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  1. Jan 2025
    1. An even earlier source is the ethnographer Hecataeus of Miletus,who was about in the late sixth century Bc. From scraps of his lostwork quoted by others we learn that Narbon (near modernNarbonne in southern France) was a Celtic city and trading centreand that Massalia (Marseilles) was a Greek city founded in Ligurianterritory near Celtica. He also lists Nyrax as a Celtic city but itslocation is unknown, though some argue that it may have beenNoricum in Austria.
  2. May 2024
  3. Jul 2021
    1. However, perhaps not Anaximander, but Thales should be credited with this new idea. Diogenes Laërtius ascribes to Thales the aphorism: “What is the divine? That which has no origin and no end” (DK 11A1 (36)). Similar arguments, within different contexts, are used by Melissus (DK 30B2[9]) and Plato (Phaedrus 245d1-6).

      Compare this with the Christian philosophy of God: the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, etc.

  4. Mar 2014
    1. The Naxians, then, made all preparations to face the onset of war. When their enemies had brought their ships over from Chios to Naxos, it was a fortified city that they attacked, and for four months they besieged it.

      Hdt. 5.34 After approving his plan with Darius and Artaphrenes, Aristagoras sets out to attack Naxos. The Naxians surprisingly outlast the attacking Achaemenid forces, enduring a four month siege. The prolonged siege leaves Aristagoras bankrupt...

  5. Feb 2014
    1. all except the Milesians, with whom alone Cyrus made a treaty on the same terms as that which they had with the Lydians.

      1.141 Herodotus singles out the relationship Cyrus establishes with the Milesians (distinct from the one formed with the Ionians and Aeolians). It is one definitively more favorable terms having been previously set down in a treaty rather than bartered for.