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Dedication
Preface
1. Introduction: Glory and ἀιτίη (§1)
2. The Various Tales of Rape (§§2-5)
3. Herodotus’s Program (§§5-6)
4. Candaules and Gyges (§§7-14)
5. The Queen’s Revenge (§§8-12)
6. The Delphic Oracle (§ §13-14)
7. Gyges’s Successors (§§15-22)
8. Arion (§§23-24)
9. Croesus Before Solon’s Visit (§§25-28)
10. Croesus and Solon (§§29-3)
11. Atys and Adrastus (§§34-45)
12. Mourning and Motives (§46.1)
13. Testing the Oracles (§§46.2-52)
14. Inquiries to Delphi and to Amphiaraus §§53-56.1
15. The Search for Allies: Preliminary Ancient History (§§56.2-58)
16. The Situation at Athens (§§59-64)
17. The Situation at Sparta (§§65-70)
18. Croesus Attacks Cappadocia (§§71-78)
19. The Fall of Sardis, Part One (§§79-81)
20. The Battle of Champions (§§82-83 and 9.26-27)
21. The Fall of Sardis Resumed (§§84-85)
22. Croesus on the Pyre (§§86-91)
23. Croesus’s Offerings and Lydian Customs (§92-94)
24. Background to Cyrus: Deioces (§§95-101)
25. Phraortes and Cyaxares (§§102-106)
26. The Story of Young Cyrus (§§107-130)
27. Cyrus Becomes King (§§123-130)
28. The Customs of the Persians (§§131-140)
29. Cyrus and the Ionians (§141)
30. A Brief Recent History of the Ionians (§§142-151)
31. Sparta and the Ionians (§§152-153.2)
32. The Rebellion of the Lydians and Its Aftermath (§§153.3-161)
33. Harpagus Put in Command (§162)
34. The Story of the Phocaeans (§§163-67)
35. The Situation of Teos and the Rest of the lonians (§§168-169)
36. An Excursus on What Might Have Been (§170)
37. Harpagus’s Conquest of the Carians, Caunians, Pedasians, and Lycians (§§171-76)
38. The Description of Babylon (§§178-187)
39. Cyrus’s Babylonian Campaign (§§188-191)
40. The Wealth and Customs of the Babylonians (§§192-200)
41. Cyrus’s War with the Massagetae (§§201-214)
42. The Customs of the Massagetae (§§215-216)
Conclusions
Appendix: Herodotus’s Egyptian Tales
Works Cited
About the Author
Other Works in the Arieti Open Access Collection
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