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Vol. X, #5 "The Legacy of Cyrus - The Empires of Persia at War"

By: Karwansaray Publishers

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ancient Warfare Magazine

Last Stocked on 4/19/2023

Product Info

Title
Vol. X, #5 "The Legacy of Cyrus - The Empires of Persia at War"
Category
Sub-category
Publish Year
2017
Pages
58
Dimensions
8.5x11x.25"
NKG Part #
2147655139
MFG. Part #
KARAW_10_5
Type
Magazine

Description

Medes, Persians or Achaemenids? Ancient sources rarely cared to differentiate them. Their tribes united and became kingdoms, and their kingdoms turned into empires. Some of the most decisive chapters of ancient warfare were written when their ever-changing borders brought them face-to-face with the great western powers.

Tomb of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae, Fars Province, Iran. Theme: Daan Nijssen, "Cyrus' conquest of Babylon - How history became myth"

Cyrus’ conquest of Babylon is relatively well documented thanks to the Nabonidus Chronicle, the Cyrus Cylinder, and later Greek sources like Herodotus and Xenophon. It appears that this event has left traces in later Persian oral tradition, since a story similar to Cyrus’ conquest of Babylon can be found in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Iran’s national epic.