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Herodotus: Histories (Unabridged)

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Herodotus: Histories (Unabridged)

Herodotus: Histories (Unabridged)

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In this, the first prose history in European civilisation, Herodotus describes the growth of the Persian Empire with force, authority and style. Perhaps most famously, the book tells the heroic tale of the Greeks’ resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, King of Persia. Here are not only the great battles – Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis – but also penetrating human insight and a powerful sense of destiny at work.

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Herodotus: Histories (Unabridged)
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The Histories of Herodotus
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Now it happened that this Candaules was in love…
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In this way he carried on the war with the Milesians…
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When all these conquests had been added…
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Now it chanced that while he was making…
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At the end of this time the grief of Croesus was…
Track length9:32
Of all the answers that had reached him…
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Such was the prophecy uttered under a divine…
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Such was the man's account of what he had seen.
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Afterwards, on the refusal of Alyattes to give up his…
Track length10:17
Thus the siege began. Meanwhile Croesus, thinking…
Track length10:14
Then, the Lydians say that Croesus…
Track length10:38
The Lydians have very nearly the same customs…
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The distance from Lake Maeotis to the river Phasis…
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When the boy was in his tenth year…
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Afterwards, when Cyrus grew to manhood…
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Thus after a reign of thirty-five years, Astyages…
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Immediately after the conquest of Lydia…
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These, then, were all the Aeolian cities…
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Meanwhile Mazares, after he had recovered Pactyas…
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The Caunians, in my judgment, are dwellers there…
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The city is divided into two portions by the river…
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She gave orders for the hewing of immense blocks…
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Among many proofs which I shall bring forward…
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The Babylonians have one most shameful custom.
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Now concerning the matter in hand, my judgment…
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Book Two: Euterpe
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From Heliopolis to Thebes is nine days' sail…
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My judgment as to the extent of Egypt is confirmed…
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No other information on this head could I obtain…
Track length9:23
Concerning Egypt itself I shall extend my remarks…
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Such Egyptians as possess a temple of the Theban…
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Almost all the names of the gods came into Greece…
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At Heliopolis and Buto the assemblies…
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In the neighbourhood of Thebes…
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The Egyptians are averse to adopt Greek customs…
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The former of these two cities…
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The king then returned to his own land…
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In these places Homer shows himself acquainted…
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When it came to the king's ears that the thief's body…
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After Chephren, Mycerinus (they said), son of…
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He was succeeded on the throne…
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It is open to all to receive whichever he may prefer…
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I have already made mention more than once…
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The cantons of the Calascirians are different…
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To the other temples of much note…
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Book Three: Thalia
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On the field where this battle was fought…
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The Icthyophagoi on reaching this people…
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And now Cambyses, who even before had not been…
Track length10:43
Many other wild outrages of this sort did Cambyses…
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The Corinthians likewise very willingly lent…
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This was the first expedition into Asia…
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At this time he said no more; but twenty days…
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Otanes, when he saw Darius so hot…
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And now when five days were gone…
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And now, when the morning broke, the six Persians…
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The way in which the Indians get the plentiful…
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Now with respect to the vipers and the winged…
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Of the seven Persians who rose up…
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Polycrates, however, making light of all the counsel…
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On these terms Democedes applied his art…
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Poor Syloson felt at the time that he had given…
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After the armament of Otanes had set sail…
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Book Four: Melpomene
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Hereupon he strung one of his bows — up to that…
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Crossing the Panticapes, and proceeding eastward…
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To me it seems that the cold may likewise…
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The Persians inhabit a country upon the southern…
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The Euxine sea, where Darius now went to war…
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The sixth stream is the Hypacyris, a river rising…
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Whenever the Scythian king falls sick…
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Scylas, likewise, the son of Ariapithes…
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The manner in which these distances…
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I for my part neither put entire faith in this story…
Track length8:57
The manners of the Androphagi are more savage…
Track length7:52
The Sauromatae speak the language of Scythia…
Track length9:55
To this message Idanthyrsus, the Scythian king…
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The Ionians now held a council.
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Theras now, having with him a certain number…
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Battus, you came to ask of your voice; but Phoebus…
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At Samos, meanwhile, Arcesilaüs was collecting…
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On the country of the Nasamonians borders…
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As far as the Atlantes the names of the nations…
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The Carthaginians also relate the following…
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Book Five: Terpsichore
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King Darius was full of wonder both at what they…
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Now that the men of this family are Greeks, sprung…
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So Aristagoras went to Sardis and told Artaphernes…
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Now the Mytileneans had no sooner got Coës…
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Cleomenes, however, was still king when Aristagoras…
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When Aristagoras left Sparta he hastened to Athens…
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By descent they were Pylians, of the family…
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Meanwhile Cleomenes, who considered himself…
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Such is the account given by the Athenians.
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The Bacchiadae had possessed this oracle for some…
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On the return of Hippias to Asia from Lacedaemon…
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While Onesilus was engaged in the siege…
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In the thick of the fight, Stesanor, tyrant…
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Book Six: Erato
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Thus spake the Persians. The Ionian tyrants…
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Such a fate now befell the Milesians…
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Histiaeus now led a numerous army…
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When he had finished carrying the wall across…
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The year after these events, Darius received…
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Such are their privileges in war…
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In course of time Ariston died…
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Afterwards, when it came to be known what evil…
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When however he reached that city…
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Afterwards the Aeginetans fell upon the Athenian…
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First he was chased as far as Imbrus…
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Miltiades by these words gained Callimachus…
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Now the Alcmaeonidae fell in no way short…
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After the defeat inflicted at Marathon…
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Book Seven: Polymnia
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'Persians, I shall not be the first to bring in…'
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When Mardonius had in this way softened…
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But when night came, again the same vision stood…
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Now the manner in which they dug…
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Then they, whose business it was…
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Then Artabanus, the king's uncle…
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On the next day the horsemen began the passage…
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The Sarangians had dyed garments…
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Such were the nations who fought upon the dry…
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(vi.) The Lycians furnished fifty ships.
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'O king! Since you ask me by all means…'
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The Satrae, so far as our knowledge goes…
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On reaching Therma Xerxes halted his army…
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This conduct on the part of the Spartans…
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Themistocles had before this given a counsel which…
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For my own part I cannot positively say whether…
Track length9:48
Hereupon Gelo, seeing the indignation…
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The Cretans, when the envoys sent to ask aid…
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At Alpeni, which is lower down than that place…
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The fleet then, as I said, on leaving Therma…
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At the point where this city is built…
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Then the Medes, having met so rough a reception…
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The remembrance of this answer, I think…
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Thus fought the Greeks at Thermopylae.
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Book Eight: Urania
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The Greeks, at a signal, brought the sterns of…
Track length9:01
And now Themistocles chose out the swiftest sailers…
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From Doris they marched forward into Phocis…
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From the mainland of Greece beyond…
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As soon as they had come, and before Eurybiades…
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Reinforced by the contingents of all these various…
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'The Athenian commander has sent me to you…'
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Far the greater number of the Persian ships…
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The Athenians say that Adeimantus, the Corinthian…
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Thus did the king ask Artemisia's counsel…
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At present, however, he dissembled…
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The Persians, having journeyed through Thrace…
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When this town had fallen, Artabazus pressed…
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Mardonius, when he had read the answers given…
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Book Nine: Calliope
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At last the ambassadors got an answer…
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What follows was recounted to me by Thersander…
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When the cavalry reached the camp…
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All these, except the Helots — seven of whom…
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With Mardonius also, who was very eager to begin…
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After Mardonius had put his question about…
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As soon as Pausanias saw a portion of the troops…
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As Pausanias offered his prayer, the Tegeans…
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On the side of the barbarians, the greatest courage…
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There was a man at Plataea among the troops…
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The Greeks, after sharing the booty upon the field…
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A strange thing happened to this man's father…
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After Leotychides had made this address…
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The barbarians who escaped from the battle…
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Meanwhile the Greeks, who had left Mycale…
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