HISTORY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Strategos, Boeotia, Perioeci
1 Jul 2013
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Persians have always been in greek histories since the 6th century. Sources on persians during war literary: primarily greek, herodotus. Wrote about persia, but was kind of biased by the. Retrospective evidence (art, archaeology: inscription of behistum. All the different nations of them going to the persian king darius. Darius is the first king that the greeks encounter. Indo-europeon people: modern fars region, related to medes (median empire) One tribe for a much larger empire. Their rise is remarkable- faster than athens, fatser than rome. Cyrus ii (the great: seen as the good ruler (by non persians) successful, etc. Capital city, can still find the tomb of cyrus himself. Cyrus the great (559-530 bce: annexation of lydia (incl. Cambyses (530- 523: egypt, persian debate , he was though as insane, he was assassinated in his palace by controversies in his own family.
