Read these selections from Herodotus' Histories

• from the following web site (click here):
• Kroisos and the Hellenes
• Kroisos and the Persians (Kroisos=Croesus)
• The Campaign of Xerxes
• Mt. Athos and the Hellespont
• Troy
• Review of the Forces
• Earth and Water
• Thermopylae, only 7.175-176

• from the following web site:
• Preface through Gyges (1.1-14) [click here]
• The Persions debate the various forms of government (3.80-82) [click here]
• Marathon (6.105-120) [click here]
• Thermopylae (7.200-233)  [click here]