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They manned a ship of war, and sailed to Aea, a city of Colchis, on the river Phasis from whence, after despatching the rest of the business on which they had come, they carried off Medea, the daughter of the king of the land. In this they only retaliated but afterwards the Greeks, they say, were guilty of a second violence. Thus did Io pass into Egypt, according to the Persian story, which differs widely from the Phoenician: and thus commenced, according to their authors, the series of outrages.Īt a later period, certain Greeks, with whose name they are unacquainted, but who would probably be Cretans, made a landing at Tyre, on the Phoenician coast, and bore off the king’s daughter, Europe. The Phoenicians put the women on board their vessel, and set sail for Egypt. The greater part made their escape, but some were seized and carried off. The women were standing by the stern of the ship intent upon their purchases, when the Phoenicians, with a general shout, rushed upon them.

Here they exposed their merchandise, and traded with the natives for five or six days at the end of which time, when almost everything was sold, there came down to the beach a number of women, and among them the daughter of the king, who was, they say, agreeing in this with the Greeks, Io, the child of Inachus. They landed at many places on the coast, and among the rest at Argos, which was then preeminent above all the states included now under the common name of Hellas. This people, who had formerly dwelt on the shores of the Erythraean Sea, having migrated to the Mediterranean and settled in the parts which they now inhabit, began at once, they say, to adventure on long voyages, freighting their vessels with the wares of Egypt and Assyria. According to the Persians best informed in history, the Phoenicians began to quarrel. THESE are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, and of preventing the great and wonderful actions of the Greeks and the Barbarians from losing their due meed of glory and withal to put on record what were their grounds of feuds. Excerpts from the Original Electronic Text at the web site of the Internet Classics Archives.