Umbah-Umbah
Jerome McGann, 22 June 1989
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century
by Greil Marcus.
Secker, 496 pp., £14.95, June 1989,0 436 27338 1 Show More
by Greil Marcus.
Secker, 496 pp., £14.95, June 1989,
“... Around 529 BC the armies of the Persian Empire tried to conquer a mysterious and reclusive people who lived somewhere to the east of the Caspian Sea – to this day we do not know exactly where. The Persians acted simply because of Cyrus the Great’s overweening ambition. As it turned out, Cyrus’s armies were defeated and he was killed in the battle ... ”