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Key Sources - The Challenge of the Persian Empire Flashcards

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Histories
Author

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Herodotus

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Histories
Date

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Written during the third quarter of the fifth century
Probably published in full in the early 420s

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Histories
Genre

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History

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Histories
Significance

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The first recorded work of Greek history - covering the causes and course of the wars between the Greeks and the Persians

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Histories
Prescribed sections

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6.42-49
6.94-117
6.120-124
7.1; 5-10h
7.49-50
7.102
7.131-133
7.138-139
7.141-145
7.151-152
7.174-175
7.207
7.219-222
7.228.2
8.1-3
8.49-50
8.56-63
8.74
8.94
8.100-103
8.143-144
9.1-3
9.6-8
9.16-18
9.40
9.62-64
9.71
9.98-99
9.105-106

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Histories
Herodotus
7.152

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My business is to record what people say, but I am by no means bound to believe it - and that may be taken to apply to this book as a whole

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Histories
Herodotus
6.44

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At any rate, these two places were the professed object of the expedition, though in fact the Persians intended to subjugate as many Greek towns as they could

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Histories
Herodotus
7.133

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To Athens and Sparta Xerxes sent no demand for submission because of what happened to the messengers whom Darius had sent on a previous occasion: at Athens they were thrown into the pit like criminals, at Sparta they were pushed into a well

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DNb
LACTOR 16
103

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I reward the man who seeks to contribute according to his efforts; I punish him who does harm, according to the harm done; I do not wish that a man should do harm; if he should do harm, he should not be punished. What a man says against a man, does not convince me, until I hear the testimony of both

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Naqs-e Rustam Inscriptions
Genre

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A Persian royal tomb and inscription

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Naqs-e Rustam Inscriptions
Location

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Naqs-e Rustam, about 6km north of the royal capital of Persepolis

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Naqs-e Rustam Inscriptions
Significance

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A statement of Darius’ ideology as Persian King

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Histories
Herodotus
6.109

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If we refuse to fight, I have little doubt that the result will be bitter dissension our purpose will be shaken and we shall submit to Persia

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Histories
Herodotus
6.112

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The Athenians… were the first Greeks, so far as we know, to charge at a run, and the first who dared to look without flinching at Persian dress and the men who wore it; for until that time, no Greek could even hear the word Persian without terror

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Xerxes inscription
(LACTOR 16 No. 63)
Genre

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A Persian royal inscription

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Xerxes inscription
(LACTOR 16 No. 63)
Location

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Gate of All Lands, Persepolis

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Xerxes inscription
(LACTOR 16 No. 63)
Significance

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A statement of Xerxes’ ideology as Persian King

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XPa
LACTOR 16
63

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Xerxes the king says; ‘By the favour of Ahura Mazda, I built this Gate of All Lands . Much other good (construction) was built within this (city of) Parsa, which I built and which my father had built. Whatever good construction is seen, we built all that by the grace of Ahura Mazda’

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Histories
Herodotus
7.139

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At this point I find myself compelled to express an opinion which I know most people will object to; nevertheless, as I believe it to be true, I will not suppress it

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The Serpent Column
Date

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Erected in 478BC

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The Serpent Column
Location

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Originally at Delphi, moved to Constantinople in 330AD

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The Serpent Column
Significance

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A dedication of thanks to the gods by the states who combined to fight against the Persians at Plataea in 479BC

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Histories
Herodotus
8.144

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There are many compelling reasons against our doing so, even if we wished: the first and greatest is the burning of our temples and images of our gods - now ashes and rubble… Again, there is the Greek nation - the community of blood and language, temples and ritual, and our common customs; if Athens were to betray all this, it would not be well done

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