Herodotus and the Persian Wars

By: John Claughton

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A series of texts in Classical Civilisation, encompassing literary, historical and philosophical subjects. Herodotus, writing in the second half of the 5th century BC, is the first historian of western civilisation. His narrative tells of the expansion of the Persian Empire in the 6th and 5th centuries BC and the wars between Greece and Persia in 490 and 480 BC. Some of the most famous battles of history, Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis, are dramatically described in his work. However, Herodotus' greatness lies not only in the momentous nature of the events he describes. His purpose is to explain why the wars happened and his sophisticated and complex answer encompasses the relation of gods to men, the nature of different peoples and the character of individuals. Herodotus says that he will write equally about the two sides of the war, and his narrative of the clash between East and West, between democracy and autocracy, has striking, and disturbing, modern resonances.

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Preface	p. v
Timeline	p. vii
Introduction and the kidnapping of women	p. 1
Introduction	p. 2
The kidnapping of women	p. 3
Croesus, the king of Lydia	p. 9
Croesus and Solon	p. 10
The fall of Croesus	p. 15
Egypt and the wonders of the world	p. 23
The Nile and the reason for it flooding	p. 23
The Wonders of Egypt	p. 27
Cats and crocodiles	p. 28
Mummification	p. 30
Darius and the treatment of the dead	p. 32
India, Arabia and the far north	p. 33
The battle of Marathon, 490 BC	p. 38
Preparations for battle	p. 39
The battle	p. 42
The coming of the Persian invasion	p. 49
The decision to invade Greece	p. 49
Xerxes and Pythius 1	p. 63
The bridge at Abydos	p. 65
Xerxes and Pythius 22	p. 66
Xerxes and Artabanus at Abydos	p. 68
Xerxes and Demaratus at Doriscus	p. 74
The battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC	p. 79
Thermopylae and Artemisium	p. 80
The Persian Numbers	p. 81
The battle's preliminaries	p. 83
The battle	p. 86
The glorious dead	p. 94
The battle of Salamis, 480 BC	p. 97
The debate amongst the Greeks at Salamis	p. 97
The sons of Aeacus and the Eleusinian Mysteries	p. 102
The situation amongst the Persians: Artemesia's advice	p. 103
The Greeks before the battle	p. 105
The battle	p. 110
The battle of Plataea, 479 BC	p. 119
The banquet at Thebes	p. 119
Mardonius and Artabazus	p. 121
The night mission of Alexander	p. 123
Greek manoeuvres before the battle	p. 124
Mardonius' speech and the Persian attack	p. 130
Pausanias' message to the Athenians	p. 132
The battle	p. 132
After the battle	p. 138
The end of it all	p. 142
Recommended reading	p. 149
Index of people and places	p. 151
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