Cyrus The Great

Cyrus The Great

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Cyrus the Great, also known as Cyrus II of Persia and Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty. As...
Bagoas

Bagoas

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Bagoas (in Old Persian "Bagoi"; died 336 BC) was a eunuch who became the confidential minister of Artaxerxes III. He threw in his lot with the...

Bagoas

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Bagoas (in Old Persian "Bagoi") was an eunuch in the Persian Empire in the 4th Century BCE. He was reportedly the lover of Darius III and after...
Arsames Of Persia

Arsames Of Persia

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Arsames (Aršāma, modern Persian: ارشام‎, Greek: ; - ca. 520 BC) was the son of Ariaramnes and perhaps briefly the king of Persia during the Ach...

Karl Hoffmann

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Karl Hoffmann (26 February 1915 - 21 May 1996) was a German historian who specialized in Indo-European and Indo-Iranian studies. He is most...

Friedrich von Spiegel

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Friedrich (von) Spiegel was a German orientalist.
Mark R.V. Southern

Mark R.V. Southern

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Mark Roderick Vendrell Southern (March 3, 1961 - March 15, 2006) was an Indo-Europeanist and professor of German and linguistics. His research and...
Pedro Damiano

Pedro Damiano

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Pedro Damiano (in Portuguese, Pedro Damião; "Damiano" is the Italian form, much like the Latin "Damianus") was a Portuguese chess player who lived f...
Artaxerxes I of Persia I of Persia

Artaxerxes I of Persia I of Persia

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Artaxerxes I (Latin; Greek Ἀρταξέρξης; corruption of Old Persian
Darius I of Persia I of Persia

Darius I of Persia I of Persia

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Darius the Great (c. 549 BC– 486/485 BC; "Darayavahu" : "Possessing goodness", was the son of Hystaspes, and king of Persia from 522 BC to 48...