“The Histories” is the Books of Herodotus, “The Father of History“.
Introduction to Herodotus Histories Book
The Histories of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature. This book, written in 430 bc in the ancient Greek. Histories is about Greece, Persia and the Middle East and Northern Africa at that time.
This book was the first book on ancient history, without poetic concepts and stories. And today most of our knowledge of the ancient world is from Herodotus Histories book.
Book chapters
– The rapes of Io, Europa, and Medea, which motivated Paris to abduct Helen.
– The rulers of Lydia.
– How Candaules made his bodyguard, Gyges, view the naked body of his wife.
– How Gyges took the kingdom from Candaules.
– The singer Arion’s ride on the dolphin.
– Solon’s answer to Croesus’s question that Tellus was the happiest person in the world.
– Croesus’s efforts to protect his son Atys, his son’s accidental death by Adrastus.
– Croesus’s test of the oracles.
– The answer from the Oracle of Delphi concerning whether Croesus should attack the Persians.
– Peisistratos’ rises and falls from power as tyrant of Athens.
– The rise of Sparta.
– A description the geographic location of several Anatolian tribes, including the Cappadocians, Matieni, Phrygians, and Paphlagonians.
– The Battle of Halys.
– Croesus’s defeat by Cyrus II of Persia, and how he later became Cyrus’s advisor.
– The Tyrrhenian’s descent from the Lydians.
– The rulers of the Medes.
– The rise of Deioces over the Medes.
– Cyrus’s rise to power.
– The culture of the Persians.
– The history and geography of the Ionians.
– The culture of Assyria.
– Cyrus’s attack on Babylon.
– Cyrus’s ill-fated attack on the Massagetæ.
– The Nile river.
– The religious practices of Egypt.
– The animals of Egypt.
– The culture of Egypt.
– The kings of Egypt.
– Cambyses II of Persia’s
– The revolt of the two Magi in Persia and the death of Cambyses.
– Darius I of Persia.
– The culture of India.
– The culture of Arabia.
– The history of the Scythians.
– The geography of Scythia.
– The rivers of Scythia.
– The culture of the Scythians.
– Persepolis.
– Darius’s attack on Scythia.
– Darius’s failed attack on Scythia.
– The peoples of Libya from east to west
– The introduction of writing to Greece by the Phoenicians.
– The freeing of Athens by Sparta.
– The burning of Sardis, and Darius’s vow for revenge against the Athenians.
– Persia’s attempts to quell the Ionian revolt
– A Greek trireme.
– The fleeing of Histiaeus to Chios.
– The training of the Ionian fleet by Dionysius of Phocaea.
– The invasion of Greek lands under Mardonius and enslavement of Macedon.
– The destruction of 300 ships in Mardonius’s fleet near Athos.
– Darius on the Greek.
– Battle of Marathon.
– The death of Miltiades after a failed attack on Paros and the successful taking of Lemnos.
– The amassing of an army by Darius after learning about the defeat at Marathon.
– The quarrel between Ariabignes and Xerxes over which son should succeed Darius in which Xerxes is chosen.
– The death of Darius.
– The defeat of the Egyptian rebels by Xerxes.
– The advice given to Xerxes on invading Greece: Mardonius for invasion, Artabanus against.
– Leonidas at Thermopylae.
– The destruction and rebuilding of the bridges built by the Egyptians and Phoenicians at Abydos.
– The destruction of 400 Persian ships due to a storm.
– The small Greek force.
– The Battle of Thermopylae in which the Greeks hold the pass for 3 days.
– The Greek defeat and order by Xerxes to remove Leonidas’s head and attach his torso to a cross.
– The escape of Xerxes and leaving behind of 300,000 picked troops under Mardonius in Thessaly.
– Alexander I of Macedon.
– The second taking of an evacuated Athens.
– The warning from Alexander to the Greeks of an impending attack.
– The death of Mardonius by Aeimnestus.
– The Persian retreat to Thebes.
– The description and dividing of the spoils.
– The Persians’ abortive suggestion to Cyrus to migrate from rocky Persis.
تاریخ هرودوت
کتاب تاریخ هرودوت قدیمی‌ترین کتاب تاریخ جهان است. این کتاب توسط هرودوت پدر تاریخ جهان نوشته شده است.
تاریخ هرودوت در بردارنده اطلاعات بسیار مهم تاریخی است. در این کتاب اطلاعاتی وجود دارد که در دیگر کتاب‌ها مشاهده نمی‌شود و از همین روی، کتاب تاریخ هرودوت بسیار کتابی مهم در زمینه آشنایی و شناخت تاریخ جهان باستان می‌باشد.
هرودوت اطلاعات بسیار فوق‌العاده‌ای از مادها و هخامنشیان در این کتاب دارد. در این کتاب ما با چگونگی برپایی نخستین سلسله پادشاهی در تاریخ ایران مواجه می‌شویم که توسط مادها برپا گردید و با پادشاهی کوروش بزرگ به اوج خود رسید.
همچنین شرح جنگ‌های پر فراز و نشیب میان ایرانیان و یونانیان از دیگر موارد بسیار مهم مطرح‌شده در این کتاب است. هرچند که هرودوت به دلیل آن‌که خود تبار یونانی داشت، مطالب را با غرض‌ورزی درج کرده است اما به هر حال این مطالب، مطالبی مهم جهت آگاهی از تاریخ جهان باستان می‌باشد.
Biography of Herodotus
Herodotus was an ancient Greek writer, geographer, and historian born in the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey). He is referred to as “The Father of History”
Modern scholars generally turn to Herodotus’s own writing for reliable information about his life, supplemented with ancient yet much later sources, such as the Byzantine Suda, an 11th-century encyclopedia which possibly took its information from traditional accounts.
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