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... Cyrus . This last name is , indeed , neither Latin nor Greek ; and the adoption of either the Greek or the Latin form is a matter of comparative indifference . Probably it would be to the benefit of historical study to revert to the ...
... Cyrus . This last name is , indeed , neither Latin nor Greek ; and the adoption of either the Greek or the Latin form is a matter of comparative indifference . Probably it would be to the benefit of historical study to revert to the ...
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... Cyrus and Kambyses II . The Persian empire under Dareios III . The Ionic revolt IV . The invasion of Thrace and the battle of Marathon V. The invasion and flight of Xerxes . VI . The battles of Plataia and Mykalê VII . The Confederacy ...
... Cyrus and Kambyses II . The Persian empire under Dareios III . The Ionic revolt IV . The invasion of Thrace and the battle of Marathon V. The invasion and flight of Xerxes . VI . The battles of Plataia and Mykalê VII . The Confederacy ...
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... Cyrus . Death of Peisistratos . Invasion of Kambyses . Failure of the expedition against Amoun , and abandonment of the expedition against Carthage . 62 Asia Minor . Death of Polykrates , tyrant of Samos . ? 520 61 Persia • 2516 65 ...
... Cyrus . Death of Peisistratos . Invasion of Kambyses . Failure of the expedition against Amoun , and abandonment of the expedition against Carthage . 62 Asia Minor . Death of Polykrates , tyrant of Samos . ? 520 61 Persia • 2516 65 ...
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... Cyrus from Sardeis . Mesopotamia Death of Cyrus at KUNAXA . 401 272 273 400 282 399 290 Athens Sparta • 398 396 292 395 293 295 Asia Minor . Retreat of the Ten Thousand under Xenophon . Trial and execution of Sokrates . Death of Agis ...
... Cyrus from Sardeis . Mesopotamia Death of Cyrus at KUNAXA . 401 272 273 400 282 399 290 Athens Sparta • 398 396 292 395 293 295 Asia Minor . Retreat of the Ten Thousand under Xenophon . Trial and execution of Sokrates . Death of Agis ...
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... Cyrus ; and the catastrophe occurred scarcely less than fifty years after the legislation of Solon . The return of Solon to Athens was not to be followed by new reforms for the benefit of his countrymen . The tide had turned . In the ...
... Cyrus ; and the catastrophe occurred scarcely less than fifty years after the legislation of Solon . The return of Solon to Athens was not to be followed by new reforms for the benefit of his countrymen . The tide had turned . In the ...
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Akropolis Alkibiades alliance allies Argives Aristagoras army Artabanos Artaphernes Athens attack Attica barbarians battle Boiotian Brasidas brought Byzantion carried Chios citizens coast command confederacy conquest Corinth Corinthian Corinthian gulf Cyrus Dareios death defeat Delphoi demos Demosthenes despot empire enemy envoys ephors Euboia Eupatrid Eurybiades fight followed force Greeks gulf harbour hastened Hellas Hellenic Hellespont Herodotos Hippias Histiaios hoplites Ionians island Kambyses Kleisthenes Kleomenes Kleon Korkyra Korkyraians Kroisos land Leonidas Lydian Lysandros Makedonian Marathon Mardonios Messenians Miletos nians Nikias oligarchs once passed Pausanias Peiraieus Peisistratos Peloponnesian Peloponnesos Perikles Persian fleet Persian king Phenician Phokians Plataia Polykrates Pylos reached retreat revolt sailed Salamis Samos Sardeis satrap Scythians sent ships Sicily slain Solon Sousa Spartan king Spartans storm story Syracusan Thebans Thebes Themistokles Theramenes Thermopylai Thrakian Thucydides tidings Tissaphernes told tribes triremes troops tyrant victory walls whole Xerxes
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