[12] Head, Coinage of Ephesus, p. 16.
[13] Herodotus, I, 94.
[14] Schliemann, Ilios, p. 698.
APPENDIX A.—CLASSICAL TRADITIONS
On Asia Minor the necessity for a liberal quotation from the classics is both imperative and fruitful of much delight. In this place we may be permitted to read of the Amazons, of Gyges and the curious fatality that lifted him from shepherd to king, and finally of the opulence and downfall of the king Crœsus who has become a very proverb of wealth. We shall quote, then, from Justin, from Pomponius Mela, from Diodorus, and from the ever-dramatic Herodotus, keeping usually to the antique flavour of old English versions.[a]