The book of the ancient Greeks / An introduction to the history and civilization of Greece from the coming of the Greeks to the conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C.

by Dorothy Mills

[[4]] Poem of Sappho, translated by Sir Rennell Rodd in Love, Worship and Death.

[[5]] Herodotus, I.

[[6]] Herodotus, I.

[[7]] Herodotus, I.

[[8]] Ibid.

CHAPTER VIII
THE BEGINNING OF THE PERSIAN WARS[[1]]

I. DARIUS AND THE IONIAN REVOLT

The rule of the Lydian Kings over the Ionian cities in Asia Minor had not been a hard one, but that of the Persians was different, for they established tyrants in all the Greek cities, and required the assistance of their soldiers and sailors in their wars, things which were very bitter to the freedom-loving Greeks.