and after the treaty was made, the Persians of highest rank sat down on seats facing the acropolis. 145. Now Maeandrius...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...a man who was always well thought of, perished in this way. 76. The seven Persians, when they had decided to attack the Magi at once and not delay, prayed to the...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...him this charge, because they thought him to be the man most trusted by the Persians, and because he had often asserted that Cyrus' son Smerdis was alive, and had...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...at the same time they killed every Magus that came in their way. [2] The Persians, when they learned what had been done by the seven and how the Magi had tricked...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and the rule of the Magi, Oroetes stayed in Sardis, where he did not help the Persians in any way to regain the power taken from them by the Medes, [2] but, to the...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...of you would either bring me Oroetes alive or kill him? For he has done the Persians no good, but much harm; he has destroyed two of us, Mitrobates and his son, and...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...for Democedes, took the steering gear off the Median ships and put the Persians under a guard, calling them spies. While they were in this plight, Democedes...
Persians
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Darius' assault, he opened the gates called Cissian and Belian, and let the Persians inside the walls. [2] Those Babylonians who saw what he did fled to the temple...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Arcadia ...an Azenian from the town of Paeus, Laphanes, son of that Euphorion who, as the Arcadian tale relates, gave lodging to the Dioscuri, and ever since kept open house for...
Arcadia
81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadia ...the contests at Olympia himself. This man's son now came, and Amiantus, an Arcadian from Trapezus, son of Lycurgus; and an Azenian from the town of Paeus...
Arcadia
77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadia ...with fear of the Spartans and secretly fled to Thessaly. From there he came to Arcadia and stirred up disorder, uniting the Arcadians against Sparta; among his...
Arcadia
81 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Thessaly ...became known; he was seized with fear of the Spartans and secretly fled to Thessaly. From there he came to Arcadia and stirred up disorder, uniting the Arcadians...
Thessaly
77 22.2,39.6,0 Argives ...the affair referred to by that oracle which the Pythian priestess gave to the Argives and Milesians in common, which ran thus: “When the female defeats the...
Argives
80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...that he honored the Erasinus for not betraying its countrymen, but even so the Argives would not go unscathed. Then he withdrew and led his army seaward to Thyrea...
Argives
81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argives ...men from ships of Sicyon also took part in the same invasion. [2] The Argives laid on them the payment of a fine of a thousand talents, five hundred each...
Argives
72 22.719464,37.631561,0 Lesbians ...bringing eight ships, and the Phocaeans with three, and next to these the Lesbians with seventy; last of all in the line were the Samians, holding the western...
Lesbians
76 26.10052,39.20874,0 Lesbians ...since they were crippled by the sea-fight, were mastered by Histiaeus with his Lesbians, setting out from Polichne in Chios. 27. It is common for some sign to be...
Lesbians
81 26.10052,39.20874,0 Ionia ...was Dionysius, the Phocaean general, who spoke thus: [2] “Our affairs, men of Ionia, stand on the edge of a razor, whether to be free men or slaves, and runaway...
Ionia
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Libyans ...together, they marched south (I tell the story as it is told by the Libyans), and when they came into the sandy desert, a strong south wind buried them. So...
Libyans
70 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...be that man's whom it is most like. 181. I have now described all the nomadic Libyans who live on the coast. Farther inland than these is that Libyan country which...
Libyans
81 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...head. [3] They say that this makes their children quite healthy. In fact, the Libyans are the healthiest of all men whom we know; whether it is because of this...
Libyans
80 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...Libya: for the women of that country chant very tunefully. And it is from the Libyans that the Greeks have learned to drive four-horse chariots. 190. The dead are...
Libyans
80 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...dog-headed and the headless men that have their eyes in their chests, as the Libyans say, and the wild men and women, besides many other creatures not fabulous...
Libyans
79 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...touch the cargo until the sailors have taken the gold. 197. These are all the Libyans whom we can name, and the majority of their kings cared nothing for the king of...
Libyans
81 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...punishment on him than Xerxes; [3] for he would be compelled to sail around Libya, until he completed his voyage and came to the Arabian Gulf. Xerxes agreed to...
Libya
78 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...that Asia, except the parts toward the rising sun, was in other respects like Libya. 45. But it is plain that none have obtained knowledge of Europe's eastern or...
Libya
80 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...[3] Furthermore, in my opinion the ceremonial chant62 first originated in Libya: for the women of that country chant very tunefully. And it is from the Libyans...
Libya
76 26.5,31.5,0 Libyan ...did under constraint of necessity, and planted a colony on an island off the Libyan coast called (as I have said already) Platea. This island is said to be as big...
Libyan
79 26.5,31.5,0 Libyan ...given to him at Delphi and the honorable office which he received. For the Libyan word for king is “Battus,” and this (I believe) is why the Pythian priestess...
Libyan
77 26.5,31.5,0 Libyan ...or treat their children as the nomads do. [2] For the practice of many Libyan nomads (I cannot say absolutely whether it is the practice of all) is to take...
Libyan
73 26.5,31.5,0 Libyan ...this country three kinds of mice, the two-footed,65 the “zegeries” (this is a Libyan word, meaning in our language “hills”), and the bristly-haired, as they are...
Libyan
80 26.5,31.5,0 Libyans ...brothers and had also revolted; and they fled in fear of him to the eastern Libyans. [3] Arcesilaus pursued them until he came in his pursuit to Leucon in Libya...
Libyans
78 26.5,31.5,0 Libya ...the men who came from Troy. Their country, and the rest of the western part of Libya, is much fuller of wild beasts and more wooded than the country of the nomads...
Libya
81 26.5,31.5,0 Hyperborean ...spoken of those parts that are said to be most distant. 32. Concerning the Hyperborean people, neither the Scythians nor any other inhabitants of these lands tell us...
Hyperborean
78 77.5,32.5,0 Libyan ...the Pillars of Heracles. [4] Having sailed out beyond them, and rounded the Libyan promontory called Solois,23 he sailed south; but when he had been many months...
Libyan
78 26.5,31.5,0 Ionians ...his march across the mainland, together with the men of the fleet. [2] So the Ionians were preparing to break the bridge and do Darius' bidding; but Cöes son of...
Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...as in ours: stay here for the time appointed; and after that, leave.” So the Ionians promised to do this, and the Scythians made their way back with all haste...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...Persians had not yet come, they said to the Ionians, who were in their ships, “Ionians, the days have exceeded the number, and you are wrong to be here still. [4]...
Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...at night and found the bridge broken, they were in great alarm lest the Ionians had abandoned them. 141. There was an Egyptian with Darius whose voice was the...
Ionians
74 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Persians ...the land of the Sauromatae to the land of the Budini. 123. As long as the Persians were traversing the Scythian and Sauromatic territory there was nothing for...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...they brayed loudly; [3] and often, when they were in the act of charging the Persians, the horses would shy in fear if they heard the asses bray or would stand still...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...to Darius with the gift of a bird, a mouse, a frog, and five arrows. [2] The Persians asked the bearer of these gifts what they meant; but he said that he had only...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Europe ...was of Asiatic birth, and never came to this land which the Greeks now call Europe, but only from Phoenicia to Crete and from Crete to Lycia. Thus much I have...
Europe
78 Persians ...of his Macedonians next to a Persian, as though they were women, and when the Persians began to lay hands on them, they were killed by the Macedonians. 21. This was...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...where they could still be seen in my time hanging from walls which the Persians' fire had charred, opposite the temple which faces west. [4] Moreover, they...
Persians
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...of Persian horsemen came after them in pursuit. Unable to overtake them, the Persians sent to Chios, commanding the Paeonians to go back. The Paeonians would not...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Now they fought like brave men for their liberty, but Megabazus and the Persians overcame them by weight of numbers. [2] When Perinthus had been taken...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...saw, but held his peace despite his anger because he greatly feared the Persians. Amyntas' son Alexander, however, because of his youth and ignorance of ill...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...women. Upon being called, the women entered and sat down in a row opposite the Persians. [4] Then the Persians, seeing beautiful women before them, spoke to Amyntas...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Nile ...names, all women's, and why the boundary lines set for it are the Egyptian Nile river and the Colchian Phasis river (though some say that the Maeetian Tanaïs...
Nile
77 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Athenians ...did. [3] When, as the Aeginetans say, no man came out to fight with them, the Athenians disembarked from their ships and turned their attention to the images. Unable...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...were stolen, the Epidaurians ceased from fulfilling their agreement with the Athenians. Then the Athenians sent an angry message to the Epidaurians who pleaded in...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...said that at that time there were no olives anywhere save at Athens. [3] The Athenians consented to give the trees, if the Epidaurians would pay yearly sacred dues to...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...to achieve for himself. 79. This, then, is the course of action which the Athenians took, and the Thebans, desiring vengeance on Athens, afterwards appealed to...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...very many and taking seven hundred of them prisoner. On that same day the Athenians crossed to Euboea where they met the Chalcidians too in battle, and after...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...blamed for what they had done. 74. Cleomenes, however, fully aware that the Athenians had done him wrong in word and deed, mustered an army from the whole of the...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...from the envoys, he gave them an answer the substance of which was that if the Athenians gave king Darius earth and water, then he would make an alliance with them, but...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...91. Now the Lacedaemonians, when they regained the oracles and saw the Athenians increasing in power and in no way inclined to obey them, realized that if the...
Athenians
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...[2] While the Aeginetans were laying waste to the seaboard of Attica, the Athenians were setting out to march against them, but an oracle from Delphi came to them...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...than before, by reason of the feud with the Athenians. The enmity of the Athenians against the Aeginetans began as I have told, and now at the Thebans' call the...
Athenians
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and Aegina wore brooch-pins longer than before, by reason of the feud with the Athenians. The enmity of the Athenians against the Aeginetans began as I have told, and...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...to himself and Darius. [2] While Hippias was engaged in these activities, the Athenians heard of it and sent messengers to Sardis, warning the Persians not to believe...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...it and sent messengers to Sardis, warning the Persians not to believe banished Athenians. Artaphrenes, however, bade them receive Hippias back, if they wanted to be...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...to Doriscus, from where they made their way by land to Paeonia. 99. The Athenians came with their twenty ships as well as five triremes of the Eretrians who came...
Athenians
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...Athens to ask help of its people, of these I will first give an account. 66. Athens, which had been great before, now grew even greater when her tyrants had been...
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...freed and before Ionia revolted from Darius and Aristagoras of Miletus came to Athens to ask help of its people, of these I will first give an account. 66. Athens...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...went to see Isagoras' wife. [2] Then Cleomenes first sent a herald to Athens demanding the banishment of Cleisthenes and many other Athenians with him, the...
Athens
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...Indeed it is said that at that time there were no olives anywhere save at Athens. [3] The Athenians consented to give the trees, if the Epidaurians would pay...
Athens
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...from their native land men who were our close friends and promised to make Athens subject to us. Then we handed that city over to a thankless people which had no...
Athens
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...maligning the Athenians to Artaphrenes, and doing all he could to bring Athens into subjection to himself and Darius. [2] While Hippias was engaged in these...
Athens
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...should not be the same as theirs. [2] When he had drawn into his own party the Athenian people, which was then debarred from all rights, he gave the tribes new names...
Athenian
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...Upon his arrival, he, in order to take away the curse, banished seven hundred Athenian families named for him by Isagoras. Having so done he next attempted to...
Athenian
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...keep what it had. 96. It was in this way, then, that Sigeum came to be under Athenian rule, but Hippias, having come from Lacedaemon into Asia, left no stone...
Athenian
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...banished by the sons of Pisistratus, attempted with the rest of the exiled Athenians to make their way back by force and free Athens. They were not successful in...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persian ...who dwell in the land of Pelops the Phrygian, we will make the borders of Persian territory and of the firmament of heaven be the same. [2] No land that the sun...
Persian
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...when Xanthippus son of Ariphron was their general, took Artayctes, a Persian and the governor of Sestus, and crucified him alive; he had been in the habit...
Persian
71 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...him was his charioteer, whose name was Patiramphes, the son of Otanes, a Persian. 41. In this way Xerxes rode out from Sardis; but whenever the thought took...
Persian
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...a man of the Hellespont cried, “O Zeus, why have you taken the likeness of a Persian man and changed your name to Xerxes, leading the whole world with you to remove...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...Greek lands alike will be destroyed. [3] Do not for a moment think that if the Persian defeats us in battle and subdues us, he will leave you unassailed, but rather...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...of action, therefore, had been planned with a view to being able to say to the Persian, “O king, we whose power is as great as any and who could have furnished as...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...they would meet the invader of Hellas here. Then, when they heard that the Persian was in Pieria, they broke up from the Isthmus and set out with their army to...
Persian
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Xerxes' wife Amestris reached old age, she buried twice seven sons of notable Persians as an offering on her own behalf to the fabled god beneath the earth...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...possessions of all Greeks who had of free will surrendered themselves to the Persians. Such was the agreement sworn by the Greeks. 133. To Athens and Sparta Xerxes...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...roused to battle the other Greek states which had not yet gone over to the Persians and, after the gods, were responsible for driving the king off. [6] Nor were...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...for each ship. [2] 93On board all these ships were thirty fighting men of the Persians and Medes and Sacae in addition to the company which each had of native...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...accordingly fought and fell there. There was a great struggle between the Persians and Lacedaemonians over Leonidas' body, until the Hellenes by their courageous...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the king. [2] After that, first came a thousand horsemen, chosen out of all Persians; next, a thousand spearmen, picked men like the others, carrying their spears...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...bravely and never sully the great and glorious former achievements of the Persians. Let us each and all be zealous, for the good that we seek is common to all...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...for the most notable among the Persians, and when they were present he said, “Persians, I have assembled you to make this demand, that you bear yourselves bravely and...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...to the opinion of the other tyrants instead of opposing it, the power of Persia would have perished. Yet it is dreadful even in the telling, that one man...
Persia
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...not those who hesitate and take account of all chances. [3] You see what power Persia has attained. Now if those kings who came before me had held such opinions as...
Persia
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...ever withstand us. Let us now cross over, after praying to the gods who hold Persia for their allotted realm.” 54. All that day they made preparations for the...
Persia
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athens ...their previous hostility with him; Onomacritus had been banished from Athens by Pisistratus' son Hipparchus, when he was caught by Lasus5 of Hermione in the...
Athens
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...then, when you have tamed the insolence of Egypt, lead your armies against Athens, so that you may have fair fame among men, and others may beware of invading...
Athens
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...command I marched against them. I marched as far as Macedonia and almost to Athens itself, yet none came out to meet me in battle. 9B. Yet the Greeks are...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persians ...the Phocians, who were posted on the mountain to guard the path.109 When the Persians found nothing different from what they saw the day before, they withdrew...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...before his army marched he must declare an heir to the kingship according to Persian law. [2] Three sons had been born to Darius before he became king by his first...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenian ...from the stump, and they reported this. 56. When this business concerning the Athenian acropolis was announced to the Hellenes at Salamis, some of the Peloponnesian...
Athenian
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...capturing it or being captured himself. [2] Such were the orders given to the Athenian captains, and there was a prize offered of ten thousand drachmas to whoever...
Athenian
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedaemonians ...speaking, the envoys from Sparta said, “We on our part have been sent by the Lacedaemonians to entreat you to do nothing harmful to Hellas and accept no offer from the...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...borders of Tegea. Themistocles was the only man of whom we know to whom the Spartans gave this escort. 125. But when Themistocles returned to Athens from...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Lacedaemonians ...made a pretext of Pausanias' highhandedness and took the command away from the Lacedaemonians. All that, however, took place later. 4. But now, the Greeks who had at last...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...against the Athenians, holding the western wing toward Eleusis. Against the Lacedaemonians were the Ionians, on the eastern wing toward Piraeus, and a few of them fought...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemon ...at Salamis the honor due to his preeminence, he immediately afterwards went to Lacedaemon in order that he might receive honor there. The Lacedaemonians welcomed him and...
Lacedaemon
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Persians ...was on watch off Sciathus, and on it was Pytheas son of Ischenous, the one the Persians marvelled at when severely wounded and kept aboard their ship because of his...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and landed them on the island of Psyttalea, and they slaughtered all the Persians who were on that islet. 96. When the battle was broken off, the Hellenes towed...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...that accomplishes a course more swiftly than do these messengers, by the Persians' skillful contrivance. It is said that as many days as there are in the whole...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...as because they feared for Xerxes himself. 100. Such was the plight of the Persians for all the time until the coming of Xerxes himself ended it. Mardonius...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...which of the two plans he would follow. When he consulted with those Persians whom he summoned, he resolved to send for Artemisia as well, because he saw...
Persians
71 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...not the Persians who have any part in this disaster. [5] Therefore, since the Persians are in no way to blame, be guided by me; if you are resolved not to remain...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...and Egyptians and Cyprians and Cilicians have so done, it is not the Persians who have any part in this disaster. [5] Therefore, since the Persians are in no...
Persians
71 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...any other nation and next to them the Medes; these indeed were as many as the Persians, but not such stout fighters. Thereby the whole number, together with the...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...spring. [2] When they had arrived in Thessaly, Mardonius first chose all the Persians called Immortals, save only Hydarnes their general who said that he would not...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...their father tore out their eyes. 117. This was their reward. Now the Persians, journeying through Thrace to the passage, made haste to cross to Abydos in...
Persians
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athens ...The greater and stronger part of the host marched with Xerxes himself towards Athens and broke into the territory of Orchomenus in Boeotia. Now the whole population...
Athens
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...Europe and in three more months were in Attica, when Calliades was archon at Athens. [2] When they took the town it was deserted, but in the sacred precinct they...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...stock) provided two; the Siphnians and Seriphians, who are Ionians from Athens, one each. The total number of ships, besides the fifty-oared boats, was three...
Athens
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...his opinion when he provided a city—attacking him in this way because Athens was captured and occupied. [2] This time Themistocles said many things against...
Athens
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...through the Euripus, and in three more days they were at Phalerum, the port of Athens. I think no less a number invaded Athens by land and sea than came to Sepias...
Athens
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...have come from there will sit still, nor will they care to fight at sea for Athens. 68C. But if you hurry to fight at sea immediately, I fear that your fleet if...
Athens
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athens ...took her alive, since they were indignant that a woman waged war against Athens. But she escaped, as I said earlier, and the others whose ships survived were...
Athens
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persians ...tale of Xerxes' return; but I for my part believe neither the story of the Persians' fate nor any other part of it. For if indeed the pilot had spoken to Xerxes in...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...from Salamis, but had been glad to be quit of them. In regard to the sea, the Persians were at heart beaten men, but they supposed that on land Mardonius would easily...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Xerxes had done with his own dead, for the thing was truly ridiculous; of the Persians a thousand lay dead before their eyes, but the Greeks lay all together...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Plataea ...of a victory won by the Greeks with Pausanias was true, for the defeat at Plataea happened while it was yet early in the day, and the defeat of Mykale in the...
Plataea
76 23.273866,38.221019,0 Spartans ...Argives, however, had already promised Mardonius that they would prevent the Spartans from going out to war. As soon as they were informed that Pausanias and his...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...sons of Tellias. This man had been put in prison and condemned to die by the Spartans for the great harm which he had done them. [2] Being in such bad shape inasmuch...
Spartans
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Plataea ...sixty-nine thousand and five hundred, and of the whole Greek army mustered at Plataea, men-at-arms and light-armed fighting men together, eleven times ten thousand...
Plataea
80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Plataea ...to view Masistius. [2] Presently they resolved that they would march down to Plataea, for they saw that the ground there was generally more suited for encampment...
Plataea
79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Spartans ...[2] In one of the tombs, then, were the “irens,” in the second the rest of the Spartans, and in the third the helots. This, then is how the Lacedaemonians buried their...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Plataea ...envoys arrived in Lacedaemon, bringing with them envoys from Megara and Plataea, they came before the ephors and said: 7A. “The Athenians have sent us with...
Plataea
74 23.273866,38.221019,0 Macedonia ...men, when by your father's command I marched against them. I marched as far as Macedonia and almost to Athens itself, yet none came out to meet me in battle. 9B. Yet...
Macedonia
81 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonia ...in the Perinthian country or to Doriscus, others to Eion on the Strymon or to Macedonia. 26. While these worked at their appointed task, all the land force had been...
Macedonia
80 21.75,41.25,0 Thessaly ...173. Thereupon the Greeks resolved that they would send a land army to Thessaly by sea to guard the pass. When the forces had assembled, they passed through...
Thessaly
74 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...the town of Gonnus; this was indeed the way by which Xerxes' army descended on Thessaly. The Greeks accordingly went down to their ships and made their way back to the...
Thessaly
81 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...was captain, came to Aphetae. Xerxes and his land army marched through Thessaly and Achaea, and it was three days since he had entered Malis. In Thessaly he...
Thessaly
73 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...caused the destruction of the Hellenes remaining there. [2] Later he fled into Thessaly in fear of the Lacedaemonians, and while he was in exile, a price was put on...
Thessaly
81 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...was not yet named, had the same volume of water as now, and thereby turned all Thessaly into a sea. [4] Now the Thessalians say that Poseidon made the passage by which...
Thessaly
81 22.2,39.6,0 Macedonians ...Briges as long as they dwelt in Europe, where they were neighbors of the Macedonians; but when they changed their home to Asia, they changed their name also and...
Macedonians
75 21.75,41.25,0 Agathyrsi ...was marching against them. [2] The assembled kings were those of the Tauri, Agathyrsi, Neuri, Maneaters, Black-cloaks, Geloni, Budini, and Sauromatae. 103. Among...
Agathyrsi
78 27.5,47.5,0 Maris ...49. These are the native-born Scythian rivers that help to swell it; but the Maris river, which commingles with the Ister, flows from the Agathyrsi. The Atlas...
Maris
80 20.5,46.5,0 Agathyrsi ...swell it; but the Maris river, which commingles with the Ister, flows from the Agathyrsi. The Atlas, Auras, and Tibisis, three other great rivers that pour into it...
Agathyrsi
81 27.5,47.5,0 Ordessus ...second, the Tiarantus, is more westerly and smaller; the Ararus, Naparis, and Ordessus flow between these two and pour their waters into the Ister. 49. These are the...
Ordessus
80 Phoenicians ...them were for the most part Ionians, and after being taught the letters by the Phoenicians, they used them with a few changes of form. In so doing, they gave to these...
Phoenicians
81 35.25,33.25,0 Phoenicians ...when the Persians, crossing from Cilicia, marched to Salamis by land, and the Phoenicians were sailing around the headland which is called the keys of Cyprus.54 109. In...
Phoenicians
80 35.25,33.25,0 Crathis ...say. The Sybarites point to a precinct and a temple beside the dry bed of the Crathis, which, they say, Dorieus founded in honor of Athena of Crathis after he had...
Crathis
80 16.2544973,39.3801999,0 Croton ...and their king Telys were making ready to march against Croton, and the men of Croton, who were very much afraid, entreated Dorieus to come to their aid. Their...
Croton
81 17.205128,39.028864,0 Croton ...of Zeus of the marketplace, to which he had fled for refuge. 47. Philippus of Croton, son of Butacides, was among those who followed Dorieus and were slain with...
Croton
81 17.205128,39.028864,0 Phoenicians ...with all their company, they were all overcome and slain in battle by the Phoenicians and Egestans, all, that is, except Euryleon, who was the only settler that...
Phoenicians
76 35.25,33.25,0 Sybaris ...and were slain with him. He had been betrothed to the daughter of Telys of Sybaris but was banished from Croton. Cheated out of his marriage, he sailed away to...
Sybaris
77 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Argives ...their names so that these tribes should not be shared by Sicyonians and Argives. In this especially he made a laughing-stock of the Sicyonians, for he gave the...
Argives
74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Dorians ...stranger, and do not enter the holy place since it is not lawful that Dorians should pass in here. “My lady,” he answered, “I am not a Dorian, but an...
Dorians
72 Aeginetans ...or because they were planning what they then actually did. [3] When, as the Aeginetans say, no man came out to fight with them, the Athenians disembarked from their...
Aeginetans
78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...in this position ever since. [4] This is what the Athenians did, but the Aeginetans say that they discovered that the Athenians were about to make war upon them...
Aeginetans
75 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...the Athenians disembarked on the land of Aegina, the Argives came to aid the Aeginetans, crossing over from Epidaurus to the island secretly. They then fell upon the...
Aeginetans
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Phrygian ...who had been led captive from the Strymon by Megabazus, and now dwelt in a Phrygian territory and village by themselves. When the man came to the Paeonians, he...
Phrygian
77 29.75,38.75,0 Chians ...The Paeonians would not consent to this, but were brought from Chios by the Chians to Lesbos and carried by the Lesbians to Doriscus, from where they made their...
Chians
78 26.053,38.414,0 Macedonians ...then, came to nothing, and Hippias was forced to depart. Amyntas king of the Macedonians offered him Anthemus, and the Thessalians Iolcus, but he would have neither. He...
Macedonians
79 21.75,41.25,0 Cyprian ...many were slain, among them Onesilus, son of Chersis, who had contrived the Cyprian revolt, as well as the king of the Solians, Aristocyprus son of Philocyprus...
Cyprian
78 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Cius ...who marched on Sardis, now turned towards the Propontis, and there took Cius in Mysia. [2] When he had taken this place and heard that Daurises had left the...
Cius
74 29.25,40.25,0 Amathusians ...now king of Salamis, persuaded all Cyprus to revolt with him, all save the Amathusians, who would not consent. He accordingly stationed his forces in front of their...
Amathusians
77 33.1438299,34.712174,0 Milesian ...of Ampe, by which the river Tigris flows as it issues into the sea. Of the Milesian land the Persians themselves held what was nearest to the city, and the plain...
Milesian
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesian ...the ships of the foreigners were six hundred. When these, too, reached the Milesian shore, and all their land power was present, the Persian generals, learning the...
Milesian
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Chian ...of Apollophanes, he himself sailed with the Lesbians to Chios and, when the Chian guardships would not receive him, fought in the Hollows of Chios (as they are...
Chian
78 26.053,38.414,0 Phocaea ...he sailed away with the three enemy ships that he had captured; but not to Phocaea, now that he knew well that it would be enslaved with the rest of Ionia; he...
Phocaea
77 26.75261,38.6684,0 Scidrus ...of the Persians, the Sybarites (who had lost their city and dwelt in Laus and Scidrus) did not give them equal return for what they had done. When Sybaris was taken...
Scidrus
80 15.61987,40.07228,0 Pedasa ...and the plain, giving the hill country into the possession of Carians from Pedasa. 21. Now when the Milesians suffered all this at the hands of the Persians...
Pedasa
77 27.42178,37.06804,0 Dolonci ...to be an Athenian. [2] Miltiades was sitting on his porch when he saw the Dolonci go by with their foreign clothing and spears, so he called out to them, and...
Dolonci
76 Calchedonians ...lie towards Thrace, and Selymbria and Byzantium. [2] The Byzantines and the Calchedonians beyond them did not even wait for the attack of the Phoenicians, but left their...
Calchedonians
78 29.025789,40.983393,0 Dascyleum ...before the Phoenician expedition, by an agreement with the governor at Dascyleum, Oebares son of Megabazus. 34. The Phoenicians subdued all the cities in the...
Dascyleum
73 28.05065,40.13271,0 Mesambria ...their own land and fled away into the Euxine, and there settled in the city of Mesambria. The Phoenicians burnt the aforementioned places and turned against Proconnesus...
Mesambria
81 25.63855,40.86333,0 Dolonci ...of Cypselus had gained the rule earlier in the following manner: the Thracian Dolonci held possession of this Chersonese. They were crushed in war by the...
Dolonci
80 Athens ...the king away, and made an agreement that Leutychides should go with them to Athens and restore the men to the Aeginetans. 86. When Leutychides came to Athens and...
Athens
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Aeginetans ...culpable of its people. [2] But when he attempted to make the arrests, the Aeginetans opposed him, especially Crius son of Polycritus, who told him he would not take...
Aeginetans
77 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...and now they were even more at odds when Cleomenes crossed over after the Aeginetans who were Medizing. 65. Cleomenes wanted revenge, so he made a deal with...
Aeginetans
76 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...Demaratus. The deal was that Leotychides would go with Cleomenes against the Aeginetans if he became king. [2] Leotychides had already become strongly hostile to...
Aeginetans
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetans ...on board, and put in prison the men they seized. 88. Suffering this from the Aeginetans, the Athenians no longer put off devising all mischief against Aegina. There...
Aeginetans
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Thebans ...behalf. This is how they did it: [2] when the Plataeans were pressed by the Thebans, they first tried to put themselves under the protection of Cleomenes son of...
Thebans
78 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...away, but the Delians never carried that statue away; twenty years later the Thebans brought it to Delium by command of an oracle. 119. When Datis and Artaphrenes...
Thebans
79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Temenos ...by crossing over to Oropus; the Persians sailed holding their course for Temenos and Choereae and Aegilea, all in Eretrian territory. Landing at these places...
Temenos
75 24.104151,38.499419,0 Lydians ...had perceived anything, for she meant to punish Candaules; [3] since among the Lydians and most of the foreign peoples it is felt as a great shame that even a man be...
Lydians
81 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...soon as they heard that you were building ships to attack them, than to catch Lydians on the seas, so as to be revenged on you for the Greeks who dwell on the...
Lydians
80 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...according to the custom of the country; so Croesus purified him ( [2] the Lydians have the same manner of purification as the Greeks), and when he had done...
Lydians
76 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...He is newly married, and that is his present concern. But I will send chosen Lydians, and all the huntsmen, and I will tell those who go to be as eager as possible...
Lydians
79 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...against the Persians. 47. And when he sent to test these shrines he gave the Lydians these instructions: they were to keep track of the time from the day they left...
Lydians
80 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...and knuckle-bones and ball and all other forms of game except dice, which the Lydians do not claim to have discovered. [4] Then, using their discovery to lighten the...
Lydians
80 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...son of Manes there was great scarcity of food in all Lydia. For a while the Lydians bore this with what patience they could; presently, when the famine did not...
Lydians
78 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...say, the games now in use among them and the Greeks were invented by the Lydians: these, they say, were invented among them at the time when they colonized...
Lydians
75 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...and forty yards; and there is a great lake hard by the tomb, which, the Lydians say, is fed by ever-flowing springs; it is called the Gygaean lake. Such then...
Lydians
74 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...been from the first,46 I return now to my former story. 141. As soon as the Lydians had been subjugated by the Persians, the Ionians and Aeolians sent messengers...
Lydians
79 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...[2] So likewise I have taken with me you who were more than a father to the Lydians, and handed the city over to the Lydians themselves; and then indeed I marvel...
Lydians
78 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...follow Croesus' advice. Then calling Mazares, a Mede, he told him to give the Lydians the commands that Croesus advised; further, to enslave all the others who had...
Lydians
80 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...they point to an ancient shrine of Carian Zeus at Mylasa, to which Mysians and Lydians, as brethren of the Carians (for Lydus and Mysus, they say, were brothers of...
Lydians
81 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...48. Having written down this inspired utterance of the Pythian priestess, the Lydians went back to Sardis. When the others as well who had been sent to various...
Lydians
81 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...was the answer from Delphi delivered to Croesus. As to the reply which the Lydians received from the oracle of Amphiaraus when they had followed the due custom of...
Lydians
77 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...spoke thus but he did not persuade Croesus. Indeed, before they conquered the Lydians, the Persians had no luxury and no comforts. 72. Now the Cappadocians are...
Lydians
80 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...it within the year in which the change did indeed happen.25 [3] So when the Lydians and Medes saw the day turned to night, they stopped fighting, and both were the...
Lydians
78 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...expectation, and he was in a great quandary; nevertheless, he led out the Lydians to battle. [3] Now at this time there was no nation in Asia more valiant or...
Lydians
76 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...be opportune for him to march quickly against Sardis, before the power of the Lydians could be assembled again. [2] This he decided, and this he did immediately; he...
Lydians
80 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...Presently he turned and said (for he saw the Persians sacking the city of the Lydians), “O King, am I to say to you what is in my mind now, or keep silent?” When...
Lydians
80 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...down, but despite their efforts they could not master the fire. 87. Then the Lydians say that Croesus understood Cyrus' change of heart, and when he saw everyone...
Lydians
80 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...further, if it were the way of the Greek gods to be ungrateful. 91. When the Lydians came, and spoke as they had been instructed, the priestess (it is said) made...
Lydians
80 27.5,37.5,0 Lydians ...154. But no sooner had Cyrus marched away from Sardis than Pactyes made the Lydians revolt from Tabalus and Cyrus; and he went down to the sea, where, as he had...
Lydians
79 27.5,37.5,0 Delphians ...the bowls of Gyges. This gold and the silver offered by Gyges is called by the Delphians “Gygian” after its dedicator. 15. As soon as Gyges came to the throne, he too...
Delphians
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Phoenicians ...preeminent in every way among the people of what is now called Hellas. The Phoenicians came to Argos, and set out their cargo. [3] On the fifth or sixth day after...
Phoenicians
77 35.25,33.25,0 Assyrian ...to make long voyages. Among other places to which they carried Egyptian and Assyrian merchandise, they came to Argos, [2] which was at that time preeminent in every...
Assyrian
78 37.5,37.5,0 Thyrea ...the Spartans themselves were feuding with the Argives over the country called Thyrea; [2] for this was a part of the Argive territory which the Lacedaemonians had...
Thyrea
80 22.75,37.25,0 Scythians ...[6] Cyaxares and the guests who ate with him dined on the boy's flesh, and the Scythians, having done as they planned, fled to Alyattes for protection. 74. After this...
Scythians
81 28.5,44.5,0 Chians ...a similar service done for them; for the Milesians had previously helped the Chians in their war against the Erythraeans. 19. In the twelfth year, when the Lydian...
Chians
79 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Chians ...that came from that country was kept away from any sacred rite. 161. The Chians, then, surrendered Pactyes, and afterwards Mazares led his army against those...
Chians
76 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Lydian army ...in their war against the Erythraeans. 19. In the twelfth year, when the Lydian army was burning the crops, the fire set in the crops, blown by a strong wind...
Lydian army
75 27.9632845,38.624771249999995,0 Chians ...None of the Ionians helped to lighten this war for the Milesians, except the Chians: these lent their aid in return for a similar service done for them; for the...
Chians
79 26.1342335,38.37641,0 Carians ...a good deal of territory for himself and was victorious in war, this made the Carians too at that time by far the most respected of all nations. [4] They invented...
Carians
80 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...Caunians, and Lycians, taking Ionians and Aeolians with him. [2] Of these, the Carians have come to the mainland from the islands; for in the past they were...
Carians
81 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...and Ionians and so came to the mainland. This is the Cretan story about the Carians; but the Carians themselves do not subscribe to it, but believe that they are...
Carians
78 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carians ...Mariandynians, Chalybes, Paphlagonians, the Thracian Thynians and Bithynians, Carians, Ionians, Dorians, Aeolians, and Pamphylians; 29. and after these were subdued...
Carians
80 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Pelasgians ...the Peloponnese, where it took the name of Dorian.18 57. What language the Pelasgians spoke I cannot say definitely. But if one may judge by those that still remain...
Pelasgians
78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Delos ...in ground within sight of the temple and conveyed them to another part of Delos. [3] So Pisistratus was sovereign of Athens: and as for the Athenians, some had...
Delos
76 25.268194,37.397274,0 Delos ...too and put Lygdamis in charge.) And besides this, he purified the island of Delos as a result of oracles, and this is how he did it: he removed all the dead that...
Delos
79 25.268194,37.397274,0 Thornax ...to buy gold, intending to use it for the statue of Apollo which now stands on Thornax23 in Laconia; and Croesus, when they offered to buy it, made them a free gift...
Thornax
80 Lacedaemonians ...human race. [5] After reasoning this out, he went back to Sparta and told the Lacedaemonians everything. They made a pretence of bringing a charge against him and banishing...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Spartans ...collected the bones, then hurried off to Sparta with them. Ever since then the Spartans were far superior to the Tegeans whenever they met each other in battle. By the...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Syrians ...Sinope on the Euxine sea), where he encamped and devastated the farms of the Syrians; [2] and he took and enslaved the city of the Pterians, and took all the places...
Syrians
79 37.5,37.5,0 Cappadocia ...returning? 76. Passing over with his army, Croesus then came to the part of Cappadocia called Pteria (it is the strongest part of this country and lies on the line of...
Cappadocia
79 35.75,39.25,0 Persians ...and the Persian power. [2] But while he was preparing to march against the Persians, a certain Lydian, who was already held to be a wise man, and who, from the...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Sardis ...and persuaded the men of the coast to join his undertaking. Then, marching to Sardis, he penned Tabalus in the acropolis and besieged him there. 155. When Cyrus...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Telmessians ...but the horse was an enemy and a foreigner. This was the answer which the Telmessians gave Croesus, knowing as yet nothing of the fate of Sardis and of the king...
Telmessians
76 29.105772,36.620899,0 Sardis ...Lacedaemonians who were bringing the bowl, coming too late, and learning that Sardis and Croesus were taken, sold it in Samos to certain private men, who set it up...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Persians ...time; and as for the soldiers whom he had with him, who had fought with the Persians, all of them who were mercenaries he discharged, never thinking that after a...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Mardian ...but with no success. Then, when all the others were stopped, a certain Mardian28 called Hyroeades attempted to mount by a part of the acropolis where no guard...
Mardian
73 40.735111,37.312236,0 Colchi ...man from the Maeetian lake38 to the river Phasis and the land of the Colchi; from the Colchi it is an easy matter to cross into Media: there is only one...
Colchi
71 42.5,42.5,0 Persians ...done, Harpagus wanted to reveal his intent to Cyrus, who then lived among the Persians. But the roads were guarded, and he had no plan for sending a message but this...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greek ...name was Mitradates, and his wife was a slave like him; her name was in the Greek language Cyno, in the Median Spako: for “spax” is the Median word for dog. [2]...
Greek
78 Persians ...nothing, but by your own destiny you still live; now therefore, go to the Persians, and good luck go with you; I will send guides with you. When you get there you...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Median ...his wife was a slave like him; her name was in the Greek language Cyno, in the Median Spako: for “spax” is the Median word for dog. [2] The foothills of the...
Median
81 46.5,34.5,0 Persians ...this vision, and communicated it to the interpreters of dreams, he sent to the Persians for his daughter, who was about to give birth, and when she arrived kept her...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the dead which are secretly and obscurely told: how the dead bodies of Persians are not buried before they have been mangled by birds or dogs. [2] That this is...
Persians
73 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Ionians ...nobility, all end in the same letter, that which the Dorians call san, and the Ionians sigma; you will find, if you search, that not some but all Persian names alike...
Ionians
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Cos ...of his own house. For this offense the five cities—Lindus, Ialysus, Camirus, Cos, and Cnidus—forbade the sixth city—Halicarnassus—to share in the use of the...
Cos
79 27.17,36.844,0 Camirus ...the wall of his own house. For this offense the five cities—Lindus, Ialysus, Camirus, Cos, and Cnidus—forbade the sixth city—Halicarnassus—to share in the use of...
Camirus
79 28.15629,36.41451,0 Six Cities ...of what is now the country of the “Five Cities”—formerly the country of the “Six Cities”—forbid admitting any of the neighboring Dorians to the Triopian temple, and...
Six Cities
79 Bura ...the never-failing river Crathis, from which the river in Italy took its name; Bura and Helice, where the Ionians fled when they were worsted in battle by the...
Bura
80 22.231166,38.142006,0 Aegiroessa ...Cyme (called “Phriconian”),49 Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegaeae, Myrina, Gryneia.50 These are the ancient Aeolian cities...
Aegiroessa
78 Lacedaemonians ...Lacedaemonians, that he was to harm no city on Greek territory, or else the Lacedaemonians would punish him. 153. When the herald had proclaimed this, Cyrus is said to...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...to him and refused to help the Ionians. So the Ionians departed; but the Lacedaemonians, though they had rejected their envoys, did nevertheless send men in a ship of...
Lacedaemonians
75 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...and stood up and made a long speech asking aid for his people. [2] But the Lacedaemonians would not listen to him and refused to help the Ionians. So the Ionians...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Phocaeans' wall ...this is made of great stones well fitted together. 164. In such a manner the Phocaeans' wall was built. Harpagus marched against the city and besieged it, but he made...
Phocaeans' wall
80 26.75261,38.6684,0 Phocaeans ...would demolish one rampart of the wall and dedicate one house. [2] But the Phocaeans, very indignant at the thought of slavery, said they wanted to deliberate for a...
Phocaeans
77 26.75261,38.6684,0 Median power ...and then, when he could not persuade them to, and learned from them how the Median power was increasing, he gave them money to build a wall around their city. [4] He...
Median power
78 46.5,34.5,0 Phocaeans ...them to deliberate. [3] So when Harpagus withdrew his army from the walls, the Phocaeans launched their fifty-oared ships, embarked their children and women and all...
Phocaeans
81 26.75261,38.6684,0 Caunians ...after subjugating Ionia, made an expedition against the Carians, Caunians, and Lycians, taking Ionians and Aeolians with him. [2] Of these, the Carians...
Caunians
67 28.621536,36.825909,0 Xanthus ...great oaths to each other, and sallying out fell fighting, all the men of Xanthus. [3] Of the Xanthians who claim now to be Lycians the greater number, all...
Xanthus
76 29.31836,36.355934,0 Pedaseans ...they gave him the most trouble; they fortified a hill called Lide. 176. The Pedaseans were at length taken, and when Harpagus led his army into the plain of Xanthus...
Pedaseans
79 27.42178,37.06804,0 Egypt ...on the coast of Egypt, where they disembarked in their armor of bronze; and an Egyptian came into the marsh country and brought news to Psammetichus (for he had...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...the Colchian kind is called by the Greeks Sardonian46 ; that which comes from Egypt is called Egyptian. 106. As to the pillars that Sesostris, king of Egypt, set...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Scythians ...the river Ister, crossed over to attack the Scythians. At that time the Scythians used every means of entreating the Ionians, who had been charged to guard the...
Scythians
74 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...the Thracian Bosporus and bridging the river Ister, crossed over to attack the Scythians. At that time the Scythians used every means of entreating the Ionians, who had...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Assyrians ...if we who have subdued and made slaves of Sacae and Indians and Ethiopians and Assyrians and many other great nations, for no wrong done to the Persians but of mere...
Assyrians
81 37.5,37.5,0 Assyrians ...leader was Megapanus, who was afterwards the governor of Babylon. 63. The Assyrians in the army wore on their heads helmets of twisted bronze made in an outlandish...
Assyrians
77 37.5,37.5,0 Dorians ...they took their name from Lycus son of Pandion, an Athenian. 93. The Dorians of Asia furnished thirty ships; their armor was Greek; they are of...
Dorians
72 Hellas ...of Asia, and all your ships. I think there is not so much boldness in Hellas as that; but if time should show me wrong in my judgment, and those men prove...
Hellas
72 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Scythians ...carrying their native reed bows and short spears. [2] The Sacae, who are Scythians, had on their heads tall caps, erect and stiff and tapering to a point; they...
Scythians
75 27.5,47.5,0 Athos ...whippings to dig a canal, coming by turns to the work; the inhabitants about Athos also dug. [2] Bubares son of Megabazus and Artachaees son of Artaeus, both...
Athos
79 24.295147727272727,40.24683418181819,0 Acanthus ...but they hold it in great reverence to this day. 116. When Xerxes came to Acanthus, he declared the Acanthians his guests and friends, and gave them Median...
Acanthus
77 23.88504,40.39427,0 Chersonese ...army of the mainland travelled towards the east31 and the sunrise through the Chersonese, with the tomb of Athamas' daughter Helle on its right and the town of Cardia...
Chersonese
80 26.5,40.33333,0 Athos ...of food and ships. 22. Since those who had earlier attempted to sail around Athos had suffered shipwreck, for about three years preparations had been underway...
Athos
79 24.295147727272727,40.24683418181819,0 Acanthus ...stadia wide; here is a place of level ground or little hills, from the sea by Acanthus to the sea opposite Torone. [3] On this isthmus which is at the end of Athos...
Acanthus
80 23.88504,40.39427,0 Priene ...dialects. Miletus lies farthest south among them, and next to it come Myus and Priene; these are settlements in Caria, and they have a common language; Ephesus...
Priene
81 27.298333,37.66,0 Colophon ...these are settlements in Caria, and they have a common language; Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea, all of them in Lydia, [4] have a language...
Colophon
76 27.142222,38.115556,0 Asia ...of the Persians, nor were the Persians themselves mariners. [2] But those of Asia were cut off from the rest of the Ionians only in the way that I shall show...
Asia
79 Halicarnassus ...away from the temple but dedicate them there to the god. [3] Now when a man of Halicarnassus called Agasicles won, he disregarded this law, and, carrying the tripod away...
Halicarnassus
81 27.424112,37.037864,0 Miletus ...them after slaying their fathers and husbands and sons. This happened at Miletus. 147. And as kings, some of them chose Lycian descendants of Glaucus son of...
Miletus
75 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Mykale ...say, of a certain pretext of murder. 148. The Panionion is a sacred ground in Mykale, facing north; it was set apart for Poseidon of Helicon by the joint will of...
Mykale
81 27.12558,37.66144,0 Sardis ...So Cyrus uttered his thought; but Croesus feared that he would destroy Sardis, and answered him thus: [3] “O King, what you say is reasonable. But do not...
Sardis
73 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...was frightened and fled to Cyme. [2] Mazares the Mede, when he came to Sardis with the part that he had of Cyrus' host and found Pactyes' followers no longer...
Sardis
73 28.040278,38.488333,0 Priene ...despite their evil plight, nonetheless assembled at the Panionion, Bias of Priene, I have learned, gave them very useful advice, and had they followed it they...
Priene
77 27.298333,37.66,0 Miletus ...destruction of the Ionians; and that given before the destruction by Thales of Miletus, a Phoenician by descent, was good too; he advised that the Ionians have one...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Ionia ...than demes. Thus Bias and Thales advised. 171. Harpagus, after subjugating Ionia, made an expedition against the Carians, Caunians, and Lycians, taking Ionians...
Ionia
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Asia ...and his partisans; who, after being driven out, came to the Milyan land in Asia. What is now possessed by the Lycians was in the past Milyan, and the Milyans...
Asia
77 Babylon ...the royal dwelling had been established after the destruction of Ninus.61 Babylon was a city such as I will now describe. [2] It lies in a great plain, and is in...
Babylon
76 44.42082,32.53617,0 Dardanean ...Babylon,68 which rises in the mountains of the Matieni and flows through the Dardanean country into another river, the Tigris, that again passes the city of Opis and...
Dardanean
79 Tigris ...of the Matieni and flows through the Dardanean country into another river, the Tigris, that again passes the city of Opis and empties into the Red Sea—when, I say...
Tigris
81 44.79467829666667,34.52908255,0 Asia ...feeds him for four of the twelve months in the year, the whole of the rest of Asia providing for the other eight. [2] Thus the wealth of Assyria is one third of...
Asia
80 Armenia ...boats of hides and not of wood. When they have driven their asses back into Armenia, they make more boats in the same way. 195. Such then are their boats. For...
Armenia
78 42.5,37.5,0 temple of Aphrodite ...Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land to sit in the temple of Aphrodite and have intercourse with some stranger once in her life. Many women who are...
temple of Aphrodite
80 Cyprus ...remain for three years, or four. There is a custom like this in some parts of Cyprus. 200. These are established customs among the Babylonians. Furthermore, there...
Cyprus
80 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Massagetae ...201. When Cyrus had conquered this nation, too, he wanted to subject the Massagetae. These are said to be a great and powerful people dwelling towards the east and...
Massagetae
76 62.5,37.5,0 country ...sing. Such is said to be their way of life. [3] The Araxes73 flows from the country of the Matieni (as does the Gyndes, which Cyrus divided into the three hundred...
country
78 pillars of Heracles ...to the other sea. For that on which the Greeks sail, and the sea beyond the pillars of Heracles, which they call Atlantic, and the Red Sea, are all one: 203. but the Caspian...
pillars of Heracles
78 -5.485833,35.971667,0 Massagetae ...was of no avail, Cyrus marched to the Araxes and openly prepared to attack the Massagetae; he bridged the river for his army to cross, and built towers on the pontoons...
Massagetae
81 62.5,37.5,0 Massagetae ...if you lose the battle, you lose your empire also, for it is plain that if the Massagetae win they will not retreat but will march against your provinces. [4] And if you...
Massagetae
81 62.5,37.5,0 Sardis ...from Hellas who were living at that time, coming in different ways, came to Sardis, which was at the height of its property; and among them came Solon the...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Eleusis ...was most glorious: [5] when the Athenians were fighting their neighbors in Eleusis, he came to help, routed the enemy, and died very finely. The Athenians buried...
Eleusis
77 23.538311,38.041096,0 Sardis ...occupied with the marriage of his son, a Phrygian of the royal house came to Sardis, in great distress and with unclean hands. This man came to Croesus' house, and...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...of the dream. One ran to tell Croesus what had happened, and coming to Sardis told the king of the fight and the fate of his son. 44. Distraught by the...
Sardis
73 28.040278,38.488333,0 Abae ...of the Greek and Libyan oracles, sending messengers separately to Delphi, to Abae in Phocia, and to Dodona, while others were despatched to Amphiaraus and...
Abae
79 22.9154,38.58006,0 Dodona ...oracles, sending messengers separately to Delphi, to Abae in Phocia, and to Dodona, while others were despatched to Amphiaraus and Trophonius,13 and others to...
Dodona
78 20.78784,39.54648,0 Delphi ...[2] Now none relate what answer was given by the rest of the oracles. But at Delphi, no sooner had the Lydians entered the hall to inquire of the god and asked the...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Lydia ...the offerings, and inquired of the oracles, in these words: “Croesus, king of Lydia and other nations, believing that here are the only true places of divination...
Lydia
80 27.5,37.5,0 Phthia ...and far. [3] For in the days of king Deucalion17 it inhabited the land of Phthia, then the country called Histiaean, under Ossa and Olympus, in the time of...
Phthia
76 22.6337672,38.8678937,0 Histiaean ...under Ossa and Olympus, in the time of Dorus son of Hellen; driven from this Histiaean country by the Cadmeans, it settled about Pindus in the territory called...
Histiaean
79 23.06593,38.93759,0 Dryopia ...Macedonian; from there again it migrated to Dryopia, and at last came from Dryopia into the Peloponnese, where it took the name of Dorian.18 57. What language...
Dryopia
77 20.75,39.25,0 Peloponnese ...there again it migrated to Dryopia, and at last came from Dryopia into the Peloponnese, where it took the name of Dorian.18 57. What language the Pelasgians spoke I...
Peloponnese
77 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Delphi ...[2] when they kept being defeated by the Tegeans, they sent ambassadors to Delphi to ask which god they should propitiate to prevail against the Tegeans in war...
Delphi
77 22.501169,38.482289,0 Asia ...left. [3] Thus the Halys river cuts off nearly the whole of the lower part of Asia from the Cyprian to the Euxine sea. Here is the narrowest neck of all this...
Asia
80 Euxine sea ...cuts off nearly the whole of the lower part of Asia from the Cyprian to the Euxine sea. Here is the narrowest neck of all this land; the length of the journey across...
Euxine sea
78 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Sardis ...the beginning of spring. [4] With such an intention, as soon as he returned to Sardis, he sent heralds to all his allies, summoning them to assemble at Sardis in...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Asia ...he led out the Lydians to battle. [3] Now at this time there was no nation in Asia more valiant or warlike than the Lydian. It was their custom to fight on...
Asia
80 Argos ...at nightfall. [5] Then the two Argives, believing themselves victors, ran to Argos; but Othryades the Lacedaemonian, after stripping the Argive dead and taking...
Argos
79 22.719464,37.631561,0 Thebes ...Hellas, and not only those of which I have spoken. There is a golden tripod at Thebes in Boeotia, which he dedicated to Apollo of Ismenus; at Ephesus29 there are the...
Thebes
81 23.255096,38.318092,0 Delphi ...of gold and the greater part of the pillars; and in the temple of Proneia at Delphi, a golden shield.30 All these survived to my lifetime; but other of the...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Branchidae ...but other of the offerings were destroyed. [2] And the offerings of Croesus at Branchidae of the Milesians, as I learn by inquiry, are equal in weight and like those at...
Branchidae
81 27.256115,37.384829,0 Lydia ...shall say of Croesus' offerings. 93. There are not many marvellous things in Lydia to record, in comparison with other countries, except the gold dust that comes...
Lydia
80 27.5,37.5,0 Babylon ...to be seen there which is much the greatest of all, except those of Egypt and Babylon. In Lydia is the tomb of Alyattes, the father of Croesus, the base of which is...
Babylon
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Smyrna ...Then the one group, having drawn the lot, left the country and came down to Smyrna and built ships, in which they loaded all their goods that could be transported...
Smyrna
78 27.1383,38.41905,0 Asia ...took down the power of Croesus, and how the Persians came to be the rulers of Asia. I mean then to be guided in what I write by some of the Persians who desire...
Asia
80 Halys ...battle, and who united under his dominion all of Asia that is beyond the river Halys. Collecting all his subjects, he marched against Ninus, wanting to avenge his...
Halys
81 35.9295291,41.6767598,0 Asia ...in battle, deprived them of their rule, and made themselves masters of all Asia. 105. From there they marched against Egypt: and when they were in the part of...
Asia
77 Asia ...out of the genitals of this daughter, and that the vine covered the whole of Asia. [2] Having seen this vision, and communicated it to the interpreters of...
Asia
79 Asia ...bow down before the Persians because of Astyages' cruelty. They had ruled all Asia beyond the Halys for one hundred and twenty-eight years,42 from which must be...
Asia
80 Asia ...this (the Persians say), the Greeks were very much to blame; for they invaded Asia before the Persians attacked Europe. [2] “We think,” they say, “that it is...
Asia
80 Argos ...say that they did not carry her off to Egypt by force. She had intercourse in Argos with the captain of the ship. Then, finding herself pregnant, she was ashamed...
Argos
80 22.719464,37.631561,0 Smyrna ...to the throne, he too, like others, led an army into the lands of Miletus and Smyrna; and he took the city of Colophon. But as he did nothing else great in his...
Smyrna
80 27.1383,38.41905,0 Priene ...him, and shall speak instead of Ardys son of Gyges, who succeeded him. He took Priene and invaded the country of Miletus; and it was while he was monarch of Sardis...
Priene
81 27.298333,37.66,0 Smyrna ...descendant Cyaxares and the Medes, drove the Cimmerians out of Asia, took Smyrna (which was a colony from Colophon), and invaded the lands of Clazomenae. But he...
Smyrna
76 27.1383,38.41905,0 Miletus ...son of Ardys was still ruler of Lydia, and it was he who invaded the lands of Miletus, for it was he who had begun the war; for the following five the war was waged...
Miletus
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sardis ...the present no notice was taken of this. But after the army had returned to Sardis, Alyattes fell ill; and, as his sickness lasted longer than it should, he sent...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Delphi ...fell ill; and, as his sickness lasted longer than it should, he sent to Delphi to inquire of the oracle, either at someone's urging or by his own wish to...
Delphi
74 22.501169,38.482289,0 Miletus ...and the Milesians during his rebuilding of the temple. So the envoy went to Miletus. But Thrasybulus, forewarned of the whole matter, and knowing what Alyattes...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...all the food in the city, from private stores and his own, and told the men of Miletus all to drink and celebrate together when he gave the word. 22. Thrasybulus did...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sardis ...when he gave the word. 22. Thrasybulus did this so that when the herald from Sardis saw a great heap of food piled up, and the citizens celebrating, he would bring...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Taenarus ...the most marvellous thing that happened to him in his life was the landing on Taenarus of Arion of Methymna, brought there by a dolphin. This Arion was a lyre-player...
Taenarus
80 22.4866293,36.401551,0 Methymna ...thing that happened to him in his life was the landing on Taenarus of Arion of Methymna, brought there by a dolphin. This Arion was a lyre-player second to none in...
Methymna
81 26.489422,39.05495,0 Corinth ...and that after he had made a lot of money there he wanted to come back to Corinth. [2] Trusting none more than the Corinthians, he hired a Corinthian vessel to...
Corinth
76 22.878721,37.906045,0 Athenians ...feud between the Athenians of the coast under Megacles son of Alcmeon and the Athenians of the plain under Lycurgus son of Aristolaides, raised up a third faction, as...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lesbians ...the son of Cypselus, and sovereign of Corinth. The Corinthians say (and the Lesbians agree) that the most marvellous thing that happened to him in his life was the...
Lesbians
78 26.10052,39.20874,0 Marathon ...and returned home. The first place in Attica which they took and held was Marathon: and while encamped there they were joined by their partisans from the city...
Marathon
76 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Marathon ...who while Pisistratus was collecting money and afterwards when he had taken Marathon took no notice of it, did now, and when they learned that he was marching from...
Marathon
78 23.970146,38.1465515,0 Ionians ...story. 141. As soon as the Lydians had been subjugated by the Persians, the Ionians and Aeolians sent messengers to Cyrus, offering to be his subjects on the same...
Ionians
79 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...city except Athens. [3] Now the Athenians and the rest would not be called Ionians, but spurned the name; even now the greater number of them seem to me to be...
Ionians
77 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...Peloponnese, just as there are twelve divisions of the Achaeans who drove the Ionians out—Pellene nearest to Sicyon; then Aegira and Aegae, where is the...
Ionians
80 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...as they are now of the Achaeans. 146. For this reason, and for no other, the Ionians too made twelve cities; for it would be foolishness to say that these are more...
Ionians
80 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Ionians ...the only inland city of all these—these were the twelve divisions of the Ionians, as they are now of the Achaeans. 146. For this reason, and for no other, the...
Ionians
75 26.819866254641568,38.140913690748434,0 Argives ...the Lacedaemonians: these three were left alive at nightfall. [5] Then the two Argives, believing themselves victors, ran to Argos; but Othryades the Lacedaemonian...
Argives
81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Athenian ...offering no flattery but keeping to the truth, said, “O King, it is Tellus the Athenian.” [4] Croesus was amazed at what he had said and replied sharply, “In what way...
Athenian
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...in Eleusis, he came to help, routed the enemy, and died very finely. The Athenians buried him at public expense on the spot where he fell and gave him much...
Athenians
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Egypt ...into the Egyptian sea; and from there (as the wind did not let up) he came to Egypt, to the mouth of the Nile called the Canopic mouth, and to the Salters'. [2]...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greeks ...square at the base, and as much as half its height of Ethiopian stone. Some Greeks say that it was built by Rhodopis, the courtesan, but they are wrong; [2]...
Greeks
78 Greeks ...supreme; the last of them to rule the country was Osiris' son Horus, whom the Greeks call Apollo; he deposed Typhon,60 and was the last divine king of Egypt. Osiris...
Greeks
80 Greeks ...description and each one of them is a match for many great monuments built by Greeks, this maze surpasses even the pyramids. [4] It has twelve roofed courts with...
Greeks
80 Egypt ...names Poseidon and the Dioscuri, nor are these gods reckoned among the gods of Egypt. [3] Yet if they got the name of any deity from the Greeks, of these not least...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...and spring into the fire. [4] When this happens, there is great mourning in Egypt. The occupants of a house where a cat has died a natural death shave their...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...fields? [2] At present, of course, there are no people, either in the rest of Egypt or in the whole world, who live from the soil with so little labor; they do not...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...The first human king of Egypt, they said, was Min. [3] In his time all of Egypt except the Thebaic5 district was a marsh: all the country that we now see was...
Egypt
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...about Egypt. [2] The men of the cities of Marea and Apis, in the part of Egypt bordering on Libya, believing themselves to be Libyans and not Egyptians, and...
Egypt
75 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Prosopitis ...in the Delta, nine schoeni in circumference. There are many other towns on Prosopitis; the one from which the boats come to gather the bones of the bulls is called...
Prosopitis
77 30.75,30.25,0 Greek way ...opposite; yet they say that their way of writing is towards the right, and the Greek way towards the left. They employ two kinds of writing; one is called sacred, the...
Greek way
81 Prosopitis ...time appointed is at hand, a boat comes to each city from the island called Prosopitis, [5] an island in the Delta, nine schoeni in circumference. There are many...
Prosopitis
78 30.75,30.25,0 Egyptian man ...of all beasts of the herd by all Egyptians alike. [3] For this reason, no Egyptian man or woman will kiss a Greek man, or use a knife, or a spit, or a cauldron...
Egyptian man
76 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Greek ...alluring, for the woman of whom this story is told became so famous that every Greek knew the name of Rhodopis, and later on a certain Archidice was the theme of...
Greek
81 Bubastis ...women, and the men, sing and clap their hands. [2] As they travel by river to Bubastis, whenever they come near any other town they bring their boat near the bank...
Bubastis
80 31.51591,30.56826,0 Greek ...let you take away this woman and the wealth, but I shall watch them for the Greek stranger, until he come and take them away; but as for you and your sailors, I...
Greek
78 Greek language ...the land to which she had come. [3] After this, as soon as she understood the Greek language, she taught divination; and she said that her sister had been sold in Libya by...
Greek language
80 Nile ...river, strengthening its dam every year to keep the current in; for were the Nile to burst its dikes and overflow here, all Memphis would be in danger of...
Nile
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Achaean ...[2] The other town, I think, is named after Arkhandrus son of Phthius the Achaean, and son-in-law of Danaus; for it is called Arkhandrus' town. It may be that...
Achaean
76 22.5,37.5,0 Phocaea ...is called the Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and...
Phocaea
80 26.75261,38.6684,0 Libyan ...in boats, he organized others to receive and drag them to the mountains called Libyan. [3] They worked in gangs of a hundred thousand men, each gang for three...
Libyan
81 30.25,28.75,0 Arabian mountains ...[2] To some, he assigned the task of dragging stones from the quarries in the Arabian mountains to the Nile; and after the stones were ferried across the river in boats, he...
Arabian mountains
80 31.25,28.75,0 Arabian Gulf ...war; some of his ships of war were built on the northern sea, and some in the Arabian Gulf, by the Red Sea coast: the winches for landing these can still be seen. [2] He...
Arabian Gulf
80 50.9999999,27.0000001,0 Elephantine ...from Saïs. [3] But what I admire most of his works is this: he brought from Elephantine a shrine made of one single block of stone; its transport took three years and...
Elephantine
78 32.89066,24.08292,0 Arabians ...from him pledges. 8. There are no men who respect pledges more than the Arabians. This is how they give them: a man stands between the two pledging parties, and...
Arabians
75 42.5,27.5,0 Arabians ...first and Cambyses after him had conquered, was subject to him, except the Arabians; these did not yield as of slaves to the Persians, but were united to them by...
Arabians
77 42.5,27.5,0 Sardis ...to the scribe, in which was written: “King Darius instructs the Persians in Sardis to kill Oroetes.” Hearing this the spearmen drew their scimitars and killed him...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Ienysus ...(which, as I judge, is a city not much smaller than Sardis) to the city of Ienysus the seaports belong to the Arabians; then they are Syrian again from Ienysus as...
Ienysus
77 Memphis ...to Thebes , with the loss of many of his army; from Thebes he came down to Memphis, and sent the Greeks to sail away. 26. So fared the expedition against...
Memphis
77 31.254278,29.849667,0 Memphis ...of his army lost, though they had done nothing like it when he was before at Memphis. [3] The rulers told him that a god, wont to appear after long intervals of...
Memphis
79 31.254278,29.849667,0 Memphis ...the battle the Egyptians fled in disorder; and when they had been overtaken in Memphis, Cambyses sent a Persian herald up the river aboard a Mytilenean boat to invite...
Memphis
81 31.254278,29.849667,0 Syria ...pottery that is brought to Egypt and unloaded or emptied there is carried to Syria to join the stock that has already been taken there. 7. Now as soon as the...
Syria
79 37.5,37.5,0 Serbonian marsh ...belong to the Arabians; then they are Syrian again from Ienysus as far as the Serbonian marsh, beside which the Casian promontory stretches seawards; [3] from this Serbonian...
Serbonian marsh
80 33.25,31.25,0 Samians ...when it was spoken or at the time of the Samians' coming. As soon as the Samians put in at Siphnus, they sent ambassadors to the town in one of their ships; [2]...
Samians
75 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...of Lacedaemon.23 57. When the Lacedaemonians were about to abandon them, the Samians who had brought an army against Polycrates sailed away too, and went to...
Samians
80 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...aware that if the Persians were hurt they would be furiously angry with the Samians. Besides, he knew that he could get himself safely off the island whenever he...
Samians
78 26.84,37.73,0 Susa ...the Persian. 129. Oroetes' slaves and other possessions were brought to Susa. Not long after this, it happened that Darius twisted his foot in dismounting...
Susa
75 48.24854,32.19202,0 Thebes ...and so gave up his expedition against the Ethiopians and marched back to Thebes , with the loss of many of his army; from Thebes he came down to Memphis, and...
Thebes
75 32.65285,25.70247,0 Persia ...should be diseased. 34. I will now relate his mad dealings with the rest of Persia. He said, as they report, to Prexaspes—whom he held in particular honor, who...
Persia
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Corinthians ...took the boys back to Corcyra. 49. If after the death of Periander, the Corinthians had been friendly towards the Corcyraeans, they would not have taken part in...
Corinthians
75 22.878721,37.906045,0 Messenia ...say, because they first sent a fleet to help the Lacedaemonians against Messenia; but the Lacedaemonians say that they sent this army less to aid the Samians in...
Messenia
74 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Corcyraeans ...bore a grudge against the Samians. Periander chose the sons of the notable Corcyraeans and sent them to Sardis to be made eunuchs as an act of vengeance; for the...
Corcyraeans
78 19.92178,39.60733,0 Corcyraeans ...after the death of Periander, the Corinthians had been friendly towards the Corcyraeans, they would not have taken part in the expedition against Samos for this...
Corcyraeans
78 19.92178,39.60733,0 Ecbatana ...prophecy had before this come to him from Buto, that he would end his life at Ecbatana; Cambyses supposed this to signify that he would die in old age at the Median...
Ecbatana
80 48.51696,34.80523,0 Ecbatana ...of silver and five hundred castrated boys; this was the ninth province; Ecbatana and the rest of Media, with the Paricanians and Orthocorybantians, paid four...
Ecbatana
74 48.51696,34.80523,0 Mede ...kingship, or, if we cannot, to die, since we who are Persians are ruled by a Mede, a Magus, and he a man that has no ears? [2] Those of you that were with...
Mede
79 46.5,34.5,0 Buto ...They told him it was Ecbatana. Now a prophecy had before this come to him from Buto, that he would end his life at Ecbatana; Cambyses supposed this to signify that...
Buto
81 30.74222,31.19556,0 Samian ...and twenty feet, and more than twelve hundred feet in length. [4] The third Samian work is the temple, which is the greatest of all the temples of which we know...
Samian
78 26.84,37.73,0 Thracians ...the Hellespontians on the right of the entrance of the straits, the Phrygians, Thracians of Asia, Paphlagonians, Mariandynians, and Syrians; these paid three hundred...
Thracians
81 27.5,42.5,0 Posideion ...(except the part belonging to the Arabians, which paid no tribute) between Posideion, a city founded on the Cilician and Syrian border by Amphilochus son of...
Posideion
77 35.82466,35.84991,0 Cilicia ...hundred and forty of these were expended on the horsemen who were the guard of Cilicia; the three hundred and sixty that remained were paid to Darius. 91. The fifth...
Cilicia
81 35.75,38.25,0 Moschi ...the eighteenth, and two hundred talents were the appointed tribute. [2] The Moschi, Tibareni, Macrones, Mossynoeci, and Mares, the nineteenth province, were...
Moschi
78 42.5,41.5,0 Teos ...found Polycrates lying in the men's apartments, in the company of Anacreon of Teos; [2] and, whether on purpose to show contempt for Oroetes, or by mere chance...
Teos
80 26.785014,38.177262,0 Eridanus ...assurance; for I do not believe that there is a river called by foreigners Eridanus issuing into the northern sea, where our amber is said to come from, nor do I...
Eridanus
77 Hyrcanians ...was once the Chorasmians', being at the boundaries of the Chorasmians, the Hyrcanians, Parthians, Sarangians, and Thamanaei, but since the Persians have held power...
Hyrcanians
77 56.3,37.1,0 Aces ...[2] Now from the encircling mountains flows a great river whose name is the Aces. Its stream divides into five channels and formerly watered the lands of the...
Aces
78 Arimaspians ...assurance how the gold is produced, but it is said that one-eyed men called Arimaspians steal it from griffins. [2] But I do not believe this, that there are one-eyed...
Arimaspians
78 Tarentines ...it was enough that the Cnidians alone be his escort; for he supposed that the Tarentines would be the readier to receive him back as the Cnidians were their friends...
Tarentines
80 17.228553,40.476034,0 Cnidians ...supposed that the Tarentines would be the readier to receive him back as the Cnidians were their friends. [3] Darius kept his word, and sent a messenger to the men...
Cnidians
79 27.37404,36.686188,0 Cnidos ...their friends. [3] Darius kept his word, and sent a messenger to the men of Cnidos, telling them to take Gillus back to Tarentum. They obeyed Darius; but they...
Cnidos
78 27.37404,36.686188,0 Delphi ...away in sorrow, as men robbed of their possessions; but Glaucus journeyed to Delphi to question the oracle. When he asked the oracle whether he should seize the...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...both might be made kings. The Lacedaemonians were at a loss, so they sent to Delphi to inquire how they should deal with the matter. [5] The priestess bade them...
Delphi
79 22.501169,38.482289,0 Ionian ...Ionian Gulf, Amphimnestus son of Epistrophus, an Epidamnian; he was from the Ionian Gulf. From Aetolia came Males, the brother of that Titormus who surpassed all...
Ionian
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionian ...of that Amyris who was called the Wise. [2] These came from Italy; from the Ionian Gulf, Amphimnestus son of Epistrophus, an Epidamnian; he was from the Ionian...
Ionian
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionian ...these together was three hundred and fifty-three triremes. 9. These were the Ionian ships; the ships of the foreigners were six hundred. When these, too, reached...
Ionian
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Scythians ...are uninhabited. I think therefore that in this story of feathers the Scythians and their neighbors only speak of snow figuratively. So, then, I have spoken of...
Scythians
72 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...for only those whom he tells to do so serve the king, and none of the Scythians have servants bought by money) [2] and strangle fifty of these and fifty of...
Scythians
72 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...besides horses, and first-fruits of everything else, and golden cups; for the Scythians do not use silver or bronze. [5] Having done this, they all build a great...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...and Darius' brother, by no means wanted him to make an expedition against the Scythians, telling him how hard that people were to deal with. [2] But when, for all his...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...set it up in this country Exampaeus. This much I heard about the number of the Scythians. 82. As for marvels, there are none in the land, except that it has by far the...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...me, follow me now and I will show him to you.” [5] The leading men among the Scythians followed him, and the Borysthenite brought them up secretly onto a tower; from...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...from each other singly or in pairs, roaming apart for greater comfort. The Scythians noticed this and did likewise; and as the women wandered alone, a young man...
Scythians
77 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...in flight on their infantry, the infantry would come up to their aid; and the Scythians, once they had driven in the horse, turned back for fear of the infantry. The...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...the bridge in haste and go, free and happy men, thanking the gods and the Scythians. The one that was your master we shall impress in such a way that he will never...
Scythians
76 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...hardship, and tether all our asses here, and ourselves depart, before the Scythians can march straight to the Ister to break up the bridge, or the Ionians take...
Scythians
76 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...appointed; and after that, leave.” So the Ionians promised to do this, and the Scythians made their way back with all haste. 134. But after sending the gifts to...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...to the Cliffs by the Maeetian lake; this place is in the country of the free Scythians. The Amazons landed there, and set out on their journey to the inhabited...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...opposite them and engaged them in battle. [3] There were many fights, and the Scythians could gain no advantage; at last one of them said, “Men of Scythia, look at...
Scythians
80 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...stunned by what they saw, did not think of fighting, but fled. Thus, the Scythians ruled Asia and were driven out again by the Medes, and returned to their own...
Scythians
75 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...missing their way; [3] for the Cimmerians always fled along the coast, and the Scythians pursued with the Caucasus on their right until they came into the Median land...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...farming Scythians, across the Panticapes river, you are in the land of nomadic Scythians, who plant nothing, nor plough; and all these lands except the Woodlands are...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Asia ...subjugated the Indians and made use of this sea. Thus it was discovered that Asia, except the parts toward the rising sun, was in other respects like Libya...
Asia
79 Asia ...Libya shows clearly that it is bounded by the sea, except where it borders on Asia. Necos king of Egypt first discovered this and made it known. When he had...
Asia
80 Asia ...after Asies, the son of Cotys, who was the son of Manes, and that from him the Asiad clan at Sardis also takes its name. [4] But as for Europe, no men have any...
Asia
81 Scythians ...portion of the bridge on the Scythian side, that they would do all that the Scythians desired. [2] This was the plan they adopted; and then Histiaeus answered for...
Scythians
78 27.5,47.5,0 Asia ...as I have said before, ruled upper Asia1 for twenty-eight years; they invaded Asia in their pursuit of the Cimmerians, and ended the power of the Medes, who were...
Asia
80 Persians ...and not accessory to the murder: to these she turned over the city. 203. The Persians thus enslaved the rest of the Barcaeans, and went home. When they appeared...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...would not let them. Then, although no one attacked them, panic seized the Persians, and they fled to a place seven miles distant and camped there; and while they...
Persians
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Phoenicia ...Darius brought a canal from the Nile. [2] Now from the Persian country to Phoenicia there is a wide and vast tract of land; and from Phoenicia this peninsula runs...
Phoenicia
76 35.25,33.25,0 Persians ...[2] If you want to draw up your army on land and try your strength against the Persians, then it is time for you to disembark and array yourselves on land and for us...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Cilicians should have the Maeander at their back, the intent being that if the Persians were overcome in the battle and put to flight, they would not escape but be...
Persians
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...This opinion, however, did not prevail, and it was decided instead that the Persians and not the Cilicians should have the Maeander at their back, the intent being...
Persians
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...him that Artybius, a Persian, was thought to be coming to Cyprus with a great Persian host. [2] Upon hearing this, Onesilus sent heralds all through Ionia to summon...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...end to it by the gift of a great sum and his own sister Gygaea to Bubares, a Persian and the general of those who were looking for the slain men. It was in this...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Perinthians ...such call, they were not to attack. The Paeonians acted accordingly. When the Perinthians set up camp in front of their city, the armies then challenged each other to a...
Perinthians
80 27.95454,40.97089,0 Perinthians ...man was matched against man, horse against horse, and dog against dog. [3] The Perinthians were victorious in two of the combats and raised the cry of “Paean” in their...
Perinthians
81 27.95454,40.97089,0 Persia ...they would not consent, it was resolved that they should be openly at war with Persia. 97. It was when the Athenians had made their decision and were already on bad...
Persia
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...as they sat drinking together, “Macedonian, our host, it is our custom in Persia to bring in also the concubines and wedded wives to sit by the men after the...
Persia
76 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...Corinthians at that time were their close friends, so they consented to the Athenians' plea and gave them twenty ships, at a price of five drachmas apiece; by their...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...with the Athenians, took possession of the Old City, as it was called; but the Athenians were not there at the right time, for they did not have ships worthy to fight...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Aeginetans for his former banishment from the island. When he learned that the Athenians were now set upon harming the Aeginetans, he agreed to betray Aegina to the...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...in prison the men they seized. 88. Suffering this from the Aeginetans, the Athenians no longer put off devising all mischief against Aegina. There was a notable man...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...found the Athenians in disarray and attacked and overcame them, taking four Athenian ships and their crews. 94. Thus Athens and Aegina grappled together in war...
Athenian
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...more and more children, and they taught their sons the speech of Attica and Athenian manners. These boys would not mix with the sons of the Pelasgian women; if one...
Athenian
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...Athenian festivals, they acquired fifty-oared ships and set an ambush for the Athenian women celebrating the festival of Artemis at Brauron. They seized many of the...
Athenian
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenian ...and desired vengeance on the Athenians. Since they well knew the time of the Athenian festivals, they acquired fifty-oared ships and set an ambush for the Athenian...
Athenian
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Greek ...an Athenian. 93. The Dorians of Asia furnished thirty ships; their armor was Greek; they are of Peloponnesian descent. The Carians furnished seventy ships; they...
Greek
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...“Demaratus, it is now my pleasure to ask you what I wish to know. You are a Greek, and, as I am told both by you and by the other Greeks whom I have talked to, a...
Greek
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...he had crossed the dried-up bed of the river Lisus, he passed by the Greek cities of Maronea, Dicaea, and Abdera. He passed by these, and along certain...
Greek
71 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...the earth. 115. Journeying from the Strymon, the army passed by Argilus, a Greek town standing on a stretch of coast further westwards; the territory of this...
Greek
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...Greece should preserve her freedom, the Athenians roused to battle the other Greek states which had not yet gone over to the Persians and, after the gods, were...
Greek
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...their course straight for Sciathus, where there lay an advance guard of three Greek ships, a Troezenian, an Aeginetan, and an Attic. These, when they sighted the...
Greek
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...[2] They were not prepared to make a head-on attack since they feared that the Greeks would see them coming and turn to flee with night close upon them as they fled...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...fair an occasion as now. [2] By what means he did at last make his way to the Greeks, I cannot with exactness say. If the story is true, it is marvellous indeed...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...this Scyllias had before now, it would seem, intended to desert to the Greeks, but he never had had so fair an occasion as now. [2] By what means he did at...
Greeks
73 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...fought that sea-fight with doubtful issue, and nightfall ended the battle; the Greeks sailed back to Artemisium, and the barbarians to Aphetae, after faring far...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...more numerous and more seaworthy. With this assurance, they hemmed in the Greeks in their midst. [2] Now all the Ionians who were friendly to the Greeks came...
Greeks
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Delphi ...were they moved to desert Hellas by the threatening oracles which came from Delphi and sorely dismayed them, but they stood firm and had the courage to meet the...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...as his wife Terillus' daughter Cydippe. Accordingly Gelon sent the money to Delphi, because he could not aid the Greeks. 166. They add this tale too—that Gelon...
Delphi
78 22.501169,38.482289,0 Delphi ...and they offered sacrifices to them. This, then, is the reason why the Delphians to this day offer the winds sacrifice of propitiation. 179. Xerxes' fleet...
Delphi
73 22.501169,38.482289,0 Athenians ...[2] Upon hearing this he, as the tale goes, said to the ephors, “Sirs, if the Athenians are our enemies and the barbarians allies, then although you push a strong wall...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...were worthier to hold the wing than the Arcadians. It was in this way that the Athenians were preferred to the men of Tegea, and gained that place. [2] Presently the...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...it was the army of Lacedaemon and Tegea alone which was his goal, for the Athenians marched another way over the broken ground, and were out of his sight. [2]...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...as recently as the war which was waged many years after this time between the Athenians and Peloponnesians, the Lacedaemonians laid no hand on Decelea when they...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...they defended themselves and held their own in the battle, but when the Athenians and their neighbors in the line passed the word and went more zealously to...
Athenians
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...from their attack. 117. Since the siege continued into the late autumn, the Athenians grew weary of their absence from home and their lack of success at taking the...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...hand to hand, we saw you even now fleeing and leaving your station, using Athenians for the first trial of your enemy and arraying yourselves opposite those who...
Athenians
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...and change places, you to this wing and we to the left.” “We, too,” the Athenians answered, “even from the moment when we saw the Persians posted opposite you...
Athenians
74 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...been by far more zealous than all others in this present war.” 61. When the Athenians heard that, they attempted to help the Lacedaemonians and defend them with all...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...of Decelea, whose people once did a deed that was of eternal value, as the Athenians themselves say. [2] For in the past when the sons of Tyndarus were trying to...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...arrived, an intense battle for the wall began. [2] For as long as the Athenians were not there, the barbarians defended themselves and had a great advantage...
Athenians
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...The Tegeans, however, buried all theirs together in a place apart, and the Athenians did similarly with their own dead. So too did the Megarians and Phliasians with...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...for permitting the barbarian to invade Attica and not helping the Athenians to meet him in Boeotia; and who were to remind the Lacedaemonians of the...
Athenians
68 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...be that with the Isthmus fortified, they thought they had no more need of the Athenians, whereas when Alexander came to Attica, their wall was not yet built and they...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Persian had made to Athens if she would change sides, and warn them that the Athenians would devise some means of salvation for themselves if the Lacedaemonians sent...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...allies deserted. For the wrong that you do them and for lack of allies, the Athenians, will make their peace with the Persian as best they can, [2] and thereafter...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thebans ...of that place. Thersander too (he said) was invited to this dinner, and fifty Thebans in addition. Attaginus made them sit, not each man by himself but on each couch...
Thebans
80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Athenians ...question with which he had been charged, Pausanias asked the man to tell the Athenians of his present condition, and begged them to join themselves to the...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Thermopylae ...had been among the first to give earth and water to the king, had come to Thermopylae under constraint, and were guiltless of the harm done to the king. [2] By this...
Thermopylae
76 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thermopylae ...219. The seer Megistias, examining the sacrifices, first told the Hellenes at Thermopylae that death was coming to them with the dawn. Then deserters came who announced...
Thermopylae
81 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thermopylae ...he seized the town of Plataea. 234. This, then, is how the Greeks fought at Thermopylae. Xerxes then sent for Demaratus and questioned him, saying first, “Demaratus...
Thermopylae
79 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thermopylae ...[2] The pass, then, which brought about the fall of those Greeks who fell at Thermopylae, was unknown to them until they came to Thermopylae and learned of it from the...
Thermopylae
79 22.538294,38.796511,0 Thermopylae ...they should stand to fight. It was decided that they should guard the pass of Thermopylae, for they saw that it was narrower than the pass into Thessaly and nearer home...
Thermopylae
80 22.538294,38.796511,0 Sparta ...refused to flee from the barbarians or (save by compulsion) bring shame on Sparta; the whole business seemed strange to him, for he had not been present in the...
Sparta
77 22.42454,37.08149,0 Salamis ...however, they permitted to depart unharmed. [3] There was much noise at Salamis over the business of Lycidas; and when the Athenian women learned what was...
Salamis
74 23.5314735,37.947768,0 Salamis ...so plainly, nor will I consent to it by others. 78. Among the generals at Salamis there was fierce argument. They did not yet know that the barbarians had...
Salamis
77 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...language. 86. Thus it was concerning them. But the majority of the ships at Salamis were sunk, some destroyed by the Athenians, some by the Aeginetans. Since the...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...at Salamis: taking many of the armed men who were arrayed along the shore of Salamis, he brought them across and landed them on the island of Psyttalea, and they...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...seventy-eight. 49. When the generals from the aforementioned cities, met at Salamis, they held a council and Eurybiades proposed that whoever wanted to should give...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...the Isthmus and fight for the Peloponnese, he said, [2] “If they depart from Salamis, you will no longer be fighting for one country. Each will make his way to his...
Salamis
79 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...advantage, since our ships are heavier and fewer in number. You will also lose Salamis and Megara and Aegina, even if we succeed in all else. Their land army will...
Salamis
81 23.51,37.93,0 Salamis ...on the mainland will be endangered. If, however, it turns towards the ships at Salamis, the king will be in danger of losing his fleet. [4] Every year the Athenians...
Salamis
81 23.51,37.93,0 Macedonia ...them and nourish them, some in Thessaly and some in Siris of Paeonia and in Macedonia. [4] In Siris he had left the sacred chariot of Zeus when he was marching to...
Macedonia
78 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonia ...and Perdiccas; and from Illyria they crossed over into the highlands of Macedonia till they came to the town Lebaea. [2] There they served for wages as thetes in...
Macedonia
74 21.75,41.25,0 Macedonian ...of a ship. This stood in the same place as the golden statue of Alexander the Macedonian. 122. Having sent the first-fruits to Delphi, the Greeks, in the name of the...
Macedonian
80 21.75,41.25,0 Boeotia ...Artemisium and were off Chalcis, the Plataeans landed on the opposite shore of Boeotia and attended to the removal of their households. In bringing these to safety...
Boeotia
81 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Delphi ...them the whole truth. For this deed the Tenians were engraved on the tripod at Delphi with those who had conquered the barbarian. [2] With this ship that deserted at...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Hellenes ...from the temple. 40. At the request of the Athenians, the fleet of the Hellenes came from Artemisium and put in at Salamis. The Athenians requested them to put...
Hellenes
74 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Thrace ...all that come in his way, and he holds in subjection not only the rest of Thrace, but also our neighbors the Getae.” 119. After the Scythians had made this...
Thrace
76 27.5,42.5,0 Artanes ...it, flow north from the heights of Haemus.27 The Athrys, the Noes, and the Artanes flow into the Ister from the country of the Crobyzi in Thrace; the Cius river...
Artanes
77 Thera ...else that was customary but set sail in great anger for Libya, with men of Thera to guide him. [3] When he arrived there, he settled by the Cinyps river in the...
Thera
77 25.478129,36.36399,0 Lacedaemon ...of Sparta, did likewise, despite the fact that he had come with Cleomenes from Lacedaemon in joint command of the army and had not till now been at variance with him...
Lacedaemon
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemon ...90. As they were making ready for vengeance, a matter which took its rise in Lacedaemon hindered them, for when the Lacedaemonians learned of the plot of the...
Lacedaemon
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Armenians ...the Cilicians, are the Armenians, another people rich in flocks, and after the Armenians, the Matieni, whose country I show you. [7] Adjoining these you see the Cissian...
Armenians
81 40.5,39.5,0 Phrygia ...length of twenty stages, and ninety-four and a half parasangs. [2] Next after Phrygia it comes to the river Halys, where there is both a defile which must be passed...
Phrygia
80 29.75,38.75,0 Matieni ...The first-mentioned of them flows from the Armenians and the second from the Matieni. [5] The fourth river is called Gyndes, that Gyndes which Cyrus parted once...
Matieni
79 46.5,36.5,0 Matieni ...are the Armenians, another people rich in flocks, and after the Armenians, the Matieni, whose country I show you. [7] Adjoining these you see the Cissian land, in...
Matieni
81 46.5,36.5,0 Boeotia ...such a spirit of pride and is growing so much in power, that its neighbors in Boeotia and Chalcis have really noticed it, and others too will soon recognize their...
Boeotia
80 23.184677533333332,38.34668803333333,0 Greece ...as was quite fair seeing that the Phoenicians had brought them into Greece.26 [3] The Ionians have also from ancient times called sheets of papyrus skins...
Greece
70 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Gephyraeans ...The Cadmeans had first been expelled from there by the Argives,25 and these Gephyraeans were forced to go to Athens after being expelled in turn by the Boeotians. The...
Gephyraeans
78 36.352594,36.249652,0 Achaean ...should pass in here. “My lady,” he answered, “I am not a Dorian, but an Achaean.” [4] So without taking heed of the omen, he tried to do as he pleased and was...
Achaean
74 22.5,37.5,0 Encheleis ...of Eteocles, the Cadmeans were expelled by the Argives and went away to the Encheleis. The Gephyraeans were left behind but were later compelled by the Boeotians to...
Encheleis
78 20.5,41.5,0 Cadmean ...day there are many foreigners who write on such skins. 59. I have myself seen Cadmean writing in the temple of Ismenian Apollo at Thebes of Boeotia engraved on...
Cadmean
81 35.25,33.25,0 Attica ...[3] While the Athenians were busy with the Boeotians, they descended on Attica in ships of war, and ravaged Phaleron and many other seaboard townships. By so...
Attica
74 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Alopecae ...the first Lacedaemonian army drew off, and Anchimolius' tomb is at Alopecae in Attica, near to the Heracleum in Cynosarges.28 64. After this the...
Alopecae
69 23.749997,37.95,0 Thebans ...79. This, then, is the course of action which the Athenians took, and the Thebans, desiring vengeance on Athens, afterwards appealed to Delphi for advice. The...
Thebans
77 23.255096,38.318092,0 Thebans ...of the Athenians against the Aeginetans began as I have told, and now at the Thebans' call the Aeginetans came readily to the aid of the Boeotians, remembering the...
Thebans
79 23.255096,38.318092,0 Argives ...the tyrant of Sicyon,32 for Cleisthenes, after going to war with the Argives, made an end of minstrels' contests at Sicyon by reason of the Homeric poems...
Argives
71 22.719464,37.631561,0 Chalcidians ...prisoner. On that same day the Athenians crossed to Euboea where they met the Chalcidians too in battle, and after overcoming them as well, they left four thousand...
Chalcidians
80 23.602,38.464,0 Eleusis ...of these also were asked to give aid and went with the army. [3] So now at Eleusis, when the rest of the allies saw that the Lacedaemonian kings were not of one...
Eleusis
77 23.538311,38.041096,0 Oenoe ...far as Eleusis with a great host, and the Boeotians, by a concerted plan, took Oenoe and Hysiae, districts on the borders of Attica, while the Chalcidians attacked...
Oenoe
81 23.952,38.156,0 Eleusis ...with him out of the acropolis, as tyrant. [2] Cleomenes broke in as far as Eleusis with a great host, and the Boeotians, by a concerted plan, took Oenoe and...
Eleusis
77 23.538311,38.041096,0 Argives ...that only one man of their number returned safely to Attica. [2] The Argives, however, say that he escaped after they had destroyed the rest of the Athenian...
Argives
71 22.719464,37.631561,0 Eretrians ...attacked, and for six days many fell on both sides; but on the seventh two Eretrians of repute, Euphorbus son of Alcimachus and Philagrus son of Cineas, betrayed...
Eretrians
77 22.607216,39.290562,0 Eretrians ...in expectation of doing to the Athenians exactly what they had done to the Eretrians. Marathon39 was the place in Attica most suitable for riding horses and closest...
Eretrians
77 22.607216,39.290562,0 Eretria ...altar and burnt it. 98. After doing this, Datis sailed with his army against Eretria first, taking with him Ionians and Aeolians; and after he had put out from...
Eretria
80 22.607216,39.290562,0 Eretrian ...seven ships. The foreigners pushed off with the rest, picked up the Eretrian slaves from the island where they had left them, and sailed around Sunium...
Eretrian
70 22.607216,39.290562,0 Erasinus ...were in no way favorable for his crossing, so he said that he honored the Erasinus for not betraying its countrymen, but even so the Argives would not go...
Erasinus
76 22.75,37.75,0 Erasinus ...responded that he would take Argos. When he came with Spartans to the river Erasinus, which is said to flow from the Stymphalian28 lake (this lake issues into a...
Erasinus
78 22.75,37.75,0 Stymphalian ...he came with Spartans to the river Erasinus, which is said to flow from the Stymphalian28 lake (this lake issues into a cleft out of sight and reappears at Argos, and...
Stymphalian
78 22.4677283,37.8502198,0 Nauplia ...to the sea and carried his men on shipboard to the region of Tiryns and to Nauplia. 77. The Argives heard of this and came to the coast to do battle with him...
Nauplia
77 22.796,37.565,0 Tiryns ...cast out the slaves; when they were driven out, the slaves took possession of Tiryns by force. [2] For a while they were at peace with each other; but then there...
Tiryns
80 22.80004,37.59918,0 Aegilia ...he unloaded the slaves from Eretria onto the island of the Styrians called Aegilia, and brought to anchor the ships that had put ashore at Marathon, then...
Aegilia
77 24.1749085,38.1771519,0 Plataeans ...there and broke through in pursuit inland, but on each wing the Athenians and Plataeans prevailed. [2] In victory they let the routed foreigners flee, and brought the...
Plataeans
80 23.273866,38.221019,0 Asopus river ...beyond the boundaries the Corinthians had made for the Plataeans, fixing the Asopus river as the boundary for the Thebans in the direction of Plataea and Hysiae. So the...
Asopus river
79 23.581173000000003,38.300198333333334,0 Plataeans ...come true. As the Athenians were marshalled in the precinct of Heracles, the Plataeans came to help them in full force. The Plataeans had put themselves under the...
Plataeans
79 23.273866,38.221019,0 Lacedaemonians ...those men who claim to be each a match for three Greeks. [4] So is it with the Lacedaemonians; fighting singly they are as brave as any man living, and together they are the...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...and feasted them as his guests, and as they sat at his board, he asked: [2] “Lacedaemonians, why do you shun the king's friendship? You can judge from what you see of me...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...it rose up again in the war between the Peloponnesians and Athenians, as the Lacedaemonians say. That seems to me to be an indication of something divine. [2] It was just...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...deal them yet another blow, it was to be feared that they would be at the Lacedaemonians' mercy. [2] Then those of the envoys who were Spartans replied to the demands...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...had come to Syracuse, they had audience with him and spoke as follows: “The Lacedaemonians and their allies have sent us to win your aid against the foreigner, for it...
Lacedaemonians
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...tyrant of Sicily, should go to the Peloponnese to be at the beck and call of Lacedaemonians. For this reason he took no more thought of this plan but followed another...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...Hellenes and could not use their numbers fighting in a narrow space. [3] The Lacedaemonians fought memorably, showing themselves skilled fighters amidst unskilled on many...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...thousand men, all of them equal to those who have fought here; the rest of the Lacedaemonians are not equal to these, yet they are valiant men.” [3] “And how, Demaratus,”...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Egypt ...time6 slain by a Libyan, Inaros son of Psammetichus. 8. After the conquest of Egypt, intending now to take in hand the expedition against Athens, Xerxes held a...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...should do what you have in hand; then, when you have tamed the insolence of Egypt, lead your armies against Athens, so that you may have fair fame among men, and...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...Xerxes was at first by no means eager to march against Hellas; it was against Egypt that he mustered his army. But Mardonius son of Gobryas, Xerxes cousin and the...
Egypt
80 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...against the rebels in the year after Darius death. He subdued them and laid Egypt under a much harder slavery than in the time of Darius, and he handed it over...
Egypt
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egypt ...wives; he had an image made of her of hammered gold. 70. The Ethiopians above Egypt and the Arabians had Arsames for commander, while the Ethiopians of the east37...
Egypt
81 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Susa ...king into Hellas with all earnestness; the Pisistratidae who had come up to Susa used the same pleas as the Aleuadae, offering Xerxes even more than they did...
Susa
78 48.24854,32.19202,0 Susa ...these men's deed of daring, and so also were their sayings. On their way to Susa, they came to Hydarnes, a Persian, who was general of the coast of Asia. He...
Susa
78 48.24854,32.19202,0 Susa ...Callias son of Hipponicus, and the rest who had come up with him, were at Susa, called the Memnonian,71 about some other business,72 the Argives also had at...
Susa
76 48.24854,32.19202,0 Lacedaemonian ...be best for them to act, for six thousand of them had been lately69 slain by a Lacedaemonian army and Cleomenes son of Anaxandrides its general. For this reason, they said...
Lacedaemonian
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonian ...own general, but the one most admired and the leader of the whole army was a Lacedaemonian, Leonidas, son of Anaxandrides, son of Leon, son of Eurycratides, son of...
Lacedaemonian
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonian ...the Peloponnese. There, however, they anchored off Pylos and Taenarus in the Lacedaemonian territory, waiting like the others to see which way the war should incline...
Lacedaemonian
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Argives ...many of both sides fell, but the Lacedaemonians gained the victory. The Argives, who before had worn their hair long by fixed custom, shaved their heads ever...
Argives
74 22.719464,37.631561,0 Medes ...Harpagus, a man of his household who was his most faithful servant among the Medes and was administrator of all that was his, and he said: [4] “Harpagus, whatever...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...otherwise, it passes from your nation to this boy who is a Persian, and so we Medes are enslaved and held of no account by the Persians, as we are of another...
Medes
80 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...Astyages was harsh toward the Medes, he associated with each of the chief Medes and persuaded them to make Cyrus their leader and depose Astyages. [3] So much...
Medes
76 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...if the present business is indeed your doing; most unjust, in enslaving the Medes because of that banquet. [4] For if in any event another and not you had to...
Medes
78 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...justice some Mede should have had it, not a Persian: but now you have made the Medes, who did you no harm, slaves instead of masters and the Persians, who were the...
Medes
81 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...of masters and the Persians, who were the slaves, are now the masters of the Medes.” 130. Thus Astyages was deposed from his sovereignty after a reign of...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...who live farthest away have least merit of all. [3] Under the rule of the Medes, one tribe would even govern another; the Medes held sway over all alike and...
Medes
76 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...the year in which the change did indeed happen.25 [3] So when the Lydians and Medes saw the day turned to night, they stopped fighting, and both were the more...
Medes
80 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...came to be ruled by monarchs again, as I will now relate. There was among the Medes a clever man called Deioces: he was the son of Phraortes. [2] Deioces was...
Medes
80 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...won freedom. Afterwards, the other subject nations, too, did the same as the Medes. 96. All of those on the mainland were now free men; but they came to be ruled...
Medes
79 46.5,34.5,0 Medes ...he attacked them first, and they were the first whom he made subject to the Medes. [2] Then, with these two strong nations at his back, he subjugated one nation...
Medes
78 46.5,34.5,0 Persians ...Croesus to inquire of the oracles whether he was to send an army against the Persians and whether he was to add an army of allies. [2] When the Lydians came to the...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Lacedaemonians ...to have asked the Greeks who were present who and how many in number these Lacedaemonians were who made this declaration. When he was told, he said to the Spartan...
Lacedaemonians
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Tauric mountains ...First they barred the way to their country by digging a wide trench from the Tauric mountains to the broadest part of the Maeetian lake;3 and then, when the Scythians tried...
Tauric mountains
79 34.27150174333333,44.883441823333335,0 Maeetian lake ...the bridge—the division that had first been appointed to stand on guard by the Maeetian lake and had now been sent to the Ister to speak with the Ionians—they said, [2]...
Maeetian lake
81 35.862586,45.814417000000006,0 Lampsacus ...by walling off the neck of the Chersonese, he made war first on the people of Lampsacus, but the Lampsacenes laid an ambush and took him prisoner. However, Miltiades...
Lampsacus
80 26.68998,40.34869,0 Cardia ...five triremes loaded with the possessions that he had nearby. He set out from Cardia and crossed the Black Bay, and as he was sailing along the Chersonese the...
Cardia
80 21.338432,38.546722,0 Lampsacus ...manner, instituting a contest of horse races and gymnastics. No one from Lampsacus is allowed to compete. [2] But in the war against the Lampsacenes Stesagoras...
Lampsacus
75 26.68998,40.34869,0 Greeks ...coast of Scythia, the first inhabitants are the Callippidae, who are Scythian Greeks; and beyond them another tribe called Alazones; these and the Callippidae...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...their way to them, from whom it is easy to get knowledge, and from some of the Greeks, too, from the Borysthenes port and the other ports of Pontus; such Scythians...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...or where they got the names which they used. [3] For Libya is said by most Greeks to be named after a native woman of that name, and Asia after the wife of...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...the Scythian country, are these: the river called by Scythians Porata and by Greeks Pyretus,26 and besides this the Tiarantus, the Ararus, the Naparis, and the...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...and the Neurian countries; at the mouth of the river there is a settlement of Greeks, who are called Tyritae. 52. The third river is the Hypanis; this comes from...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...listened with discretion. [2] But this is a tale pointlessly invented by the Greeks themselves; and be this as it may, the man was put to death as I have said...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...and a more advanced way of life than the Thracian; for he had consorted with Greeks, and moreover with one of the greatest Greek teachers, Pythagoras; [3]...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...these, the Tauri have the following customs: all ship-wrecked men, and any Greeks whom they capture in their sea-raids, they sacrifice to the Virgin goddess45 as...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...It may be that these people are wizards; [2] for the Scythians, and the Greeks settled in Scythia, say that once a year every one of the Neuri becomes a wolf...
Greeks
74 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Pontus ...the cauldron dedicated by Pausanias son of Cleombrotus at the entrance of the Pontus.35 [4] For anyone who has not yet seen the latter, I will make my meaning...
Pontus
80 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Pontus ...and they are as I have said. Furthermore, a lake is seen issuing into the Pontus and not much smaller than the sea itself; it is called the Maeetian lake, and...
Pontus
76 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Pontus ...own. 95. I understand from the Greeks who live beside the Hellespont and Pontus, that this Salmoxis was a man who was once a slave in Samos, his master being...
Pontus
76 34.7425505,43.0786852,0 Greeks ...ruler, Battus, who was called the Fortunate, the Pythian priestess warned all Greeks by an oracle to cross the sea and live in Libya with the Cyrenaeans; for the...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...was of Istria,34 and not native-born; and she taught him to speak and read Greek. [2] As time passed, Ariapithes was treacherously killed by Spargapithes, king...
Greek
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...every way follow the Greek manner of life, and worship the gods according to Greek usage. [5] When he had spent a month or more like this, he would put on...
Greek
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...belts to this day. This alone his mother did for Scythes. This is what the Greek dwellers in Pontus say. 11. There is yet another story, to which account I...
Greek
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Ocean ...they draw the world as round as if fashioned by compasses, encircled by the Ocean river, and Asia and Europe of a like extent. For myself, I will in a few words...
Ocean
78 Tyras river ...marvellous thing for me to mention: they show a footprint of Heracles by the Tyras river stamped on rock, like the mark of a man's foot, but forty inches in length...
Tyras river
79 29.613982,46.8329732,0 Araxes ...inhabiting Asia, when hard pressed in war by the Massagetae, fled across the Araxes8 river to the Cimmerian country (for the country which the Scythians now...
Araxes
79 46.5,38.5,0 Hyperboreans ...Thus (they say) these offerings come to Delos. But on the first journey, the Hyperboreans sent two maidens bearing the offerings, to whom the Delians give the names...
Hyperboreans
79 77.5,32.5,0 Issedones ...were pushed from their lands by the Arimaspians, and the Scythians by the Issedones, and the Cimmerians, living by the southern sea, were hard pressed by the...
Issedones
76 92.5,37.5,0 Issedones ...even though a poet; but he spoke by hearsay of what lay north, saying that the Issedones had told him. [2] But all that we have been able to learn for certain by report...
Issedones
81 92.5,37.5,0 Hyperboreans ...beyond whom are the griffins that guard gold, and beyond these again the Hyperboreans, whose territory reaches to the sea. [2] Except for the Hyperboreans, all these...
Hyperboreans
75 77.5,32.5,0 Proconnesus ...from, I have already said; I will tell the story that I heard about him at Proconnesus and Cyzicus. It is said that this Aristeas, who was as well-born as any of his...
Proconnesus
77 27.55568,40.591686,0 Proconnesus ...is also a story related in a poem by Aristeas son of Caüstrobius, a man of Proconnesus. This Aristeas, possessed by Phoebus, visited the Issedones; beyond these (he...
Proconnesus
77 27.55568,40.591686,0 Metapontines ...is the tale told in these two towns. But this, I know, happened to the Metapontines in Italy, two hundred and forty years after the second disappearance of...
Metapontines
73 16.824063,40.383868,0 Metapontum ...the second disappearance of Aristeas, as reckoning made at Proconnesus and Metapontum shows me: [2] Aristeas, so the Metapontines say, appeared in their country and...
Metapontum
77 16.824063,40.383868,0 Delphi ...hecatomb a bronze tripod, and set out to sail around the Peloponnese, to go to Delphi. [2] But when he was off Malea, a north wind caught and carried him away to...
Delphi
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Issedones ...nor any other inhabitants of these lands tell us anything, except perhaps the Issedones. And, I think, even they say nothing; for if they did, then the Scythians, too...
Issedones
80 92.5,37.5,0 Italy ...told in these two towns. But this, I know, happened to the Metapontines in Italy, two hundred and forty years after the second disappearance of Aristeas, as...
Italy
77 16.25,38.25,0 Italian ...the Proconnesian; for, he said, Apollo had come to their country alone of all Italian lands, and he—the man who was now Aristeas, but then when he followed the god...
Italian
80 16.25,38.25,0 Borysthenes ...Nile, with which no other river can be compared. [2] But of the rest, the Borysthenes is the most productive; it provides the finest and best-nurturing pasture lands...
Borysthenes
76 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Borysthenes ...this also flows from the north out of a lake, and the land between it and the Borysthenes is inhabited by the farming Scythians; it flows into the woodland country...
Borysthenes
80 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Borysthenes ...of Achilles. 56. The seventh river, the Gerrhus, separates from the Borysthenes at about the place which is the end of our knowledge of that river; at this...
Borysthenes
71 32.013616533333334,51.80271566666667,0 Neuri ...running from the Ister, Scythia is bounded first by the Agathyrsi, next by the Neuri, next by the Man-eaters, and last by the Black-cloaks. 101. Scythia, then, is...
Neuri
81 Neuri ...against them. [2] The assembled kings were those of the Tauri, Agathyrsi, Neuri, Maneaters, Black-cloaks, Geloni, Budini, and Sauromatae. 103. Among these...
Neuri
76 Neuri ...no second attempt on that country, but led the Persians from the lands of the Neuri into Scythia. 126. As this went on for a long time and did not stop, Darius...
Neuri
80 Alazones ...the Callippidae, who are Scythian Greeks; and beyond them another tribe called Alazones; these and the Callippidae, though in other ways they live like the Scythians...
Alazones
81 31.5,47.5,0 Man-eaters ...them; and from there, the Scythians led the Persians into the country of the Man-eaters, agitating them too; from there, they drew off into the country of the Neuri...
Man-eaters
79 Borystheneïtae ...Greek colonists on the Hypanis river (who call themselves Olbiopolitae) call Borystheneïtae. [2] These farming Scythians inhabit a land stretching east a three days'...
Borystheneïtae
79 31.9056,46.69238,0 Woodlands ...side of the Borysthenes, the tribe nearest to the sea is the tribe of the Woodlands; and north of these live Scythian farmers, whom the Greek colonists on the...
Woodlands
76 Sauromatae ...crossed also, and pursued until they had marched through the land of the Sauromatae to the land of the Budini. 123. As long as the Persians were traversing the...
Sauromatae
75 39.5,45.5,0 Sauromatae ...word “slavery”. [2] They then sent the division of the Scythians to which the Sauromatae were attached, and which was led by Scopasis, to speak with those Ionians...
Sauromatae
80 39.5,45.5,0 Tanaïs ...from the Sauromatae; another river, called Hyrgis,32 is a tributary of this Tanaïs. 58. These are the rivers of note with which the Scythians are provided. For...
Tanaïs
78 40.7291755,47.5437096,0 Tanaïs ...the Tanaïs river.” 116. To this too the youths agreed; and crossing the Tanaïs, they went a three days' journey east from the river, and a three days' journey...
Tanaïs
75 40.7291755,47.5437096,0 Tanaïs river ...one Scythian division, the Persians held on in pursuit toward the east and the Tanaïs river; [3] when the horsemen crossed this, the Persians crossed also, and pursued...
Tanaïs river
81 40.7291755,47.5437096,0 Sauromatae ...the Tanaïs it is no longer Scythia; the first of the districts belongs to the Sauromatae, whose country begins at the inner end of the Maeetian lake and stretches...
Sauromatae
80 39.5,45.5,0 Blackcloaks ...of it stretches to the Tanaïs river. [2] North of the Royal Scythians live the Blackcloaks, who are of another and not a Scythian stock; and beyond the Blackcloaks the...
Blackcloaks
81 Budini ...of both wild and cultivated trees. Above these in the second district, the Budini inhabit a country thickly overgrown with trees of all kinds. 22. North of the...
Budini
77 Budini ...are by their origin Greeks, who left their trading ports to settle among the Budini; and they speak a language half Greek and half Scythian. But the Budini do not...
Budini
79 Royal ...journey to the Gerrus river.14 20. Across the Gerrus are those lands called Royal, where the best and most numerous of the Scythians are, who consider all other...
Royal
79 33.5,45.5,0 Thyssagetae ...and its breadth is a seven days' march. [3] Beyond this desolation live the Thyssagetae; four great rivers flow from their country through the land of the Maeetians...
Thyssagetae
78 Iyrkae ...by hunting. [2] Adjoining these and in the same country live the people called Iyrkae; these also live by hunting, in the way that I will describe. The hunter climbs...
Iyrkae
81 Hyperborean ...let it suffice; for I do not tell the story of that Abaris, alleged to be a Hyperborean, who carried the arrow over the whole world, fasting all the while. But if...
Hyperborean
78 77.5,32.5,0 Delians ...way, then, these maidens are honored by the inhabitants of Delos. These same Delians relate that two virgins, Arge and Opis, came from the Hyperboreans by way of...
Delians
79 25.268194,37.397274,0 Melian gulf ...being the first Greeks to receive them. From Dodona they come down to the Melian gulf, and are carried across to Euboea, and one city sends them on to another until...
Melian gulf
76 22.6337672,38.8678937,0 Lycia ...gifts for them, calling upon their names in the hymn made for them by Olen of Lycia; it was from Delos that the islanders and Ionians learned to sing hymns to Opis...
Lycia
80 29.129618500000003,36.513688333333334,0 northern sea ...Saspires, and beyond the Saspires the Colchians, whose country extends to the northern sea21 into which the Phasis river flows; so these four nations live between the one...
northern sea
80 -2.9808908,42.9389421,0 Saspires ...of Asia west of the Persians. But what is beyond the Persians, and Medes, and Saspires, and Colchians, east and toward the rising sun, this is bounded on the one hand...
Saspires
80 Hellespont ...the Hellespont, which is no wider than seven stades and four hundred long. The Hellespont empties into a gulf of the sea which we call Aegean. 86. These measurements...
Hellespont
81 26.4,40.2,0 Hellespont ...three hundred stades. [4] Thus have I measured the Pontus and the Bosporus and Hellespont, and they are as I have said. Furthermore, a lake is seen issuing into the...
Hellespont
81 26.4,40.2,0 Persian ...and Darius, all his preparations made, led his army from Susa. 84. Then the Persian Oeobazus, who had three sons, all with the army, asked Darius that one be left...
Persian
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...him and fall back toward the Tanaïs river, by the Maeetian lake, and if the Persian turned to go back, then they were to pursue and attack him. This was one of the...
Persian
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Egyptian ...the sea west, they came in the thirtieth month to that place from which the Egyptian king sent the above-mentioned Phoenicians to sail around Libya. [3] After this...
Egyptian
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...has three names, all women's, and why the boundary lines set for it are the Egyptian Nile river and the Colchian Phasis river (though some say that the Maeetian...
Egyptian
78 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...the Adyrmachidae are the people that live nearest to Egypt; they follow Egyptian customs for the most part, but dress like other Libyans. Their women wear...
Egyptian
74 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Egyptian ...But Libya is on this second peninsula; for Libya comes next after Egypt. The Egyptian part of this peninsula is narrow; for from our sea to the Red Sea it is a...
Egyptian
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Red Sea ...east and toward the rising sun, this is bounded on the one hand by the Red Sea, and to the north by the Caspian Sea and the Araxes river, which flows toward...
Red Sea
73 39.5,19.0,0 Assyria ...Sea, and is Persian land; and next, the neighboring land of Assyria; and after Assyria, Arabia; this peninsula ends (not truly but only by common consent) at the...
Assyria
81 37.5,37.5,0 Lacedaemonians ...Milesian guest depart from Sparta before sunset, for never, he said, would the Lacedaemonians listen to the plan, if Aristagoras desired to lead them a three months' journey...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...Athens and restore that which we took away.” 92. These were the words of the Lacedaemonians, but their words were ill-received by the greater part of their allies. The...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Greeks ...him wanted to bar him from the race, saying that the contest should be for Greeks and not for foreigners. Alexander, however, proving himself to be an Argive...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...when Alexander chose to contend and entered the lists for that purpose, the Greeks who were to run against him wanted to bar him from the race, saying that the...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Lacedaemonian ...and drove those that survived to their ships. Accordingly, the first Lacedaemonian army drew off, and Anchimolius' tomb is at Alopecae in Attica, near to the...
Lacedaemonian
71 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Athens ...to aid the Ionians, appointing for their admiral Melanthius, a citizen of Athens who had an unblemished reputation. These ships were the beginning of troubles...
Athens
76 23.726464,37.971687,0 Spartans ...age. Since he would not tolerate being made subject to Cleomenes, he asked the Spartans for a group of people whom he took away as colonists. He neither inquired of...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...out our command, and do not hold out against it, bearing in mind that the Spartans will certainly find some other way of dealing with you. [2] As for the wife...
Spartans
76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...no long time the second wife gave birth to Cleomenes. She, then, gave the Spartans an heir to the royal power, and as luck would have it, the first wife, who had...
Spartans
76 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...the child's counsel and went into another room while Aristagoras departed from Sparta, finding no further occasion for telling of the journey inland to the king's...
Sparta
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Sparta ...at variance with him. [2] As a result of this dissension, a law was made at Sparta that when an army was despatched, both kings would not be permitted to go with...
Sparta
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Corinthians ...when he had gained the tyranny, conducted himself in this way: many of the Corinthians he drove into exile, many he deprived of their wealth, and by far the most he...
Corinthians
77 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthians ...lion, Strong and fierce. The knees of many will it loose. This consider well, Corinthians, You who dwell by lovely Pirene and the overhanging heights of Corinth. ”...
Corinthians
80 22.878721,37.906045,0 Corinthian ...Until then the Athenian women had worn Dorian dress, which is very like the Corinthian. It was changed, therefore, to the linen tunic, so that they might have no...
Corinthian
78 22.878721,37.906045,0 Spartans ...Hellespont, the Pisistratidae's place of refuge. [2] When Hippias arrived, the Spartans sent for envoys from the rest of their allies and spoke to them as follows...
Spartans
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Spartans ...bears you no children, and wed another. If you do this, you will please the Spartans.” Anaxandrides, however, said in response that he would do neither of these...
Spartans
78 22.42454,37.08149,0 Persians ...Naxos from the Icarian sea and came to land (for it was Naxos which the Persians intended to attack first), the Naxians, remembering what had happened before,35...
Persians
74 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Athenians ...he encountered Pan. [2] Pan called out Philippides' name and bade him ask the Athenians why they paid him no attention, though he was of goodwill to the Athenians, had...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...much out of goodwill toward the Plataeans as wishing to cause trouble for the Athenians with the Boeotians. [4] So the Lacedaemonians gave this advice to the...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Plataeans had put themselves under the protection of the Athenians,42 and the Athenians had undergone many labors on their behalf. This is how they did it: [2] when...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...in full force. The Plataeans had put themselves under the protection of the Athenians,42 and the Athenians had undergone many labors on their behalf. This is how...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...a vote, chosen by lot to be polemarch44 of Athens, and by ancient custom the Athenians had made his vote of equal weight with the generals. Callimachus of Aphidnae...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...day to preside. 111. When the presidency came round to him, he arrayed the Athenians for battle, with the polemarch Callimachus commanding the right wing, since it...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...them to medize. But if we attack now, before anything unsound corrupts the Athenians, we can win the battle, if the gods are fair. [6] All this concerns and depends...
Athenians
77 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...112. When they had been set in order and the sacrifices were favorable, the Athenians were sent forth and charged the foreigners at a run. The space between the...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Persians saw them running to attack and prepared to receive them, thinking the Athenians absolutely crazy, since they saw how few of them there were and that they ran...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...had left them, and sailed around Sunium hoping to reach the city before the Athenians. There was an accusation at Athens that they devised this by a plan of the...
Athenians
78 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...promising that each would wed that man whom she chose for herself from all the Athenians.] 123. The Alcmeonidae were tyrant-haters as much as Callias, or not less so...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Hegesandrus declares in his history that the act was unjust; [2] for when the Athenians saw the land under Hymettus, formerly theirs, which they had given to the...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...of Lemnos in this way: When the Pelasgians54 were driven out of Attica by the Athenians, whether justly or unjustly I cannot say, beyond what is told; namely, that...
Athenians
80 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...Miltiades had punished the Pelasgians and taken Lemnos, delivering it to the Athenians. [3] The people took his side as far as not condemning him to death, but they...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Lacedaemonians ...[2] Demaratus somehow went across to Zacynthus from Elis before them; the Lacedaemonians crossed over after him and laid hands on him, carrying off his servants. But...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...Elis, pretending that he was going to Delphi to inquire of the oracle. But the Lacedaemonians suspected that he planned to escape and went in pursuit. [2] Demaratus somehow...
Lacedaemonians
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...Athenians, since they are your neighbors and not bad men at giving help.” The Lacedaemonians gave this advice not so much out of goodwill toward the Plataeans as wishing to...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...before this, they asked the mother. [4] She said she knew no better than the Lacedaemonians which was the elder; she knew perfectly well, but she said this because she...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...long as they lived, and their descendants continued to do likewise. 53. The Lacedaemonians are the only Greeks who tell this story. But in what I write I follow the Greek...
Lacedaemonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Athenian ...him for tyranny in the Chersonese, but he was acquitted and appointed Athenian general, chosen by the people. 105. While still in the city, the generals...
Athenian
72 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...The Aeginetans set an ambush and captured the sacred ship, with many leading Athenians on board, and put in prison the men they seized. 88. Suffering this from the...
Athenians
79 23.726464,37.971687,0 Athenians ...his own business, for his servant was constantly reminding him to remember the Athenians,34 and the Pisistratidae were at his elbow maligning the Athenians; moreover...
Athenians
81 23.726464,37.971687,0 Persians ...a pirate, robbing Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians, but no Greeks. 18. When the Persians had conquered the Ionians by sea, they laid siege to Miletus by sea and land...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...the Medes. 25. After the fight at sea for Miletus, the Phoenicians at the Persians' bidding brought Aeaces son of Syloson back to Samos, for the high worth of his...
Persians
77 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...left of one sailing up the Hellespont; the right side had been subdued by the Persians themselves from the mainland. These are the regions of Europe that belong to...
Persians
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Miltiades made his way from Imbros to Athens. 42. In this year10 the Persians caused no further trouble for the Ionians, and at this same time certain things...
Persians
72 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...When a great multitude of ships and a great army were assembled, the Persians crossed the Hellespont on shipboard and marched through Europe, with Eretria...
Persians
71 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persians ...Mardonius himself. But not even these could escape being enslaved by the Persians; Mardonius did not depart from those lands before he had subjugated them. [2]...
Persians
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persia ...and from Sicily back again to Darius, until in old age he ended his life in Persia in great wealth. Without trouble the Samians planted themselves in that most...
Persia
78 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greeks ...fell upon the Greeks. So this was the accomplishment of the cavalry; when the Greeks were routed, Histiaeus, supposing that the king would not put him to death for...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...I never took it at all, I will deal with you according to the customs of the Greeks. I will put off making my decision for you until the fourth month from this...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...be true-born Egyptians. 54. Thus have I traced their lineage according to the Greek story; but the Persian tale is that Perseus himself was an Assyrian, and became...
Greek
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...is named father of Heracles. So I used correct reasoning when I said that the Greek record is correct as far back as Perseus; farther back than that, if the king's...
Greek
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greek ...but the Persian tale is that Perseus himself was an Assyrian, and became a Greek, which his forebears had not been; the Persians say that the ancestors of...
Greek
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Persians ...and it was not granted him to punish them. On his behalf and that of all the Persians, I will never rest until I have taken Athens and burnt it, for the unprovoked...
Persians
79 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Greeks ...the number of the Ionian ships, feared they would be too weak to overcome the Greeks. If they did not have mastery of the sea, they would not be able to take...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...won a victory over Amilcas the Carchedonian in Sicily on the same day that the Greeks defeated the Persian at Salamis. This Amilcas was, on his father's side, a...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...Accordingly Gelon sent the money to Delphi, because he could not aid the Greeks. 166. They add this tale too—that Gelon and Theron won a victory over Amilcas...
Greeks
75 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...money, and earth and water on behalf of Gelon's dominions. If, however, the Greeks were victorious, he was to bring everything back again. 164. This Cadmus had...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...to have some element of truth. They say that the barbarians fought with the Greeks in Sicily from dawn until late evening (so long, it is said, the battle was...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...which they could make to the Greeks, and in the end they made it; when the Greeks blamed them for sending no help, they said that they had manned sixty triremes...
Greeks
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...along the river Peneus, between the mountains Olympus and Ossa. [2] There the Greeks were encamped, about ten thousand men-at-arms altogether, and the cavalry was...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...son of Xuthus. 95. The islanders provided seventeen ships and were armed like Greeks; they were also of Pelasgian stock, which was later called Ionian for the same...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...came from Athens. The Aeolians furnished sixty ships and were equipped like Greeks; formerly they were called Pelasgian, as the Greek story goes. [2] Of the...
Greeks
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...me: will the Greeks offer battle and oppose me? I think that even if all the Greeks and all the men of the western lands were assembled together, they are not...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...and not under the rule of one man, withstand so great an army as mine? If you Greeks are five thousand, we still would be more than a thousand to one. [4] If they...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...to Thermopylae and with their fleet to Artemisium. 178. So with all speed the Greeks went their several ways to meet the enemy. In the meantime, the Delphians, who...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...brought from Europe, and I will rely on my best judgment in doing so. The Greeks of Thrace and the islands off Thrace furnished one hundred and twenty ships...
Greeks
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...from being put to death by Darius. Now that he was taken into the midst of the Greeks, however, he was not to escape a second time, for when the Greeks saw the...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...a traitor to your cause. These are the ways that are dear to the hearts of all Greeks: they are jealous of success and they hate power. [2] No, if after the recent...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...Hellas defends herself from poverty and tyranny. [2] Now I praise all the Greeks who dwell in those Dorian lands, yet I am not going to speak these words about...
Greeks
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...be victorious, they would dedicate to the god of Delphi the possessions of all Greeks who had of free will surrendered themselves to the Persians. Such was the...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...Boeotians except the men of Thespiae and Plataea. [2] Against all of these the Greeks who declared war with the foreigner entered into a sworn agreement, which was...
Greeks
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...three men to death. Xerxes said that if they should return to Hellas, the Greeks would hear of his power and would surrender their peculiar freedom before the...
Greeks
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Sparta ...sent us, O king of the Medes, in requital for the slaying of your heralds at Sparta, to make atonement for their death,” and more to that effect. To this Xerxes...
Sparta
79 22.42454,37.08149,0 Greeks ...by the other. 10H. If an army must by all means be sent against these Greeks, hear me now: let the king himself remain in the Persian land, and let us two...
Greeks
72 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...will I learn what is this evil that will befall me when I march against these Greeks—men that even Pelops the Phrygian, the slave of my forefathers, did so utterly...
Greeks
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...turn back: to do or to suffer is our task, so that what is ours be under the Greeks, or what is theirs under the Persians; there is no middle way in our quarrel...
Greeks
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Greeks ...but of mere desire to add to our power, will not take vengeance on the Greeks for unprovoked wrongs. 9A. What have we to fear from them? Have they a massive...
Greeks
73 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...lost heart and began to deliberate about flight from Artemisium homewards into Hellas. [2] Then the Euboeans, noticing that they were making such plans, entreated...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...their departure from that place, he would see to it that they would return to Hellas unscathed. All this they agreed to do and immediately lit fires and set upon...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...he relied on a different argument and said, 60A. “It is in your hands to save Hellas, if you will obey me and remain here to fight, and not obey the words of these...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...nor any other man will be able to keep them from disbanding the army. Hellas will be destroyed by bad planning. If there is any way at all that you could...
Hellas
72 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...will come together with bronze, and Ares Will redden the sea with blood. To Hellas the day of freedom Far-seeing Zeus and august Victory will...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...consider themselves to have been among the foremost in the battle. The rest of Hellas bears them witness. 95. Aristides son of Lysimachus, the Athenian whom I...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...engaged in a noble cause; yet his hope rather inclined to the subduing of Hellas. Taking all this into account, he made this proposal: [2] “Sire, be not grieved...
Hellas
76 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...the greater part of your army. It is for me, however, to enslave and deliver Hellas to you with three hundred thousand of your host whom I will choose.” 101. When...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Persian ...were holding the Olympic festival and viewing sports and horseraces, the Persian asked what was the prize offered, for which they contended. They told him of...
Persian
75 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...be the greatest harm that they could do to Hellas. [3] “For,” said he, “if the Persian is cut off and compelled to remain in Europe, he will attempt not to be...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...Ionia.” [5] This he said with intent to have something to his credit with the Persian, so that he might have a place of refuge if ever (as might chance) he should...
Persian
80 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Persian ...boats. [3] The Potidaeans say that the cause of the high sea and flood and the Persian disaster lay in the fact that those same Persians who now perished in the sea...
Persian
81 54.30402578784763,32.56323656290414,0 Hellas ...into it. [4] But as it is well with us for the moment, let us abide now in Hellas and take thought for ourselves and our households. Let us build our houses...
Hellas
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...to the mountains called Rhodope. He forbade his sons to go with the army to Hellas, [2] but they took no account of that; they had always wanted to see the war...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Lacedaemon ...meals for the king. He sent demands for earth everywhere except to Athens and Lacedaemon. The reason for his sending for earth and water the second time was this: he...
Lacedaemon
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Attica ...they were made captive at Bisanthe on the Hellespont, and carried away to Attica, where the Athenians put them, and with them Aristeas son of Adimantus, a...
Attica
76 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Miletus ...of the Ister, to destroy the way of passage.9 [2] If Histiaeus the tyrant of Miletus had consented to the opinion of the other tyrants instead of opposing it, the...
Miletus
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Media ...were conspicuous in their dyed garments and knee-high boots, carrying bows and Median spears. Their commander was Pherendates son of Megabazus. [3] The Pactyes wore...
Media
81 46.5,34.5,0 Media ...who had been killed at Sparta. [3] Thereupon the Spartans sent these men to Media for execution. 135. Worthy of admiration was these men's deed of daring, and...
Media
78 46.5,34.5,0 Troy ...According to the reports, the expedition led by the sons of Atreus against Troy is also nothing by comparison; neither is the one of the Mysians and Teucrians...
Troy
77 26.23873,39.9577,0 woodland country ...and the Borysthenes is inhabited by the farming Scythians; it flows into the woodland country, after passing which it mingles with the Borysthenes. 55. The sixth is the...
woodland country
79 32.5,46.5,0 Exampaeus ...the Alazones; the name of it and of the place where it rises is in Scythian Exampaeus; in the Greek tongue, Sacred Ways. [4] The Tyras and the Hypanis draw near...
Exampaeus
78 Carcine ...flowing through the midst of the nomadic Scythians flows out near the city of Carcine, bordering on its right the Woodland and the region called the Racecourse of...
Carcine
80 33.22264,46.21338,0 Hyrgis ...which divides the Royal Scythians from the Sauromatae; another river, called Hyrgis,32 is a tributary of this Tanaïs. 58. These are the rivers of note with which...
Hyrgis
79 Lacedaemonians ...begot their race. [4] Hearing the story of the lineage of the Minyae, the Lacedaemonians sent a second time and asked why they had come into Laconia and kindled a fire...
Lacedaemonians
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Lacedaemonians ...who sent him that all Greeks were keen for every kind of learning, except the Lacedaemonians; but that these were the only Greeks who spoke and listened with discretion...
Lacedaemonians
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Cyzicenes ...he sailed through the Hellespont and put in at Cyzicus; [3] where, finding the Cyzicenes celebrating the feast of the Mother of the Gods with great ceremony, he vowed...
Cyzicenes
81 27.874127,40.389806,0 Thracians ...resisted stubbornly, and were enslaved at once, the bravest and most just Thracians of all. 94. Their belief in their immortality is as follows: they believe that...
Thracians
76 27.5,42.5,0 Thracians ...being freed and gaining great wealth, he returned to his own country. Now the Thracians were a poor and backward people, but this Salmoxis knew Ionian ways and a more...
Thracians
80 27.5,42.5,0 Bosporus ...of this sea is four stades across; the narrow neck of the channel, called Bosporus, across which the bridge was thrown, is about one hundred and twenty stades...
Bosporus
76 29.075278,41.119444,0 Propontis ...one hundred and twenty stades long. The Bosporus reaches as far as to the Propontis; [4] and the Propontis is five hundred stades wide and one thousand four...
Propontis
76 28.2499999,40.6666672,0 Samos ...and made himself head of a faction; but he was defeated and banished to Samos, and his mother fled to Salamis in Cyprus. [3] Now Salamis at this time was...
Samos
74 26.84,37.73,0 Samos ...and sovereigns of cities there; and from Ionia, Strattis of Chios, Aiaces of Samos, Laodamas of Phocaea, and Histiaeus of Miletus who opposed the plan of...
Samos
79 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...the floating bridge to Hera, Having won a crown for himself, and fame for the Samians, Doing the will of King Darius.” ” This memorialized the builder of the bridge...
Samians
80 26.84,37.73,0 Tearus ...the floating bridge of ships, journeyed through Thrace to the sources of the Tearus river, where he camped for three days. 90. The Tearus is said by those living...
Tearus
79 27.75,41.75,0 Apollonia ...immortal. The Thracians of Salmydessus and of the country above the towns of Apollonia and Mesambria, who are called Cyrmianae and Nipsaei, surrendered without a...
Apollonia
79 30.26009,41.21588,0 Tauri ...the most part. These heads, they say, are set up to guard the whole house. The Tauri live by plundering and war. 104. The Agathyrsi are the most refined of men and...
Tauri
81 34.27150174333333,44.883441823333335,0 Rough Peninsula ...the Pontus; it is inhabited by the Tauric nation as far as what is called the Rough Peninsula; and this ends in the eastern sea.43 [4] For the sea to the south and the sea...
Rough Peninsula
80 33.5,44.5,0 Sunium ...to inhabit the heights of Sunium from Thoricus to the town of Anaphlystus, if Sunium jutted farther out into the sea. [5] I mean, so to speak, to compare small...
Sunium
80 24.0359195,37.683423,0 Black-cloaks ...help the Scythians; but the kings of the Agathyrsi and Neuri and Maneaters and Black-cloaks and Tauri gave this answer to the messengers: [2] “Had it not been you who...
Black-cloaks
81 Brundisium ...were to live on the promontory within a line drawn from the harbor of Brundisium to Tarentum. I am speaking of these two countries, but there are many others of...
Brundisium
72 17.946867,40.641136,0 Calabria ...that part of Attica may understand from this other analogy: it is as though in Calabria some other people, not Calabrian, were to live on the promontory within a line...
Calabria
81 17.75,40.75,0 Europe ...craft. 185. I must, however, also take into account the force brought from Europe, and I will rely on my best judgment in doing so. The Greeks of Thrace and the...
Europe
78 Phrygian ...into the Maeander. The skin of Marsyas the Silenus also hangs there; the Phrygian story tells that it was flayed off him and hung up by Apollo.17 27. In this...
Phrygian
75 29.75,38.75,0 Phrygian ...said this and made good his words, then journeyed ever onward. Passing by the Phrygian town called Anaua, and the lake from which salt is obtained, he came to...
Phrygian
80 29.75,38.75,0 Phrygians ...Phrygians.38 The Armenians, who are settlers from Phrygia, were armed like the Phrygians. Both these together had as their commander Artochmes, who had married a...
Phrygians
81 29.75,38.75,0 Hellas ...spoke thus: [2] “Are you the one who dissuades Xerxes from marching against Hellas, because you care for him? Neither in the future nor now will you escape with...
Hellas
78 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Media ...compared to it; neither is the Scythian expedition when they burst into Media12 in pursuit of the Cimmerians and subdued and ruled almost all the upper lands...
Media
74 46.5,34.5,0 Sane ...Athos, there stands a Greek town, Sane; there are others situated seaward of Sane and landward of Athos, and the Persian now intended to make them into island...
Sane
79 23.33484,40.07254,0 Sane ...brought them to the beach near Doriscus, where stands the Samothracian city of Sane, and Zone; at the end is Serreum, a well-known headland. This country was in...
Sane
81 23.33484,40.07254,0 Sane ...dividing up the ground by nation: they made a straight line near the town of Sane; when the channel had been dug to some depth, some men stood at the bottom of...
Sane
79 23.33484,40.07254,0 Cleonae ...and not mainland towns; they are Dion, Olophyxus, Acrothoum, Thyssus, and Cleonae. 23. These are the towns situated on Athos. The foreigners dug as follows,14...
Cleonae
76 24.233651,40.214176,0 Amazons ...and lived as did the women, by hunting and plunder. 113. At midday the Amazons would scatter and go apart from each other singly or in pairs, roaming apart...
Amazons
74 Amazons ...of the young men learned of this, they had intercourse with the rest of the Amazons. 114. Presently they joined their camps and lived together, each man having...
Amazons
78 Geloni ...and they honor Dionysus every two years with festivals and revelry. For the Geloni are by their origin Greeks, who left their trading ports to settle among the...
Geloni
78 Maneaters ...promised to help the Scythians; but the kings of the Agathyrsi and Neuri and Maneaters and Black-cloaks and Tauri gave this answer to the messengers: [2] “Had it not...
Maneaters
79 Lesbian ...it into the cauldrons of the country, if they have them: these are most like Lesbian bowls, except that they are much bigger; they throw the meat into these, then...
Lesbian
79 26.10052,39.20874,0 Oiorpata ...follows. When the Greeks were at war with the Amazons (whom the Scythians call Oiorpata, a name signifying in our tongue killers of men, for in Scythian a man is...
Oiorpata
81 Lemnos ...Minyae, descendants of the heroes who had sailed in the Argo and put in at Lemnos and there begot their race. [4] Hearing the story of the lineage of the Minyae...
Lemnos
77 25.25,39.916667,0 Pelasgians ...Laconia and kindled a fire. They replied that, having been expelled by the Pelasgians, they had come to the land of their fathers, as was most just; and their wish...
Pelasgians
77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Sestos ...have the Scythians taunted the Ionians. 143. Darius marched through Thrace to Sestos on the Chersonesus; from there, he crossed over with his ships to Asia, leaving...
Sestos
81 26.38916,40.21343,0 Minyae ...ships to join the descendants of Membliarus, taking with him not all the Minyae but only a few; [4] for the greater part of them made their way to the lands of...
Minyae
75 Minyae ...they were and where they came from. They answered the messenger that they were Minyae, descendants of the heroes who had sailed in the Argo and put in at Lemnos and...
Minyae
81 Lacedamonians ...asked permission to enter the prison and each converse with her husband; the Lacedamonians granted this, not expecting that there would be any treachery from them. [4]...
Lacedamonians
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Sparta ...and Procles; and while these boys were yet children he held the royal power of Sparta as regent; [3] but when his nephews grew up and became kings, then Theras could...
Sparta
81 22.42454,37.08149,0 Minyae ...the Minyae and gave them land and distributed them among their own tribes. The Minyae immediately married, and gave in marriage to others the women they had brought...
Minyae
81 Theraeans ...word that they had established a settlement on an island off Libya. The Theraeans determined to send out men from their seven regions, taking by lot one of every...
Theraeans
74 25.478129,36.36399,0 Theraeans ...but, not knowing what else to do, presently returned to Thera. [3] There, the Theraeans shot at them as they came to land and would not let the ship put in, telling...
Theraeans
80 25.478129,36.36399,0 Crete ...came to this land which the Greeks now call Europe, but only from Phoenicia to Crete and from Crete to Lycia. Thus much I have said of these matters, and let it...
Crete
81 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Crete ...tell a wholly different story about Battus, which is this. There is a town in Crete called Oaxus, of which one Etearchus became ruler. He was a widower with a...
Crete
80 24.995769971494504,35.21984439173344,0 Platea ...had once been driven off course by winds to Libya, to an island there called Platea.51 [3] They hired this man to come with them to Thera; from there, just a few...
Platea
79 26.2322965,35.8634532,0 Platea ...ship to spy out the land first; guided by Corobius to the aforesaid island Platea, these left him there with provision for some months, and themselves sailed...
Platea
77 26.2322965,35.8634532,0 Platea ...sailing for Egypt, whose captain was Colaeus, was driven off her course to Platea, where the Samians heard the whole story from Corobius and left him provisions...
Platea
77 26.2322965,35.8634532,0 Samians ...three colossal kneeling figures of bronze, each twelve feet high. [5] What the Samians had done was the beginning of a close friendship between them and the men of...
Samians
81 26.84,37.73,0 Cyrene ...years, and of his son Arcesilaus who ruled for sixteen, the inhabitants of Cyrene were no more in number than when they had first gone out to the colony. [2] But...
Cyrene
77 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...and Arcesilaus went to Alazir; but men of Barce and some of the exiles from Cyrene were aware of him and killed him as he walked in the town, and Alazir his...
Cyrene
78 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrene ...had done Cambyses the son of Cyrus; for this was the Arcesilaus who gave Cyrene to Cambyses and agreed to pay tribute. [3] So, on her arrival in Egypt...
Cyrene
75 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaeans ...of the neighboring Libyans. Robbed of their lands and treated violently by the Cyrenaeans, these then sent to Egypt together with their king, whose name was Adicran, and...
Cyrenaeans
81 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaeans ...they regretted not having taken the city, and tried to enter it again, but the Cyrenaeans would not let them. Then, although no one attacked them, panic seized the...
Cyrenaeans
81 21.856169,32.818736,0 Cyrenaeans ...to the camp asking them to return. The Persians asked and received from the Cyrenaeans provisions for their march, after which they left to go to Egypt; [4] but then...
Cyrenaeans
78 21.856169,32.818736,0 Oaxus ...by his wife and contrived a great sin against his daughter. [3] There was at Oaxus a Theraean trader, one Themison; Etearchus made this man his guest and friend...
Oaxus
79 24.84414,35.30718,0 Theraean ...wife and contrived a great sin against his daughter. [3] There was at Oaxus a Theraean trader, one Themison; Etearchus made this man his guest and friend, and got him...
Theraean
80 25.478129,36.36399,0 Platea ...and king of all. Then they manned two fifty-oared ships and sent them to Platea. 154. This is what the Theraeans say; and now begins the part in which the...
Platea
75 26.2322965,35.8634532,0 Oaxus ...different story about Battus, which is this. There is a town in Crete called Oaxus, of which one Etearchus became ruler. He was a widower with a daughter whose...
Oaxus
79 24.84414,35.30718,0 Barce ...of the oracle and fulfilled his destiny. 165. While Arcesilaus was living at Barce, accomplishing his own destruction, his mother Pheretime held her son's...
Barce
80 20.892778,32.498333,0 Barce ...when the Persians that Aryandes sent from Egypt to avenge Pheretime came to Barce,67 they laid siege to the city, demanding the surrender of those who were...
Barce
78 20.892778,32.498333,0 Barce ...and sat with others in council. [2] But when she learned of her son's death at Barce, she made her escape to Egypt, trusting to the good service which Arcesilaus...
Barce
81 20.892778,32.498333,0 Barce ...customs. 171. Next west of the Asbystae are the Auschisae, dwelling inland of Barce, and touching the coast at Euhesperidae. About the middle of the land of the...
Barce
81 20.892778,32.498333,0 Cyrenaean ...extent than any other Libyans; it is their practice to imitate most of the Cyrenaean customs. 171. Next west of the Asbystae are the Auschisae, dwelling inland of...
Cyrenaean
77 21.856169,32.818736,0 Arcadia ...to live best; [2] the priestess told them bring a mediator from Mantinea in Arcadia. When the Cyrenaeans sent their request, the Mantineans gave them their most...
Arcadia
78 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Barce ...where they founded a city for themselves, which was then and is now called Barce; and while they were founding it, they persuaded the Libyans to revolt from the...
Barce
77 20.892778,32.498333,0 Aziris ...that they would lead them to a better; [2] and they brought the Greeks from Aziris and led them west, so calculating the hours of daylight that they led the...
Aziris
78 22.880611,32.683784,0 Leucon ...eastern Libyans. [3] Arcesilaus pursued them until he came in his pursuit to Leucon in Libya, where the Libyans resolved to attack him; they engaged, and so wholly...
Leucon
79 Barcaeans ...but where there were tunnels, the bronze of the shield rang clear. Here the Barcaeans made a counter-tunnel and killed those Persians who were digging underground...
Barcaeans
78 20.892778,32.498333,0 Barcaeans ...earth level with the ground about it. [2] Then when day came, he invited the Barcaeans to confer with him, and they readily consented; at last all agreed to...
Barcaeans
79 20.892778,32.498333,0 Barcaeans ...she turned over the city. 203. The Persians thus enslaved the rest of the Barcaeans, and went home. When they appeared before the city of Cyrene, the Cyrenaeans...
Barcaeans
77 20.892778,32.498333,0 Barcaeans ...did not end well, either. For as soon as she had revenged herself on the Barcaeans and returned to Egypt, she met an awful death. For while still alive she teemed...
Barcaeans
75 20.892778,32.498333,0 Egypt ...of Cyrene, too, consider it wrong to eat cows' flesh, because of the Isis of Egypt; and they even honor her with fasts and festivals; and the Barcaean women...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Cnidus ...sent away to Cyprus to be killed there. These were carried off their course to Cnidus, where the Cnidians saved them and sent them to Thera. Others of the Cyrenaeans...
Cnidus
81 27.37404,36.686188,0 Egypt ...gave Cyrene to Cambyses and agreed to pay tribute. [3] So, on her arrival in Egypt, Pheretime supplicated Aryandes, asking that he avenge her, on the plea that...
Egypt
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Thera ...off their course to Cnidus, where the Cnidians saved them and sent them to Thera. Others of the Cyrenaeans fled for refuge into a great tower that belonged to...
Thera
77 25.478129,36.36399,0 Euhesperidae ...are the Auschisae, dwelling inland of Barce, and touching the coast at Euhesperidae. About the middle of the land of the Auschisae lives the little tribe of the...
Euhesperidae
73 20.5,32.5,0 Auschisae ...and touching the coast at Euhesperidae. About the middle of the land of the Auschisae lives the little tribe of the Bacales, whose territory comes down to the sea at...
Auschisae
78 20.5,32.5,0 Syrtis ...begins, [2] which reaches from the island of Platea to the entrance of the Syrtis. This people is like the others in its customs. 170. The next people west of...
Syrtis
77 18.0,31.5,0 Barcaean ...the Bacales, whose territory comes down to the sea at Tauchira, a town in the Barcaean country; their customs are the same as those of the dwellers inland of Cyrene...
Barcaean
80 20.892778,32.498333,0 Augila ...Nasamones come to gather palm-fruit. 183. After ten days' journey again from Augila there is yet another hill of salt and springs of water and many fruit-bearing...
Augila
80 21.290963,29.127566,0 Garamantes ...cattle, except that their hide is thicker and harder to the touch. [4] These Garamantes go in their four-horse chariots chasing the cave-dwelling Ethiopians: for the...
Garamantes
79 13.5,27.5,0 Nasamones ...of Cyrene. 172. Next west of these Auschisae is the populous country of the Nasamones, who in summer leave their flocks by the sea and go up to the land called...
Nasamones
79 20.5,30.5,0 Macae ...of the Nasamones; the neighboring seaboard to the west is the country of the Macae, who shave their hair to a crest, leaving that on the top of their heads to...
Macae
79 13.5,31.5,0 Tritonian lake ...swine too, as well as cows. 187. Thus it is with this region. But west of the Tritonian lake the Libyans are not nomads; they do not follow the same customs, or treat their...
Tritonian lake
81 8.5,33.5,0 Cinyps ...is also good; it yields at the most a hundredfold; but the land of the Cinyps region yields three hundredfold. 199. The country of Cyrene, which is the...
Cinyps
73 14.5,32.5,0 Machlyes ...hid the tripod. 180. Next to these Machlyes are the Auseans; these and the Machlyes, separated by the Triton, live on the shores of the Tritonian lake. The...
Machlyes
78 Phla ...which empties into the great Tritonian lake, in which is an island called Phla. It is said that the Lacedaemonians were told by an oracle to plant a...
Phla
76 Spring of the Sun ...after midnight it becomes ever cooler until dawn. This spring is called the Spring of the Sun. 182. At a distance of ten days' journey again from the Ammonians along the...
Spring of the Sun
78 Ammonians ...the Spring of the Sun. 182. At a distance of ten days' journey again from the Ammonians along the sandy ridge, there is a hill of salt like that of the Ammonians, and...
Ammonians
81 25.54359,29.20514,0 Ethiopians ...it, two of which are aboriginal and two not; the Libyans in the north and the Ethiopians in the south of Libya are aboriginal; the Phoenicians and Greeks are later...
Ethiopians
80 38.721522,14.125005,0 Atarantes ...the Garamantes there is again a salt hill and water, where men live called Atarantes. These are the only men whom we know who have no names; for the whole people...
Atarantes
77 Atlas ...salt, and water, and men living there. Near to this salt is a mountain called Atlas, whose shape is slender and conical; and it is said to be so high that its...
Atlas
80 -0.46744,32.91174,0 Ethiopians ...[4] These Garamantes go in their four-horse chariots chasing the cave-dwelling Ethiopians: for the Ethiopian cave-dwellers are swifter of foot than any men of whom tales...
Ethiopians
81 3.5,32.5,0 Maxyes ...country of Libyans who cultivate the soil and possess houses; they are called Maxyes; they wear their hair long on the right side of their heads and shave the left...
Maxyes
80 Carthaginians ...[3] In this transaction, it is said, neither party defrauds the other: the Carthaginians do not touch the gold until it equals the value of their cargo, nor do the...
Carthaginians
77 10.327986,36.857569,0 Zacynthus ...things are possible; for I myself saw pitch drawn from the water of a pool in Zacynthus. [3] The pools there are numerous; the greatest of them is seventy feet long...
Zacynthus
80 20.892091,37.787178,0 Pieria ...the myrtle, smelling like asphalt, and for the rest better than the pitch of Pieria. Then they pour it into a pit that they have dug near the pool; and when a fair...
Pieria
79 22.424792491340284,40.13002811595563,0 Hills ...have been gathered, the middle region above the coast, which they call the Hills, is ripe for gathering; [2] and no sooner has this yield of the middle country...
Hills
77 Paeonians ...to Megabazus, whom he had left as his general in Thrace, bidding him take the Paeonians from their houses, and bring them to him, men, women, and children. [2]...
Paeonians
80 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...men, and finding these empty at their attack, they easily gained them. [3] The Paeonians, learning that their towns had been taken, straightway disbanded, each going...
Paeonians
81 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...them. If, however, there were no such call, they were not to attack. The Paeonians acted accordingly. When the Perinthians set up camp in front of their city, the...
Paeonians
75 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...in two of the combats and raised the cry of “Paean” in their joy. The Paeonians reasoned that this was what the oracle had spoken of and must have said to each...
Paeonians
72 21.75,41.75,0 Europe Herodotus The Histories Book 5 Those Persians whom Darius had left in Europe under the command of Megabazus, finding the Perinthians unwilling to be Darius'...
Europe
73 Paeonians ...then, is approximately what happened. 23. Megabazus, bringing with him the Paeonians, came to the Hellespont, and after crossing it from there, he came to Sardis...
Paeonians
78 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonians ...in a Phrygian territory and village by themselves. When the man came to the Paeonians, he spoke as follows: [2] “Men of Paeonia, I have been sent by Aristagoras...
Paeonians
78 21.75,41.75,0 Thrace ...it, gave the letter to Megabazus, who, after reading it, took guides from Thrace and led his army to Paeonia. 15. When the Paeonians learned that the Persians...
Thrace
76 27.5,42.5,0 Thrace ...entrusted Miletus to Pythagoras, a citizen of repute, and himself sailed to Thrace with any that would follow him and then took possession of the place to which...
Thrace
78 27.5,42.5,0 Thracians ...their practices.1 The Trausi, who in all else conform to the customs of other Thracians, do as I will show at the times of birth and death. [2] When a child is born...
Thracians
80 27.5,42.5,0 Thracians ...the place to which he had come. [2] After this he was put to the sword by the Thracians, he and his army, as he was besieging a town, even though the Thracians were...
Thracians
80 27.5,42.5,0 Getae ...to its region, but they are very similar in all their customs, save the Getae, the Trausi, and those who dwell above the Crestonaeans. 4. As for the Getae...
Getae
74 25.5,44.5,0 Trausi ...region, but they are very similar in all their customs, save the Getae, the Trausi, and those who dwell above the Crestonaeans. 4. As for the Getae, who claim to...
Trausi
78 Media ...far as the Eneti on the Adriatic Sea. [3] They call themselves colonists from Media. How this has come about I myself cannot understand, but all is possible in the...
Media
80 46.5,34.5,0 Miletus ...who had been his guests and friends, arrived. [3] When the Naxians came to Miletus, they asked Aristagoras if he could give them enough power to return to their...
Miletus
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...till the hair had grown again, and as soon as it was grown, he sent the man to Miletus with no other message except that when he came to Miletus he must bid...
Miletus
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...masters of the sea. [3] This, he said, could only be accomplished in one way (Miletus, he knew, was a city of no great wealth), namely if they took away from the...
Miletus
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Sardis ...provoked the Lacedaemonians and Cleomenes to war. [2] When the envoys came to Sardis and spoke as they had been bidden, Artaphrenes son of Hystaspes, viceroy of...
Sardis
80 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...and the counsel of Coes the Mytilenaean, and after sending for them to come to Sardis, he offered them a choice of whatever they wanted. [2] Histiaeus, seeing that...
Sardis
81 28.040278,38.488333,0 Asia ...desired to be rulers of their countrymen. When Darius had crossed into Asia, they came to Sardis, bringing with them their sister, a tall and beautiful...
Asia
73 Asia ...but here he made a false step. If he desired to take the Spartans away into Asia he should never have told the truth, but he did tell it, and said that it was a...
Asia
78 Asia ...it would be better for them to surrender to the Persians or to depart from Asia. 120. While they took counsel, the Milesians and their allies came to their...
Asia
77 Myrcinus ...the advice of Hecataeus, but Aristagoras himself thought it best to depart for Myrcinus. He accordingly entrusted Miletus to Pythagoras, a citizen of repute, and...
Myrcinus
81 23.819776,40.901252,0 Mytilene ...as he was no tyrant but a plain citizen, asked that he might be made tyrant of Mytilene. 12. When the wishes of each had been granted, they made their way to the...
Mytilene
81 26.55529,39.10772,0 Myrcinus ...was tyrant of Miletus, desired no further sovereignty than that, but asked for Myrcinus5 in the Edonian land so that he might build a city there. This, then, was...
Myrcinus
81 23.819776,40.901252,0 Prasiad lake ...of the Paeonians the Siriopaeones and Paeoplae and all who lived as far as the Prasiad lake were taken away from their homes and led into Asia. 16. But those near the...
Prasiad lake
81 23.75,40.75,0 Paeonia ...When the man came to the Paeonians, he spoke as follows: [2] “Men of Paeonia, I have been sent by Aristagoras, tyrant of Miletus, to show you the way to...
Paeonia
71 21.75,41.75,0 Paeonia ...to Sardis?” They told him, that they had come to be his men, that the towns of Paeonia lay on the Strymon, a river not far from the Hellespont, and that they were...
Paeonia
81 21.75,41.75,0 Pangaean ...were taken away from their homes and led into Asia. 16. But those near the Pangaean6 mountains and the country of the Doberes and the Agrianes and the Odomanti and...
Pangaean
78 24.09166,40.9147201,0 Macedonia ...that you deserve, and tell your king who sent you how his Greek viceroy of Macedonia has received you hospitably, providing food and bedfellows.” [5] With that...
Macedonia
77 21.75,41.25,0 Agrianes ...those near the Pangaean6 mountains and the country of the Doberes and the Agrianes and the Odomanti and the Prasiad lake itself were never subdued at all by...
Agrianes
76 22.5,42.5,0 Milesians ...defeat in the battle than the first; many of their whole army fell, but the Milesians were hardest stricken. 121. The Carians, however, rallied and fought again...
Milesians
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Hellenodicae ...to know and will prove it in the later part of my history. Furthermore, the Hellenodicae11 who manage the contest at Olympia determined that it is so, [2] for when...
Hellenodicae
78 Antandrus ...successor to Megabazus in his governorship. He captured Byzantium, Calchedon, Antandrus in the Troad, and Lamponium, and with ships he had taken from the Lesbians, he...
Antandrus
80 26.7949,39.57209,0 Susa ...that, he went away to Miletus in great joy. Artaphrenes sent a messenger to Susa with the news of what Aristagoras said, and when Darius himself too had...
Susa
78 48.24854,32.19202,0 Susa ...and cousin of that Histiaeus son of Lysagoras whom Darius kept with him at Susa. Histiaeus was tyrant of Miletus but was at Susa when the Naxians, who had been...
Susa
77 48.24854,32.19202,0 Hellas ...ourselves but also, of all others, to you, inasmuch as you are the leaders of Hellas. [3] Now, therefore, we entreat you by the gods of Hellas to save your Ionian...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Calchedon ...now made successor to Megabazus in his governorship. He captured Byzantium, Calchedon, Antandrus in the Troad, and Lamponium, and with ships he had taken from the...
Calchedon
78 29.025789,40.983393,0 Ionians ...own brother Charopinus and another citizen named Hermophantus. 100. When the Ionians had come to Ephesus with this force, they left their ships at Coresus47 in the...
Ionians
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...reported to Darius that Sardis had been taken and burnt by the Athenians and Ionians and that Aristagoras the Milesian had been leader of the conspiracy for the...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...for the making of this plan, he at first, it is said, took no account of the Ionians since he was sure that they would not go unpunished for their rebellion. Darius...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...the coast. [5] It would seem, then, that as soon as I was out of sight, the Ionians did exactly what their hearts had long been set on. If I had been in Ionia no...
Ionians
78 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...turn of affairs, the tyrants of Cyprus called together the generals of the Ionians, and said to them: “Ionians, we Cyprians offer you the choice of engaging...
Ionians
77 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Ionians ...a short period of time without evils, trouble began once more to come on the Ionians, and this from Naxos and Miletus. Naxos surpassed all the other islands in...
Ionians
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Naxians ...pay since they had great hope that when they should appear off Naxos, the Naxians would obey all their commands. The rest of the islanders, they expected, would...
Naxians
76 25.52001,37.127,0 Naxians ...to Naxos to tell the Naxians of the trouble in store for them. 34. Now the Naxians had no suspicion at all that it was they who were to be attacked by that force...
Naxians
78 25.52001,37.127,0 Naxians ...himself had spent much beside, they built a stronghold for the banished Naxians, and went off to the mainland in poor spirits since still more money was needed...
Naxians
74 25.52001,37.127,0 Paros ...dominions for the king, Naxos itself and the islands which are its dependents, Paros, Andros, and the rest of those that are called Cyclades. [3] Making these your...
Paros
81 25.19093,37.03613,0 Ionia ...about the same time Miletus, at the height of her fortunes, was the glory of Ionia. Two generations before this, however, she had been very greatly troubled by...
Ionia
79 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Cyprus ...took refuge with the Medes, and Onesilus, now king of Salamis, persuaded all Cyprus to revolt with him, all save the Amathusians, who would not consent. He...
Cyprus
79 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Cyprus ...whose land reaches to the sea over there, in which you see the island of Cyprus lying. The yearly tribute which they pay to the king is five hundred talents...
Cyprus
75 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Ionian ...to Aristagoras. 33. Then Megabates,13 bringing Aristagoras from Miletus, the Ionian army, and the Naxians, pretended to be sailing to the Hellespont, but when he...
Ionian
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Chios ...came after them in pursuit. Unable to overtake them, the Persians sent to Chios, commanding the Paeonians to go back. The Paeonians would not consent to this...
Chios
76 26.053,38.414,0 Cyprus ...off Cyprus learned that Onesilus' cause was lost and that the cities of Cyprus, with the exception of Salamis which the Salaminians had handed over to their...
Cyprus
74 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Cyprus ...done to this day. When, however, the Ionians engaged in the sea-battle off Cyprus learned that Onesilus' cause was lost and that the cities of Cyprus, with the...
Cyprus
77 33.27533716422018,35.040883529816504,0 Myndian ...[3] When Scylax had been bound, someone brought word to Aristagoras, that his Myndian friend was bound and being disgracefully treated by Megabates. Aristagoras then...
Myndian
80 27.23432,37.05332,0 Caucasa ...to the Hellespont, but when he came to Chios, he put in with his ships at Caucasa14 so that he might cross with a north wind to Naxos. [2] Since it was not fated...
Caucasa
76 25.923724,38.49195,0 Sicily ...Thessalus, Paraebates, Celees, and Euryleon. When these men had come to Sicily with all their company, they were all overcome and slain in battle by the...
Sicily
74 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...him, on the basis of the oracles of Laius, to plant a colony at Heraclea in Sicily, for Heracles18 himself, said Antichares, had won all the region of Eryx, which...
Sicily
78 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Peloponnesus ...driven out by the Macae, the Libyans and the Carchedonians and returned to the Peloponnesus. 43. There Antichares, a man of Eleon,17 advised him, on the basis of the...
Peloponnesus
81 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Ephesus ...and another citizen named Hermophantus. 100. When the Ionians had come to Ephesus with this force, they left their ships at Coresus47 in the Ephesian territory...
Ephesus
77 27.339722,37.941944,0 Argos ...lake (this lake issues into a cleft out of sight and reappears at Argos, and from that place onwards the stream is called by the Argives Erasinus）—when...
Argos
68 22.719464,37.631561,0 Argos ...brought him before the ephors, saying that he had been bribed not to take Argos when he might have easily taken it. Cleomenes alleged (whether falsely or...
Argos
76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Zanclaeans ...consented and seized Zancle; when they learned that their city was taken, the Zanclaeans came to deliver it, calling to their aid Hippocrates the tyrant of Gela, who...
Zanclaeans
80 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Zanclaeans ...the city, and sent them away to the city of Inyx. He betrayed the rest of the Zanclaeans to the Samians, with whom he had made an agreement and exchanged oaths. [5] The...
Zanclaeans
80 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Delphians ...was revealed to the Pythia. He had won over a man of great influence among the Delphians, Cobon son of Aristophantus, and Cobon persuaded the priestess, Periallus, to...
Delphians
81 22.501169,38.482289,0 Argos ...“When the female defeats the male29 And drives him away, winning glory in Argos, She will make many Argive women tear their cheeks. As someday one of men to...
Argos
76 22.719464,37.631561,0 Carians ...when the Persians had come and had crossed the Maeander, they and the Carians joined battle by the river Marsyas. The Carians fought obstinately and for a...
Carians
72 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Carian ...matter, however, is that this form of dress is not in its origin Ionian, but Carian, for in ancient times all women in Greece wore the costume now known as Dorian...
Carian
79 28.088996902733474,37.213163833551015,0 Sicyon ...Cleisthenes was imitating his own mother's father, Cleisthenes the tyrant of Sicyon,32 for Cleisthenes, after going to war with the Argives, made an end of...
Sicyon
79 22.71135,37.98336,0 Peloponnesians ...was now, when Cleomenes broke in as far as Eleusis with his following of Peloponnesians. This was accordingly the fourth Dorian invasion of Athens. 77. When this...
Peloponnesians
75 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Dorian ...Carian, for in ancient times all women in Greece wore the costume now known as Dorian. [2] As for the Argives and Aeginetans, this was the reason of their passing a...
Dorian
81 Argives ...from the Argives. So when the Athenians disembarked on the land of Aegina, the Argives came to aid the Aeginetans, crossing over from Epidaurus to the island...
Argives
81 22.719464,37.631561,0 Salamis ...having lost his city, took refuge with the Medes, and Onesilus, now king of Salamis, persuaded all Cyprus to revolt with him, all save the Amathusians, who would...
Salamis
78 33.90294,35.17926,0 Salamis ...Ionians were in Cyprus when the Persians, crossing from Cilicia, marched to Salamis by land, and the Phoenicians were sailing around the headland which is called...
Salamis
78 33.90294,35.17926,0 Sardo ...not take off the tunic I am wearing on my arrival in Ionia until I have made Sardo,53 the largest of the islands, tributary to you.” 107. With these words...
Sardo
79 8.895951166868167,40.06802462263924,0 Marsyas ...and had crossed the Maeander, they and the Carians joined battle by the river Marsyas. The Carians fought obstinately and for a long time, but at the last they were...
Marsyas
80 36.25,35.25,0 Susa ...in my history. 20. After that, the captive Milesians were brought to Susa. King Darius did them no further harm, settling them by the sea called Red, in...
Susa
72 48.24854,32.19202,0 Susa ...impaled his body on the spot, and sent his head embalmed to king Darius at Susa. [2] When Darius learned of this, he blamed those who had done it because they...
Susa
77 48.24854,32.19202,0 Samians ...upon their ships or to continue their exercises. 13. When the generals of the Samians learned what the Ionians were doing, they recalled that message which Aeaces...
Samians
81 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...in that sea-fight I cannot exactly say; for they all blame each other. [2] The Samians are said, according to their agreement with Aeaces, to have raised their sails...
Samians
81 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...of Rhegium, being then in a feud with the Zanclaeans, joined forces with the Samians and persuaded them to leave off their voyage to the Fair Coast and seize Zancle...
Samians
79 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...in old age he ended his life in Persia in great wealth. Without trouble the Samians planted themselves in that most excellent city of Zancle, after they had...
Samians
78 26.84,37.73,0 Samians ...achievements. Because of the desertion of their ships in the sea-fight, the Samians were the only rebel people whose city and temples were not burnt. [2] After...
Samians
78 26.84,37.73,0 Aeolians ...Datis sailed with his army against Eretria first, taking with him Ionians and Aeolians; and after he had put out from there, Delos was shaken by an earthquake, the...
Aeolians
80 26.950801749999997,38.846442875,0 Panionium ...the Ionians learned of it, they sent deputies to take counsel for them in the Panionium.1 When they came to that place and consulted, they resolved not to collect a...
Panionium
80 27.329993,37.703924,0 Thracian ...the eldest son of Miltiades by another wife, not the daughter of Olorus the Thracian. [3] The Phoenicians took this man captive with his ship; and when they heard...
Thracian
78 27.5,42.5,0 Apsinthians ...hundred and twenty stadia in length. 37. After Miltiades had pushed away the Apsinthians by walling off the neck of the Chersonese, he made war first on the people of...
Apsinthians
80 26.25,40.75,0 Olympic ...Pythia also bade him do so. Then Miltiades son of Cypselus, previously an Olympic victor in the four-horse chariot, recruited any Athenian who wanted to take...
Olympic
76 21.630126,37.637849,0 Scythians ...Miltiades had declared his opinion among the Ionians that they should obey the Scythians in their demand to break the bridge of boats and sail away to their homes. [4]...
Scythians
81 27.5,47.5,0 Scythians ...march inland from Ephesus and meet the Scythians. [3] They say that when the Scythians had come for this purpose, Cleomenes kept rather close company with them, and...
Scythians
79 27.5,47.5,0 Lampsacenes ...Croesus the Lydian, and when Croesus heard what had happened, he sent to the Lampsacenes and commanded them to release Miltiades. If they did not do so, he threatened...
Lampsacenes
79 26.68998,40.34869,0 Lampsacenes ...neck of the Chersonese, he made war first on the people of Lampsacus, but the Lampsacenes laid an ambush and took him prisoner. However, Miltiades stood high in the...
Lampsacenes
80 26.68998,40.34869,0 Aegina ...other king. He said this because of a letter from Demaratus. [3] Driven from Aegina, Cleomenes asked Crius his name; and when Crius told him what it was, Cleomenes...
Aegina
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...of Polycritus and Casambus son of Aristocrates, the two most powerful men in Aegina; they carried them to Attica and gave them into the keeping of the Athenians...
Aegina
79 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...these ships and their own, the Athenians manned seventy in all and sailed for Aegina, but they came a day later than the time agreed. 90. When the Athenians did...
Aegina
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...did not show up at the right time, Nicodromus took ship and escaped from Aegina. Other Aeginetans followed him, and the Athenians gave them Sunium to dwell in...
Aegina
75 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...the Aeginetans of the island. 91. But this happened later.32 The rich men of Aegina gained mastery over the people, who had risen against them with Nicodromus...
Aegina
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aegina ...this time the Argives would not aid them, holding a grudge because ships of Aegina had been taken by force by Cleomenes and put in on the Argolid coast, where...
Aegina
78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetan ...especially Crius son of Polycritus, who told him he would not take away any Aeginetan with impunity, for he had no authority from the Spartans for what he was doing...
Aeginetan
78 23.42372,37.74991,0 Aeginetan ...three men, but was slain by the fourth, Sophanes the son of Deceles. 93. The Aeginetan ships found the Athenians in disarray and attacked and overcame them, taking...
Aeginetan
80 23.42372,37.74991,0 Dorians ...and for what achievements these men, being Egyptian, won the kingship of the Dorians has been told by others, so I will let it go, and will make mention of matters...
Dorians
79 Messenia ...they must have recourse to some other means. [7] Then the Spartans did as the Messenian advised; as they watched the mother of Aristodemus' children, they found her...
Messenia
80 21.9323415,37.06945533333334,0 Tenos ...97. While they did this, the Delians also left Delos and fled away to Tenos. As his expedition was sailing landwards, Datis went on ahead and bade his...
Tenos
73 25.167742,37.577564,0 Delos ...Also there was an oracle concerning Delos, where it was written: “I will shake Delos, though unshaken before. ” In the Greek language these names have the following...
Delos
81 25.268194,37.397274,0 Delos ...rightly call the kings thus in their language. 99. Launching out to sea from Delos, the foreigners put in at the islands and gathered an army from there, taking...
Delos
80 25.268194,37.397274,0 Delians ...from what temple it had come, he sailed in his own ship to Delos. [2] The Delians had now returned to their island, and Datis set the image in the temple...
Delians
76 25.268194,37.397274,0 Rhenaea ...on ahead and bade his fleet anchor not off Delos, but across the water off Rhenaea. Learning where the Delians were, he sent a herald to them with this...
Rhenaea
77 25.22434,37.41735,0 Hellas ...siding with the enemy, they would have made terms with Xerxes. In either case Hellas would have been subdued by the Persians, for I cannot see what advantage could...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...that they would put their trust in the god and meet the foreign invader of Hellas with the whole power of their fleet, ships and men, and with all other Greeks...
Hellas
77 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...were responsible for driving the king off. [6] Nor were they moved to desert Hellas by the threatening oracles which came from Delphi and sorely dismayed them, but...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...of Hellas; therefore, we beg of you, send help to those who are going to free Hellas, and aid them in so doing. The uniting of all those of Greek stock entails the...
Hellas
80 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...Euboea, on which stands a temple of Artemis. [2] The pass through Trachis into Hellas88 is fifty feet wide at its narrowest point. It is not here, however, but...
Hellas
81 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Hellas ...They were advised to pray to the winds, for these would be potent allies for Hellas. [2] When they had received the oracle, the Delphians first sent word of it to...
Hellas
79 22.97947876378841,39.04697922405934,0 Thessaly ...Medes with Artabazus were fleeing, they would have pursued them as far as Thessaly. The Lacedaemonians, however, would not permit them to pursue the fleeing men...
Thessaly
76 22.2,39.6,0 Thessaly ...he used all diligence to lead his army away straight towards Thrace through Thessaly and Macedonia without any delay, following the shortest inland road. So he came...
Thessaly
78 22.2,39.6,0 Larissa ...had already done and were readier than before to further his march. Thorax of Larissa, who had given Xerxes safe-conduct in his flight, now, without any attempt of...
Larissa
80 22.41474,39.64147,0 Larissa ...under cover of night and saw the ground deserted, he called to him Thorax of Larissa and his brothers Eurypylus and Thrasydeius and said: [2] “What will you say...
Larissa
79 22.41474,39.64147,0 Chalcidians ...and their island was formerly called Oenone. [2] After the Aeginetans came the Chalcidians with their twenty ships from Artemisium, and the Eretrians with the same seven...
Chalcidians
81 23.6437183,39.9832624,0 Hellas ...he should not (they begged) go further, but rather halt there and subdue all Hellas without fighting. [2] As long as the Greeks who were previously in accord...
Hellas
79 Hellas ...our own. [2] But we, since we do not want to sin against Zeus the god of Hellas and think it shameful to betray Hellas, have not consented. This we have done...
Hellas
75 Hellas ...you have a clear idea of our sentiments and are sure that we will never betray Hellas, and now that the wall which you are building across the Isthmus is nearly...
Hellas
81 Hellas ...rather we will teach them that they whose slaying they have devised are men of Hellas.” Thus he exhorted them. 18. But when the horsemen had encircled the Phocians...
Hellas
81 Hellas ...[2] I myself am by ancient descent a Greek, and I would not willingly see Hellas change her freedom for slavery. I tell you, then, that Mardonius and his army...
Hellas
76 Hellas ...them a like return, and you will win praise from all Spartans and the rest of Hellas besides. For if you impale Mardonius, you will be avenged for your father's...
Hellas
80 Hellas ...pointed to the manner in which each dinner was served and said: “Men of Hellas, I have brought you here because I desired to show you the foolishness of the...
Hellas
74 Hellas ...given to Pausanias. 82. This other story is also told. When Xerxes fled from Hellas, he left to Mardonius his own establishment. Pausanias, seeing Mardonius'...
Hellas
80 Hellas ...Evenius, but made a wrongful use of that name and worked for wages up and down Hellas. 96. Having won favorable omens, the Greeks put out to sea from Delos for...
Hellas
81 Hellenes ...I acted thus for your good fortune, but for my own ill fortune. The god of the Hellenes is responsible for these things, inciting me to wage war. [4] No one is so...
Hellenes
81 Hellenes ...must have changed its language too at the time when it became part of the Hellenes. For the people of Creston and Placia have a language of their own in common...
Hellenes
76 Hellas ...the Greek my friend; now, therefore, since I learn that you are the leaders of Hellas, I invite you, as the oracle bids; I would like to be your friend and ally...
Hellas
81 22.5,37.5,0 Hellas ...at that time preeminent in every way among the people of what is now called Hellas. The Phoenicians came to Argos, and set out their cargo. [3] On the fifth or...
Hellas
78 22.5,37.5,0 Phoenicia ...according to their story, some Greeks (they cannot say who) landed at Tyre in Phoenicia and carried off the king's daughter Europa. These Greeks must, I suppose, have...
Phoenicia
80 35.25,33.25,0