 | Jivanji Jamshedji Modi - 1922 - 554 σελίδες
...as it were, pledged by parents for the solemn performance of an act.11 We read in Herodotus : I2 " Next to prowess in arms, it is regarded as the greatest...proof of manly, excellence to be the father of many sons. Every year, the king sends rich gifts to the man, who can show the largest number : for they... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1922 - 610 σελίδες
...been permitted among most of the so-called Aryan peoples. Herodotus wrote of the ancient Persians, " Each of them has several wives, and a still larger number of concubines."* This, however, can hardly have been true of the common people ;8 and it also seems that in polygynous... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1922 - 620 σελίδες
...been permitted among most of the so-called Aryan peoples. Herodotus wrote of the ancient Persians, " Each of them has several wives, and a still larger number of concubines."* This, however, can hardly have been true of the common people ;8 and it also seems that in polygynous... | |
 | Sir Jivanji Jamshedji Modi - 1927 - 330 σελίδες
..."There is no nation," says Herodotus, "which so o?eadily adopts foreign customs as the Persians. ... As soon as they hear of any luxury they instantly make it their own." (Herodotus I. 135). Xenophon, praising the moderation of the Persians at the time of then- first institution... | |
 | Jivanji Jamshedji Modi, Sir Jivanji Jamshedji Modi - 1927 - 336 σελίδες
...There is no nation," says Herodotus, " which so readily adopts foreign customs as the Persians. ... As soon as they hear of any luxury they instantly make it their own." (Herodotus I. 135). Xenophon, praising the moderation of the Persians at the time of their first institution... | |
 | Herodotus - 1996 - 772 σελίδες
...own; and in war they wear the Egyptian breastplate. As soon as they hear of any luxury, they instandy make it their own: and hence, among other novelties,...proof of manly excellence, to be the father of many sons. Every year the king sends rich gifts to the man who can show the largest number: for they hold... | |
 | Christiane Bird - 2002 - 420 σελίδες
...Greek historian Herodotus: "There is no nation which so readily adopts foreign customs as the Persians. As soon as they hear of any luxury they instantly make it their own." Perhaps because of this, Iran harbors an extraordinarily complex relationship both with the West and... | |
 | Badi Badiozamani, Ghazal Badiozamani - 2005 - 337 σελίδες
...of Herodotus who wrote: "There is no nation which so readily adopts foreign customs as the Persians. As soon as they hear of any luxury they instantly make it their own. " But whether the normal influences of an occupying power, which admittedly was itself influenced by... | |
 | Anthropological Society of Bombay - 1921 - 1116 σελίδες
...Greeks. "There is no nation," says Herodotus, "which so readily adopts foreign customs as the Persians As soon as they hear of any luxury they instantly make it their own " — a characteristic their descendants, the modern Parsis, have maintained to this day, whether to... | |
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Next to prowess in arms, it is regarded as the greatest proof of manly excellence to be the father of many sons. Every year the king sends rich gifts to the man who can show the largest number: for they hold that number is strength. 
