Herodotus Halicarnessean
Introduction 1,1-5
The purpose of historia;
the limitations of mythos
I Croesus 1,6-94
A.
The background and rise of the Lydians. 6-68
1. Early kings 7
2. Gyges 8-14
3. Ardys and Sadyattes; the Cimmerians
15-16
4. Alyattes and the Milesians 17-24
a.
Corinthians and Milesians
b.
Periander and Arion 23-24
5. Croesus and the Hellenes 25-27
6. Geographia of
7. Croesus and
Athenian Solon-
Atys and Adrastus 29-45
8. Croesus and the Oracle 46-68
a.
The origines of Hellenes and the Status
of Athenians and Spartans 56-68
B. The decline of
Croesus 69-94
1.
Crosus and the Spartans 69-70
2.
The Invasion of
a.
Strategic geographia
b.
Former wars of Alyattes
3. Cyrus attacks Croesus 76
4. Croesus and the Eyptians and Babylonians
77-78
5.
The invasion of Cyrus; the
failure of the Spartans to send aid 79-83
6.
The sack of
7.
A social and economic sketch
of the Lydians 92-94
III Cambyses Book 2
594/593 Archonship of Solon the
Athenian
ca. 570 nomoi(laws) of Solon
ca. 560 Solon’s visit to Croesus
tyranneia of the Athenian Peisistratus
546
Cyrus and the Massagetae
530
Cyrus and the Massagetae
525
Cambyses on the
ca. 528 Death of Pisistratus
522
Darius
510
End of tyranneia
among the Athenians
507
Cleisthenes and the birth of demokratia