Herodotus, Histories, Translation

Hdt, Histories, Translation

1.4.2

…For it is clear that, if the women were not willing, they would not have been seized.

1.4.3

For indeed, we from Asia say that when the women were seized they made not a word [?], but the Greeks on account of Lacedemonian woman raised a great armament and then, having come into Asia they destroyed away the power of Priam.

1.4.4

From this time [the Persians] always considered the Greek nation to be at war with themselves. For the Persian claim as their own Asia and the barbaric-nation inhabitants. But Europe and Greece they consider to be separate.

1.4.5

Thus, on the one hand, the Persians say it happened, and on account of the capture of Troy they find the beginning of the hostilities toward Greeks to be with themselves.