Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (1906)
Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 501
ry b.c, after the Persian that it occurred at the Syrian Ecba- War, as we then find the word used tana; Ctesias (Fragments, 4.3-44, ed. by iEschylus, Persians, 65, apparently Gilmore, pp. 144-145) says that the with a, punning allusion to destroy- event occurred at Babylon, and adds ing (ir^pa-is)… … M C rt 0 FROM PASARGAB^ TO NAESH~I RUSTAM 295 trace back for centuries, if not to Achaemenian times, may-have designated the city in the plain north and west of theplatform-, that is, the abode of the people in distinction fromthe residence of the kings on the grand terrace.^ Be that asit may, the…
Zoroastrianism
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