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Title: Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna), 1835-1924
Subjects: Zoroastrianism Iran -- History Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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71. CRFEK MI.VER VASE, FOUND AP KtRTfU (ANCIENT I-ANTICAI/EON). 423 4^4 MEDIA, B.inVLOX, AND FERSr.l. He would on the same occasion make sure of Thraciaand the Greek cities on both sides of the Bosporusand Hellespont, as well as of several Greek islands.It is said that one of his brothers entreated him todesist, and tried to make him realize the great dif^-culties he was goinij to encounter. But his mindwas made up, and he sent messengers to all theGreek cities of Asia Minor, with orders to equip andman six hundred ships with three rows of oars(trieres), which were to sail up to the Bosporus andthere to build a bridge of ships across the straits,while he himself collected the contingents of theseveral Asiatic nations. His army numbered 700,000when he led it from Susa. He found all doneand the fleet assembled when he arrived at the Bos-porus, which he immediately crossed, leaving thebridge in the charge of part of the fleet and theGreek cities along both sides on the Bosporus,although

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