{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0016.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0016.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.local001","title":"Ἱστορίαι","titleGreek":"Ἱστορίαι","alternateTitles":["Histories","Histoires","Enquête","Ἱστορίαι"],"author":"Herodotus","authorityName":"HERODOTUS Hist.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0016-herodotus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0016-herodotus/","editors":["A.D. Godley"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Herodotus","edition":null,"publisher":"Harvard University Press","place":"Cambridge","date":"1920-1925","volume":null,"series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":null,"url":null},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/historiesvolumei00hero_249/page/n5/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Herodotus. Ἱστορίαι. ed. A.D. Godley. Herodotus, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1920-1925. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Ἡροδότου Ἁλικαρνησσέος ἱστορίης ἀπόδεξις ἥδε, ὡς μήτε τὰ γενόμενα ἐξ ἀνθρώπων τῷ χρόνῳ ἐξίτηλα γένηται, μήτε ἔργα μεγάλα τε καὶ θωμαστά, τὰ μὲν Ἕλλησι τὰ δὲ βαρβάροισι ἀποδεχθέντα, ἀκλεᾶ γένηται, τά τε ἄλλα καὶ διʼ ἣν αἰτίην ἐπολέμησαν ἀλλήλοισι. Περσέων μέν νυν οἱ λόγιοι Φοίνικας αἰτίους φασὶ γενέσθαι τῆς διαφορῆς. τούτους γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἐρυθρῆς καλεομένης θαλάσσης ἀπικομένους ἐπὶ τήνδε τὴν θάλασσαν, καὶ οἰκήσαντας τοῦτον τὸν χῶρον τὸν καὶ νῦν οἰκέουσι, αὐτίκα ναυτιλίῃσι μακρῇσι ἐπιθέσθαι, ἀπαγινέοντας δὲ φορτία Αἰγύπτιά τε καὶ Ἀσσύρια τῇ τε ἄλλῃ ἐσαπικνέεσθαι καὶ δὴ καὶ ἐς Ἄργος. τὸ δὲ Ἄργος τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον προεῖχε ἅπασι τῶν ἐν τῇ νῦν Ἑλλάδι καλεομένῃ χωρῇ. ἀπικομένους δὲ τούς Φοίνικας ἐς δὴ τὸ Ἄργος τοῦτο διατίθεσθαι τὸν φόρτον. πέμπτῃ δὲ ἢ ἕκτῃ ἡμέρῃ ἀπʼ ἧς ἀπίκοντο, ἐξεμπολημένων σφι σχεδόν πάντων, ἐλθεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν θάλασσαν γυναῖκας ἄλλας τε πολλάς καὶ δὴ καὶ τοῦ βασιλέος θυγατέρα·…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0016.tlg001.local001/1-book-1/"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0016.tlg001.local001/2-book-2/"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0016.tlg001.local001/3-book-3/"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0016.tlg001.local001/4-book-4/"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0016.tlg001.local001/5-book-5/"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0016.tlg001.local001/6-book-6/"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0016.tlg001.local001/7-book-7/"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0016.tlg001.local001/8-book-8/"},{"label":"Book 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0016.tlg001.local001/9-book-9/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0016.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0016.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0016/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}