HERODOTUS: Histories (Unabridged)

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Sound recording

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Herodotus, Author.

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Naxos Digital Services US.

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Naxos Spoken Word Library

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English

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Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2016.

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Contents:

The former of these two cities... ( 10 min., 03 sec. )

The king then returned to his own land... ( 11 min., 27 sec. )

In these places Homer shows himself acquainted... ( 11 min., 10 sec. )

When it came to the king's ears that the thief's body... ( 10 min., 13 sec. )

After Chephren, Mycerinus (they said), son of... ( 09 min., 46 sec. )

He was succeeded on the throne... ( 11 min., 14 sec. )

It is open to all to receive whichever he may prefer... ( 12 min., 32 sec. )

I have already made mention more than once... ( 11 min., 39 sec. )

The cantons of the Calascirians are different... ( 11 min., 01 sec. )

To the other temples of much note... ( 06 min., 13 sec. )

Book Three: Thalia ( 11 min., 41 sec. )

On the field where this battle was fought... ( 12 min., 38 sec. )

The Icthyophagoi on reaching this people... ( 11 min., 38 sec. )

And now Cambyses, who even before had not been... ( 10 min., 43 sec. )

Many other wild outrages of this sort did Cambyses... ( 11 min., 59 sec. )

The Corinthians likewise very willingly lent... ( 11 min., 09 sec. )

This was the first expedition into Asia... ( 10 min., 21 sec. )

At this time he said no more; but twenty days... ( 10 min., 44 sec. )

Otanes, when he saw Darius so hot... ( 10 min., 05 sec. )

And now when five days were gone... ( 10 min., 05 sec. )

And now, when the morning broke, the six Persians... ( 10 min., 51 sec. )

The way in which the Indians get the plentiful... ( 09 min., 32 sec. )

Now with respect to the vipers and the winged... ( 08 min., 02 sec. )

Of the seven Persians who rose up... ( 08 min., 28 sec. )

Polycrates, however, making light of all the counsel... ( 10 min., 54 sec. )

On these terms Democedes applied his art... ( 09 min., 11 sec. )

Poor Syloson felt at the time that he had given... ( 10 min., 09 sec. )

After the armament of Otanes had set sail... ( 11 min., 14 sec. )

Book Four: Melpomene ( 09 min., 39 sec. )

Hereupon he strung one of his bows - up to that... ( 09 min., 40 sec. )

Crossing the Panticapes, and proceeding eastward... ( 08 min., 29 sec. )

To me it seems that the cold may likewise... ( 06 min., 45 sec. )

The Persians inhabit a country upon the southern... ( 09 min., 04 sec. )

The Egyptians are averse to adopt Greek customs... ( 09 min., 42 sec. )

In the neighbourhood of Thebes... ( 12 min., 32 sec. )

At Heliopolis and Buto the assemblies... ( 12 min., 06 sec. )

Almost all the names of the gods came into Greece... ( 10 min., 44 sec. )

Such Egyptians as possess a temple of the Theban... ( 10 min., 41 sec. )

Concerning Egypt itself I shall extend my remarks... ( 09 min., 27 sec. )

No other information on this head could I obtain... ( 09 min., 23 sec. )

My judgment as to the extent of Egypt is confirmed... ( 10 min., 20 sec. )

From Heliopolis to Thebes is nine days' sail... ( 10 min., 27 sec. )

Book Two: Euterpe ( 08 min., 30 sec. )

Now concerning the matter in hand, my judgment... ( 10 min., 20 sec. )

The Babylonians have one most shameful custom. ( 08 min., 34 sec. )

Among many proofs which I shall bring forward... ( 08 min., 32 sec. )

She gave orders for the hewing of immense blocks... ( 07 min., 17 sec. )

The city is divided into two portions by the river... ( 07 min., 33 sec. )

The Caunians, in my judgment, are dwellers there... ( 08 min., 25 sec. )

Meanwhile Mazares, after he had recovered Pactyas... ( 11 min., 41 sec. )

These, then, were all the Aeolian cities... ( 10 min., 45 sec. )

Immediately after the conquest of Lydia... ( 10 min., 02 sec. )

Thus after a reign of thirty-five years, Astyages... ( 10 min., 53 sec. )

Afterwards, when Cyrus grew to manhood... ( 08 min., 41 sec. )

When the boy was in his tenth year... ( 13 min., 02 sec. )

The distance from Lake Maeotis to the river Phasis... ( 12 min., 05 sec. )

The Lydians have very nearly the same customs... ( 11 min., 39 sec. )

Then, the Lydians say that Croesus... ( 10 min., 38 sec. )

Thus the siege began. Meanwhile Croesus, thinking... ( 10 min., 14 sec. )

Afterwards, on the refusal of Alyattes to give up his... ( 10 min., 17 sec. )

Such was the man's account of what he had seen. ( 08 min., 31 sec. )

Such was the prophecy uttered under a divine... ( 08 min., 17 sec. )

Of all the answers that had reached him... ( 10 min., 43 sec. )

At the end of this time the grief of Croesus was... ( 09 min., 32 sec. )

Now it chanced that while he was making... ( 09 min., 46 sec. )

When all these conquests had been added... ( 10 min., 09 sec. )

In this way he carried on the war with the Milesians... ( 10 min., 31 sec. )

Now it happened that this Candaules was in love... ( 10 min., 08 sec. )

The Histories of Herodotus ( 08 min., 07 sec. )

The Euxine sea, where Darius now went to war... ( 09 min., 30 sec. )

The sixth stream is the Hypacyris, a river rising... ( 10 min., 01 sec. )

Whenever the Scythian king falls sick... ( 11 min., 21 sec. )

Scylas, likewise, the son of Ariapithes... ( 09 min., 47 sec. )

The manner in which these distances... ( 09 min., 01 sec. )

I for my part neither put entire faith in this story... ( 08 min., 57 sec. )

The manners of the Androphagi are more savage... ( 07 min., 52 sec. )

The Sauromatae speak the language of Scythia... ( 09 min., 55 sec. )

To this message Idanthyrsus, the Scythian king... ( 10 min., 14 sec. )

The Ionians now held a council. ( 10 min., 20 sec. )

Theras now, having with him a certain number... ( 09 min., 11 sec. )

Battus, you came to ask of your voice; but Phoebus... ( 09 min., 13 sec. )

At Samos, meanwhile, Arcesilaüs was collecting... ( 08 min., 55 sec. )

On the country of the Nasamonians borders... ( 10 min., 42 sec. )

As far as the Atlantes the names of the nations... ( 09 min., 05 sec. )

The Carthaginians also relate the following... ( 09 min., 06 sec. )

Book Five: Terpsichore ( 09 min., 42 sec. )

King Darius was full of wonder both at what they... ( 10 min., 42 sec. )

Now that the men of this family are Greeks, sprung... ( 09 min., 30 sec. )

So Aristagoras went to Sardis and told Artaphernes... ( 09 min., 25 sec. )

Now the Mytileneans had no sooner got Coës... ( 09 min., 07 sec. )

Cleomenes, however, was still king when Aristagoras... ( 09 min., 15 sec. )

When Aristagoras left Sparta he hastened to Athens... ( 09 min., 33 sec. )

By descent they were Pylians, of the family... ( 10 min., 27 sec. )

Meanwhile Cleomenes, who considered himself... ( 11 min., 14 sec. )

Such is the account given by the Athenians. ( 10 min., 41 sec. )

The Bacchiadae had possessed this oracle for some... ( 09 min., 41 sec. )

On the return of Hippias to Asia from Lacedaemon... ( 09 min., 11 sec. )

While Onesilus was engaged in the siege... ( 08 min., 11 sec. )

In the thick of the fight, Stesanor, tyrant... ( 08 min., 45 sec. )

Book Six: Erato ( 07 min., 37 sec. )

Thus spake the Persians. The Ionian tyrants... ( 08 min., 51 sec. )

Such a fate now befell the Milesians... ( 07 min., 39 sec. )

Histiaeus now led a numerous army... ( 08 min., 02 sec. )

When he had finished carrying the wall across... ( 09 min., 03 sec. )

The year after these events, Darius received... ( 09 min., 56 sec. )

Such are their privileges in war... ( 09 min., 05 sec. )

In course of time Ariston died... ( 10 min., 22 sec. )

Afterwards, when it came to be known what evil... ( 12 min., 13 sec. )

When however he reached that city... ( 09 min., 22 sec. )

Afterwards the Aeginetans fell upon the Athenian... ( 10 min., 03 sec. )

First he was chased as far as Imbrus... ( 08 min., 59 sec. )

Miltiades by these words gained Callimachus... ( 10 min., 13 sec. )

Now the Alcmaeonidae fell in no way short... ( 10 min., 50 sec. )

After the defeat inflicted at Marathon... ( 10 min., 57 sec. )

Book Seven: Polymnia ( 07 min., 41 sec. )

'Persians, I shall not be the first to bring inches..' ( 06 min., 38 sec. )

When Mardonius had in this way softened... ( 10 min., 16 sec. )

But when night came, again the same vision stood... ( 11 min., 26 sec. )

Now the manner in which they dug... ( 10 min., 36 sec. )

Then they, whose business it was... ( 10 min., 17 sec. )

Then Artabanus, the king's uncle... ( 10 min., 20 sec. )

On the next day the horsemen began the passage... ( 08 minutes, 28 sec.

)

The Sarangians had dyed garments... ( 07 min., 25 sec. )

Such were the nations who fought upon the dry... ( 07 min., 16 sec. )

(vi.) The Lycians furnished fifty ships. ( 07 minutes, 53 sec.

'O king! Since you ask me by all means...' ( 09 min., 33 sec. )

The Satrae, so far as our knowledge goes... ( 10 min., 49 sec. )

On reaching Therma Xerxes halted his army... ( 09 min., 39 sec. )

This conduct on the part of the Spartans... ( 09 min., 28 sec. )

Themistocles had before this given a counsel which... ( 09 min., 36 sec. )

For my own part I cannot positively say whether... ( 09 min., 48 sec. )

Hereupon Gelo, seeing the indignation... ( 10 min. )

The Cretans, when the envoys sent to ask aid... ( 08 min., 36 sec. )

At Alpeni, which is lower down than that place... ( 10 min., 25 sec. )

The fleet then, as I said, on leaving Therma... ( 10 min., 36 sec. )

At the point where this city is built... ( 10 min., 27 sec. )

Then the Medes, having met so rough a reception... ( 09 min., 22 sec. )

The remembrance of this answer, I think... ( 10 min., 45 sec. )

Thus fought the Greeks at Thermopylae. ( 07 min., 58 sec. )

Book Eight: Urania ( 09 min., 09 sec. )

The Greeks, at a signal, brought the sterns of... ( 09 min., 01 sec. )

And now Themistocles chose out the swiftest sailers... ( 09 min. )

From Doris they marched forward into Phocis... ( 09 min., 45 sec. )

From the mainland of Greece beyond... ( 10 min., 52 sec. )

As soon as they had come, and before Eurybiades... ( 09 min., 28 sec. )

Reinforced by the contingents of all these various... ( 09 min., 32 sec. )

'The Athenian commander has sent me to you...' ( 09 min., 03 sec. )

Far the greater number of the Persian ships... ( 08 min., 33 sec. )

The Athenians say that Adeimantus, the Corinthian... ( 09 min., 25 sec. )

Thus did the king ask Artemisia's counsel... ( 10 min., 01 sec. )

At present, however, he dissembled... ( 08 min., 19 sec. )

The Persians, having journeyed through Thrace... ( 09 min., 16 sec. )

When this town had fallen, Artabazus pressed... ( 10 min., 15 sec. )

Mardonius, when he had read the answers given... ( 14 min., 23 sec. )

Book Nine: Calliope ( 07 min., 58 sec. )

At last the ambassadors got an answer... ( 07 min., 44 sec. )

What follows was recounted to me by Thersander... ( 09 min., 51 sec. )

When the cavalry reached the camp... ( 10 min., 01 sec. )

All these, except the Helots - seven of whom... ( 08 min., 29 sec. )

With Mardonius also, who was very eager to begin... ( 08 min., 41 sec. )

After Mardonius had put his question about... ( 09 min., 22 sec. )

As soon as Pausanias saw a portion of the troops... ( 09 min., 33 sec. )

As Pausanias offered his prayer, the Tegeans... ( 08 min., 28 sec. )

On the side of the barbarians, the greatest courage... ( 07 min., 27 sec. )

There was a man at Plataea among the troops... ( 07 min., 07 sec. )

The Greeks, after sharing the booty upon the field... ( 08 min., 02 sec. )

A strange thing happened to this man's father... ( 07 min., 35 sec. )

After Leotychides had made this address... ( 08 min., 31 sec. )

The barbarians who escaped from the battle... ( 08 min., 52 sec. )

Meanwhile the Greeks, who had left Mycale... ( 08 minutes, 26 sec. )

Participant:

Timson, David, Reader -- Herodotus, Author

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