. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. e cities ofBabylon, Ecbatana, and Susa. The latter part of his life was spentat Thurii, a colony founded by the Athenians in Italy in- to a well-known story in Lucian, Herodotus, when hehad completed his work, recited it publicly at the great Olympicfestival, as the best means of procuring for it that celebrity to whichhe felt that it was entitled. The effect is described as immediateand complete. The delighted audience at once assigned the names ofthe nine Muses to the nine books into which it is
. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. e cities ofBabylon, Ecbatana, and Susa. The latter part of his life was spentat Thurii, a colony founded by the Athenians in Italy in- to a well-known story in Lucian, Herodotus, when hehad completed his work, recited it publicly at the great Olympicfestival, as the best means of procuring for it that celebrity to whichhe felt that it was entitled. The effect is described as immediateand complete. The delighted audience at once assigned the names ofthe nine Muses to the nine books into which it is divided. A stilllater author (Suidas) adds, that Thucydides, then a boy, was presentat the festival with his father Olorus, and was so affected by therecital as to shed tears; upon which Herodotus congratulatedOlorus on having a son who possessed so early such a zeal forknowledge. But there are many objections to the probability ofthese tales. Herodotus interwove into his history all the varied and extensiveknowledge acquired in his travels, and by his own personal re- Q 2. HPo^otoC 228 HISTORY OF GREECE. Chap. XXIi.
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