Today Book III ends. Next week begins Book IV.Translated by George C. Macaulay -- our special project presenting the complete Herodotus with URLs
Babylon Attacks the Persians
The Plan: we shall conquer Babylon: for I shall go straightway as a deserter to the wall; and I shall say to them that I suffered this treatment at
And a Pestilent Fellow Besides
So when the Persians arrived at Samos bringing Syloson home from exile, no one raised a hand against them, and moreover the party of Maiandrios and
Darius Takes Samos
After this king Darius took Samos before all other cities, whether of Hellenes or Barbarians, and for a cause which was as follows . . .
Expedition to Scout out the Greeks Begins
Darius made answer: "Woman, since it seems good to thee that we should first make trial of Hellas, I think it better to send first to them men of the
Darius Is Cured
"King Darius commands the Persians who are in Sardis to slay Oroites."Translated by George C. Macaulay -- our special project presenting the
Oroites Must Die
Having seen this vision, she used every kind of endeavor to dissuade Polycrates from leaving his land to go to Oroites, and besides that, as he was
Why Intaphrenes Was Executed
To Darius then it seemed that the woman had spoken well, and he let go not only him for whose life she asked, but also the eldest of her sons because
From the Extremities of Asia in the East to Europe in the West
Now there is a plain in Asia bounded by mountains on all sides, and through the mountains there are five clefts.Translated by George C. Macaulay