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He thought the Iranians were right to see 300's depiction of the Persians as "an example of cultural denigration" .

His object in writing was "that the great and wonderful deeds done by Greeks and Persians should not lack renown" .

There was a king of the Persians, said my grandmother, and he had a son, and this son fell in love with a shepherd's daughter.

Indeed, reading some Western history books one might be forgiven for thinking that the Persians existed to be conquered by Alexander.

His object in writing was "that the great and wonderful deeds done by Greeks and Persians should not lack unknown" .

As Alexander the Great mopped up the Persians, no one would have dreamed that Greek would not be a world language forever.

Alexander the Great never lost a battle, not to the Persians or to anyone else.

After 479 B. C(Platea)the spirit seems to have gone out of the government of the Medes and Persians.

He became King at the age of 20 and was determined to beat the Persians who were old enemies of the Greeks.

The Persians entered the city secretively , during a time of drought, through a dried-up waterway.

Having thus charged him and sent these away to the land of the Persians, he crossed over the river both himself and his army.

The Persians celebrate their victory, but during the celebration Prince Dastan is held as the perpetrator of his father's murder.

The Persians called Mithras 'The Mediator' since he was believed to stand between the light of Ahura-Mazda and the darkness of Ahriman.

ARIS TOTLE Although an inferior race. . . the Persians control at least four-fifths of the known world.

In all, it was a disastrous defeat for the Persians, and possibly one of Alexander's finest victories.

To the ancient Greeks and Persians, the lake's immense size suggested it was an ocean, hence its name.

Many smaller Greek states, moreover, took the side of the Persians, especially Thessaly, Thebes and Argos .

The Magi belong to the story of Mithra, a deity of the ancient Persians, originally a personification of the sun.

The Greek strategy was to delay the land force and to defeat the Persians at sea, then starve the Persian army.

Among the Basic techniques are cross-stitch, crewel work, and quilting. The Persians and Greeks wore quilted garments as armor.

There is great accumulated knowledge from India, from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Greeks, the Romans and of course the Persians.

a member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin; descended from the Persians; now found in western India.

King Leonidas and his 300 men blocked the only narrow strait through which the Persians could pass.

At this time, the Persians were still tributary to the Median Empire ruled by Astyages.

do you know some people in West China Xinjiang(Uyghur)'s ancestors are Persians and Turks ! ! ! ? ? ?

The story is reminiscent of what Athens did against the Persians in the early 5th century BCE.

Firdausi: Persian epic poet whose Book of Kings (1010) recounts the history of Persia from the arrival of the Persians to the arab conquest.

In the highlands to the north, the Assyrians and Persians developed great tree-filled parks for hunting on horseback.

The Muslim majority of the region includes Arabs, Persians, and Kurds, all of whom speak different languages.

Manydishes' names probably entered the Greek vocabulary during Ottomantimes, but there was earlier contact with the Persians and the Arabs.

The Persians sailed confidently into the narrows at Salamis to meet their enemy.

After the Persians it was Alexander the Great's turn.

Both sides used cavalry, but Alexander defeated the Persians again and took their city of Babylon.

Although the Arabs and the Persians are known to Westerners primarily as desert peoples, they have also been great seafarers.

And in those same societies, Persians also commanded an authority of their own, based on a supposedly more ancient cultural sophistication.

And Greek admiration for the Persians goes back much earlier than this.

I don't know about the "longest" but my top five is Greeks, Jews, Persians(Iranians), Armenians, Chinese.

In the Arab world, and among Persians too, they receive notably little sympathy.

The great Pan had struck into the hearts of the Persians a kind of fear.

The Persians discovered how to store ice so that it would not melt.

The defeat of the Persians at Mycale roused the Greek cities of Asia.

If it represented Assur for the Assyrians, is it Ahura Mazda for the Persians?

Trapped from behind by their own men, row after row of hapless Persians are impaled.

No one knows what the ancient Persians called their winged disc.

Spartan King Leonidas: Persians! Come and get them!

The ancient Persians believed all gods wore white.

In the fourth century, women in the Western world wore pants, which they adapted from the Persians.

"The Persians" (472 BCE) is his next known work, and concerns the wars between Greece and Persia.

The Persians and the Babylonians celebrated a similar festival called the Sacaea.

The Greeks won despite their numerical disadvantage and supposedly 6, 400 Persians were slaughtered while only 192 Greeks died.

o Persians also have access to several toggle techs from their War Academy.

Started in 1521 by the Portuguese rule from 1602 rule by the Persians.

In the ninth century an estimated 10, 000 foreign traders and merchants, many of them Arabs and Persians, lived in Guangzhou.

the persians control at least 45 ' s of the known world ,

When a cafe is too full of Koreans or Persians or both, the air becomes thick, argutive, and even aggressive;

Solid Chocolate and Solid Lilac Persians

For standing on the Persians' grave,