Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World (3rd ed.)

Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World  Some of the most fascinating human epochs lie in the borderlands between history and mystery. So it is with the life of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire in the sixth century B.C. By conquest or gentler means, he brought under his rule a dominion stretching from the Aegean Sea to the Hindu Kush and encompassing some tens of millions of people. All across this immense imperium, he earned support and stability by