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 529
itsmidst. Over the surface of the platform are spread theremains of the architectural glories of the Achaemenians. We have a general description of the platform, written in 1 See p. 307, n. 1, above. Diodorus ^ gge Diodorus Siculus, History, Siculus (History, 17. 72) draws a vivid 17. 71. picture… … THE PLATFORM OF PERSEPOLIS 311 Greek nearly two thousand years ago, by Diodorus Siculus(c. B.C. 50). Since the passage is important as a means ofidentification of the site, I translate the paragraph which relatesto the construction of the terrace and the tombs of the kings,preserving in my…
Zoroastrianism
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