THE

ANCIENT HISTORY

OF THE

W YORK

EGYPTIANS, CARTHAGINIANS,

ASSYRIANS, BABYLONIANS, MEDES AND PERSIANS,

:

MACEDONIANS AND GRECIANS

BY CHARLES ROLLIN,

Late Principal of the University of Paris, Professor of Eloquence in
the Royal College, and Member of the Royal Academy

of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOLUME II.

FROM THE LATEST LONDON EDITION,

CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED.

ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS OF ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY,

AND ENGRAVINGS ADAPTED TO THE WORK.

NEW-YORK:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY GEORGE LONG,

No. 161 Broadway.

1830.

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CONTENTS.

BOOK VI.

THE HISTORY OF THE PERSIANS AND GRECIANS.

CHAP. I. The History of Darius, connected with that of the Greeks,

-II. Revolt and Reduction of Babylon,

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Sect. I. Darius's Marriages, &c.

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-III. Darius prepares for an Expedition against the Scythians. A

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A Digression concerning the Scythians,

Digression upon the Manners and Customs of that Nation,

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Sect. IV. Darius's Expedition against the Scythians,

-V. Darius's Conquest of India,

-VI. The Revolt of the Ionians,

- VII. The Expedition of Darius's Army against Greece,

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1. The State of Athens. The characters of Miltiades, Themistocles and

Aristides,

2. Darius sends Heralds into Greece, in order to sound the People, and

to require them to submit,

3. The Persians Defeated at Marathon by Miltiades,

Sect. VIII. Darius resolves to make War in person against Egypt and

against Greece, &c.

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Chap. II. The History of Xerxes, connected with that of the Greeks, 46

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Sect. 1. Xerxes reduces Egypt, pt. &c.

-II. Xerxes begins his March, and passes from Asia into Europe, by

crossing the Strait of the Hellespont upon a Bridge of Boats,

Sect. III. The Number of Xerxes's Forces, &c. &c.

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- IV. The Lacedæmonians and Athenians send to their Allies in vain

to require succours from them. The Command of the Fleet given to

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the Lacedæmonians,

Sect. V. The Battle of Thermopyle. The Death of Leonidas,

-VI. Naval Battle near Artemisium,

-VII. The Athenians abandon their City, which is taken and burnt

-X. The Battle near Mycale. The defeat of the Persians,

-XI. The Barbarous and Inhuman Revenge of Amestris, the Wife

of Xerxes,

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Sect. XII. The Athenians rebuild the Walls of their City, notwithstand-

ing the opposition of the Lacedæmonians,

Sect. XIII. The black design of Themistocles rejected unanimously by

the People of Athens,

Sect. XIV. The Lacedæmonians lose the Chief Command through

Pride and Arrogance of Pausanias,

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Sect. XV. The Secret Conspiracy of Pausanias with the Persians. His

Death,

Sect. XVI. Themistocles flies for Shelter to King King Admetus,

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-XVII. Disinterested Administration of the Public Treasure by

Aristides. His Death and Eulogium,

Sect. XVIII. Xerxes killed by Artabanus. His Character,

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BOOK VII.

THE HISTORY OF THE PERSIANS AND GRECIANS.

CHAP. I. The History of the Persians and Grecians from the Beginning

of the Reign of Artaxerxes to the Peloponnesian War,

Sect. I. Artaxerxes Ruins the Faction of Artabanes, &c.

-II. Themistocles Flies to Artaxerxes,

-III. Cimon Begins to make a Figure at Athens,
-IV. The Egyptians, Supported by the Athenians, Rise against

Persia,

Sect. V. Inarus is Delivered up to the King's Mother. The Affliction

and Revolt of Megabyzus,

Sect. VI. Artaxerxes Sends Esdras and Afterwards Nehemiah to Je-

rusalem,

Sect. VIÍ. Character of Pericles, &c.

-VIII. An Earthquake in Sparta, &c.

-IX. Cimon is Recalled, &c. His Death,

-X. Thucydides is Opposed to Pericles, &c.

-XI. Pericles Changes his Conduct with Regard to the People,

-XII. Jealousy and Contests arise Between the Athenians and La-

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* cedæmonians,

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Sect. XIII. New Subjects of Contention Between the two Nations,

124

-XIV. Troubles Excited against Pericles, &c.

128

Chap. II. Transactions of the Greeks in Sicily and Italy,

Sect. I. The Carthaginians defeated in Sicily. Of Gelon and his two

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Brothers,

131

Sect. II. Famous Persons and Cities in Græca Major, &c.

139

Chap. III. The War of Peloponnesus,

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Sect. I. The Siege of Platææ by the Thebans, &c. &c. The First

year of the War,

144

Sect. II. The Plague makes dreadful havoc in Attica, &c. Second

and Third years of the War,

148

Sect. III. The Lacedæmonians besiege Platææ. Fourth and Fifth

years of the War,

154

Sect. IV. The Athenians possess themselves of Pylus, &c. Sixth and

seventh years of the War,

164

BOOK VIII.

THE HISTORY OF THE PERSIANS AND GRECIANS.

Continued during the Reigns of

XERXES II. OF SOGDIANUS, AND OF DARIUS NOTHUS.

CHAP. I. Contains thirteen years of the Peloponnesian War,

Sect. I. The very short Reigns of Xerxes II. and Sogdianus, &c.

II. The Athenians make themselves masters of the Island of Cy-

thera, &c. Eighth year of the War,

Sect. III. A twelvemonth's truce is agreed upon between the two states,

&c. &c. Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh years of the War,

Sect. IV. Character of Alcibiades. Banishment of Hyperbolus, &c.

Twelfth year of the War,

-V. Alcibiades engages the Athenains in the War of Sicily. Six-

teenth and Seventeenth years of the War,

-VI. Account of the several people who inhabited Sicily,

-VII. The People of Egesta implore Aid of the Athenians, &c. 181