Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war (1889)
Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna), 1835-1924 · London : T. Fisher Unwin ; New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 307
IA. the cast and north, (h)cs not affect the uplands,which abound in mountain springs, although thereis no room for long and wide rivers, the five ridgeswhich stretch across the country being broken onlyby narrow and precipitous passes. The wooded pas-tures on the mountain sides and the rich… … 37. PERSIAN AND MEDIAN FOOT-SOLDIERS. mg The Greeks ascribed much of the enduranceand warlike qualities for which they respected thePersians to the fact of their living so much out-of-doors and being trained to watchfulness by theiroccupation of guarding flocks and herds by day andby night. Riding,…
Zoroastrianism · Iran -- History · Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
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