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THE
WORKS
OF
SIR WALTER RALEGH, KT.
NOW FIRST COLLECTED :
TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED
THE LIVES OF THE AUTHOR,
BY OLDYS AND BIRCH.
IN EIGHT VOLUMES.
VOL. V.
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
BOOKS III. IV.
OXFORD,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
MDCCCXXIX.
THE CONTENTS.
BOOK III.
CHAP. I.
OF the time passing between the destruction of Jerusalem and
the fall of the Assyrian empire.
P.I
Sect. I. Of the connection of sacred and profane history.
Sect. II. A brief rehearsal of two opinions, touching the begin-
ning of the captivity, with an answer to the cavils of Porphyry,
inveighing against St. Matthew and Daniel, upon whom the
later of these opinions is founded.
3
Sect. III. That the seventy years of captivity are to be numbered
from the destruction of Jerusalem, not from the migration of
Jechonia.
Sect. IV. Sundry opinions of the kings which reigned in Babylon
during the seventy years.
6
8
Sect. V. A more particular examination of pue opinion touching
the number, persons, and reigns of the Babylonian kings. 14
Sect. VI. What may be held as probable of the persons and times
of Nabuchodonosor's successors. 19
Sect. VII. Of the victories which Nabuchodonosor obtained be-
tween the destruction of Jerusalem and conquest of Egypt. 23
Sect. VIII. That Egypt was conquered, and the king therein
reigning slain by Nabuchodonosor, contrary to the opinion of
most authors; who following Herodotus and Diodorus, relate
it otherwise.
27
Sect. IX. How Egypt was subdued and held by Nebuchadnez-
zar.
31
Sect. X. Of the sundry accounts drawn from sundry acts of Ne-
buchadnezzar, and of the destruction of Nineveh by him; the
time of which action is uncertain.
34
Sect. XI. Of the later time of Nebuchadnezzar; his buildings,
madness, and death.
Sect. XII. Of Evilmerodach.
36
40
Sect. XIII. A private conjecture of the author; serving to make
good those things which are cited out of Berosus, concerning
the successors of Evilmerodach, without wrong to the truth,
the quality, and death of Balthasar.
CHAP. II.
Of the original and first greatness of the Persians.
42
Sect. I. That the Medes were chief actors in the subversion of
the Babylonian empire.
45
Sect. II. By what means the empire was translated from the
Medes to the Persians. 47
Sect. III. Xenophon's relation of the war which the Medes and
Persians made with joint forces upon the Assyrians and
others.
49
Sect. IV. The estate of the Medes and Persians in times fore-
going this great war.
51
CHAP. III.
.."Of Ceris
Sect. I. Of Cyrus's name and first actions.
54
Sect. II. Of Croesus the king of Lydia, who made war upon Cy-
Sect. VII. Of Cyrus's decree for building the temple of God in
Jerusalem.
70
Sect. VIII. Of Cyrus's issue: and whether Atossa were his
daughter, or (as some think) were the same with queen
Esther.
73
CHAP. IV.
The estate of things from the death of Cyrus to the reign of
Darius.
Sect. I. Of the number and names of the Persian kings.
Sect. II. Of Cambyses, and the conquering of Egypt by him.
Sect. III. The rest of Cambyses his acts.
74
77
79
Sect. IV. Of the interregnum between Cambyses and Darius. 82
CHAP. V.
Of Darius the son of Hystaspes.
Sect. I. Of Darius's lineage.
84
Sect. II. Of Darius's government, and suppressing the rebellion.
of Babylon.
85
Sect. III. Of Darius's favour to the Jews in building the temple.
Sect. IV. Of Darius's Scythian war.
ibid.
86
Sect. V. Some actions of the Persians in Europe after the Scy-
thian war. 88
Sect. VI. The first occasion of the war which Darius made upon
Greece, with a rehearsal of the government in Athens, whence
the quarrel grew.
90
Sect. VII. Of the Ionian rebellion, which was the principal cause
of the wars ensuing between Greece and Persia. 95
Sect. VIII. The war which Darius made upon Greece, with the
battle of Marathon, and Darius's death.
CHAP. VI.
Of Xerxes.
Sect. I. The preparation of Xerxes against Greece.
100
105
Sect. II. Xerxes' army entertained by Pythius; his cutting off
mount Athos from the continent; his bridge of boats over the
Hellespont; and the discourse between him and Artabanus
upon the view of his army.
107
112
Sect. III. Of the fights at Thermopylæ and Artemisium.
Sect. IV. The attempt of Xerxes upon Apollo's temple; and his
taking of Athens.
116
Sect. V. How Themistocles the Athenian drew the Greeks to
fight at Salamis.
117
Sect. VI. How the Persians consulted about giving battle, and
how Themistocles by policy held the Greeks to their resolu-
tion; with the victory at Salamis thereupon ensuing. I 20
Sect. VII. Of things following after the battle of Salamis; and
of the flight of Xerxes.
123
Sect. VIII. The negotiations between Mardonius and the Athe-
nians, as also between the Athenians and Lacedæmonians, after
the flight of Xerxes.
Sect. IX. The great battle of Platææ.
124
128