Episode Details

Cyrus the Great arrives, Nabonidus falls, and several people eat human meat as we sort through Herodotus to tell the story of the rise of Persia in the mid-6th century BCE.

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Bibliography:

https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/cyaxares-gk/  

https://www.livius.org/sources/content/nabonidus-cylinder-from-sippar/  

Paul-Alain Beaulieu - 'Reign of Nabonidus';  

Matt Waters - 'King of the World';  

Herodotus, Sélincourt (trnsl.) - 'The Histories';  

C.J. Gadd - 'The Fall of Nineveh: The Newly Discovered Babylonian Chronicle';  

M. David Litwa - 'How the Gospels Became History';