Herodotos on Greeks and Persians Flashcards
The accounts go on to say that some forty or fifty years afterwards Paris,
the son of Priam, was inspired by these stories to steal a wife for himself out
of Greece, being confident that he would not have to pay for the venture any
more than the Greeks had done. And that was how he came to carry o!
Helen. The first idea of the Greeks after the rape was to send a demand for
satisfaction and for Helen’s return. The demand was met by a reference to
the seizure of Medea and the injustice of expecting satisfaction from people
to whom they themselves had refused it, not to mention the fact that they
had kept the girl
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Who was Herodotus?
He was an ancient Greek writer, geographer and historian.
What happened between Greece and Persia?
The Greco-Persian war - a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city states.
What happened between Greece and Persia?
The Greco-Persian war - a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city states that occurred between 490 and 479 BCE.
The conflict began after Athens and Eretria gave assistance to the Ionians in their rebellion against Persia and its ruler, Darius.
According to Herodotus, the cause was the ‘abduction’ of Helen by Paris. Helen was the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta.
What is the meaning of the passage?
“It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.”
