Study Questions,
with other information, for Assignment 15 -- Herodotus, Histories, Books 6-7
- VI.1-42 (actually, this section begins in about V.105) The Persian suppression of the Ionic revolt.
Read this summary.
Questions: Summarize the Persian suppression of the revolt.
How did the Athenians react to the Capture of Miletus (21)? How did the Persians treat the Ionians in this suppression (32)? What is netting (31)?
- VI.94-120 The Marathon campaign.Please look at the following links.
a. Read
this summary of the battle of Marathon and then this
description of the aftereffects of the battle.
b. View these pictures of the plain of Marathon: view
1 and view
- (For those interested in trivia, these aerial photos were taken from a Piper J-3 Cub by a classicist Jesuit priest from Loyola University in Chicago!) To see many more pictures of the site of this very famous battle, go here.
c. Read this description of the famous runner of Marathon.
d. Read this description of the Greek hoplites (soldiers). View this picture of hoplites vase.
Questions: Why did the Spartans not come in time to help the
Athenians (106)? How did the Athenians and Plataeans win the battle (113)? How many men were killed on each side (117)?
- VII.1-19 The accession of Xerxes and his choice between
policies.
Questions: What did Mardonius counsel to Xerxes, and why (what was his motivation)? What did Artabanus counsel, and why? What changed
Artabanus's mind? What might the man in the vision have been? (read Daniel 11:2)
- VII.20-131 Persian preparation.
a. Read this summary of Xerxes' accession, his preparation for attack on Greece, and the marChap.
Questions: How was the bridge over the Hellespont built
(34-36)? What do 44 and 100 reveal about Xerxes? How large was Xerxes' army and how were they counted (60)? What earlier reading we've done this year does 61-99 sound like?
- VII.131-175 Greek preparation.
Questions: What is Herodotus's point in 139? What was the
"wooden wall" (141-143)?
- VII.175-195 The sea battle at
Artemisium.
Question: What happened?
- VII.196-239 The land battle at
Thermopylae.
a. Read this summary of the battle.
b.
View this picture of the pass and this picture of the Spartan burial mound. For more pictures, go here.
Questions: Who was the leader of the Spartans
(Lacedaemonians)? Describe the course of the battle. Who
won?
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