Category: Biographies
Cyrus the Great.--His extended conquests.--Cambyses and Smerdis.--Hystaspes and Darius.--Dream of Cyrus.--His anxiety and fears.--Accession of Cambyses.--War with Egypt.--Origin of the war with Egypt.--Ophthalmia.--The Egyptian physician.--His plan of revenge.--Demand of Cyrus...
Cyrus the Great.--His extended conquests.--Cambyses and Smerdis.--Hystaspes and Darius.--Dream of Cyrus.--His anxiety and fears.--Accession of Cambyses.--War with Egypt.--Origin...
2. Chapter 2Cambyses's profligate conduct.--He marries his own sisters.--Consultation of the Persian judges.--Their opinion.--Smerdis.--Jealousy of Cambyses.--The two magi.--Cambyses suspic...
3. Chapter 3Usurpation of the magians.--Circumstances favoring it.--Murder of Smerdis not known.--He is supposed to be alive.--Precautions taken by Smerdis.--Effect of Cambyses's measures.-...
4. Chapter 4Confusion at Susa.--No heir to the throne.--Five days' interregnum.--Provisional government.--Consultation of the confederates.--Otanes in favor of a republic.--Otanes's republi...
5. Chapter 5Intaphernes.--He is denied admittance to Darius.--Intaphernes's cruelty to the two guards.--Darius's apprehensions.--Intaphernes and family arrested.--They are condemned to die....
6. Chapter 6The reconnoitering party.--The physician Democedes.--Story of Democedes.--His boyhood.--Democedes at AEgina.--At Athens.--At the court of Polycrates.--Democedes a captive.--He i...
7. Chapter 7City of Babylon.--The captive Jews.--Wickedness of the Babylonians.--Causes of discontent.--Preparations of the Babylonians for revolt.--Their secrecy.--Time chosen for revolt.-...
8. Chapter 8Darius's authority fully established throughout his dominions.--The Scythians.--Ancient account of them.--Pictures of savage life.--Their diversity.--Social instincts of man.--T...
9. Chapter 9Motive for Darius's invasion.--The foundation of government.--Darius without justification in invading Scythia.--Alarm of the Scythians.--Condition of the tribes.--Men metamorph...
10. Chapter 10Histiaeus at the bridge on the Danube.--Darius's anxiety.--Darius's gratitude.--Scythia abandoned.--Darius sends for Histiaeus.--Petition of Histiaeus.--Histiaeus organizes a co...
11. Chapter 11Great battles.--Progress of the Persian empire.--Condition of the Persian empire.--Plans of Darius.--Persian power in Thrace.--Attempted negotiation with Macedon.--The seven com...
12. Chapter 12The Persian fleet sails southward.--Fate of Hippias.--Omens.--The dream and the sneeze.--Hippias falls in battle.--Movements of the Persian fleet.--The Persian fleet returns to...