5.51 Aristagoras followed Cleomenes home & tried to bribe him, but C. left the room after his daughter cried out that A. would corrupt him. | |
Posted on 04-04-17 | |
5.52 The Royal Road from the coast to the capital of Susa is safe. All along it stations are set up at intervals where you can stop & rest. | |
Posted on 04-05-17 | |
5.53 There are 111 stations in all. The journey along the Royal Road from Sardis to Susa takes exactly ninety days. | |
Posted on 04-06-17 | |
5.54 So Aristagoras told the truth when he said the trip would take 3 months. If you're starting from Ephesus, it would take another 3 days. | |
Posted on 04-07-17 | |
5.55 Aristagoras next went to Athens, which was now rid of its tyrant Hippias. He had ruled harshly after his brother Hipparchus was killed. | |
Posted on 04-08-17 | |
5.56 Hipparchus dreamt of his death the night before he died. The next day he was killed while conducting Athens' Panathenaic procession. | |
Posted on 04-09-17 | |
5.57 The assassins, Harmodius and Aristogiton, were descended from the Gephyraeans, who came with Cadmus from Phoenicia to Boeotia. | |
Posted on 04-10-17 | |
5.58 The Phoenicians who came with Cadmus brought the alphabet to Greece. The Greeks learned the letters and altered their forms somewhat. | |
Posted on 04-11-17 | |
5.59 I've seen Cadmean letters myself, in a shrine to Apollo in Boeotia. They're like Ionic Greek letters in many ways. | |
Posted on 04-12-17 | |
5.60 The inscription on one of the tripods in the shrine says it was dedicated by Scaeus. This could be Hippocoon's son, from Oedipus' day. | |
Posted on 04-13-17 | |
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