Identifier: lifetravelsofher01whee (find matches)
Title: The life and travels of Herodotus in the fifth century : before Christ: an imaginary biography founded on fact, illustrative of the history, manners, religion, literature, arts, and social condition of the Greeks, Egyptians, Persians, Babylonians, Hebrews, Scythians, and other ancient nations, in the days of Pericles and Nehemiah.
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Wheeler, James Talboys, 1824-1897
Subjects: Herodotus History, Ancient
Publisher: London: Longman, Green
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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s - - - - - - - 341 CHAP. XXIV. THRACE, B. C. 459. Geography of Thrace. — Greek Settlers and Savage Natives.—Poly-gamy.— Slaves. — Tattooing. — Religion.— Suttees.—Mourning atBirths and Rejoicing at Funerals.—Amphibious People of LakePrasias.—Gold Mines.—The Hellespont or Dardanelles.—Troy.—Interesting Tradition of the Greek Colonization of the Chersonesusby Miltiades the Elder.—Anecdotes of Miltiades the Younger, theTyrant of the Chersonesus and Hero of Marathon.—The Chersone-sus at the Time of Herodotuss Visit. — Sepulchre of Helle. — Tra-gical Legend connected with Athamas.—Bridges of Xerxes over theDardanelles.—Hero and Leander.—Xerxes punishes the Straits fordestroying his Bridges.—Reconstruction of the Bridges.—Voyagethrough the Bosphorus, or Channel of Constantinople.—Descriptionof a Thracian Tribe, who believed in the Immortality of the Soul.—Tradition concerning Zalmoxis.—Doubts whether Zalmoxis wasa Man or a God - - - - - - 356
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XVI PursiFothe ScRe ve EmltctiTTCItlI Ge LIFE AND TRAVELS OF HERODOTUS. CHAPTER I. THURIUM, B.C. 443—427. HERODOTCSS EMIGRATION TO THURIUM, B. C. 443. — SETTLESIEXT OF THECOLONY. HOUSES AND DRESS OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS. COMMENCE-MENT OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, B, C, 431. ARRIVAL OF AN ATHE-NIAN WAR GALLEY AND SAMIAN MERCHANTMAN AT THURIUM, B.C. 427. HERODOTUSS ENTERTAINMENT OF THE SAMIAN SKIFPER. DEPARTS ON A VOYAGE TO ATHENS. In the year B. c. 443, a band of Greek emigrants crossedthe Ionian Sea in ten ships, to establish a colony on thesouthern shores of Italy. At that time the civilisedworld was enjoying comparative peace. The vast armyof barbarians, which Xerxes had led from Asia for thedestruction of Greece, had been cut to pieces forty yearsbefore, and Marathon and Salamis were only rememberedas we remember Trafalgar and ^Vaterloo. But theGreeks, being no longer united against a common enemy,were torn by faction, and the struggle between aristo-cracy and democracy was carried

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