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Excerpt from Herodotus, Books VII and VIII
Herodotus was born at Halicarnassus, a town of mixed Greek population, mainly Dorian, ' which was the capital of the little kingdom of Caria, then, like all the other Greek cities of the coast of Asia Minor, subject to the king of Persia. It was directly ruled, however, by Artemisia, regent for her minor son Pisindelis, and as commander of the Carian contingent in the fleet Of Xerxes glorified in the history of Herodotus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
