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Excerpt from Herodotus, Vol. 5: Terpsichore; With Introduction, Notes and Map The people inhabiting the mountains, valleys and plains of this country were divided into very numerous tribes, of which Herodotos mentions the names of eighteen', and of which about 50 altogether are known to us from various other sources. They were then, as they still to a great extent are, fierce and barbarous; and the Persian conquest does not seem to have penetrated into the interiorz. It was the cities and tribes on the coasts of the Aegean, the Hellespont, and the Euxine that were the object of attack, and which submitted more or less completely to Megabazos. These coasts were studded with Greek colonies; and thus the Spread of the Persian power was once more placed in antagonism to Hellenic civilization, however distant from the centre of Hellenic life. But this extension of the Persian conquest was not confined to Thrakia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.