5/23/2023 0 Comments Herodotus on the persian wars![]() ![]() Most of the women escaped: Io with others was carried off the men cast her into the ship and made sail away for Egypt.Ģ. They stood about the stern of the ship: and while they bargained for such wares as they fancied, the Phoenicians heartened each other to the deed, and rushed to take them. ![]() On the fifth or sixth day from their coming, their wares being now well-nigh all sold, there came to the sea shore among many other women the king’s daughter, whose name (according to Persians and Greeks alike) was Io, the daughter of Inachus. The Phoenicians then came, as I say, to Argos, and set out their cargo. Among other places to which they carried Egyptian and Assyrian merchandise, they came to Argos, which was about that time preeminent in every way among the people of what is now called Hellas. These (they say) came to our seas from the sea which is called Red, and having settled in the country which they still occupy, at once began to make long voyages. The Persian learned men say that the Phoenicians were the cause of the feud. What Herodotus the Halicarnassian has learnt by inquiry is here set forth: in order that so the memory of the past may not be blotted out from among men by time, and that great and marvellous deeds done by Greeks and foreigners and especially the reason why they warred against each other may not lack renown. ![]() ![]() Herodotus 2286893 The Persian Wars - Book I 1920 A. ![]()
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