07-06-2010, 12:53 AM
Herodotus mentions a heralds staff found on the beach (a portent perhaps?), yet he does not elaborate further on this. At one point he attributes the news of Plataea to divine intervention, in the next paragraph he justifies the news reaching Mykale by stating that Plataea was fought early in the day with Mykale being fought late in the day. It would have been nice if he had simply told us by what means the news travelled so quickly! That would be too easy for us though! :lol:
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
