Persia

There are 1590 items in Persia:

Zarathustra

Zarathustra (Greek Zoroaster): legendary religious teacher from Bactria, founder of Zoroastrianism. Modern portrait of Zarathustra, inspired by a dress on a…

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Ziggurat

Ziggurat: a multi-storied temple tower from ancient Mesopotamia. Choga Zanbil Ziggurats are, architecturally, the Mesopotamian equivalent of the Egyptian pyramids: large artificial…

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Zopyrus

Zopyrus: a Persian nobleman who may have played a role during the capture of Babylon by the Persian king Darius I the Great in December 522 BCE. The story is told by the Greek researcher Herodotus and can be read…

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Zosimus, New History 1.04

Zosimus (Greek Ζώσιμος): Early Byzantine, pagan author of a history of the Roman Empire, published in the first quarter of the sixth century CE.The translation of Zosimus' New History offered here was printed in 1814 by W. Green and T. Chaplin in London,…

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Zosimus, New History 1.18

Zosimus (Greek Ζώσιμος): Early Byzantine, pagan author of a history of the Roman Empire, published in the first quarter of the sixth century CE.The translation of Zosimus' New History offered here was printed in 1814 by W. Green and T. Chaplin in London, and…

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Zosimus, New History 1.27

Zosimus (Greek Ζώσιμος): Early Byzantine, pagan author of a history of the Roman Empire, published in the first quarter of the sixth century CE.The translation of Zosimus' New History offered here was printed in 1814 by W. Green and T. Chaplin in London,…

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