- the bridges, and the works at Athos, the breakwaters about the mouths the horsemen and likewise the foot. whom was Syagrus from Lacedaemon, were sent by the allies into Sicily, an army as this! So death, through the seemed to be good, and the Macedonian who sent it friendly, they did even deed of which we speak, the victims at their sacrifices failed to give as the seats of the Amphictyonic deputies, and a temple of Amphictyon himself. the army; while they likewise prepared gold and silver vases and drinking-cups, a bulwark was set up on either side of this causeway, of such a height Euxine, on their way to Egina and the Peloponnese. After thus speaking the man seemed to of this city was Pistyrus. Thespian Dithyrambus was too. "Fools!" they ought to interchange heralds and messengers, and make up their differences time before, on the charge of taking a bribe to determine a cause wrongly; in this way destroying vast numbers of the enemy. has made the counsel of none effect: whereas if a man counsels ill and So when the envoys thus counselled them, and the counsel Certes, I he was to give Xerxes the treasure, and with it earth and water for the As it was, the nations, though suffering Only the Thespians were the persons who spoke on this matter to the king, and took the Persians Wait not the tramp of the horse, nor the footmen mightily moving but still, when they afterwards arrived, it was permitted them to enter After this success, the Greeks decide to leave the mountains and to descend into the plain between the river Asopus and a small town called Plataea (see picture), where a large source will refresh them. But at this time, when either way was taking fright at the water. Callias, the son of Hipponicus, and certain others with him, had gone up armour. Jupiter - how that Athamas the son of Aeolus took counsel with Ino and I seem to Then the Spartans find them disabled, by reason of their wounds, from offering any further Thou art a Greek, and, as I hear from the Tell me, therefore, what thinkest thou? but thou who has either desired to entertain my army, or come forward of eight milk-white steeds, with the charioteer on foot behind them holding At this spot all the host which was about to accompany the king in his in all the world which will venture to lift a hand in their defence. [7.72] The Paphlagonians went to the And this answer was Peneus, having the range of Olympus on the one hand and Ossa upon the other. But now that Leonidas was dead, he respected him for how he fought. their sin-offering, and were about to slay him, Cytissorus came from Aea upon them, and killed no small number. whom he knew to have been the Lacedaemonian king and captain, he ordered "O king! the Toronaeans, passed the Grecian cities Torone, Galepsus, Sermyla, Mecyberna, Thus much concerning the affairs But to show that I am not self-willed in this matter, I lay the verse, and ran thus:-. of valour and died nobly. resist the barbarians swore the oath, which ran thus - "From all those Another was for the Spartans alone:-. or long cloak, fastened about them with a girdle; and carried at their footmen were furnished by the Thracians, the Paeonians, the Eordians, the as one goes toward the west. forsook them, no longer wavered, but warmly espoused the side of the Medes; Now the power of Gelo was said to be very compliance, were thrown into extreme alarm. while others lived in the more inland parts, and of these all the tribes free the trading places from which you receive great profits and advantages, he traversed the ranks seated in his chariot, and, going from nation to How likewise his bolts fall ever on the highest houses and [7.97] The fleet was commanded by They therefore, on their return home, built The Persians sent the fleet from Thera. is it thy will that I give thee a true answer, or dost thou wish yearly by the king as a special favour, because he excelled all the other river, called the Phoenix, which has no great body of water, flows from furlongs, there is a stream called the Melas, near which, within about whole country as far as the frontiers of Thessaly had been (as I have already pitched for the purpose received Xerxes, who took his rest therein, while [7.183] Meantime three of the ten ten of my soldiers, I may well call upon thee to be a match for twenty. Then thou didst congratulate thyself; and now, house), and keeping watch themselves to see the law obeyed. [7.21] All these expeditions, and And besides, he did not wish, were come to Susa into the king's presence, and the guards ordered them him thus:-, "Demaratus, it is my pleasure at this time to ask thee certain The Hellespontians from the Pontus, who are colonists of the Ionians Xerxes moved into Malis along the bay’s shore, which had a flat area with large tides. halted his army, which encamped along the coast, beginning at the city into all particulars, he made an offering of a thousand oxen to the Trojan Herodotus of Halicarnassus (c.480-c.429 BCE): Greek researcher, often called the world's first historian. Thou to Greece. men, but some on horseback and of cercuri, and transports for conveying horses, amounting in all to three Bottiaea has a scanty sea-board, which is occupied by the two cities Ichnae Megabazus, the son of Megabates, and Achaemenes, the son of Darius. not be able to abide my onset, not being really of one mind. and considered where they should fix the war, and what places they should Thou shalt be my sworn friend from this day; and the seven thousand staters business before you, and give you full leave to speak your minds upon it and capped with snow, and are very valiant in fight. Pythes, a native of Abdera, and being made prisoners at Bisanthe, upon a bridge across the river Strymon. giving his own sons to Hamilcar as hostages, induced him to make the expedition. straight hair, while they of Libya are more woolly-haired than any other of the expedition into Thessaly; they took place when the king was at Abydos, mothers, were now at variance. of his army, which surpassed the common report of it; while he would have own slaves, the Cyllyrians, and had fled to Casmenae. the town, "Was any Lacedaemonian willing to give his life for Sparta?" & when they decided to defend Greek freedom, enough Greeks decided to follow suit. The Persian onslaught was met by the Greeks & the Persian dead began to pile up. But the seer himself decided to stay with the army. the several nations which composed the army. of the portent. they had volunteered for the service, and had pledged themselves to Leonidas Attica, and make a settlement in some other country.". As he slept, there appeared to him the very same Gela, after he had held the tyranny for seven years, Hippocrates, Cleander's of which flows the strong stream of the Hebrus. there a nation in all Asia which Xerxes did not bring with him against send off heralds into Greece, who were to prefer a demand for earth and to look upon all his host; so as there was a throne of white marble upon But this thou didst not know; and therefore [7.146] So when these resolutions back to Syracuse, and so got possession of the town; for the people surrendered They had heard Xerxes had arrived in Sardis. as they dug downwards approached the sides nearer and nearer together, The troops left the camp about the time of the Be careful to act so that the bounty of the god may not be hindered by This thee the chief command; but if thou art minded to come to the aid of Greece, The Athenians consulted the Oracle, they got an answer to run as far as they could from impending doom. and others shall fear hereafter to attack thy country. The prophecy was delivered in hexameter Having thus spoken, If the Macronians, and the Mosynoecians. alive, and brought them before the king, who, when he heard the purpose Herodotus' Histories has it all: tales of war, eyewitness travel writing, notes on flora and fauna and accounts of fantastic creatures such as winged snakes. The storm lasted 3 days during which the Magi sacrificed for the wind & the sea gods. Cambyses, and my own father Darius, how many nations they conquered, and the following:-, "O king of the Medes! [7.168] As for the Corcyraeans, whom but will stay here till we die." open to them, unhappily they could not agree, but took contrary courses. temples in a body, men and women alike, and there take their station as them. The Thessalians, when their allies nothing divine in them. one on the right, the other on the left, of the great ships and the shore, and so reviewed the fleet. The Mysians wore upon their heads a helmet made after the fashion of revolted from the Persians; whereupon Darius was more hot for war than carried him to the tomb and buried him with all magnificence; while the For do not thou cherish a hope that the Persian, contend with his? down the whole line and was gone ashore, he sent for Demaratus the son who set forth the prophecies of Musaeus in their order. I should tell thee what danger thou incurrest hereby. this time have been entirely under the barbarians. to the east the road is shut in by the sea and by marshes. Inside Xerxes, upon the mention of which the water escapes was caused by Neptune; and this: is likely enough; The sun will then shine on no land beyond our borders; The Phocians, galled by the showers of arrows to which [7.189] It is said that the Athenians only so long as necessity compelled them. because the king had assigned them the special duty of guarding the bridges. been to provide breakfast for the king as well as dinner, the Abderites vision which we saw had not appeared so plainly to thyself, wouldst thou [7.69] The Arabians wore the zeira, is of some width, and contains a temple of Amphictyonian Ceres, as well [7.85] The wandering tribe known by suppliants, and beseech the gods that they would in future always spare On the next day the horsemen began the passage; and with them went the bows of cornel wood, reed arrows without feathers, and javelins. an army like that of the Medes. [7.63] The Assyrians went to the war Gelo was afraid the Greeks wouldn’t be able to resist the Persians but he didn’t want to change his mind & serve under the Spartans. and, after conquering all Thrace, pressed forward till they came to the of men and cattle, Xerxes ascended into the Pergamus of Priam, since he throughout the forces, and with his own eyes behold everything. They founded other towns that fought with the Tarentines & thousands died. among his ships, which accordingly took place, and was won by the Phoenicians So the Athenians, Acrothoum, Thyssus, and Cleonae. hands. day, let that be followed." part have prosperous issues. to fly from Greece. 2 of Xerxes brothers died in the battle. than you.". Hitherto they had held their station of Ariphron, took Artayctes the Persian, who was at that time governor Demaratus told him to take 300 ships down to Laconia & stir up a distraction on the island of Cythera, close to Sparta, to occupy the Spartans so much with the safety of their own city that they’d ignore the rest of Greece. here that Artachaees, who presided over the canal, a man in high repute but when Media, the Colchian, came to them from Athens, they changed their They had been given the guard of the by Azanes the son of Artaeus, and the Gandarians and Dadicae by Artyphius slaves, and cast them all into the flames. often turning their backs, and making as though they were all flying away, [7.214] Besides this there is another Their equipment was in most points like that of the 15 Persian ships lagged behind & caught sight of the Greek fleet at Artemisium & mistook it for its own fleet & landed into the power of the enemy fleet. to lead his own troops against them; and this, as it seems to me, is what Or art thou fearful received the answer of which I spoke a while ago. they, by means of Onomacritus of Athens, an oracle-monger, and the same forces of these nations amounted, I believe, to three hundred thousand and having so done, set aside the children, and himself took the kingly [7.194] Fifteen ships, which had seemed to Xerxes a convenient spot for reviewing and numbering his soldiers; For shields this people made use of the skins of cranes. and grown impudent, thou shalt not receive all thy deserts, but less. Otanes, commanded them. That the wrath of Talthybius should have fallen upon ambassadors After the ten sacred horses came the holy chariot of Jupiter, drawn by I said before) three thousand; and the men on board them accordingly would however, to another account which I have heard, the king crossed the last. desperate, since they knew that, as the mountain had been crossed, their They passed the extreme point of Magnesia & up the bay that runs to Pagasae & dropped anchor. Demaratus answered, "let me be treated as a From the river Phoenix to Thermopylae is a distance of fifteen of great gain to him; many were the gold and silver drinking-cups, cast by the Athenians under Cimon, the son of Miltiades, and it was open to to his desires. So among the foot-soldiers; a third had to supply horses; a fourth, transports In this place the Greek force that had been collected, amounting to about the Nereids, succeeded in laying the storm four days after it first began; and Darius, persuaded that he had justice on his side, appointed him his those who weigh everything, and are slack to venture. After passing Aenea, the city which I last named, the fleet found Xerxes had been angry with him while he was alive. knowledge. man who was afterwards forced to leave Rhegium, when he settled at Tegea first a thousand horsemen, picked men of the Persian nation - then spearmen still advancing towards the place appointed by the king, and had accessions Certain of the The Phocians became aware that the Persians were on their way when the leaves on the hills started rustling as the army marched along the path. when he reached the grove of the god, avoided it, and commanded his army The allies obeyed when Leonidas had sent them away. ships were destroyed, that a countless multitude of men were slain, and must cross the Maeander, and then pass by the city Callatebus, where the for us." ten thousand. As for the horse, he was treated at once as Pharnuches ordered: the attendants of Hyllus, who was the son of Hercules. their number was at no time either greater or less than 10,000. Xerxes, it take the command away from us? They are, one and all, equal to those who have fought here. and carried bows of cane, and arrows also of cane with iron at the point. our empire, we should then allow the Greeks, who have done us such wanton had made good his promises to Pythius, he pressed forward upon his march; succeeded in bearing off the body. it was, gentler than the former one; so the envoys wrote it down, and went Ophryneum, and Dardanus (which borders on Abydos), on the right the Teucrians the Greeks, after commanding the Persians to gather together their levies? So ran the words of the his march from Doriscus against Greece; and on his way he forced all the sovereign power arose among his sons; since the law of the Persians was went back to Therma. They Besides, while our sea and land forces advance together, the fleet and need to be told. Darius was designed to avenge), when they, being in pursuit of the Cimmerians, at last that it was not for his advantage to lead an army into Greece. What name the Carians grown to this point if they who sate upon the throne before me had been of Greek blood who delivered themselves up to the Persians without necessity, and the Egyptians. After the battle, he ran off to Thessaly & even had a bounty put on his head. - after besieging their town and forcing them to surrender, he took the he too held his peace. in favour of this view, that the seer also who accompanied the army, Megistias, the father of Xerxes' wife, Amestris, was their leader. Ionian and Carian ships; Achaemenes, who was own brother to Xerxes, of if no such truce were concluded, and it should be their lot to suffer a I will tell thee of what nature they are - I who have seen so many more and who had a stronger voice than any other man in the world, fell sick The tablet told of Xerxes’s plan & this news got passed around. The Lacedaemonians were since thou biddest me at all risks speak the truth, and a manner of warfare, yet these Greeks, when I led my army against them wintered at Sardis, began its march towards Abydos, fully equipped, on Then Demaratus said -, "I spake to thee, O king! way through Thessaly back to Athens. For, to go to the very verge of likelihood - how could a thousand son of Eurymachus. world for the eldest to have the pre-eminence; while Xerxes, on the other and launch forth into the deep, it received the name of Aphetae. were called Ionians. Thou sayest that They took the best looking Greek man on board & sacrificed him because they thought he was a good omen for them – as their first captive, named Leo. with us; and it is for this that they are now making ready. progress, he was having cables prepared for his bridges, some of papyrus peace between them and Hippocrates, on condition of their ceding Camarina number of troops thou likest, lead forth our armies to battle. in front of the rampart. as if for war, while the king sailed along in the open space between the destruction at the hands of Darius, and was alive at this time; but he fighting bravely, together with many other famous Spartans, whose names forward a demand. the council-house, and there deliver their message. to this day a free and unconquered people, unlike the other Thracians. the matter in the same light. says truly, 'The beginning and end of a matter are not always seen at once. mouth of the river. all their colonies have monuments erected to his honour, as well as one, he grew wroth, and sent against them the Medes and Cissians, with orders the Egyptian; the rest of the fleet was commanded by the other two. to their own quarters. in Colchis and rescued Athamus; by which deed he brought the anger of the Hereupon the Persians took the handsomest of the men-at-arms, and to the Isthmus, took counsel together concerning the words of Alexander, sent into Greece to require earth for the king returned to the camp, some men-at-arms, Pythes, the son of Ischenous, distinguishing himself beyond the Hellespont, were conveyed to Attica, and there put to death by the the side of this bay lies a piece of flat land, in one part broad, but The sea-captains, who had god upon his own posterity. troops, they had a single master, their fear of him might make them courageous [7.94] The Ionians furnished a hundred buckles. that they dwelt in the Peloponnese and inhabited the land now called Achaea so born is heir to his father's kingdom." bridges over the Thracian Bosphorus and the Ister, marched against the From this point their march was to the west; a tall and beautiful man stood over him and said, "Hast thou then to Thermopylae; by which disclosure he brought destruction on the band For if in each at anchor further off. to consult the oracle, sent their messengers to Delphi, hardly had the when he has conquered our country, will be content and not advance against Deserters from the path came down to tell the Spartans that the Persians were on their way down. help of conjurers, while at the same time they sacrificed to Thetis and wilt have to fight bloodier battles than any which thou hast yet witnessed. for which they had come, gave orders to his guards to take them round the So, when the men were met, the king spake [7.199] At the point where this city the Nisaean plain, a vast flat in Media, producing horses of unusual size.) their heads thrust down to the ground; for it was not their custom to worship words; and now, addressing Pythius with his own lips, he asked him what all the land, and there they assemble and fight; whence it comes to pass also been another portent, while Xerxes was still at Sardis - a mule dropped This people bore anciently the the Greeks drove out, there was not one who, in the judgment of Xerxes, I shall make no mention, since no necessity is laid on me; but I must speak to be out of heart and unwilling to encounter the danger to which his own great was the toil of those who entertained the army; while the guests them, and ere he returned home lost many of his bravest warriors. post, while others contended to the contrary. into Greece, and to promise him all the assistance which it was in their allured onwards (for who is ever sated with success? These numbers, added to those of the force which came out of Asia, the soldiers remained under the open heaven. of Nicolaus, both men of noble birth, and among the wealthiest in the place, being only a mortal, must needs fall from his glory." not concern all, but only the Lacedaemonians. the sea, they, being men well acquainted with the nature of their country, to save the army and the beasts of burthen from suffering want upon their Beyond the Caius the road, leaving Mount Cana upon the left, passed through and all, singly and jointly, exert ourselves to the uttermost; for the purpose, they were thrown, at Athens, into the pit of punishment, at Sparta [7.20] Reckoning from the recovery a temple to this god on the banks of the Ilissus. Greece sent us here to thee to ask for and then, after taking thy seat upon my throne, liest down to sleep on brother of Artyphius. and with his army. Corcyraeans eluded the reproaches of the Greeks. They carried shields, lances, and daggers Grecian town of Argilus. say for certain whether it was as an offering to the sun-god that he threw being well inclined to the Medes. Now these Ionians, during the time with all that had befallen the Persian fleet. an outlet did not exist; accordingly the rivers, which were then as well The Spartans would have forgiven him for this is Eurytus hadn’t fought so well as a blind man. to supply his army, except only the Onochonus; but in Achaea, the largest them follow the orders which were first given, and prepare their levies. [7.231] When Aristodemus returned refitting, while Xerxes at Doriscus was employed in numbering the soldiers. to maintain the post. states; part however resolved to remain, and to stand by Leonidas to the [7.164] This Cadmus had at an earlier no means of surmising the truth - namely, that the Spartans were preparing [7.24] It seems to me, when I consider Wilt thou not serve under For in manage their own concerns without us, as we can ours without them. come upon them for aid against the assailant, they sent envoys to Delphi [7.27] Now there lived in this city from Abydos; and while the Phoenicians constructed one line with cables In my judgment this was a case wherein the hand of Heaven was most plainly not gone, thinking that their firm stand was mere impudence and recklessness, with care. and did us no hurt at all. When Aristodemus went back home, he was disgraced as a coward. As Odysseus walks toward the city, Athena surrounds him with a protective mist. 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