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Aeschylus, Suppliant Women (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.), line 1 (search)
Enter a company of maidens, who have fled from Egypt and just landed on the shores of Argos; with them is their father
Chorus
May Zeus who guards suppliants look graciously upon our company, which boarded a ship and put to sea from the outlets of the fine sand of the Nile. For we have fled Zeus' landOr “the land divine” （di=an with M）. But see l. 558.whose pastures border Syria, and are fugitives, not because of some public decree pronounced against blood crime, but because of our own act to escape the suit of man, since we abhor as impious all marriage with the sons of Aegyptus.It was Danaus, our father, adviser and leader, who, considering well our course, decided, as the best of all possible evils, that we flee with all speed over the waves of the seaand find a haven on Argos' shore. For from there descends our race , sprung from the caress and breath of Zeus on the gnat-tormented heifer.
To what kinder land than thiscould we come with these wool-wreathed branches in our hand
460 B.C.When Phrasicleides was archon in Athens, the Eightieth Olympiad was celebrated, that in which
Toryllas the Thessalian won the "stadion"; and the Romans elected as consuls Quintus Fabius and
Titus Quinctius Capitolinus. During this year, in Asia
the Persian generals who had passed over to Cilicia
made ready three hundred ships, which they fitted out fully for warfare, and then with their
land force they advanced overland through Syria and
Phoenicia; and with the fleet accompanying the army
along the coast, they arrived at Memphis in Egypt. At the outset they broke
the siege of the White Fortress, having struck the Egyptians and the Athenians with terror; but
later on, adopting a prudent course, they avoided any frontal encounters and strove to bring
the war to an end by the use of stratagems. Accordingly, since the Attic ships lay moored at
the island known as Prosopitis, they diverted by means of canals the river which fl
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 6 (search)
Croesus was a Lydian by birth, son of Alyattes, and sovereign of all the nations west of the river Halys, which flows from the south between Syria and Paphlagonia and empties into the sea called Euxine.
This Croesus was the first foreigner whom we know who subjugated some Greeks and took tribute from them, and won the friendship of others: the former being the Ionians, the Aeolians, and the Dorians of Asia, and the latter the Lacedaemonians.
Before the reign of Croesus, all Greeks were free: fs from the south between Syria and Paphlagonia and empties into the sea called Euxine.
This Croesus was the first foreigner whom we know who subjugated some Greeks and took tribute from them, and won the friendship of others: the former being the Ionians, the Aeolians, and the Dorians of Asia, and the latter the Lacedaemonians.
Before the reign of Croesus, all Greeks were free: for the Cimmerian host which invaded Ionia before his time did not subjugate the cities, but raided and robbed them.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 105 (search)
From there they marched against Egypt: and when they were in the part of Syria called Palestine, Psammetichus king of Egypt met them and persuaded them with gifts and prayers to come no further.
So they turned back, and when they came on their way to the city of Ascalon in Syria, most of the Scythians passed by and did no harm, buSyria, most of the Scythians passed by and did no harm, but a few remained behind and plundered the temple of Heavenly Aphrodite.The great goddess (Mother of Heaven and Earth) worshipped by Eastern nations under various names—Mylitta in Assyria, Astarte in Phoenicia: called Heavenly Aphrodite, or simply the Heavenly One, by the Greeks.
This temple, I discover from making inquiry, is the o