By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map ... the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in ...

Cyrus vs. Alexander: Battle of the Greats Welcome to WatchMojo, and in today’s installment of Versus, we’re pitting Cyrus and Alexander — two of history’s greatest conquerors ...

According to Herodotus and later Greek authors, it was this shift in behavior that triggered the decadence of the Persian Empire and the corruption of its great kings. Cyrus grants freedom to the ...

330-329 B.C.E.) It might be noted that “Cyrus” and “Darius” have endured for centuries as popular names for boys, and not just in Iran. An important point is that the Persian empire conquered by ...

Birth of the Persian Empire (I.B.Tauris, 2005), especially the chapter ‘Cyrus the Great and the kingdom of Anshan’ by D.T. Potts ...

The incredible story of Alexander the Great and his conquest of the known ... In 334 BC he used this army to launch a invasion of the Persian Empire, winning a crucial victory at the River Granicus.

Born about 600 BCE in what is now southwestern Iran, Cyrus “the Great” is considered the founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire. He is remembered as “the Great” to distinguish him from his ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have just identified the site of Alexander the Great's first victory over the Persian Empire. This particular site had been unclear for 150 years. In 334 BC, Alexander the ...

This week we're in very exalted intellectual company: we're with Confucius in China, Pericles in Greece, and Cyrus in Ancient ... and so the Persian Empire is the first great 'road' empire of ...