THE

HISTORY

OF

HERODOTUS.

A NEW ENGLISH VERSION, EDITED WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND APPENDICES,
ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF HERODOTUS, FROM THE
MOST RECENT SOURCES OF INFORMATION; AND EMBODYING

THE CHIEF RESULTS, HISTORICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL,

WHICH HAVE BEEN OBTAINED IN THE PROGRESS

OF CUNEIFORM AND HIEROGLYPHICAI

DISCOVERY.

BY

GEORGE RAWLINSON, M. A.,

LATE FELLOW AND TUTOR OF EXETER COLLEGE, oxford.

ASSISTED BY

COL. SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, K.C.B., AND SIR J. G. WILKINSON, F.R.S.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.-Vol. II.

With Maps and Ellustrations.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

1, 3, AND 5 BOND STREET.

1889.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS.

THE SECOND BOOK, ENTITLED EUTERPÉ.

ACCESSION of Cambyses-he invades Egypt (ch. 1). Description of Egypt-Antiquity (2).

Seats of learning (3). Inventions, &c. (4). Description of the country (5-13).

Agriculture (14). Boundaries (15-18). The Nile-Causes of the inundation (19-27).

Sources (28). The Upper Nile (29-31). The interior of Libya (32). Comparison

of the Nile and Ister (33-4). Customs of the Egyptians-their strangeness (35–36).

Religious customs (37-48). Connection of the religions of Egypt and Greece (49-

57). Egyptian Festivals (58-64). Sacred animals (65-67). The Crocodile (68-70).

The Hippopotamus (71). Otters, fish, &c. (72). The Phoenix (73). Sacred and

winged serpents (74-75). The Ibis (76). Daily life of the Egyptians (77-80). Dress

(81). Divination (82). Oracles (83). Practice of Medicine (84). Funerals ($5-90).

Worship of Perseus (91). Customs of the marsh-men (92-5). Egyptian boats (96).

Routes in the flood-time (97). Anthylla and Archandropolis (98). History of Egypt—

Mên (99). His successors-Nitocris-Moris (100-1). Sesostris-his expeditions-

his works in Egypt (102-110). His son, Pheron (111). Proteus-story of Helen

(112-120). Rhampsinitus (122). Doctrine of metempsychosis (123). Cheops-his

pyramid (124-6). Chephren (127-8). Mycerinus (129-133). His pyramid-history
of Rhodopis (134-5). Asychis (136). Anysis-Sabaco (137-40). Sethos-invasion
of Sennacherib (141). Number of the kings (142-3). Greek and Egyptian notions
of the age of the gods (144-6). The Dodecarchy (147-152). Psammetichus (154-7).
Neco, his son (158-9). Psammis, son of Neco (160). Apries, son of Psammis-his
deposition (161-9). Tomb of Osiris (170). Egyptian mysteries (171). Reign of
Amasis (172-7). His favour to the Greeks (178-182)
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APPENDIX TO BOOK II.

CHAPTER I.

THE EGYPTIANS BEFORE THE REIGN OF THEIR KING PSAMMETICHUS BELIEVED

THEMSELVES TO BE THE MOST ANCIENT OF MANKIND."-Chap. 2. [G. W.]

The Egyptians from Asia. Egyptian and Celtic. Semitic character of Egyptian. Evi-

dences of an older language than Zend and Sanscrit. Ba or Pa, and Ma, primitive

cries of infants, made into father and mother. m for b. Bek not to be pronounced

by an untutored child. Bek, name of bread in Egypt. The story told to Herodotus.

Claim of the Scythians to be an early race

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