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George Rawlinson (23 November 1812 – 6 October 1902) was a British scholar, ... The History of Herodotus, translated by George Rawlinson. Rawlinson, George.
The dominions of Charles V in Europe and the Americas. Charles V of the House of Habsburg controlled in personal union a composite monarchy inclusive of the Holy Roman Empire stretching from Germany to Northern Italy with direct rule over the Low Countries and Austria, and of Spain, which also included the southern Italian kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Naples and the long-lasting Spanish ...
George Rawlinson proposed, instead, that Phraortes ruled for 53 years, and Deioces for 22 years. With this change, Phraortes' reign can be dated to between 678 and 625 BC. This way, according to Rawlinson, the sum of the reigns of the three kings (53+40+35) after Deioces would then be the 128 years that Herodotus mentioned.
Herodotus – The History of the Persian Wars: A Description of India, extracted from Herodotus, The History, George Rawlinson, trans., (New York: Dutton & Co., 1862), Then Again World History web site, retrieved 20 May 2018.
Manes (Ancient Greek: Μάνηϛ) [1] is a legendary figure of the 2nd millennium BC who is attested by Herodotus in Book One of Histories to have been an early king of Lydia, [2] then probably known as Maeonia (which he may be the eponym of). He was believed to have been the son of Zeus and Gaia, [3] and was the father of Atys, who succeeded ...
2 Translators of Herodotus' The Histories. ... George Chapman (Iliad, 1611; Odyssey, ... George Rawlinson; Aubrey de Sélincourt;
Herodotus is neither a mere gatherer of data nor a simple teller of tales – he is both. While Herodotus is certainly concerned with giving accurate accounts of events, this does not preclude for him the insertion of powerful mythological elements into his narrative, elements which will aid him in expressing the truth of matters under his study.
Herodotus [a] (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized: Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.