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Memnon : History of Heracleia
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> Memnon : History of Heracleia</TITLE> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name="description" content="Index page to Greek text and translation of Memnon, History of Heracleia"> <META NAME="viewport" CONTENT="width=device-width"> <LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="../styles.css"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="../favicon2.ico"/> </HEAD> <BODY CLASS="margins"> <A HREF="../translate/index.html"><IMG SRC="../back.jpg" ALT="back" ALIGN=RIGHT></A> <H1> Memnon: History of Heracleia</H1> <BR> <HR> <P> Very little is known about Memnon; he may have lived in the first century A.D. He wrote a local history of the city of <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclea_Pontica">Heracleia Pontica</A>, an important Greek colony on the south coast of the Black Sea. Excerpts from this history have been preserved by the Byzantine scholar Photius, and give an interesting account of the rise and fall of an outpost of Greek civilisation. The surviving portion of the history covers the period from the tyrant Clearchus (364-353 B.C.) down to the capture of the city by the Romans (70 B.C.) <BR><HR><BR> <TABLE BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=4> <TR> <TH> Chapters 1-21 <TD> <A HREF="../greek/memnon1.html">Greek text</A> <TD> <A HREF="../translate/memnon1.html">English translation</A> <TD> Heracleia in the 4th - 2nd centuries B.C. <TR> <TH> Chapters 22-40 <TD> <A HREF="../greek/memnon2.html">Greek text</A> <TD> <A HREF="../translate/memnon2.html">English translation</A> <TD ROWSPAN=2> The war against Mithridates </TABLE> <BR><HR> <P ALIGN=CENTER> <IMG SRC="../heracleia.jpg" ALT="map of Heracleia" WIDTH=484 HEIGHT=320> <BR CLEAR=ALL><BR> <I> Heracleia and surrounding area in Hellenistic times</I></P> <BR><HR> <P ALIGN=CENTER> <A HREF="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"> <IMG SRC="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401-blue" ALIGN="RIGHT" ALT="Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional" HEIGHT="25" WIDTH="71"></A> <A HREF="../index.html">Attalus' home page</A> </BODY> </HTML>