Discovering Cyrus
/ Reza Zarghamee
Edition 1
978-1-933823-38-6
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Zarghamee, Reza، نویسندهTitle and Author
Discovering Cyrus / / Reza ZarghameePublication Details
واشنگتن : : Mage Publishers، 2013مPhysical Description
xlviii, 735 p.؛ ; 25 cm.؛ : ill.(some color), maps.Subject
Cyrus, the Great, King of Persia, -530 B.C. or 529 B.C.Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C.
Iran
Kings and rulers
Biography
Iran
History
To 640
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(Iran's age of empire؛ ; Book 1)Language
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A note on the major sources.-A note on the rendering of names.-Ancient names.-Modern Iranian toponyms.-Cast of characters.-Prelude.-A nascent people:the arrival of the Medes and Persians in Western Iran.-The march of empires:Assyrians,Scythians,and Medes.-A life shrouded in myth:Cyrus' origins and early years.-Overthrow of the Medes:symbols of power.-Subjugation of Lydia and Ionia.-The sun and the sky:Iranian religion in the age of Cyrus.-In the paths of heroes:the conquest of Eastern Iran.-The fall of a civilization:the Persian conquest of Babylonia.-The Lord's anointed:Cyrus and Israel.-One king of many,one lord of many:the royal ideology and administration of the Persian empire.-The Persian Oecumene in reality and art.-With horse and bow:the ancient Persian army.-Cyrus the father:the glory days of Cyrus King of Persia.-The way of the warrior:Cyrus' death in Central Asia.-The empire after Cyrus.-Epilogue: Cyrus' legacy.-AppendixI:Cyrus, Darius, and the early history of the Achaemenid Dynasty.-App.II:Titles and name of Cyrus.-App.III:Additional thoughts on the Median worship of Mithra.-App.IV:Cyrus and the cult of the Goddess Anahita.-App.V:Ugbaru,oebaras,Gobryas,and the land of Gutium.-App.VI:The Babylonian chronicle.-App.VII:The Cyrus cylinder.-App.VIII:The verse account of Nabonidus.-App.IX:The dynastic prophecy.-App.X:Second Isaiah and the Cyrus cylinder.-App.XI:Second Isaiah,Cyrus,and Yahweh the Creator.-App.XII:Cyrus and the Book of Daniel.-AppIX:The Satrapies.....
Includes bibliographical references (p. 677-711) and index.
A note on the major sources.-A note on the rendering of names.-Ancient names.-Modern Iranian toponyms.-Cast of characters.-Prelude.-A nascent people:the arrival of the Medes and Persians in Western Iran.-The march of empires:Assyrians,Scythians,and Medes.-A life shrouded in myth:Cyrus' origins and early years.-Overthrow of the Medes:symbols of power.-Subjugation of Lydia and Ionia.-The sun and the sky:Iranian religion in the age of Cyrus.-In the paths of heroes:the conquest of Eastern Iran.-The fall of a civilization:the Persian conquest of Babylonia.-The Lord's anointed:Cyrus and Israel.-One king of many,one lord of many:the royal ideology and administration of the Persian empire.-The Persian Oecumene in reality and art.-With horse and bow:the ancient Persian army.-Cyrus the father:the glory days of Cyrus King of Persia.-The way of the warrior:Cyrus' death in Central Asia.-The empire after Cyrus.-Epilogue: Cyrus' legacy.-AppendixI:Cyrus, Darius, and the early history of the Achaemenid Dynasty.-App.II:Titles and name of Cyrus.-App.III:Additional thoughts on the Median worship of Mithra.-App.IV:Cyrus and the cult of the Goddess Anahita.-App.V:Ugbaru,oebaras,Gobryas,and the land of Gutium.-App.VI:The Babylonian chronicle.-App.VII:The Cyrus cylinder.-App.VIII:The verse account of Nabonidus.-App.IX:The dynastic prophecy.-App.X:Second Isaiah and the Cyrus cylinder.-App.XI:Second Isaiah,Cyrus,and Yahweh the Creator.-App.XII:Cyrus and the Book of Daniel.-AppIX:The Satrapies.....
Includes bibliographical references (p. 677-711) and index.
