By M. I. Finley
Crucial passages from the works of 4 "fathers of history"—Herodotus's historical past, Thucydides' historical past of the Peloponnesian struggle, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Polybius's Histories.
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Gleam of happiness, and then plunges them Such was the speech which Solon addressed to Croesus, a speech which brought him neither largess nor honour. The king saw him depart with much indifference, since he thought that a man must be an arrant fool who made no account of present good, but bade men always wait and 33. mark the end. 34. After Solon had gone away a dreadful vengeance, sent of the god, came upon Croesus, to punish him, it is likely, for deeming himself the happiest of men. First he had a dream in the night, which foreshowed him that were about to befall truly the evils in the person of his son.
Oxford: ClarenPress, 1953. J. Spiegelberg, Egypt, W. The translated BlackweU, 1927. Credibility of Herodotus' by A. M. Blackman. Account of Oxford: Basil THE EASTERN HERODOTUS HALICARNASSUS in Asia Minor, where Herodotus was born and reared, was a Greek settlement ruled by a Carian dynasty under the higher suzerainty of the Persian king. Its and the name of one population was much intermingled, of Herodotus* kinsmen, the poet Panyassis, indicates that his family, too, though Greek in its culture and aristocratic in status, had a Carian strain.
Lovejoy, A. , and Boas, George* Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1935. 22 INTRODUCTION 23 Pearson, Lionel. Early Ionian Historians. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939. Powell, J. E. The History of Herodotus. Cambridge, Eng- land: Cambridge University Press, 1939. Myres, don L. Herodotus, Father of History. Oxford: ClarenPress, 1953. J. Spiegelberg, Egypt, W. The translated BlackweU, 1927. Credibility of Herodotus' by A. M. Blackman. Account of Oxford: Basil THE EASTERN HERODOTUS HALICARNASSUS in Asia Minor, where Herodotus was born and reared, was a Greek settlement ruled by a Carian dynasty under the higher suzerainty of the Persian king.