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Herodotus Book 1 draft

Herodotus Book I (Clio)

• The rapes of Io, Europa, and Medea, which motivated Paris to abduct Helen. The subsequent Trojan War is marked as a precursor to later conflicts between peoples of Asia and Europe. (1.1–5)
• Colchis, Colchians and Medea. (1.2.2–1.2.3)
• The rulers of Lydia (on the west coast of Asia Minor, today modern Turkey): Candaules, Gyges, Sadyattes, Alyattes, Croesus (1.6–7)
• How Gyges took the kingdom from Candaules (1.8–13)
• The singer Arion's ride on the dolphin (1.23–24)
• Solon's answer to Croesus's question that Tellus was the happiest person in the world (1.29–33)
• Croesus's efforts to protect his son Atys, his son's accidental death by Adrastus (1.34–44)
• Croesus's test of the oracles (1.46–54)
• The answer from the Oracle of Delphi concerning whether Croesus should attack the Persians (famous for its ambiguity): If you attack you will destroy a great empire. (1.55–56)
• Peisistratos' rises and falls from power as tyrant of Athens (1.59–64)
• The rise of Sparta (1.65–68)

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  Edwin Long's 1875 interpretation of The Babylonian Marriage Market as described by Herodotus in Book 1 of the Histories

  The Battle of Halys; Thales predicts the solar eclipse of May 28, 585 B.C. (1.74)
• Croesus's defeat by Cyrus II of Persia, and how he later became Cyrus's advisor (1.70–92)
• The rulers of the Medes: Deioces, Phraortes, Cyaxares, Astyages, Cyrus II of Persia (1.95–144)
• The rise of Deioces over the Medes
• Astyages's attempt to destroy Cyrus, and Cyrus's rise to power
• Harpagus tricked into eating his son, his revenge against Astyages by assisting Cyrus
• The culture of the Persians
• The history and geography of the Ionians, and the attacks on it by Harpagus
• Pactyes' convinces the Lydians to revolt. Rebellion fails and he seeks refuge from Mazares in Cyme (Aeolis)
• The culture of Assyria, especially the design and improvement of the city of Babylon and the ways of its people
• Cyrus's attack on Babylon, including his revenge on the river Gyndes and his famous method for entering the city
• Cyrus's ill-fated attack on the Massagetæ, leading to his death

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