Identifier: historyofdariusg00abbo (find matches)
Title: History of Darius the Great
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879
Subjects: Darius I, King of Persia, 548-485 B.C
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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y, and all other nar-ratives of crime, are related in a calm, simple,impartial, and forbearing spirit, which leads usto condemn the sins, but not to feel a pharisai-cal resentment and wrath against the sinner. This example, so obviously proper and right,the writer of this series has made it his endeavorin all respects to follow. CONTENTS. Chapter Page I. CAMBYSES . 13 II. THE END OF CAMBYSES 38 III. SMERDIS THE MAGIAN 59 IV. THE ACCESSION OF DARIUS 82 V. THE PROVINCES 99 VI. THE RECONNOITERING OF GREECE - . 123 VII. THE REVOLT OF BABYLON 144 VIII. THE INVASION OF SCYTHIA 167 IX. THE RETREAT FROM SCYTHIA 189 X. THE STORY OF HISTLKUS 210 XI. THE INVASION OF GREECE 233 XII, THE DEATH OF DARIUS 264 ENGRAVINGS. PageMAP OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE. darius crossing the Bosporus Frontispiece. THE ARMY OF CAMBYSES OVERWHELMED IN THE DESERT 35 PH^DYMA FEELING FOR SMERDISS EARS 69 THE INDIAN GOLD HUNTERS 121 THE BABYLONIANS DERIDING DARIUS FROM THE WALL 156 MAP OF GREECE 232 THE INVASION OF GREECE 256
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DARIUS THE GREAT. Chapter I.C A M b y s e s. Cyrus the Great. His extended conquests. ABOUT five or six hundred years beforeChrist, almost the whole of the interiorof Asia was united in one vast empire. Thefounder of this empire was Cyrus the Great.He was originally a Persian; and the wholeempire is often called the Persian monarchy,taking its name from its founders native land.Cyrus was not contented with having an-nexed to his dominion all the civilized statesof Asia. In the latter part of his life, he con-ceived the idea that there might possibly besome additional glory and power to be acquiredin subduing certain half-savage regions in thenorth, beyond the Araxes. He accordinglyraised an army, and set off on an expeditionfor this purpose, against a country which wasgoverned by a barbarian queen named Tomyris.He met with a variety of adventures on this 14 Darius the Great. (B.C.530. Cambyses and Smerdis. Hystaspes and Darius. expedition, all of which are fully detailed in ourhistory

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