HERODOTUS

INDEXAsopus, (1) a river in Trachis near Thermopylae, vn. 199, 216,217. (2) A river in Boeotia, made the boundary betweenTheban and Plataean territory, vi. 108; frequently referredto in connection with the Plataean campaign of Mardonius,who encamped on its bank, ix. 15-59Aspathines, one of the seven conspirators against the Magians,in. 70, 78Assa, a town in the Singitic gulf west of Athos, vn. 122Assesus, a town with a local cult of Athene, in the lands ofMiletus, i. 19, 22Assyria: Assyrian rule of Upper Asia, i. 95; resistance toMedes, i. 102; Median conquest of all Assyria but Babylonia,I. 106; Cyrus' invasion, I. 178, 188; Herodotus' proposedAssyrian history, I. 183; some account of Assyria,i. 192-194; Sanacharibus' invasion of Egypt with Arabians andAssyrians, n. 141 ; Assyrian script, iv. 87 ;Perseus anAssyrian, vi. 54; Assyrians in Xerxes' army, vii. 63Astacus, a legendary Theban, v. 67Aster, a Spartan, v. 63Astrabacus, a Spartan hero or demigod, vi. 69Astyages, a Median king, son of Cyaxares and son-in-law ofCroesus, i. 73-75; his treatment of Cyrus as a child and asa youth, and his dealings with Harpagus, I. 107-125; deposedby Cyrus,i. 127-130Asychis, king of Egypt, builder of a brick pyramid,ir. 136Atarantes, a people in Libya, iv. 184Atarbechis, a town in Egypt with a temple of " Aphrodite," n. 41Atarneus, a district of Mysia, i. 160, vi. 28, 29, vm. 106; onXerxes' line of march, vii. 42Athamas, a legendary Greek hero, vii. 58; ritual of humansacrifice connected with his family, vii. 197Athenades, of Trachis, vii. 213Athenagoras, of Samos, ix. 90Athene (and Pallas), Libyan tradition of, iv. 180 ;cult at Athens,i. 60, v. 77, 82, vii. 141, vm. 37, 39, 55; elsewhere, i. 19, 22,62, 66, 92, 160, 175, n. 28, 59, 83, 169, 175, 182, in. 59, iv. 180,188, v. 45, 95, vii. 43, vm. 94, 104, ix. 70Athens and Athenians, passim in Bks. v-ix; Solon's legislationat Athens, i. 29 ;Athenians the leading Ionian people, i.56, 146; Pisistratus' usurpation of power, i. 59-64; Ionianappeal to Athens, v. 55, 97; murder of Hipparchus, v. 56;expulsion of Hippias with help from Sparta, v. 62 foil. ; legia-316