Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 10 (of 15), Greek

part legend, and we give it as told by old Herodotus, who has preserved

so many interesting tales of ancient Greece.

At, that time Persia, whose king Cyrus had overcome Croesus, was the greatest empire in the world. All western Asia lay in its grasp; Asia Minor was overrun; and Cambyses, the king who had succeeded Cyrus, was about to invade the ancient land of Egypt. The king ...