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Herodotus, Histories, 3.40-3.43
καί κως τὸν Ἄμασιν εὐτυχέων μεγάλως ὁ Πολυκράτης οὐκ ἐλάνθανε, ἀλλά οἱ τοῦτʼ ἦν ἐπιμελές. πολλῷ δὲ ἔτι πλεῦνός οἱ εὐτυχίης γινομένης γράψας ἐς βυβλίον τάδε ἐπέστειλε ἐς Σάμον. “Ἄμασις Πολυκράτεϊ ὧδε λέγει. ἡδὺ μὲν πυνθάνεσθαι ἄνδρα φίλον καὶ ξεῖνον εὖ πρήσσοντα· ἐμοὶ δὲ αἱ σαὶ μεγάλαι εὐτυχίαι οὐκ ἀρέσκουσι, τὸ θεῖον ἐπισταμένῳ ὡς ἔστι φθονερόν· καί κως βούλομαι καὶ αὐτὸς καὶ τῶν ἂν κήδωμαι τὸ μέν τι εὐτυχέειν τῶν πρηγμάτων τὸ δὲ προσπταίειν, καὶ οὕτω διαφέρειν τὸν αἰῶνα ἐναλλὰξ πρήσσων ἢ εὐτυχέειν τὰ πάντα. οὐδένα γάρ κω λόγῳ οἶδα ἀκούσας ὅστις ἐς τέλος οὐ κακῶς ἐτελεύτησε πρόρριζος, εὐτυχέων τὰ πάντα. σύ νυν ἐμοὶ πειθόμενος ποίησον πρὸς τὰς εὐτυχίας τοιάδε· φροντίσας τὸ ἂν εὕρῃς ἐόν τοι πλείστου ἄξιον καὶ ἐπʼ ᾧ σὺ ἀπολομένῳ μάλιστα τὴν ψυχὴν ἀλγήσεις, τοῦτο ἀπόβαλε οὕτω ὅκως μηκέτι ἥξει ἐς ἀνθρώπους· ἤν τε μὴ ἐναλλὰξ ἤδη τὠπὸ τούτου αἱ εὐτυχίαι τοι τῇσι πάθῃσι προσπίπτωσι, τρόπῳ τῷ ἐξ ἐμεῦ ὑποκειμένῳ ἀκέο.” Now Amasis was somehow aware of Polycrates' great good fortune; and as this continued to increase greatly, he wrote this letter and sent it to Samos : “Amasis addresses Polycrates as follows. ,It is pleasant to learn that a friend and ally is doing well. But I do not like these great successes of yours; for I know the gods, how jealous they are, and I desire somehow that both I and those for whom I care succeed in some affairs, fail in others, and thus pass life faring differently by turns, rather than succeed at everything. ,For from all I have heard I know of no man whom continual good fortune did not bring in the end to evil, and utter destruction. Therefore if you will be ruled by me do this regarding your successes: ,consider what you hold most precious and what you will be sorriest to lose, and cast it away so that it shall never again be seen among men; then, if after this the successes that come to you are not mixed with mischances, strive to mend the matter as I have counselled you.”
ταῦτα ἐπιλεξάμενος ὁ Πολυκράτης καὶ νόῳ λαβὼν ὥς οἱ εὖ ὑπετίθετο Ἄμασις, ἐδίζητο ἐπʼ ᾧ ἂν μάλιστα τὴν ψυχὴν ἀσηθείη ἀπολομένῳ τῶν κειμηλίων, διζήμενος δὲ εὕρισκε τόδε. ἦν οἱ σφρηγὶς τὴν ἐφόρεε χρυσόδετος, σμαράγδου μὲν λίθου ἐοῦσα, ἔργον δὲ ἦν Θεοδώρου τοῦ Τηλεκλέος Σαμίου. ἐπεὶ ὦν ταύτην οἱ ἐδόκεε ἀποβαλεῖν, ἐποίεε τοιάδε· πεντηκόντερον πληρώσας ἀνδρῶν ἐσέβη ἐς αὐτήν, μετὰ δὲ ἀναγαγεῖν ἐκέλευε ἐς τὸ πέλαγος· ὡς δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς νήσου ἑκὰς ἐγένετο, περιελόμενος τὴν σφρηγῖδα πάντων ὁρώντων τῶν συμπλόων ῥίπτει ἐς τὸ πέλαγος. τοῦτο δὲ ποιήσας ἀπέπλεε, ἀπικόμενος δὲ ἐς τὰ οἰκία συμφορῇ ἐχρᾶτο. Reading this, and perceiving that Amasis' advice was good, Polycrates considered which of his treasures it would most grieve his soul to lose, and came to this conclusion: he wore a seal set in gold, an emerald, crafted by Theodorus son of Telecles of Samos ; ,being resolved to cast this away, he embarked in a fifty-oared ship with its crew, and told them to put out to sea; and when he was far from the island, he took off the seal-ring in sight of all that were on the ship and cast it into the sea. This done, he sailed back and went to his house, where he grieved for the loss.
πέμπτῃ δὲ ἢ ἕκτῃ ἡμέρῃ ἀπὸ τούτων τάδε οἱ συνήνεικε γενέσθαι. ἀνὴρ ἁλιεὺς λαβὼν ἰχθὺν μέγαν τε καὶ καλὸν ἠξίου μιν Πολυκράτεϊ δῶρον δοθῆναι· φέρων δὴ ἐπὶ τὰς θύρας Πολυκράτεϊ ἔφη ἐθέλειν ἐλθεῖν ἐς ὄψιν, χωρήσαντος δέ οἱ τούτου ἔλεγε διδοὺς τὸν ἰχθύν “ὦ βασιλεῦ, ἐγὼ τόνδε ἑλὼν οὐκ ἐδικαίωσα φέρειν ἐς ἀγορήν, καίπερ ἐὼν ἀποχειροβίοτος, ἀλλά μοι ἐδόκεε σεῦ τε εἶναι ἄξιος καὶ τῆς σῆς ἀρχῆς· σοὶ δή μιν φέρων δίδωμι.” ὁ δὲ ἡσθεὶς τοῖσι ἔπεσι ἀμείβεται τοῖσιδε. “κάρτα τε εὖ ἐποίησας καὶ χάρις διπλῆ τῶν τε λόγων καὶ τοῦ δώρου, καί σε ἐπὶ δεῖπνον καλέομεν.” ὃ μὲν δὴ ἁλιεὺς μέγα ποιεύμενος ταῦτα ἤιε ἐς τὰ οἰκία, τὸν δὲ ἰχθὺν τάμνοντες οἱ θεράποντες εὑρίσκουσι ἐν τῇ νηδύι αὐτοῦ ἐνεοῦσαν τὴν Πολυκράτεος σφρηγῖδα. ὡς δὲ εἶδόν τε καὶ ἔλαβον τάχιστα, ἔφερον κεχαρηκότες παρὰ τὸν Πολυκράτεα, διδόντες δέ οἱ τὴν σφρηγῖδα ἔλεγον ὅτεῳ τρόπῳ εὑρέθη. τὸν δὲ ὡς ἐσῆλθε θεῖον εἶναι τὸ πρῆγμα, γράφει ἐς βυβλίον πάντα τὰ ποιήσαντά μιν οἷα καταλελάβηκε, γράψας δὲ ἐς Αἴγυπτον ἐπέθηκε. But on the fifth or sixth day from this it happened that a fisherman, who had taken a fine and great fish, and desired to make a gift of it to Polycrates, brought it to the door and said that he wished to see Polycrates. This being granted, he gave the fish, saying: ,“O King, when I caught this fish, I thought best not to take it to market, although I am a man who lives by his hands, but it seemed to me worthy of you and your greatness; and so I bring and offer it to you.” Polycrates was pleased with what the fisherman said; “You have done very well,” he answered, “and I give you double thanks, for your words and for the gift; and I invite you to dine with me.” ,Proud of this honor, the fisherman went home; but the servants, cutting up the fish, found in its belly Polycrates' seal-ring. ,As soon as they saw and seized it, they brought it with joy to Polycrates, and giving the ring to him told him how it had been found. Polycrates saw the hand of heaven in this matter; he wrote a letter and sent it to Egypt, telling all that he had done, and what had happened to him.
ἐπιλεξάμενος δὲ ὁ Ἄμασις τὸ βυβλίον τὸ παρὰ τοῦ Πολυκράτεος ἧκον, ἔμαθε ὅτι ἐκκομίσαι τε ἀδύνατον εἴη ἀνθρώπῳ ἄνθρωπον ἐκ τοῦ μέλλοντος γίνεσθαι πρήγματος, καὶ ὅτι οὐκ εὖ τελευτήσειν μέλλοι Πολυκράτης εὐτυχέων τὰ πάντα, ὃς καὶ τὰ ἀποβάλλει εὑρίσκει. πέμψας δέ οἱ κήρυκα ἐς Σάμον διαλύεσθαι ἔφη τὴν ξεινίην. τοῦδε δὲ εἵνεκεν ταῦτα ἐποίεε, ἵνα μὴ συντυχίης δεινῆς τε καὶ μεγάλης Πολυκράτεα καταλαβούσης αὐτὸς ἀλγήσειε τὴν ψυχὴν ὡς περὶ ξείνου ἀνδρός. When Amasis had read Polycrates' letter, he perceived that no man could save another from his destiny, and that Polycrates, being so continually fortunate that he even found what he cast away, must come to an evil end. ,So he sent a herald to Samos to renounce his friendship, determined that when some great and terrible mischance overtook Polycrates he himself might not have to sadden his heart for a friend.

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1. Aeschylus, Persians, 774-780, 773 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 773. Κύρου δὲ παῖς τέταρτος ηὔθυνε στρατόν.
2. Euripides, Bacchae, 10-19, 2, 20-29, 3, 30-39, 4, 40-42, 5-9, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1. ἥκω Διὸς παῖς τήνδε Θηβαίων χθόνα 1. I, the son of Zeus, have come to this land of the Thebans—Dionysus, whom once Semele, Kadmos’ daughter, bore, delivered by a lightning-bearing flame. And having taken a mortal form instead of a god’s
3. Herodotus, Histories, 1.5.3, 1.8.3, 1.23, 1.24, 1.26, 1.27, 1.28, 1.29, 1.30, 1.31, 1.32, 1.33, 1.34, 1.35, 1.36, 1.37, 1.38, 1.39, 1.40, 1.41, 1.42, 1.43, 1.44, 1.45, 1.46, 1.47, 1.48, 1.49, 1.50, 1.51, 1.52, 1.53, 1.54, 1.55, 1.56, 1.68, 1.69, 1.70, 1.71, 1.72, 1.73, 1.74, 1.75, 1.76, 1.77, 1.78, 1.79, 1.80, 1.81, 1.82, 1.83, 1.84, 1.85, 1.86, 1.87, 1.88, 1.89, 1.90, 1.91, 1.91.2, 1.91.3, 1.108, 1.114, 1.115, 1.116, 1.118, 1.119, 1.124, 1.131, 1.132, 1.139, 1.157, 1.158, 1.159, 1.160, 1.204, 1.206, 1.207, 1.208, 1.209, 1.209.4, 1.210, 1.211, 1.212, 1.213, 1.214, 2.49, 2.81, 2.91, 2.111, 2.120, 2.123.2, 2.139, 2.161, 2.162, 2.163, 2.169, 2.172, 2.173, 2.174, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17, 3.18, 3.19, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 3.23, 3.24, 3.25, 3.26, 3.27, 3.28, 3.29, 3.30, 3.31, 3.32, 3.33, 3.34, 3.35, 3.36, 3.37, 3.38, 3.39, 3.40.2, 3.41, 3.42, 3.43, 3.45, 3.46, 3.47, 3.48, 3.49, 3.50, 3.51, 3.52, 3.53, 3.56, 3.57, 3.58, 3.59, 3.60, 3.61, 3.62, 3.63, 3.64, 3.65, 3.66, 3.67, 3.68, 3.69, 3.70, 3.71, 3.72, 3.73, 3.74, 3.75, 3.76, 3.77, 3.78, 3.79, 3.80, 3.81, 3.82, 3.83, 3.84, 3.85, 3.86, 3.87, 3.120, 3.121, 3.122, 3.123, 3.124, 3.125, 3.125.2, 3.126, 4.36, 4.76, 4.79, 4.82, 4.83, 4.84, 4.91, 4.95, 4.96, 4.134, 4.135, 4.136, 4.137, 4.138, 4.139, 4.140, 4.141, 4.142, 4.205, 5.33, 6.5, 6.61, 6.62, 6.63, 6.64, 6.65, 6.122, 6.128.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.6.4, 7.8, 7.10.ε, 7.12, 7.13, 7.14, 7.15, 7.16, 7.17, 7.17.2, 7.18, 7.19, 7.35, 7.39, 7.46, 7.56, 7.57, 7.114, 7.117, 7.120, 7.133, 7.137, 7.187, 7.190, 8.99, 8.109, 9.16, 9.82, 9.93, 9.94, 9.109.2 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1.108. But during the first year that Mandane was married to Cambyses, Astyages saw a second vision. He dreamed that a vine grew out of the genitals of this daughter, and that the vine covered the whole of Asia . ,Having seen this vision, and communicated it to the interpreters of dreams, he sent to the Persians for his daughter, who was about to give birth, and when she arrived kept her guarded, meaning to kill whatever child she bore: for the interpreters declared that the meaning of his dream was that his daughter's offspring would rule in his place. ,Anxious to prevent this, Astyages, when Cyrus was born, summoned Harpagus, a man of his household who was his most faithful servant among the Medes and was administrator of all that was his, and he said: ,“Harpagus, whatever business I turn over to you, do not mishandle it, and do not leave me out of account and, giving others preference, trip over your own feet afterwards. Take the child that Mandane bore, and carry him to your house, and kill him; and then bury him however you like.” ,“O King,” Harpagus answered, “never yet have you noticed anything displeasing in your man; and I shall be careful in the future, too, not to err in what concerns you. If it is your will that this be done, then my concern ought to be to attend to it scrupulously.”
4. Plato, Phaedrus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 258c. Socrates. Well then, when an orator or a king is able to rival the greatness of Lycurgus or Solon or Darius and attain immortality as a writer in the state, does he not while living think himself equal to the gods, and has not posterity the same opinion of him, when they see his writings? Phaedrus. Very true. Socrates. Do you think, then, that any of the statesmen, no matter how ill-disposed toward Lysias, reproaches him for being a writer? Phaedrus. It is not likely, according to what you say; for he would be casting reproach upon that which he himself desires to be.
5. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 1.13 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
6. Xenophon, Memoirs, 1.1.9 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 1.1.9. If any man thinks that these matters are wholly within the grasp of the human mind and nothing in them is beyond our reason, that man, he said, is irrational. But it is no less irrational to seek the guidance of heaven in matters which men are permitted by the gods to decide for themselves by study: to ask, for instance, Is it better to get an experienced coachman to drive my carriage or a man without experience? Cyropaedia I. vi. 6. Is it better to get an experienced seaman to steer my ship or a man without experience? So too with what we may know by reckoning, measurement or weighing. To put such questions to the gods seemed to his mind profane. In short, what the gods have granted us to do by help of learning, we must learn; what is hidden from mortals we should try to find out from the gods by divination: for to him that is in their grace the gods grant a sign.
7. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 1.119, 7.8, 8.2-8.3 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 1.119. He maintained that the divine name for table is θυωρός, or that which takes care of offerings.Andron of Ephesus says that there were two natives of Syros who bore the name of Pherecydes: the one was an astronomer, the other was the son of Babys and a theologian, teacher of Pythagoras. Eratosthenes, however, says that there was only one Pherecydes of Syros, the other Pherecydes being an Athenian and a genealogist.There is preserved a work by Pherecydes of Syros, a work which begins thus: Zeus and Time and Earth were from all eternity, and Earth was called Γῆ because Zeus gave her earth (γῆ) as guerdon (γέρας). His sun-dial is also preserved in the island of Syros.Duris in the second book of his Horae gives the inscription on his tomb as follows: 7.8. Zeno to King Antigonus, greeting.I welcome your love of learning in so far as you cleave to that true education which tends to advantage and not to that popular counterfeit of it which serves only to corrupt morals. But if anyone has yearned for philosophy, turning away from much-vaunted pleasure which renders effeminate the souls of some of the young, it is evident that not by nature only, but also by the bent of his will he is inclined to nobility of character. But if a noble nature be aided by moderate exercise and further receive ungrudging instruction, it easily comes to acquire virtue in perfection. 8.2. From Samos he went, it is said, to Lesbos with an introduction to Pherecydes from his uncle Zoilus. He had three silver flagons made and took them as presents to each of the priests of Egypt. He had brothers, of whom Eunomus was the elder and Tyrrhenus the second; he also had a slave, Zamolxis, who is worshipped, so says Herodotus, by the Getans, as Cronos. He was a pupil, as already stated, of Pherecydes of Syros, after whose death he went to Samos to be the pupil of Hermodamas, Creophylus's descendant, a man already advanced in years. While still young, so eager was he for knowledge, he left his own country and had himself initiated into all the mysteries and rites not only of Greece but also of foreign countries. 8.3. Now he was in Egypt when Polycrates sent him a letter of introduction to Amasis; he learnt the Egyptian language, so we learn from Antiphon in his book On Men of Outstanding Merit, and he also journeyed among the Chaldaeans and Magi. Then while in Crete he went down into the cave of Ida with Epimenides; he also entered the Egyptian sanctuaries, and was told their secret lore concerning the gods. After that he returned to Samos to find his country under the tyranny of Polycrates; so he sailed away to Croton in Italy, and there he laid down a constitution for the Italian Greeks, and he and his followers were held in great estimation; for, being nearly three hundred in number, so well did they govern the state that its constitution was in effect a true aristocracy (government by the best).

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subject	book bibliographic info
"historiography,classical"	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 182, 186
"justice,divine"	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 186
"punishment,mirroring or apt"	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 186
ability to handle good fortune	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 182
aeschylus,agamemnon	Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 68, 69, 70
aeschylus	Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 327
aeschylus of athens	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 151
aetiology	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 104
agamemnon,treads on textiles	Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 68, 69, 70
aigisthos	Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 68
alexander the great	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 307; Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 104
amasis	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46; Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 136; Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 195; Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
amasis of egypt	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 39
anacreon	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 104
anchyrus	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
apollo,cult of	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
apollo	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46
apries	Torok (2014), Herodotus In Nubia, 132
arion,and the dolphin	Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 60
arrogance	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 182
artabanus of persia	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 39, 151
asia	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
ates/atys	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
athenians,impieties of	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 39
athenians,trust in gods and heroes	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 82
athens	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 281
atossa	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 195
author	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 136
balance of good and bad fortune	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 186
callisthenes of olynthus	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
cambyses	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 182; Torok (2014), Herodotus In Nubia, 132
cambyses of persia,dreams of	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 82
chthonië	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
cleobis and biton	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 186
cleomenes	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 195
coincidences,as a sign of divine involvement	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 186
corinth and corinthians	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
croesus,and atys	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
croesus,and delphi	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
croesus	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 182, 186; Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 281
croesus (king of lydia)	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
croesus of lydia,phthonos and	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 39, 151
croesus of lydia,solon and	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 39, 82
croton	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
ctesias of cindus	Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 327
cults,dionysiac	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
cults,foreign cult	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
cults,greek	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
cults,of the mother of the gods	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
cyme	Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 60
cyropaedia	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46
cyrus ii,the great	Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 327
cyrus the great	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 182
darius	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 182; Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 195
darius i,the great	Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 327
darius of persia	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 39
de polignac françois	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 231
dedications	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 151
delphi,oracle of	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
delphi	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
demaratus	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 195
dionysiac/dionysian,cult	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
dionysos/dionysus	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
dolon	Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 70
dreams	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 195
duplouy,alain	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 231
earth (gaea),at delphi	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
earth (gaea),cult of	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
earth (gaea)	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50, 147
effeminacy	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
egypt	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
egypt and egyptians,greeks in	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
egypt and egyptians,herodotus and	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
egypt and egyptians	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
envy/rivalry	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
eunuchs	Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 327
euripides,rhesus	Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 70
evaluation,internal	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 182
foreign,cult	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
foreign,import	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
foreign,new-comer from asia	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
foreign,sages	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
funerary cult	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
god of the path,kroisos and	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46
goldhill,s.	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 104
greek,authors	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
greek,culture	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
harem,persian royal	Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 327
harpagos	Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 60
hellenistic,age/era/period	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
hera (goddess),sanctuary on samos	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 231
heracles	Torok (2014), Herodotus In Nubia, 132
herodotus,ethnic perspectives of	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
herodotus,military training in	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
herodotus,nature of time and language	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 136
herodotus,prosperity in	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
herodotus,religious perspective of	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
herodotus,revisionist interpretations of	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
herodotus,sources used by	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
herodotus,subjugation/subject-people in	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
herodotus,weakness of non-persians	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
herodotus	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133; Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 182, 186; Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 327
heroes and heroines	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 82
heteroglossia	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 136
historiography,and homer	Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 35
homer,and historiography	Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 35
homer	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 281; Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 35
hubris	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
hybris	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 39
ibycus	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 104
impiety,of violating and destroying sanctuaries	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 39, 82
impiety	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46; Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 82
incredibilia	Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 60
ionia/ionians	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
irreligiosity	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46
juxtaposition,as a means of moralising	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 182
kroisos,king of lydia	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46
kyrieleis,helmut	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 231
kyropaidia (xenophon)	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46
kyros,king of the persians	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46
language,human	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 136
leotychidas	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 195
letters,formulae and style	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 307
lions,and lydia	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
long-lived aithiopians x	Torok (2014), Herodotus In Nubia, 132
lydia,xanthus of	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
lydia and lydians,rites of	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
macedon,macedonians	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 104
madness	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
magnesia	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 195
manipulation	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46
mazarakis ainian,alexander	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 231
midas	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
military,training	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
monarchy	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 195
money,homogeneity of	Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 68, 69
morgan,catherine a.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 231
mother (of the gods)	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
mother of the gods,and tyranny	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
mother of the gods,rites of	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
music	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
myth and mythology	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 151
narrative manners and techniques	Torok (2014), Herodotus In Nubia, 132
narrative unity of the histories	Torok (2014), Herodotus In Nubia, 132
nemesis	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 151
nomoi	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46
non-greeks	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 195
omens,testing of	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46
oracle	Torok (2014), Herodotus In Nubia, 132
oracles,croesus and the	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
oracles	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 195
orestes	Torok (2014), Herodotus In Nubia, 132
oroetes	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 195
overconfidence	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 182
pactyes the lydian	Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 60
patterning	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 182
pausanias,role of fortune in	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 281
pausanias	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 281
pausanias (victor of plataea)	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
peripeteia	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 182
persia,persians	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 195
persia/persians	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 136
persia	Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 327
persian,magus	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
persians	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133; Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 327
pherecydes	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
pheretima of cyrene	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 82
pheros (king of egypt,from egyptian pr-ꜥꜣ,pharaoh)	Torok (2014), Herodotus In Nubia, 132
philippos	Torok (2014), Herodotus In Nubia, 132
phoenicians	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 136
phthonos	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 39, 82, 151
piety,kroisos	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46
plato	Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 327
polycrates,and the ring	Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 60
polycrates	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 104, 195; Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50, 147; Torok (2014), Herodotus In Nubia, 132
polycrates of samos	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133; Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 182, 186; Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 39, 82, 151
polykrates	Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 68, 69
porphyry	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
posidippus	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 104
prayers	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 151
psammenitus	Torok (2014), Herodotus In Nubia, 132
ptolemies,ptolemaic kingdom	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 104
pythagoras and pythagoreans	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 307; Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
questions,divinatory	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46
reversals of fortune	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 151
sacrifice,human	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
sacrifice,to apollo	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
sacrifice,to earth	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
sacrifice	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
sacrifice (thysia),animal slaughter	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 231
sacrifice (thysia),wild animals	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 231
sacrifices	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 151
salmoxis	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
samos	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 231
samos and samians	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
sanctuaries/temples,sacred space	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 231
sanctuaries/temples,votive offerings	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 231
sanctuaries/temples	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 231
sardis,under lydians	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
scars,sea,unlimitedness of	Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 69
seal-rings	Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 69, 70
seleucids,privileges granted jews	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 307
sesostris,signs,reading of	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 104
softness/weakness	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
sokrates	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46
solon	Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 60; Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 281
solon of athens	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 39, 82, 151
sparta,spartans	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 195
stephens,s.	Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 104
symposia/feasting	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
syracuse/syracusans	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
themistocles of athens	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 82
thrace and thracians	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
thucydides	Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 35
trojan war	Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 35
trust,lack of trust'	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 46
truth	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 136
tyranny,theology of	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 147
tyranny,tyrants	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23
uncertainty of human life	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 186
universal historical space	Torok (2014), Herodotus In Nubia, 132
wealth/prosperity	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133
wealth	Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 186
xerxes	Gorman, Gorman (2014), Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. 133; Hau (2017), Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, 182, 186; Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 195
xerxes i	Torok (2014), Herodotus In Nubia, 132
xerxes of persia,dreams of	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 82
xerxes of persia,hybris and	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 39
xerxes of persia,impieties of	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 39, 82
xerxes of persia,phthonos and	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 39, 82, 151
xerxes of persia,respect for religious conventions	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 39
zas	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 50
zeus (amun)	Torok (2014), Herodotus In Nubia, 132
zoroaster	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 23