HIST 2100 Lecture 8: Herodotus September 30th, 2013.doc
19 Nov 2014
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Herodotus on cyrene (159) battus the fortunate, cause of great rush to cyrene, oracle at delphi, anyone who came after it was established and land was parceled out would regret it . People of cyrene were offering land to new settlers, could be cause of colonization. Section 159 in this way the population of the place greatly increased . Section 156, by joining battus in establishing cyrene their fortunes would greatly increase. Section 158; apollo would not let them off until they had established a settled on the actual libyan midland. Grinnus consulted an oracle who told him he had to found a city in libya (section 150) Lack of agriculture and food source; needed food, would have been competition to find land on which to grow/produce food. Natural disasters (i. e. drought) (book 4 section 150); no rain fell, killed all crops. Trading opportunities; greeks mimicked what the phoenicians did.
