The Athenian on his side has a pleasure in speaking to the Lacedaemonian of the struggle in which their ancestors were jointly engaged against the Persians.
Stud.) out of a confusion of the visit of Epimenides and Diotima (Symp.),—he describes as coming to Athens, not after the attempt of Cylon, but ten years before the Persian war.
We can hardly suppose that an educated Athenian would have placed the visit of Epimenides to Athens ten years before the Persian war, or have imagined that a war with Messene prevented the Lacedaemonians from coming to the rescue of Hellas.
To return to the question of drinking: shall we have total abstinence, as you have, or hard drinking, like the Scythians and Thracians, or moderate potations like the Persians?
You know that Epimenides, the Cretan prophet, came and offered sacrifices in your city by the command of an oracle ten years before the Persian war.
He told the Athenians that the Persian host would not come for ten years, and would go away again, having suffered more harm than they had inflicted.
But if the coming danger could have been foreseen, and the union preserved, then no Persian or other enemy would have dared to attack Hellas; and indeed there was not so much credit to us in defeating the enemy, as discredit in our disloyalty to one another.
For of the three cities one only fought on behalf of Hellas; and of the two others, Argos refused her aid; and Messenia was actually at war with Sparta: and if the Lacedaemonians and Athenians had not united, the Hellenes would have been absorbed in the Persian empire, and dispersed among the barbarians.
There are two mother forms of states—one monarchy, and the other democracy: the Persians have the first in the highest form, and the Athenians the second; and no government can be well administered which does not include both.
There was a time when both the Persians and Athenians had more the character of a constitutional state than they now have.
In the days of Cyrus the Persians were freemen as well as lords of others, and their soldiers were free and equal, and the kings used and honoured all the talent which they could find, and so the nation waxed great, because there was freedom and friendship and communion of soul.
'Likely enough.' Their father had possessions of men and animals, and never considered that the race to whom he was about to make them over had been educated in a very different school, not like the Persian shepherd, who was well able to take care of himself and his own.
These remarks were suggested by the history of the Persian kings; and to them I will now return.
But enough of the Persians: a different lesson is taught by the Athenians, whose example shows that a limited freedom is far better than an unlimited.
Ancient Athens, at the time of the Persian invasion, had such a limited freedom.
The Persians have lost their liberty in absolute slavery, and we in absolute freedom.
Because there was a Persian empire which was the natural enemy of the Greek, there must also have been an Assyrian empire, which had a similar hostility; and not only the fable of the island of Atlantis, but the Trojan war, in Plato's mind derived some features from the Persian struggle.
Most histories meet the Persians when Cyrus takes Babylon.
That is why the Persians keep appearing in my research on the flood and the ages before it, and this page brings those threads together.
Paschal Beverly Randolph, in Pre-Adamite Man, retells the Persian account of the first man.
"When all this was done, God called into existence a being named Kyomarz, or Gil-Shah; and he was the father of all the present human race—that is to say, of the Persians.
It is the Persian form of the idea I follow on Cyclical time in ancient legends: humanity is not on one line but on a wheel.
Marie, Countess of Caithness, went further and placed the Persians among the heirs of Atlantis.
in the Hebrews, and possibly also the Persians, we behold tribes of ancient Atlantis, who preserved the tradition of Monotheism and Soul-Worship in greater purity
In the Bible the Persians arrive with an unseen ruler of their own.
But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days.
The Persians come back at the birth of Jesus.
Magi were the tutors of the Persian kings
And on Persian stories of the missing years of Jesus the History Guy follows Iranian texts that send Jesus east:
According to expanded Persian sources, Jesus's journey east was far more detailed than a simple passage through regions.
Persian stories of the missing years of Jesus
For every page I tagged with persian, see the persian tag archive.
The sixteenth letter is on the ancient Persians and their oldest history.
He counts four lost peoples he can show: the Atlantes, a neighboring people indicated by Plato, the Dives, and the Peris, whose memory is faithfully kept among the Persians.
The eighteenth letter is the origin of the Persians beyond the ramparts of Asia.
The Persians, the Indians, the Siamese, or even the Chinese, had astronomical tables precise enough for a certain exactness, founded on different elements, the sign of separate researches.
On the ancient Persians and their oldest history.
Origin of the Persians beyond the ramparts of Asia.
After he captured the Egyptian Satrapy from the Persians, Alexander wanted to build a large Greek city on Egypt's coast that would bear his name.
And it did, indeed, facilitate the merging of many different cultures: Atlantean, Egyptian, Cretan, Phoenician, Hebrew, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Macedonian, and Roman.
And it did, indeed, facilitate the merging of many different cultures: Atlantean, Egyptian, Cretan, Phoenician, Hebrew, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Macedonian, and Roman.
He wages wars against rivals (e.g., using Persians and Greeks ~539–490 BCE to defeat Baal and Ashtaroth, casting them into hell).
His influence distorts later Indian and Persian religions (linked to Zoroastrian and Buddhist elements).
This involves heavenly and earthly wars, including Persian-Greek conflicts, leading to her imprisonment in dense spiritual hells (around ~500–300 BCE interpretive periods).
614 AD: Persian Sack of Jerusalem - Sassanid Persians captured Jerusalem from Byzantines, destroying churches and massacring Christians during the Byzantine-Sassanid War.
In Modern Persian, Sirius is called Tishtar or Tir, derived from the same root.
The Persian religion.
Kaspar, and two other Persian masters, meet him in Persepolis.
1. In Persia Jesus' work was done and he resumed his journey towards his native land.2. The Persian sage went with him to the Euphrates; then with a pledge that they would meet again in Egypt land the masters said, Farewell.3. And Kaspar went his way unto his home beside the Caspian Sea; and Jesus soon was in Chaldea, cradle land of Israel.4. In Ur, where Abraham was born, he tarried for a time; and when he told the people who he was, and why he came, they came from near and far to speak to him.5. He said to them, We all are kin.
4000 BC: Mesopotamia; Sea level, Persian Gulf
Recent (1996) reviews of Persian Gulf paleosealevel indicates that levels were up to 2 meters higher than at present during the period 6000-4000 BP (Earth and Plan Sci Letters 142 (1996) 43-57.
Zoroaster’s Avesta and hymns parallel Zarathustra’s revelations in Oahspe, and both establish communities that influence Persian and Indian religious traditions.
Why This Comparison?: The shared name, monotheistic mission, and influence on Persian/Indian spirituality make Zoroaster the closest parallel.
My Opinion on the Best Comparison: Zoroaster is the most fitting comparison due to the identical name, shared monotheistic teachings, and influence on Persian/Indian religious traditions.
But since Heyerdahl was assuming a world-wide natural catastrophe, he believed that the tsunami must have originated in the ocean somewhere outside the Persian Gulf.
Persian Gulf "Atlantis" (~8,000-12,000 years ago): a land, now under the sea, where early humans thrived.
Tannis was a site of significant activity during the Byzantine-Persian conflicts in the 7th century CE.
The Persians captured Alexandria during this period, and violent clashes followed for over a decade.
It is speculated that Tannis may have been the location of a battle between the Byzantines and the Persians, potentially involving the use of Greek Fire.
According to Greek mythology, one of them was Perses, the ancestor of the Persian people.
Role in mythology: Perses is seen as the ancestor of the Persian people.
According to Greek mythology, he stayed in the kingdom of Cepheus and founded the Persian royal line.
Symbolism: The story of Perses shows the Greek effort to link their myths to the histories and origins of other cultures, including the Persian Empire.
They emerged from the waters of the Persian Gulf.
About 2400 BC, Sumer was invaded from the west and north by Semitic tribes, and by about 2350 BCwas captive to the warrior king Sargon the Great, who founded the Semite Akkadian Dynasty, whoseempire stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.
The Sumerian tablets went undeciphered until 1802, when a German high school teacher named GeorgGrotefend began systematically translating the trilingual Persian inscription of Darius the Great on theBehistun Rock, which included a version in Babylonian cuneiform Today nearly eighty percent ofcuneiform tablets have not yet been translated into English because the sheer quantity has overwhelmedthe world’s handful of translators.
According to the interpretations of Zecharia Sitchin and many others, the term Anunnaki means “thosewho came from the heavens to the Earth.” In Sitchin’s narrative, these were astronauts from the planetNibiru who traveled through the Great Bracelet (the asteroid belt) and initially landed in the Persian Gulf.There they began to colonize and search for gold.
Their initial landings were made in the Persian Gulf, just as our ownastronauts at first splashed down in the ocean.
But when the Anunnaki attempted to retrieve gold from the Persian Gulf by an extraction process, itproved inefficient and time-consuming.
After the Greeks twice defeated Persian invasions, Athens became the center of power and during the next few centuries led the nation’s advancement in science, the arts, and philosophy.
He then dealt with theanomalies of doctrine by replacing certain aspects of Christian ritual with the familiar pagan traditions of sun worship, together with other teachings of Syrian and Persian origin.
About 2400 BC, Sumer was invaded from the west and north by Semitic tribes, and by about 2350 BCwas captive to the warrior king Sargon the Great, who founded the Semite Akkadian Dynasty, whoseempire stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.
The Sumerian tablets went undeciphered until 1802, when a German high school teacher named GeorgGrotefend began systematically translating the trilingual Persian inscription of Darius the Great on theBehistun Rock, which included a version in Babylonian cuneiform.
The term baga- is common in Old Persian, Avestan, and related languages.
Egypt, weakened by internal strife and external pressures, fell to the Persians under Cambyses II in the 6th century BCE.
The Persians imposed control until Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, incorporating the land into his vast empire.
Unlike the Persians, Alexander embraced local traditions, integrating himself into Egyptian culture by participating in rituals and building structures such as a temple dedicated to Isis.
Pelusium, the location of the temple, played a significant role in the Persian conquest of Egypt in 525 BCE.
Pharaoh Psamtik III faced defeat due to betrayal and unfavorable omens, including the Persian army's strategic use of cats—animals sacred to Egyptians—to gain a psychological advantage.
"The nations who are comprehended under the common appellation of Indo-European," says Max Müller--"the Hindoos, the Persians, the Celts, Germans, Romans, Greeks, and Slavs--do not only share the same words and the same grammar, slightly modified in each country, but they seem to have likewise preserved a mass of popular traditions which had grown up before they left their common home."
Iranian or Persian; 7.
Bel sometimes wore a tiara with his bull's horns; the tiara was the crown subsequently worn by the Persian kings, and it became, in time, the symbol of Papal authority.
Arminius Vámbéry, in his "Travels in Central Asia," describes very important ruins near the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, at a place called Gömüshtepe; and connected with these are the remains of a great wall which he followed "ten geographical miles." He found a vast aqueduct one hundred and fifty miles long, extending to the Persian mountains.
In fact, kindred races, with the same arts, and speaking the same tongue in an early age of the world, separated in Atlantis and went east and west--the one to repeat the civilization of the mother-country along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, which, like a great river, may be said to flow out from the Black Sea, with the Nile as one of its tributaries, and along the shores of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; while the other emigration advanced up the Amazon, and created mighty nations upon its head-waters in the valleys of the Andes and on the shores of the Pacific.
It is remarkable that the oldest traditions of the early Babylonians seem to center round the Persian Gulf.
Further on in this work it is shown how Ezra obtained his version from the Egyptian and Persian records.
In this work it is also related as to what became of the lost tribes, who became the Persians (Parsa'yans) in fact, whence sprang the great Zarathustra (Zoroaster).4 E-O-IH, or Je-ho-vih, was the master's word amongst the ancient Jews.