HISTORY

OF

HERODOTUS,

A NEW ENGLISH VERSION, EDITED WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND APPENDICES,
ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF HERODOTUS, FROM THE

MOST RECENT SOURCES OF INFORMATION; AND EMBODYING

THE CHIEF RESULTS, HISTORICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL,

WHICH HAVE BEEN OBTAINED IN THE PROGRESS

OF CUNEIFORM AND HIEROGLYPHICAL

DISCOVERY.

BY GEORGE RAWLINSON, M.A.,

CAMDEN PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY Of oxford;

LATE FELLOW AND TUTOR OF EXETER COLLEGE.

ASSISTED BY

COL. SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, K.C.B., AND SIR J. G. WILKINSON, F.R.S.

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, M.P.,

&c. &c. &c.

WHO, AMID THE CARES OF PUBLIC LIFE,

HAS CONTINUED TO FEEL AND SHOW

AN INTEREST IN CLASSICAL STUDIES,

THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED,

AS A TOKEN OF WARM REGARD,

BY THE AUTHOR.