Histories

Herodotus

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

When there was no food left within his walls, he piled up a great pyre and slew his children and wife and concubines and servants and cast them into the fire; after that, he took all the gold and silver from the city and scattered it from the walls into the Strymon; after he had done this, he cast himself into the fire. Thus he is justly praised by the Persians to this day.

From DoriscusXerxes went on his way towards Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas, compelling all that he met to go with his army. As I have shown earlier, all the country as far as +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly had been enslaved and was tributary to the king, by the conquests of Megabazus and Mardonius after him.