Persian Empire

Alexander the Great in bringing about the process of destruction of what is commonly referred to as the Persian Empire of that time.

LaRouche's Latest 2010

The Persian Empire was a world state, and he grew up on the edge of it.

Robert Strassler on Herodotus 2007

His history of the invasion of Greece by the Persian Empire was the first attempt at narrative history and was the beginning of all Western history writing.

Herodotus 2002

His history of the invasion of Greece by the Persian Empire was the first attempt at narrative history and the beginning of all Western historical writing.

Herodotus 2002

That the record of the period of Exile given in the Old Testament should have preserved the forgotten connection of eschatological ideas with the parallel Zoroastrianism in the world of the Persian Empire is a piece of a greater puzzle.

Darwiniana 2008

This inland capital of the prosperous land of Lydia was a key city of the Persian Empire and the end point of the royal road that stretched well over a thousand miles to Susa in Mesopotamia.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

This is the heroic legend told by Herodotus, but the true story of Cyrus and the creation of the Persian Empire is even more remarkable.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Bucephalas: Thessalian stallion with an ox-shaped mark tamed by Alexander as a boy and ridden by him in his conquests across the Persian Empire.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

When Esther learned of a plot by a madman named Haman to kill all the Jews in the Persian Empire, she knew the right thing to do was to alert her husband, King Ahasuerus.

The 7 Glenn Beck 2011

Jaxartes: Flowing into the Aral Sea, the modern Syr Darya was the northeastern boundary of the Persian Empire and the scene of fierce fighting by Alexander.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011