Great Kings, Strong Kings, Kings of the Four Quarters
Peter Green: The Achaemenids, 7 May 2015
Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE
by Matt Waters.
Cambridge, 252 pp., £19.99, January 2014,978 0 521 25369 7 Show More
by Matt Waters.
Cambridge, 252 pp., £19.99, January 2014,
“... it. He claimed the otherwise obscure Achaemenes as an ancestor, and went out of his way, as Matt Waters points out, to insist that Cyrus, too, had been an Achaemenid, though Cyrus himself had never said anything of that sort. Darius became an even more dominant Great King and so, despite the possibly mythical status of Achaemenes, the rulers of the ... ”