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A Commentary on Herodotus
By W. W. How




Perseus Documents Collection Table of Contents



BOOK I

BOOK II

BOOK III

BOOK IV

BOOK V

BOOK VI

BOOK VII

BOOK VIII

BOOK IX


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Book 2 [p. 155]

BOOK II

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La Duration et l'tendue du Voyage d'Hrodote en gypte. 1910. (Sourdille, H. E.)

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Ch. 1 [sect. 1]

Pharnaspes was an Achaemenid, though not of the direct royal line; it was usual for Persian kings to marry members of their own family (e.g. Darius and Atossa, daughter of Cyrus). H. lays stress on the name and lineage of the mother of Cambyses, because the Egyptians made him the son of an Egyptian princess (iii. 1 n.).