Beyond the Gates of Fire: New Perspectives on the Battle of Thermopylae by Christopher Matthew

Author:Christopher Matthew [Matthew, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: history, Ancient, General, Greece
ISBN: 9781783469109
Google: vfrLDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2013-05-19T23:29:53.243801+00:00

7.133–137. The wrath of Talthybius. Herodotus recalls an episode from Darius’ invasion ten years earlier: when Darius had demanded earth and water as a sign of submission, the Athenians and Spartans murdered the Persian ambassadors. Herodotus can report no divine punishment of the Athenians; but he records how, before Xerxes’ invasion, the Spartans suffered the anger of Talthybios, Agamemnon’s herald at Troy, who had a cult in Sparta. To propitiate the hero the Spartans sent two volunteers to Xerxes to compensate for the murder with their lives; but Xerxes refused to kill them, and as a result Herodotus considers that Talthybius was not fully appeased.

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