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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 102 (search)
Deioces had a son, Phraortes, who inherited the throne when Deioces died after a reign of fifty-three years.Deioces died in 656 B.C. Having inherited it, he was not content to rule the Medes alone: marching against the Persians, he attacked them first, and they were the first whom he made subject to the Medes. Then, with these two strong nations at his back, he subjugated one nation of Asia after another, until he marched against the Assyrians; that is, against those of the Assyrians who held Ninus. These had formerly been rulers of all; but now their allies had deserted them and they were left alone, though well-off themselves. Marching against these Assyrians, then, Phraortes and most of his army perished, after he had reigned twenty-two years.
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK VII. We here enter upon the third division of Pliny's Natural History, which treats of Zoology, from the 7th to the 11th inclusive. Cuvier has illustrated this part by many valuable notes, which originally appeared in Lemaire's Bibliotheque Classique, 1827, and were afterwards incorporated, with some additions, by Ajasson, in his translation of Pliny, published in 1829; Ajasson is the editor of this portion of Pliny's Natural History, in Lemaire's Edition.—B. MAN, HIS BIRTH, HIS ORGANIZATION, AND THE INVENTION OF THE ARTS., CHAP. 30. (29.)—MEN OF REMARKABLE GENIUS. (search)
as the same conqueror, too, who gave directions that the descendants and house of the poet PindarThe city was taken by him by assault, and all its buildings, with the exception of the house of Pindar, levelled to the ground; most of the inhabitants were slaughtered, and the rest sold as slaves. should be spared, at the taking of Thebes. He likewise rebuilt the native cityStagirus, or Stagira, a town of Macedonia, in Chalcidice, on the Strymonic Gulf. It was a colony of Andros, founded B.C. 656, and originally called Orthagoria. It was destroyed by Philip, and, according to some accounts, was rebuilt by him, as having been the native place of Aristotle. of Aristotle, uniting to the extraordinary brilliancy of his exploits this speaking testimony of his kindliness of disposition. Apollo impeached by name the assassins of the poet ArchilochusArchilochus of Paros was one of the earliest Ionian lyric poets, and was the first who composed in Iambic verse according to fixed rules. He flou
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pha'laris (search)
cily, has obtained a proverbial celebrity as a cruel and inhuman tyrant. But far from the noto riety thus given to his name having contributed to our real knowledge of his life and history, it has only served to envelope every thing connected with their him in a cloud of fable, through which it is scarcely possible to catch a glimpse of truth. The period at which he lived has been the subject of much dis pute, and his reign has been carried back by some writers as far as the 31st Olympiad (B. C. 656), but there seems little doubt that the statement of Suidas, who represents him as reigning in the 52d Olympiad. is in the main correct. Eusebius in one passage gives the older date, but in another assigns the commencement of his reign to the third year of the 52d Olympiad (B. 100.570); and this is confirmed by statements which represent him ascontemporary temporary with Stesichorus and Croesus. (Suid. s. v. *Fa/laris; Euseb. Chron. an. 1365, 1393, 1446 ; Syncell. p. 213d. ed. Paris; Oros.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Phraortes (search)
Phraortes （*Frao/rths) was, according to Herodotus, the second king of Media, and the son of Deioces, whom he succeeded. He reigned twenty-two years (B. C. 656-634). He first conquered the Persians, and then subdued the greater part of Asia, but was at length defeated and killed while laying siege to Ninus (Nineveh), the capital of the Assyrian empire. He was succeeded by his son Cyaxares. (Hdt. 1.73, 102.) This Phraortes is slid to be the same as the Truteno of the Zendavesta, and to be called Feridun in the Shah-Nameh. (Hammer in Wien. Jahrb. vol. ix. p. 13, &c.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Time'sias (search)
Time'sias （*Timhsi/as), or TIME'SIUS (*Timh/sios, of Clazomenae, was the first founder of the colony of Abdera in Thrace. He is praised both by Plutarch and Aelian as a wise and virtuous man. Eusebius places his colony in the 31st Ol., B. C. 656. Timesias was expelled by the Thracians, but he was afterwards worshipped as a hero at Abdera by the Teians, who at a later time founded a second colony in that place. (Hdt. 1.168; Plut. Reip. ger. Praccepta, p. 812a; Ael. VH 12.9