title: Procopius: History of the Wars, Vol. 1, Books 1-2: The Persian War (Loeb Classical Library) (English and Greek Edition)
author: Procopius
description: Henry Bronson Dewing (18821956) was Professor of Greek at Bowdoin College and President of Athens College.
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  _Contents_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Title Page_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Dedication_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Epigraph_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Acknowledgments_
  
  
  
  
  
  _List of Maps_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Note on Proper Names_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Preface_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Maps_
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  1 THE KHORASAN HIGHWAY
  
  
  
  
  
  2 BABYLON
  
  
  
  
  
  3 SPARTA
  
  
  
  
  
  4 ATHENS
  
  
  
  
  
  5 SINGEING THE KING OF PERSIA’S BEARD
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
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  6 THE GATHERING STORM
  
  
  
  
  
  7 AT BAY
  
  
  
  
  
  8 NEMESIS
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  _Envoi_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Timeline_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Notes_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Bibliography_
  
  
  
  
  
  _About the Author_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Also by Tom Holland_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Copyright Page_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For Jamie and Caroline
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Listen now to a further point: no mortal thing  
  
  
  Has a beginning, nor does it end in death and obliteration;  
  
  
  There is only a mixing and then a separating of what was mixed,  
  
  
  But by mortal men these processes are named “beginnings.”
  
  
  Empedocles
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **_Acknowledgments_**
  
  
  I have been wanting to write a book on the Persian Wars since I was very
  young, and 