Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

When Cyrus had made all the mainland submit to him, he attacked the Assyrians. In Assyria there are many other great cities, but the most famous and the strongest was Babylon [44.4,32.55] (deserted settlement), Babil, Iraq, AsiaBabylon, where the royal dwelling had been established after the destruction of Nineveh (deserted settlement), Ninawa, Iraq, Asia Ninus.[*](606 B.C.Nineveh (deserted settlement), Ninawa, Iraq, Asia Ninus = Nineveh (deserted settlement), Ninawa, Iraq, Asia Nineveh.) Babylon [44.4,32.55] (deserted settlement), Babil, Iraq, AsiaBabylon was a city such as I will now describe.