{"product_id":"2940015744248","title":"History of Egypt, Chald\u0026aelig;a, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12)","description":"_THE IRANIAN CONQUEST_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_THE IRANIAN RELIGIONS--CYRUS IN LYDIA AND AT BABYLON; CAMBYSES IN\u003cbr\u003eEGYPT--DARIUS AND THE ORGANISATION OF THE EMPIRE._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The constitution of the Median empire borrowed from the ancient peoples\u003cbr\u003eof the Euphrates: its religion only is peculiar to itself--Legends\u003cbr\u003econcerning Zoroaster, his laws; the Avesta and its history--Elements\u003cbr\u003econtained in it of primitive religion--The supreme god Ahura-mazâ and\u003cbr\u003ehis Amêsha-spentas: the Yazatas, the Fravashis--Angrô-mainyus and his\u003cbr\u003eagents, the Daîvas, the Pairîkas, their struggle with Ahura-mazdâ--The\u003cbr\u003eduties of man here below, funerals, his fate after death---Worship and\u003cbr\u003etemples: fire-altars, sacrifices, the Magi_.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Cyrus and the legends concerning his origin: his revolt against\u003cbr\u003eAstyages and the fall of the Median empire--The early years of the reign\u003cbr\u003eof Nabonidus: revolutions in Tyre, the taking of Harrân--The end of\u003cbr\u003ethe reign of Alyattes, Lydian art and its earliest coinage--Croesus,\u003cbr\u003ehis relations with continental Greece, his conquests, his alliances with\u003cbr\u003eBabylon and Egypt--The war between Lydia and Persia: the defeat of\u003cbr\u003ethe Lydians, the taking of Sardes, the death of Croesus and subsequent\u003cbr\u003elegends relating to it--The submission of the cities of the Asiatic\u003cbr\u003elittoral._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Cyrus in Bactriana and in the eastern regions of the Iranian table-land\u003cbr\u003e--The impression produced on the Chaldæan by his victories; the Jewish\u003cbr\u003eexiles, Ezekiel and his dreams of restoration, the new temple, the\u003cbr\u003eprophecies against Babylon; general discontent with Nabonidus--The\u003cbr\u003eattach of Cyrus and the battle of Zalzallat, the taking of Babylon\u003cbr\u003eand the fall of Nabonidus: the end of the Chaldæan empire and the\u003cbr\u003edeliverance of the Jews._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Egypt under Amasis: building works, support given to the\u003cbr\u003eGreeks; Naukratis, its temples, its constitution, and its\u003cbr\u003eprosperity--Preparations for defence and the unpopularity of Amasis with\u003cbr\u003ethe native Egyptians--The death of Cyrus and legends relating to it: his\u003cbr\u003epalace at Pasargadæ and his tomb--Cambyses and Smerdis--The legendary\u003cbr\u003ecauses of the war with Egypt--Psammetichus III., the battle of Pelusium;\u003cbr\u003eEgypt reduced to a Persian province._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Cambyses' plans for conquest; the abortive expeditions to the oceans of\u003cbr\u003eAmnion and Carthage--The kingdom of Ethiopia, its kings, its customs:\u003cbr\u003ethe Persians fail to reach Napata, the madness of Cambyses--The fraud of\u003cbr\u003eGaumâta, the death of Cambyses and the reign of the pseudo-Smerdis,\u003cbr\u003ethe accession of Darius--The revolution in Susiana, Chaldæa, and Media:\u003cbr\u003eNebuchadrezzar III. and the fall of Babylon, the death of Orætes, the\u003cbr\u003edefeat of Khshatrita, restoration of peace throughout Asia, Egyptian\u003cbr\u003eaffairs and the re-establishment of the royal power._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The organisation of the country and its division into satrapies: the\u003cbr\u003esatrap, the military commander, the royal secretary; couriers, main\u003cbr\u003eroads, the Eyes and Ears of the king--The financial system and the\u003cbr\u003eprovincial taxes: the daric--Advantages and drawbacks of the system of\u003cbr\u003edivision into satrapies; the royal guard and the military organisation\u003cbr\u003eof the empire--The conquest of the Hapta-Hindu and the prospect of war\u003cbr\u003ewith Greece._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: 003.jpg PAGE IMAGE]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I--THE IRANIAN CONQUEST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Drawn by Boudier, from the engraving in Coste and Flandin.\u003cbr\u003e     The vignette, drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a statuette in\u003cbr\u003e     terra-cotta, found in Southern Russia, represents a young\u003cbr\u003e     Scythian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The Iranian religions--Cyrus in Lydia and at Babylon: Cambyses in Egypt\u003cbr\u003e--Darius and the organisation of the empire._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Median empire is the least known of all those which held sway for a\u003cbr\u003etime over the destinies of a portion of Western Asia. The reason of this\u003cbr\u003eis not to be ascribed to the shortness of its duration: the Chaldæan\u003cbr\u003eempire of Nebuchadrezzar lasted for a period quite as brief, and yet the\u003cbr\u003emain outlines of its history can be established with some certainty in\u003cbr\u003espite of large blanks and much obscurity. Whereas at Babylon, moreover,\u003cbr\u003eoriginal documents abound, enabling us to put together, feature by\u003cbr\u003efeature, the picture of its ancient civilisation and of the chronology\u003cbr\u003eof its kings, we possess no contemporary monuments of Ecbatana to\u003cbr\u003efurnish direct information as to its history.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080925528304,"sku":"2940015744248","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015744248","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}