![]() The preserved fragments of Xanthus’s works, which seem to tell fewer historical facts than those of cultural history, do not provide any substantial information about him. He lived sometime after Hecataeus of Miletus and was an older contemporary of Herodotus, but the information of the Suda (s.v.) that he was born at the time when Cyrus II the Great took Sardis, is not reliable. It is, however, not the same license as given above, and it is unknown whether that license ever was valid.XANTHUS THE LYDIAN, Greek historiographer, son of a certain Kandaules, probably born in Sardis, and a Hellenized Lydian. This image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images at It was reviewed on 21:51:45 by FlickreviewR, who found it to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions, which is compatible with the Commons. No known copyright restrictions No restrictions false See Commons:Licensing for more information. ![]() Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control or.The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions.The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired.Internet Archive Book Images Flickr Commons Image from page 134 of "A history of all nations from the earliest times being a universal historical library" (1905) Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. The same arrangement prevailed among the Egyptians,Etruscans, and among many other primitive tribes. With the Lycians the rightof succession came through the female side and the children werenamed after their mother-a custom dating back to times when ir-regularities in regard to the marriage relation made the paternitydoubtful. This state constitution was left un-changed by the Persians and even the Romans declared this con-federation free, reserving to themselves only the confirmation orrejection of its political enactments. They deliberated on the apportionment of taxes,chose the Lyciarch and other officials, established courts of law, anddecided on peace and war. Those ofthe greater cantons, as Xanthus, Patara, Pinara, Olympus, Myra, andTlos, had three votes each those of the middle-sized, two those ofthe others, but one. aries, their representatives meeting in one of the cities. Text Appearing After Image: 1 K, jj - Mdible luiiib at Xauthus in Lycia. Thegovernment of Lycia lay in the hands of twenty-three cities, whichheld sway over as many little cantons marked off by natural bound- TOMB AT XANTHUS. Accordingly the Lycians had come to their country by sea,as the legend signifies that makes them to have emigrated fromCrete under the leadership of Sarpedon, a brother of Minos. The Lycians, a brave and cultured people, hadtaken possession of the coast, and of the vales of the smaller streamsthat flowed into the sea while the table-land of Milyas was occu-pied by the Solymi, who had, apparently, been driven from thecoasts. From the above we see that the Lydians were masters of AsiaMinor to the west of the Halys, with the exception of the Greciancities and Lycia. Finally the Pamphylians were an old Greek colony be-tween Lycia and Cilicia. Even the Mysians, according to Strabo, mayhave been descendants of the Moesians in Thrace while the Be-bryces, who came hither before the Bithynians, were also fromThrace. Text Appearing Before Image: ethe name of Thynias. View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From BookĬlick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times being a universal historical library Year: 1905 ( 1900s)Īuthors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908 Subjects: World history Publisher: [Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive Description Tomb of Payava Xanthus 1905.jpg
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