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Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937
Subjects: Zoroastrianism
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e beencalled Pdrsa-harta^ City of the Persians, like the older Pasar-gadse, for the Greeks appear simply to be paraphrasing the namewhen they refer to the city as Perse-poUs.^ It is not improb-able, moreover, that the name Stakhra, Strong, still preservedamong the natives as Stakhr or Istakhr, and which we can 1 See pp. 26, 180, above. The date 2 The earliest occurrence of Uepa-i- of Cambysess death was b.c. 522. ttoXis in Greek appears to be in the Herodotus (History, 3. 61-66) states fifth century b.c, after the Persian that it occurred at the Syrian Ecba- War, as we then find the word used tana; Ctesias (Fragments, 43-44, ed. by ^/schylus, Fersians, 65, apparently Gilmore, pp. 144-145) says that the with a punning allusion to destroy- event occurred at JBabylon, and adds ing (wipaii) cities (ir6Xts). This I that the body was brought back to Per- believe to be the best interpretation of sia. Yet to this day no man knows the passage in question,the place where Cambyses is buried. 294
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FROM PASARGAD^ TO NAKSH-I RUST AM 295 trace back for centuries, if not to Achsemenian times, mayhave designated the city in the plain north and west of theplatform, that is, the abode of the people in distinction fromthe residence of the kings on the grand terrace.^ Be that asit may, the monuments in this vicinity are the most interestingand historic in all Persia; Susa alone can make any claim tocomparison with them. To reach Persepolis, we strike southward toward the Plainof Mervdasht. The road runs at first through a mountaingorge, picturesque in wild scenery, but dangerous at nightbecause of its rugged track and robbers. The river Polvar,the classic Medus, pushes its way with turbulent streamthrough the craggy defile. A part of the road above its rockybed exhibits one of the most remarkable pieces of ancientengineering in the Orient. For a considerable distance,through the solid limestone rock, a narrow causeway washewn ages ago to afford, as it still does, a passage for cara-vans

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