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Author(s): Herodotus
Reader(s): Timson, David
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0225
Barcode: 9781843799481
Release Date: 01/2016
HERODOTUS: Histories (Unabridged)
Tracklist
Disc 1
Herodotus - Author
Timson, David (Reader)
|  | 1 | The Histories of Herodotus | 08:07 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | Now it happened that this Candaules was in love… | 10:08 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | In this way he carried on the war with the Milesians… | 10:31 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | When all these conquests had been added… | 10:09 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | Now it chanced that while he was making… | 09:46 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | At the end of this time the grief of Croesus was… | 09:32 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | Of all the answers that had reached him… | 10:43 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | Such was the prophecy uttered under a divine… | 08:17 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | Such was the man's account of what he had seen. | 08:31 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | Afterwards, on the refusal of Alyattes to give up his… | 10:17 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | Thus the siege began. Meanwhile Croesus, thinking… | 10:14 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | Then, the Lydians say that Croesus… | 10:38 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | The Lydians have very nearly the same customs… | 11:39 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | The distance from Lake Maeotis to the river Phasis… | 12:05 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | When the boy was in his tenth year… | 13:02 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | Afterwards, when Cyrus grew to manhood… | 08:41 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | Thus after a reign of thirty-five years, Astyages… | 10:53 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | Immediately after the conquest of Lydia… | 10:02 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | These, then, were all the Aeolian cities… | 10:45 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | Meanwhile Mazares, after he had recovered Pactyas… | 11:41 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | The Caunians, in my judgment, are dwellers there… | 08:25 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | The city is divided into two portions by the river… | 07:33 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | She gave orders for the hewing of immense blocks… | 07:17 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | Among many proofs which I shall bring forward… | 08:32 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | The Babylonians have one most shameful custom. | 08:34 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | Now concerning the matter in hand, my judgment… | 10:20 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | Book Two: Euterpe | 08:30 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | From Heliopolis to Thebes is nine days' sail… | 10:27 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | My judgment as to the extent of Egypt is confirmed… | 10:20 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | No other information on this head could I obtain… | 09:23 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | Concerning Egypt itself I shall extend my remarks… | 09:27 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 5
| | 1 | Such Egyptians as possess a temple of the Theban… | 10:41 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | Almost all the names of the gods came into Greece… | 10:44 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | At Heliopolis and Buto the assemblies… | 12:06 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | In the neighbourhood of Thebes… | 12:32 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | The Egyptians are averse to adopt Greek customs… | 09:42 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | The former of these two cities… | 10:03 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | The king then returned to his own land… | 11:27 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 6
| | 1 | In these places Homer shows himself acquainted… | 11:10 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | When it came to the king's ears that the thief's body… | 10:13 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | After Chephren, Mycerinus (they said), son of… | 09:46 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | He was succeeded on the throne… | 11:14 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | It is open to all to receive whichever he may prefer… | 12:32 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | I have already made mention more than once… | 11:39 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | The cantons of the Calascirians are different… | 11:01 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 7
| | 1 | To the other temples of much note… | 06:13 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | Book Three: Thalia | 11:41 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | On the field where this battle was fought… | 12:38 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | The Icthyophagoi on reaching this people… | 11:38 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | And now Cambyses, who even before had not been… | 10:43 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | Many other wild outrages of this sort did Cambyses… | 11:59 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | The Corinthians likewise very willingly lent… | 11:09 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 8
| | 1 | This was the first expedition into Asia… | 10:21 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | At this time he said no more; but twenty days… | 10:44 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | Otanes, when he saw Darius so hot… | 10:05 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | And now when five days were gone… | 10:05 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | And now, when the morning broke, the six Persians… | 10:51 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | The way in which the Indians get the plentiful… | 09:32 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | Now with respect to the vipers and the winged… | 08:02 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | Of the seven Persians who rose up… | 08:28 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 9
| | 1 | Polycrates, however, making light of all the counsel… | 10:54 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | On these terms Democedes applied his art… | 09:11 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | Poor Syloson felt at the time that he had given… | 10:09 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | After the armament of Otanes had set sail… | 11:14 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | Book Four: Melpomene | 09:39 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | Hereupon he strung one of his bows — up to that… | 09:40 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | Crossing the Panticapes, and proceeding eastward… | 08:29 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | To me it seems that the cold may likewise… | 06:45 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 10
| | 1 | The Persians inhabit a country upon the southern… | 09:04 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | The Euxine sea, where Darius now went to war… | 09:30 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | The sixth stream is the Hypacyris, a river rising… | 10:01 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | Whenever the Scythian king falls sick… | 11:21 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | Scylas, likewise, the son of Ariapithes… | 09:47 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | The manner in which these distances… | 09:01 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | I for my part neither put entire faith in this story… | 08:57 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | The manners of the Androphagi are more savage… | 07:52 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 11
| | 1 | The Sauromatae speak the language of Scythia… | 09:55 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | To this message Idanthyrsus, the Scythian king… | 10:14 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | The Ionians now held a council. | 10:20 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | Theras now, having with him a certain number… | 09:11 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | Battus, you came to ask of your voice; but Phoebus… | 09:13 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | At Samos, meanwhile, Arcesilaüs was collecting… | 08:55 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | On the country of the Nasamonians borders… | 10:42 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | As far as the Atlantes the names of the nations… | 09:05 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 12
| | 1 | The Carthaginians also relate the following… | 09:06 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | Book Five: Terpsichore | 09:42 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | King Darius was full of wonder both at what they… | 10:42 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | Now that the men of this family are Greeks, sprung… | 09:30 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | So Aristagoras went to Sardis and told Artaphernes… | 09:25 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | Now the Mytileneans had no sooner got Coës… | 09:07 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | Cleomenes, however, was still king when Aristagoras… | 09:15 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | When Aristagoras left Sparta he hastened to Athens… | 09:33 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 13
| | 1 | By descent they were Pylians, of the family… | 10:27 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | Meanwhile Cleomenes, who considered himself… | 11:14 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | Such is the account given by the Athenians. | 10:41 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | The Bacchiadae had possessed this oracle for some… | 09:41 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | On the return of Hippias to Asia from Lacedaemon… | 09:11 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | While Onesilus was engaged in the siege… | 08:11 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | In the thick of the fight, Stesanor, tyrant… | 08:45 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | Book Six: Erato | 07:37 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 14
| | 1 | Thus spake the Persians. The Ionian tyrants… | 08:51 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | Such a fate now befell the Milesians… | 07:39 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | Histiaeus now led a numerous army… | 08:02 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | When he had finished carrying the wall across… | 09:03 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | The year after these events, Darius received… | 09:56 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | Such are their privileges in war… | 09:05 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | In course of time Ariston died… | 10:22 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | Afterwards, when it came to be known what evil… | 12:13 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 15
| | 1 | When however he reached that city… | 09:22 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | Afterwards the Aeginetans fell upon the Athenian… | 10:03 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | First he was chased as far as Imbrus… | 08:59 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | Miltiades by these words gained Callimachus… | 10:13 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | Now the Alcmaeonidae fell in no way short… | 10:50 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | After the defeat inflicted at Marathon… | 10:57 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | Book Seven: Polymnia | 07:41 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | 'Persians, I shall not be the first to bring in…' | 06:38 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 16
| | 1 | When Mardonius had in this way softened… | 10:16 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | But when night came, again the same vision stood… | 11:26 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | Now the manner in which they dug… | 10:36 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | Then they, whose business it was… | 10:17 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | Then Artabanus, the king's uncle… | 10:20 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | On the next day the horsemen began the passage… | 08:28 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | The Sarangians had dyed garments… | 07:25 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | Such were the nations who fought upon the dry… | 07:16 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 17
| | 1 | (vi.) The Lycians furnished fifty ships. | 07:53 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | 'O king! Since you ask me by all means…' | 09:33 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | The Satrae, so far as our knowledge goes… | 10:49 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | On reaching Therma Xerxes halted his army… | 09:39 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | This conduct on the part of the Spartans… | 09:28 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | Themistocles had before this given a counsel which… | 09:36 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | For my own part I cannot positively say whether… | 09:48 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | Hereupon Gelo, seeing the indignation… | 10:00 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 18
| | 1 | The Cretans, when the envoys sent to ask aid… | 08:36 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | At Alpeni, which is lower down than that place… | 10:25 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | The fleet then, as I said, on leaving Therma… | 10:36 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | At the point where this city is built… | 10:27 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | Then the Medes, having met so rough a reception… | 09:22 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | The remembrance of this answer, I think… | 10:45 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | Thus fought the Greeks at Thermopylae. | 07:58 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | Book Eight: Urania | 09:09 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 19
| | 1 | The Greeks, at a signal, brought the sterns of… | 09:01 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | And now Themistocles chose out the swiftest sailers… | 09:00 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | From Doris they marched forward into Phocis… | 09:45 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | From the mainland of Greece beyond… | 10:52 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | As soon as they had come, and before Eurybiades… | 09:28 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | Reinforced by the contingents of all these various… | 09:32 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | 'The Athenian commander has sent me to you…' | 09:03 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | Far the greater number of the Persian ships… | 08:33 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 20
| | 1 | The Athenians say that Adeimantus, the Corinthian… | 09:25 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | Thus did the king ask Artemisia's counsel… | 10:01 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | At present, however, he dissembled… | 08:19 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | The Persians, having journeyed through Thrace… | 09:16 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | When this town had fallen, Artabazus pressed… | 10:15 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | Mardonius, when he had read the answers given… | 14:23 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | Book Nine: Calliope | 07:58 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | At last the ambassadors got an answer… | 07:44 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 21
| | 1 | What follows was recounted to me by Thersander… | 09:51 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | When the cavalry reached the camp… | 10:01 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | All these, except the Helots — seven of whom… | 08:29 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | With Mardonius also, who was very eager to begin… | 08:41 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | After Mardonius had put his question about… | 09:22 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | As soon as Pausanias saw a portion of the troops… | 09:33 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 7 | As Pausanias offered his prayer, the Tegeans… | 08:28 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 8 | On the side of the barbarians, the greatest courage… | 07:27 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 22
| | 1 | There was a man at Plataea among the troops… | 07:07 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 2 | The Greeks, after sharing the booty upon the field… | 08:02 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 3 | A strange thing happened to this man's father… | 07:35 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 4 | After Leotychides had made this address… | 08:31 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 5 | The barbarians who escaped from the battle… | 08:52 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 6 | Meanwhile the Greeks, who had left Mycale… | 08:26 |
Timson, David (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 27:27:46