Achaemenides

It was, moreover, conditioned by the influence of Iranian dualism, which Israel had probably first encountered through its incorporation into the Persian empire of the Achaemenides after the Exile (538 B.C.).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDO 1968

I was once the field of Achaemenides, now I am Menippus ', and again I shall pass from another to another; for the former thought once that he owned me, and the latter thinks so now in his turn; and I belong to no man at all, but to Fortune.

Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

From Ithaca my native foil I came To Troy, and Achaemenides my name.

The Works of the English Poets 1779

The conquests of Semiramis (Serimamis in the original) may have included a part of India, but only Brunnhofer finds trace of this in Vedic literature, and the character of his work we have already described.] [Footnote 3: Senart attributes to the Achaemenides certain

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

(Herodot.l. i.c. 103) and Persians; and the kings of Pontus were of the royal race of the Achaemenides, (Sallust.

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