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Identifier: cu31924028627036 Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects: Zoroastrianism Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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Text Appearing After Image: «•■«- iTBf-» The Platform ovERLOoKiN(i Pasaroad*: THE ROYAL SEAT OF GYRUS 279 most part erroneous, identification of Cj^rus with the shadowyfigure of Kei Khosru — an identification which lingers still inthe hearts of the Persian people. Whatever value we are toattach to the picturesque accounts of the youth of Cyrus astold by Herodotus, Xenophon, and other classical writers, hisreal elevation to power began with his defeating Astyages andthen overthrowing the Median Kingdom, before the year B.C.550.1 xhis vanquisher of Media next conquered Croesus andthe realm of Lydia, subdued Ionia, Lycia, and Caria on thewest, reduced a part of the Hindu Kush region in the east, andat last humbled the proud city of Babylon, thus rendering firmthe foundations of his vast kingdom before death stayed hishand. He chose as the seat for his capital the spot wherehe had first gained his victory over the Medes. Here he builtPasargadse, the royal city whose ruins still cover several miles,^and here
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