This is almost certainly a reference to the article Calvert wrote in 1873 describing the history of research at Hisarlik and discussing, in a cautious way, the dating of Schliemann's Trojan War layers to ca. 2100 BC, causing Schliemann to violently attack Calvert in his work Troy and its Remains.

Helen was married to Menelaus of Sparta; Lacedaemon is an alternate name for the area of the central Peloponnese. http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570406

genitive plural

http://eliterature.org/pad/afb.html

Vivid visual simile of spambots as cockroaches.

http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550867

I had students read "The Lost Books of the Odyssey".

You can find the US English pronunciation of this name here.

1.30. Solon explains why he chose Tellus.

1.30. Croesus is unhappy with Solon's answer and asks for clarification.

1.30. Solon replies by citing an unknown Athenian.

1.30. Croesus asks Solon who the most fortunate man he has seen is, expecting the answer to be "You, Croesus".

1.30. Solon visits Amasis and Croesus, while staying away from Athens while his laws are implemented. The story is certainly apocryphal, since Solon was archon at Athens as a mature man in the early 6th c. and this meeting would have had to take place at least 40 years later.

1.28. Some of these ethnic designations could probably be associated with regional designations: Lydia, Phrygia, Mysia, Paphlagonia, Thrace, Caria, Ionia, Aeolia, Pamphylia.

1.28. The Landmark Herodotus dates this to 560-547 BC.

1.27. Bias/Pittacus responds by pointing out the ridiculousness of Croesus' plan to attack the islanders on their own terms.

1.27. Croesus replies to Bias/Pittacus, suggesting that the islanders would be at a disadvantage if they were to attack the Lydians, renowned for their cavalry, on horseback.

1.27. Croesus asks for news; Bias/Pittacus responds with an ironic statement.

1.27. In what is presumably an apocryphal story, one of the Seven Sages of Greek tradition visits Croesus (the fact that the story is told with both Bias and Pittacus makes it even more likely to be apocryphal).

1.26. Croesus attacks the Ionian and Aeolian cities on various pretexts, probably ca. 560-550 BC.

1.26. According to the Landmark Herodotus, this happened ca. 560 BC (p. 16).

1.25. Alyattes also makes a dedication at Delphi, as a thank-offering for recovery from an illness: another precious-metal bowl.

1.24. Periander interrogates the sailors who forced Arion to leap from the boat.

1.24. Arion asks to be allowed to sing before throwing himself into the sea.

1.24. The Corinthian sailors refuse Arion's plea and instruct him to kill himself instead.

1.18. The chronology is confused, but the Landmark Herodotus suggests 610-598 BC (p. 12).

1.15. According to the Landmark Herodotus, which cites Assyrian documentary sources, the capture of Sardis by the Cimmerians took place in 644, at which time Gyges was killed.

1.15. Ardys, Gyges' son, also makes war on the Milesians.

1.15. Gyges engages in conflict with the Ionian cities on the coast of Asia Minor nearest to Lydia. The Lydian kings appear to have a particular antipathy to the Milesians.

1.14. Midas of Gordion also made offerings at Delphi, most notably a royal seat or throne.

1.14. Gyges dedicates golden and silver offerings at Delphi, including six golden bowls.

1.12. A fragment of a poem of Archilochus mentioning Gyges -- probably the one Herodotus is referring to -- is preserved in Aristotle's Rhetoric and in Plutarch. Perseus cites it as CURFRAG.tlg-0232.26.

1.24. Arion the lyre-player begs the Corinthian sailors plotting to kill him to take his money but spare his life.

1.22. The Lydians and Milesians end the war and enter into an alliance. One might treat this agreement as the result of personal negotiations between the tyrant of Miletus and the Lydian king.

1.22. Alyattes receives the report of the herald he sent to Thrasybulus. The herald, fooled by Thrasybulus' strategem, indicates that the Milesians have plenty of supplies.

1.21. Alyattes offers to make a truce with the Milesians while he rebuilds the temple that was burned.

1.20. Periander, tyrant of Corinth, passes on the oracle's response to Alyattes to his fellow tyrant Thrasybulus of Miletus.

1.19. The Pythia refuses to answer the question about the illness until the Lydians rebuild the temple of Athena at Assesos.

1.19. Alyattes, king of Lydia, consults the Delphic oracle about a persistent illness. The Landmark Herodotus suggests that this may have taken place ca. 598 BC (p. 12).

1.16. Alyattes, king of Lydia, wages ware against the Medes under Cyaxares, probably in the late 7th or early 6th c. BC.

1.13. Gyges consults the Delphic oracle, who confirms him in his kingship but warns that retribution will come in the fifth generation.

1.12. Gyges assassinates Candaules and takes the throne of Lydia, establishing the Mermnad dynasty.

1.12. Candaules' wife arms Gyges and hides him in Candaules' bedroom.

1.11. The wife of Candaules instructs Gyges to kill Candaules in his sleep.

1.11. Gyges, having failed to persuade Candaules' wife not to force him to make this choice, asks how they will kill Candaules.

1.11. The unnamed wife of Candaules, having been seen naked by Gyges, offers him a choice: kill the king and take his place, or be killed himself.

1.9. Candaules rejects Gyges' advice and overrules his hesitation; the situation moves from a consultation to an order from a superior to an inferior.

1.8. Gyges responds to Candaules' invitation with a warning not to challenge the natural order of things (don't look at women who aren't your own wife naked).

1.8. Candaules praises his wife's beauty to his bodyguard Gyges, setting in motion the chain of events that will end in his death.

1.5. Herodotus claims that the Phoenicians have an alternate version of the story of Io, in which she eloped willingly with the ship's captain because she was pregnant. This is an example of one type of account that Fehling thinks Herodotus invented (the story according to national bias). It is also example of what Dewald describes as Herodotus' "narrative surface", where Herodotus highlights his own process of data collection.

1.2. Herodotus reports the story of Jason and the Argonauts, without naming names. He frames the departure of Medea as an abduction, as with Io and Europa, rather than a willing elopement, as the story appears in e.g. Euripides' Medea.

1.5. Herodotus speaks to the reader again.

1.3. Alexander (Paris), son of Priam, king of Troy, abducts Helen, wife of Menelaus, from Sparta. Other authors were less certain about Helen's lack of complicity.

1.1. Io is seized by an unidentified Phoenician merchant.

1.1. Herodotus introduces himself to the reader/listener.

5.43: The Landmark Herodotus notes that this is a city near Tanagra in Boeotia, the precise location of which is unknown (Strassler 2009, note to 5.43.1a, p. 384).

Hdt. 1.214: Cyrus seems to have been buried at Pasargadae, where there is a built tomb associated with him (http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/922693/location-of-tomb-of-cyrus-the-great).

[test] genitive singular ιστοριη, inquiry

[test] A Carian city on the coast of Asia Minor,

[test] Cf. Euripides, Medea, lines XX-XX

presumably I could put a VIAF id here, if available