History of Herodotus

Product description This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...the other (Enoe was close to Marathon, near the eastern coast, 30 miles from Hysise (Leake's Demes, p. 85). The exact site is not agreed upon. Kiepert places it at the modern falceo-kastro, which is not more than six miles from Eleusis (Atlas von Hellas, Blatt X.). Leake regards it as identical with Ghyfto-kastro, which lies close under Cithairon, in a narrow valley through which must have passed the road from Athens to Platsea. His arguments appear to me conclusive (Demi of Attica, pp. 129-131). (Enoe was a place of great importance in the Feloponnesian war (Thucyd. ii. 18, 19, viii. 98). It was taken by the Boeotians, B.C. 411, but probably soon after recovered by Athens. 1 Hysiee lay on the north Bide of Cithseron, in the plain of the Asopus (infra, ix. 15, 25; Strab. ix. p. 587), between Plataea and Erythrse. It belonged naturally and commonly to Bosotia. Homer mentions it, under the name of Hyria, as a Boeotian city. (II. ii. 496. Compare Strab. 1. s. c.) It seems to have been recaptured by Athens soon after this (infra, vi. 108), but to have reverted to Thebes before the time of the Peloponnesian war (Thucyd. iii. 24; viii. 98). 2 Chalcis had been one of the most important cities in Greece. It was said to have been originally a colony from Athens (Strab. x. p. 651), but shortly acquired complete independence. In a war which it had maintained with Eretria, some considerable time before this, all Greece had been concerned on the one side or the other (Thucyd. i. 15, and infra, ch. 99). Few cities sent out so many, or such distant colonies. The whole peninsula situated between the Thermaic and Strymonic gulfs, acquired the name of Chalcidice', from the number of Chalcidean settlements (Thucyd. passim). Seriphus, Peparethus, and others of the Cyclades, we...