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The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus

by Herodotus (484–430 BCE)

33 chapters, about 108,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. INTRODUCTION. 1,100 words
2. CHAPTER I. 900 words
3. HISTORY OF LYDIA. 4,700 words
4. ORIGIN OF ATHENS AND SPARTA. 1,900 words
5. CONQUEST OF LYDIA BY CYRUS. 3,700 words
6. CHAPTER V. 6,600 words
7. THE ASIATIC GREEKS AND THE LYDIAN REVOLT. 3,900 words
8. CHAPTER VII. 6,300 words
9. PHYSICAL HISTORY OF EGYPT. 2,500 words
10. CHAPTER II. 5,900 words
11. GOD-KINGS PRIOR TO MENES. 300 words
12. FIRST LINE OF 330 KINGS, ONLY THREE MENTIONED. 400 words
13. FROM SESOSTRIS TO SETHON. 4,900 words
14. THIRD LINE; FROM THE TWELVE KINGS TO AMASIS. 3,500 words
15. EXPEDITIONS OF CAMBYSES. 6,000 words
16. CHAPTER II. 4,000 words
17. INDIANS, ARABIANS, AND ETHIOPIANS. 1,700 words
18. REIGN OF DARIUS TO THE TAKING OF BABYLON. 4,900 words
19. DESCRIPTION OF SCYTHIA AND THE NEIGHBORING NATIONS. 5,700 words
20. INVASION OF SCYTHIA BY DARIUS. 2,700 words
21. DESCRIPTION OF LIBYA. 3,300 words
22. CONQUESTS OF THE GENERALS OF DARIUS. 3,700 words
23. THE IONIAN REVOLT. 2,500 words
24. THE SUPPRESSION OF THE IONIAN REVOLT. 3,500 words
25. EXPEDITION OF MARDONIUS. 1,500 words
26. CHAPTER III. 3,400 words
27. DEATH OF DARIUS AND REIGN OF XERXES. 5,900 words
28. BATTLE OF THERMOPYLÆ. 2,400 words
29. CHAPTER I. 2,900 words
30. XERXES' RETREAT. 1,800 words
31. CHAPTER I. 3,900 words
32. THE BATTLE OF MYCALE. 1,600 words
33. GREEKS. 200 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Fortification
• Libya
• Marseille
• Medes
• Navarre
• Prometheus

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