ambiguity): If you attack, a great empire will fall. Peisistratos' rises and falls from power as tyrant of Athens (–64) The rise of Sparta (–68) A description the geographic location of several Anatolian tribes, including the Cappadocians, Matieni, Phrygians, and Paphlagonians. () The Battle of Halys; Thales predicts the solar eclipse of May 28, 585 BC () Croesus's defeat by Cyrus II of Persia, and how he later became Cyrus's advisor (–92) The Tyrrhenian's descent from the Lydians: "Then the one group, having drawn the lot, left the country and came down to Smyrna and built ships, in which they loaded all their goods that could be transported aboard ship, and sailed away to seek a livelihood and a country; until at last, after sojourning with one people after another, they came to the Ombrici, where they founded cities and have lived ever since. They no longer called themselves Lydians, but Tyrrhenians, after the name of the king's son who had led them there,". () The rulers of the Medes: Deioces, Phraortes, Cyaxares, Astyages, Cyrus II of Persia (–144) The rise of Deioces over the Medes Astyages's attempt to destroy Cyrus, and Cyrus's rise to power Harpagus tricked into eating his son, his revenge against Astyages by assisting Cyrus The culture of the Persians The history and geography of the Ionians, and the attacks on it by Harpagus Pactyes' convinces the Lydians to revolt. Rebellion fails and he seeks refuge from Mazares in Cyme (Aeolis) The culture of Assyria, especially the design and improvement of the city of Babylon and the ways of its people Cyrus's attack on Babylon, including his revenge on the river Gyndes and his famous method for entering the city Cyrus's ill-fated attack on the Massagetæ, leading to his death Book II (Euterpe) The proof of the antiquity of the Phrygians by the use of children unexposed to language The geography, customs, and history of Egypt (Sections 2–182) Speculations on the Nile river (Sections 2-34) The religious practices of Egypt, especially as they differ from the Greeks (sections 35–64) The animals of Egypt: cats, dogs, crocodiles, hippopotamuses, otters, phoenixes, sacred serpents, winged snakes, ibises The culture of Egypt: medicine, funeral rites, food, boats The kings of Egypt: Menes, Nitocris, Mœris, Sesostris, Pheron, Proteus Helen and Paris's stay in Egypt, just before the Trojan War (–120) More kings of Egypt: Rhampsinit (and the story of the clever