101. The Urine And The Vine: Astyages' Dreams At Herodotus 1.107-8 The Urine and the Vine Astyages Dreams at Herodotus 1.1078. (I). First,the narrative logic. Here critics have generally been hard on Herodotus. http://home.btconnect.com/CAIS/History/madha/astyages_dreams.htm

University of London Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG United Kingdom © 1998-2002 CAIS at SOAS, all rights reserved. For any further information please contact: Shapour Suren-Pahlav cais@soas.ac.uk You are visitor No: "The future belongs to the nation who appreciate her past." Support Encyclopaedia Iranica Support BIPS The British Institute of Persian Studies The Urine and the Vine: Astyages' Dreams at Herodotus 1.107-8 By: Christopher Pelling University College, Oxford Astyages, son of Cyaxares, now inherited the throne. A daughter was born to him, whom he called Mandane; and Astyages dreamed that she urinated so much that the urine filled his city, then went on to flood all of Asia. He consulted the dream-experts among the magi, and was alarmed by the details which he heard from them. Later, when this Mandane was already old enough for marriage, he did not give her as wife to any of the Medes who were worthy of him, because he was fearful of the dream, instead he gave her to a Persian named Cambyses, who, he discovered, belonged to a good house and was mild in nature, but was stillhe thoughtfar inferior to a Mede of even middling status. In the first year of Mandane's marriage to Cambyses, Astyages had another dream: he dreamed that a vine grew from the genitalia of this daughter, and spread over the whole of Asia. He again consulted the dream-experts on what he had seen, then sent for his daughter to come to him from the land of the Persians. By now she was pregnant. When she arrived he kept her under guard, planning to kill the product of her womb: for the dream-experts among the magi interpreted his dream as indicating that his daughter's offspring would take his place upon the throne.

102. Herodotus In Africa Ancient Nile Civilization and Herodotus. by James A. Jones, Ph.D. West 1999,All Rights Reserved. Words Herodotus, Cyrene Maps Egypt, Kush http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his311/notes/herod.htm

Ancient Nile Civilization and Herodotus by James A. Jones, Ph.D. West Chester University Department of History Words: Herodotus, Cyrene Maps: THE GREEKS The Greeks did not conquer territory in Africa, but they founded colonies along its coast as part of the expansion of their overseas trading networks. They left behind several important sources, including the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea , which is a mariner's handbook of the Red Sea coast that lists port cities, markets, and trade goods. The Greek writer Herodotus is the most extensive early source on Africa. He was born around 480BC, and about 440BC, began to try and learn all he could about the Persian invasions of the eastern Mediterranean in 490 and 480BC. His research took him all over the place, and his stories, which survived to modern times, include a good deal of information about Egypt and the region to the west. Later on during his conquest of the Greek and Persian world (which began in 339BC), Alexander of Macedonia conquered Egypt as well. Upon his death, Egypt came under the control of

103. Herodotus & Thucydides A Brief Textual and Stylistic Analysis of Herodotus and Thucydides.Art Madsen, M.Ed. Transnational Research Associates. The writings http://membres.tripod.fr/transnational/thucy.htm

A Brief Textual and Stylistic Analysis of Herodotus and Thucydides Art Madsen, M.Ed. Transnational Research Associates The writings of two of the most highly respected historians of Ancient Greece have been well known for more than 2400 years. Throughout the intervening centuries, since their lengthy manuscripts were originally composed, much scholarly attention has been devoted to analysis of their accounts of famous wars and battles dating from the 500 to 400 B.C. era. In fact, Herodotus has become known as the "Father of History" in the sense that his writings preceded those of any other Western scholar who recorded historical events. He used recognized structuring techniques in his writing, unifying time, events and analytical interpretation in ways which distinguished him from mere writers of fictional literature or epic poetry. Thucydides followed Herodotus by several decades and began to further perfect historical style and content in his accounts of major events. This brief essay, therefore, will explore in what ways these two Greek historians differed, and will analyze how two approaches, separated by a generation, may have affected the accuracy, objectivity or credibility of the writings selected for review. A generation later, Thucydides, an Athenian by birth, unlike Herodotus who was born of Greek parentage on the Ionian Coast, seemed to emulate Herodotus in some respects, but surpassed him in other ways.

104. Www.stoa.org/dio-bin/diobib?Herodotus DiotimaNavigation banner for Diotima (6k). Artemisia in Herodotus. Herodotus presentsher as a remarkable woman and the shrewdest of Xerxes commanders. http://www.stoa.org/dio-bin/diobib?Herodotus

105. A Village Of Ideas: Herodotus Herodotus Observations on Egypt by Hoa Le. Many of these things interested him inEgypt because Herodotus pauses to do what he does in this section digress. http://www.uta.edu/english/hawk/syllabi/village/herodotus.html

Herodotus Observations on Egypt by Hoa Le In "Observations on Egypt," Herodotus tried to observe the different things in Egypt such as their different gods, their funerals, different animals that symbolized something,and various customs. Many of these things interested him in Egypt because "Herodotus pauses to do what he does in this section -digress. These digressions take him into interesting areas and permit him to discourse on related subjects before returning to his main topics. Digressions were always welcome in classical literature because they provided the human interest that satisfies people's curiosity" (Jacobus 479). Herodotus is very curious about the culture of Egypt and he also discusses on many different gods of Egypt. One of the gods that he mentions in the essay is the god of the Moon and Dionysus. The Egyptians think the pig is an unclean animal and if one of the Egyptian touches the pig, he has to go to the river and wash himself. They never sacrifice the pig to any gods except they only sacrifice them to The Moon and Dionysus on the day of the full moon and honor of Dionysus. He also mentions a lot of gods: Poseidon, the Dioscuri, Hera, Hestia, Themis, and the Graces and Nereids. He learned how the Egyptians have done their funeral and embalming practice. The women "plaster their head and face with mud, and afterwards, having left the corpse in the house" (Herodotus 492). They wash the corpse then wrap up the body. Then they do the embalming practice for the dead person.

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107. The Other Herodotus, A Review By Richard Seltzer The Other Herodotus. a book review by Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com,www.samizdat.com. So I presumed that I knew what Herodotus was all about. http://www.samizdat.com/isyn/herodot.html

The Other Herodotus a book review by Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com www.samizdat.com Of course, I read selections back in high school. So I presumed that I knew what Herodotus was all about. Then in reading/seeing The English Patient , which quotes very different kinds of selections, I began to suspect I had majorly missed the mark. On finally reading from cover to cover, I discovered that the story of the invasions of Greece by Darius and Xerxes takes up a very small part of the book, at the end. Yes, that part has some dramatic scenes, some quotable quotes, and is "history." But most of Herodotus is anecdotal anthropology and travelogue and a delightful collection of rumors and traditions. The heart of the book isn't the history, it's the digressions. That's where you get the flavor of the times, a sense of what it might have been like to live in the fifth century B.C. Eye openers: The physical territory of Greece was but a small part of the Greek world, long before Alexander conquered and hellenized. Considering how slow and difficult transportation was, it's truly remarkable the cosmopolitan nature of that Mediterranean world. There are Greeks and Greek influence all over Egypt and the influence of Egypt on Greece was strong. In fact, it's very difficult to say where one culture ends and another begins there is little correlation between political boundaries and cultural boundaries. The Greeks come across as a semi-nomadic people, frequently taking to their ships en masse, abandoning one territory/city and going off to conquer and settle territory somewhere else in the Mediterranean. They are nomads of the sea. They are like hermit crabs, shedding one shell and then taking over another, or sometimes growing another. There are Greek settlements all along the coasts of Africa, Italy, and Spain, and on almost every island not just in the Aegean and Ionian Seas, but also Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica.

108. The History Of Herodotus By William Makepeace Thackeray The History Of Herodotus by William Makepeace Thackeray Begins P THE FIRST BOOKOF THE HISTORIES, CALLED CLIO P This is the Showing forth of the Inquiry of http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=904

109. CLCIA Presents HERODOTUS And CANNABIS HEMP CLCIA CAMPAIGNER S GUIDE. Herodotus ON CANNABIS. Herodotus The Histories;Book Four Anacharis. as translated by Aubrey de Selincourt. http://www.ccguide.org.uk/herod.html

C.L.C.I.A. CAMPAIGNER'S GUIDE HERODOTUS ON CANNABIS Herodotus: The Histories; Book Four : Anacharis as translated by Aubrey de Selincourt ..............First, however, I must mention that hemp grown in Scythia, a plant resembling flax, but much coarser and taller. It grows wild as well as under cultivation, and the Thracians make clothes from it very like linen ones - indeed, one must have much experience in these matters to be able to distinguish between the two, and anybody who has never seen a piece of cloth made from hemp, will suppose it to be of linen. And now for the vapour bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woollen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed onto the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapour unsurpassed by any vapour-bath one could find in Greece. The Scythians enjoy it so much they howl with pleasure Back to the index CLCIA, 54C Peacock Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 1TB, UK;

110. Encyclopedia: Herodotus Updated May 12, 2004. Encyclopedia Herodotus. Herodotus of Halicarnassus(modern Bodrum Herodotus s Life. As to Herodotus s life, we http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Herodotus

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Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Herodotus Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition Herodotus of Halicarnassus Halicarnassus (mod. Bodrum), an ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Caria, Asia Minor, on a picturesque and advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf or Gulf of Cos. It originally occupied only the small island of Zephyria close to the shore, now occupied by the great castle of St Peter, built by the Knights of Rhodes in 1404; but in course of time this island was united to the mainland and the city extended so as to incorporate Salmacis, an older town of the Leleges and Carians. Click the link for more information. (modern Bodrum Bodrum is a Turkish port located in the Gulf of Kos, in a part of Asia Minor known in ancient times as Caria. Nominally a satrapy of the Persian Empire, its location ensured it enjoined considerable autonomy. Previously known as Halicarnassus, Mausolus made the city his capital. When he died in 353 BCE, his wife, Artemisia, employed the Greek architects Satyros and Pithios, and the sculptor Scopas to build a monument to him, the first Mausoleum, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The history of the site in Antiquity is at Halicarnassus. Click the link for more information.

112. Herodotus: The Father Of History Herodotus The Father of History (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) CourseNo. 2353. Taught by Elizabeth Vandiver University of Maryland http://www.teach12.com/store/course.asp?id=2353&d=Herodotus: The Father of Histo

113. Harvard University Press/Herodotus, The Persian Wars The Persian Wars Volume I. Books 12 by Herodotus Translatedby AD Godley, published by Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/L117.html

FROM THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY HERODOTUS The Persian Wars Volume I. Books 1-2 Translated by A. D. Godley OTHER HARVARD BOOKS BY HERODOTUS The Persian Wars: Volume II. Books 3-4 The Persian Wars: Volume III. Books 5-7 The Persian Wars: Volume IV. Books 8-9 1 map, index 528 pages Hardcover edition December 1969 ISBN 0-674-99130-3

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