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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HERODOTUS. BOOK III.?THALIA.1 Chap. I. Against this Amasis Cambyses, the son of Cyrus, led an army, composed as well of his other subjects, as of the Ionic and jEolic Greeks. His inducements were these: by an ambassador whom he despatched for this purpose into Egypt, he demanded the daughter of Amasis, which he did at the suggestion 1 On the commencement of his observations on this book M. Larcher remarks that the names of the muses were only affixed to the books of Herodotus at a subsequent and later period. Porphyry does not distinguish the second book of our historian by the name of Euterpe, but is satisfied with calling it the book which treats of the affairs of Egypt. Athenaeus also says, the first or the second book of the histories of Herodotus. I am nevertheless rather inclined to believe that these names were annexed to the books of Herodotus from the spontaneous impulse of admiration which was excited amongst the first hearers of them at the Olympic games. According to Pausanias, there were originally no more than three muses, whose names were Melete, Mneme, and Aoide. Their number was afterwards increased to nine, their residence confined to Parnassus, and the direction or patronage of them, if these be not improper terms, assigned to Apollo. Their contest for superiority with the nine daughters of Kvippe, and consequent victory, is agreeably described by Ovid, Met. book v. Their order and influence seem in a great measure to have been arbitrary. The names of the books of Herodotus have been generally adopted as determinate with respect to their order. This was, however, without any assigned motive, perverted by Ausonius. HER. VOL. 11. A of a certain Egyptian who had entertained an enmity against his master. This man was a physician, and when Cyrus ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458953698 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458953696 |
| Weight | 0.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.16 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 66 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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