Great Men and Famous Deeds Author:Walter Scott General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1903 Subjects: Salamis, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C Thermopylae, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C Marathon, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.C Babylonia Salamis, Battle of Thermaopylae, Battle of Marathon, Battle of Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original.... more » It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: XERXES MAKES WAR ON THE GREEKS HEN King Darius heard tidings of the battle at Marathon his wrath, which was already hot against the Athenians by reason of their doings at Sardis, waxed yet more fierce, so that he was more earnest than ever to make war against Greece. And straightway he sent messengers to all the cities in his dominions, bidding them gather together soldiers -- and of these many more than he had commanded before -- and with these, ships and horsemen and food and vessels of transport. And for the space of three years after these commands had been given, all Asia was in an uproar, seeing that the bravest of her children were being chosen to march against the Greeks, and were making ready to go. But in the fourth year the Egyptians, who had been enslaved by Cam- byses, revolted. Then was Darius more zealous than before to march both against the Athenians and the Egyptians. But while he was making ready so to do, there came a great disputing among his sons who should be King after him; for the law of the Persians is that the King declares who shall reign after him before he goes to the war. Now Darius had had three sons born to him by his wife, the daughter of Gobryas; and these were born before that he was made King: and after that he was made King he hadfour others born to him of Atossa, that was the daughter of Cyrus. Of the first three Artabazanes was the eldest, and of the four Xerxes. ...« less