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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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nterest which attaches to the movements of theGreek cities in Ionia and the adjoining province.For there a beginning had been made, a leaven hadbeen stirred, which was not to be quelled with theease that the Persian king had encountered till nowin his dealings with these portions of his empire.The spirit of independence shown by the northerncities had proved contagious after all, and revoltsand conspiracies against the foreign rule broke outhere and there. The centre and soul of these con-spiracies was Miletus, whose love of liberty Histiaioshad well judged. The beautiful city was besieged,taken, and destroyed almost entirely,—to the unut-terable consternation of the entire Hellenic world.Her citizens were deported to the Persian Gulf, heryouths and maidens taken for booty or sold forslaves, while the rebellious cities on the Hellespontwere burned down. The Persian rule, as it becameolder, was gradually changing its character—growingheavier and harsher, and, when opposed, drifting
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432 MEDIA, BAIiVLOX, JAD PF.AS/A. into ordinary Oriental crLicll)-. Jicsicles, Darcios hadreturned home bitterly mortified and irritated byhi.s bootless and senseless expetlition into the wildsof Scythia, and gladly vented his irritation on thoseAvho displeased him. His great grudge was nowagainst the Greeks—not those of Asia, but thoseacross the sea, the people of Hellas. He knew thatthey were one nation with these rebellious colonies,that they gave them support, encouragement, andsympathy, and determined to make an end of theentire obnoxious race. Little did he dream that themortification and losses of his Scythian campaignwere as nothing to those which he was to ex-perience at the hands of this nestful of traders,seamen, farmers, and craftsmen ; that Miltiades, afterbeing overruled by his timid and selfish compeers onBattle of the Danube, Avould yet satisfy his patriotic Marathon, _ _ - ^ ■ 490 B.C. ambition, and, as the hero of Marathon, bea check on the overwhelming deluge fr

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