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... Persian language , unfortunately left no means of reading it through Greek , although Herodotus relates that Darius perpetuated his passage of the Hellespont by a plate graven with Babylonian , Persian , and Greek characters , and ...
... Persian language , unfortunately left no means of reading it through Greek , although Herodotus relates that Darius perpetuated his passage of the Hellespont by a plate graven with Babylonian , Persian , and Greek characters , and ...
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... Persian books into the fire or the water . Like Alexander's wanton incendiarism , that of Omar , too , played havoc with the Persian annals . Among these he specifically mentions the Nama - é - Khusraven and Nama - é - Bästän - whatever ...
... Persian books into the fire or the water . Like Alexander's wanton incendiarism , that of Omar , too , played havoc with the Persian annals . Among these he specifically mentions the Nama - é - Khusraven and Nama - é - Bästän - whatever ...
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... Persian Jews similarly write in the Persian language , but in Hebrew characters . The Pahlavi script was almost a cryptography , it was so intimately related to the priesthood . In conse- quence , after the Arab conquest , deprived of ...
... Persian Jews similarly write in the Persian language , but in Hebrew characters . The Pahlavi script was almost a cryptography , it was so intimately related to the priesthood . In conse- quence , after the Arab conquest , deprived of ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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