Kitap 1
162.1
After his death, Harpagus, a Mede like Mazares, came down to succeed him in his command; this is the Harpagus who was entertained by Astyages the king of the Medes at that unnatural feast, and who helped win the kingship for Cyrus.
162.2
This man was now made general by Cyrus. When he came to Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia , he took the cities by means of earthworks; he would drive the men within their walls and then build earthworks against the walls and so take the cities.
163.1
Foca [26.75,38.666] (inhabited place), Izmir Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Phocaea was the first Ionian town that he attacked. These Phocaeans were the earliest of the Greeks to make long sea-voyages, and it was they who discovered the Adriatic Sea [16,43] (sea), Europe Adriatic Sea , and Etruria (region (general)), Italy, EuropeTyrrhenia, and Iberian Peninsula (peninsula), Europe Iberia , and Tartessus,The lower valley of the Guadalquivir (river), Andalusia, Spain, Europe Guadalquivir . Later Tartessus was identified with Cadiz [-6.3,36.533] (inhabited place), Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain, Europe Gades (Cadiz [-6.3,36.533] (inhabited place), Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain, Europe Cadiz ), which Herodotus (Hdt. 4.8) calls Cadiz [-6.3,36.533] (inhabited place), Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain, Europe Gadira .
163.2
not sailing in round freightships but in fifty-oared vessels. When they came to Tartessus they made friends with the king of the Tartessians, whose name was Arganthonius; he ruled Tartessus for eighty years and lived a hundred and twenty.A common Greek tradition, apparently; Anacreon (Fr. 8) says “I would not... rule Tartessus for an hundred and fifty years.
163.3
The Phocaeans won this man's friendship to such a degree that he invited them to leave Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia and settle in his country wherever they liked; and then, when he could not persuade them to, and learned from them how the Median power was increasing, he gave them money to build a wall around their city.
