Media, Babylon and Persia: Including a Study of the Zend Avesta from the Fall of Nineveh to the Persian WarPutnam, 1903 - 447 pages |
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Page viii
... Kyros . - § 5 . Explanation of the account . — § 6. Probable details . — § 7 . Extension of the Persian Empire in the East . - § 8. Kyros ' wise rule . Fusion of the Medes and Persians . - § 9. The ruins of Pasargadæ , Kyros ' royal ...
... Kyros . - § 5 . Explanation of the account . — § 6. Probable details . — § 7 . Extension of the Persian Empire in the East . - § 8. Kyros ' wise rule . Fusion of the Medes and Persians . - § 9. The ruins of Pasargadæ , Kyros ' royal ...
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... Kyros.- 24. The Jews support him . - § 25. Surrender of Babylon and triumphal entry of Kyros . - § 26. He con- ciliates the priests and delivers the Jews . - § 27. Obscurity of his last years , and death . APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XI . The ...
... Kyros.- 24. The Jews support him . - § 25. Surrender of Babylon and triumphal entry of Kyros . - § 26. He con- ciliates the priests and delivers the Jews . - § 27. Obscurity of his last years , and death . APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XI . The ...
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... KYROS TOMB OF KYROS AT PASARGADE · 301 3.02 SUPPOSED TOMB OF KAMBYSES I. LION - FRIEZE , IN GLAZED TILES , AT SUSA DESIGN ON ARCHERS ' ROBES 305 335 · 337 BATTLEMENTED STAIR PARAPET 338 ROYAL SEAL OF THE AKHÆMENIAN KINGS 339 WINGED BULL ...
... KYROS TOMB OF KYROS AT PASARGADE · 301 3.02 SUPPOSED TOMB OF KAMBYSES I. LION - FRIEZE , IN GLAZED TILES , AT SUSA DESIGN ON ARCHERS ' ROBES 305 335 · 337 BATTLEMENTED STAIR PARAPET 338 ROYAL SEAL OF THE AKHÆMENIAN KINGS 339 WINGED BULL ...
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... KYROS · CONQUEST OF LYDIA BY KYROS CONQUEST OF BABYLON BY KYROS AND END OF JEW- DEATH OF KYROS THE GREAT BATTLE OF PELUSION AND CONQUEST OF EGYPT DAREIOS I. , SON OF HYSTASPES 549 546 " 6 539 529 529-522 66 525 522-485 " " ( 522-515 ...
... KYROS · CONQUEST OF LYDIA BY KYROS CONQUEST OF BABYLON BY KYROS AND END OF JEW- DEATH OF KYROS THE GREAT BATTLE OF PELUSION AND CONQUEST OF EGYPT DAREIOS I. , SON OF HYSTASPES 549 546 " 6 539 529 529-522 66 525 522-485 " " ( 522-515 ...
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... KYROS I. ( KURUSH ) suc- ceeded him in Anshan , while another , ARIARAMNES ( ARIYÂRÂMANA ) , reigned in Persia . These were fol- lowed respectively by their sons , KAMBYSES I. , in Anshan , and Arsames ( ArshÂMA ) , in Persia . It is ...
... KYROS I. ( KURUSH ) suc- ceeded him in Anshan , while another , ARIARAMNES ( ARIYÂRÂMANA ) , reigned in Persia . These were fol- lowed respectively by their sons , KAMBYSES I. , in Anshan , and Arsames ( ArshÂMA ) , in Persia . It is ...
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Ahura Ahura-Mazda Akhæmenian Amesha-Spentas ancient Anshan Aryan Aryas Asia Astyages Âtar Avesta Babylon Babylonian battle called Chinvat Bridge corpse daêvas Dakhmas Dareios death deities divine earth Êgibi Egypt empire Erân Eranian evil faithful fiends fire followers Fravashis Gâthas gods Greek Gyges hand Haoma Hara-Berezaiti heaven heavenly Herodotus holy hymns India Indo-Eranian inscriptions Kambujiya Kambyses king Kroisos Kyaxares Kyros land language light living Lord LYCIA Lydian material Mazda Mazdayasnian Mazdeism Medes Median Median Empire ment Mithra modern mountain myth mythical nations nature Nebuchadrezzar original palace Parsis PERSEPOLIS Persian prayer priests probably prophet race reign religion religious ROCK-TOMB royal sacred books sacrifice Sassanian Scythians sea Vouru-Kasha Semitic silver soul spirit Sraosha Story of Assyria Story of Chaldea tablets temple thing thou tion Tishtrya Turanian unto Váruna Vendîdâd walls waters words worship Yasna Yazatas Yesht Yima Zarathushtra Zoroaster Zoroastrian
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Page 177 - And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name...
Page 176 - As I live, saith the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence...
Page 184 - Tyre : every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled : yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyre, for the service that he had served against it : therefore thus saith the Lord God...
Page 406 - And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace ; where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
Page 178 - I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
Page 184 - Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.
Page 360 - Then the whole state became rebellious ; from Cambyses it went over to him, both Persia and Media, and the other provinces. He seized the empire ; on the pth day of the month Garmapada,* then it was he thus seized the empire.