About the Project

Having written my History of the Persian Wars at considerable length I have decided to produce an abbreviated version of it, a "Twitter Herodotus" for the modern age: one 140-character tweet per day, one tweet per section. The project, begun on October 29, 2010, will take almost five years to complete. I should be posting the final tweet in January of 2015.

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See also @iThucydides on Twitter, tweeting Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War as of 2/1/2015!


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9.97 The Persians drew their ships up on shore near a temple of Demeter and built a stockade, prepared either for a siege or for a victory.

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9.96 The Greeks sailed to Samos & prepared to fight at sea. Wanting to avoid this, the Persians decided to beach their ships & build a fort.

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9.95 So Deïphonus was this guy's son--supposedly. I've heard that he wasn't, though, and that he just pretended he was so he could get work.

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9.94 He was given, per his suggestion, the two best estates in Apollonia, and from that day onward he also had a natural gift for prophecy.

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9.93 The next day the Greek seer Deïphonus sacrificed. His dad had been blinded for letting wolves kill 60 sacred sheep. He got reparations.

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9.92 The men swore oaths of alliance & sailed away, but Leotychides had Hegesistratus sail with his own men because of the omen of his name.

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9.91 L. asked one of the men his name. Learning it was Hegesistratus [leader of the army], he agreed to go, but had them 1st swear an oath.

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9.90 The Persians lost at Mycale on the same day as Plataea. The Samians had sent men to Leotychides at Delos to urge him to sail to Ionia.

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9.89 Meanwhile, Artabazus and his men made their way through Greece, Macedon, and Thrace (where many were killed), and crossed to Asia.

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9.88 They came to terms. Attaginus escaped, though his children were captured. Pausanias released them but had the medizers executed.

Posted on 02-19-19 | Permalink





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