To a stranger their delight in these things may seem paradoxical, for Persians chase the golden calf as much as any people.

However, there may have been contributory causes, such as his support for Socrates, as well as the fact that he had taken service with the Persians.

If Thermopylae / Artemisium occurred in September, then this may be the case, but it is probably more likely that the Persians spent two or three weeks capturing Athens, refitting the fleet, and resupplying.

This alleged rift amongst the Allies may have simply been a ruse, in order to lure the Persians to battle.

Other health problems may be inherited from the outcross breeds used, including Polycystic Kidney Disease from Persians and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy from British Shorthairs.

Because of the regular use of Persians as outcrosses, some Exotics may carry a copy of the recessive longhair gene.

Typhon may be derived from the Greek τύφειν ( typhein ), to smoke, hence it is considered to be a possible etymology for the word typhoon, supposedly borrowed by the Persians ( as طوفان Tufân ) and Arabs to describe the cyclonic storms of the Indian Ocean.

The Turks & Persians called Georgia " Gurjistan ," which may account for the root of the name " Gurdjieff ".

This supreme exaltation of philosophy may be attributed, in great measure, to Al-Ghazali ( 1058 – 1111 ) among the Persians, and to Judah ha-Levi ( 1140 ) among the Jews.

This supreme exaltation of philosophy may be attributed, in great measure, to Al-Ghazali ( 1005 – 1111 ) among the Persians, and to Judah ha-Levi ( 1140 ) among the Jews.

Although Kurdistan came under the successive dominion of various conquerors, including the Armenians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Ottoman Turks, and Persians, they may have remained relatively unmixed by the influx of invaders, because of their protected and inhospitable mountainous homeland.

He has a confused report on irrigation ( 3. 117 ), which may be compared to the statement of the second-century historian Polybius that the Persians had built large irrigation works ( World history 10. 28. 3 ).

At which stage in the battle this happened is not clear ; the Samians were presumably not in the main battle line ( being disarmed ), so it may have been after the Persians retreated to the camp.

If the latter is true, it may explain the length of time it took for the Persians to launch a naval assault on Ionia, since they would have needed to build a new fleet.

Militarily, it is difficult to draw too many conclusions from the Ionian Revolt, save for what the Greeks and Persians may ( or may not ) have learnt about each other.

Historians suggest that the Allies may have misinterpreted the Persian movements and come to the mistaken conclusion that the Persians were sailing east around Skiathos, aiming to sail around the eastern side of Euboea.

Be that as it may, his Sasanian text is still Iranocentric: ... we are the best of Persians, and there is no quality or trait of excellence or nobility which we hold dearer than the fact that we have ever showed humility and lowliness … in the service of kings, and have chosen obedience and loyalty, devotion and fidelity.

Magnesia may have been ruled for a time by the Lydians, and was for some time under the control of the Persians, and subject to Cimmerian raids.

Hirmes may be an alternate name of Hermes, which is the name of a god ; although he is Greek in his origins, the Greeks were well known to the Persians, as the Persian Empire was in conflict with the Greeks during the Greco-Persian Wars, Alexander the Great's conquest, and the Roman-Persian Wars.

During Astyages's reign, the Median Empire may have ruled over the majority of the Ancient Near East, from the Lydian frontier in the west to the Parthians and Persians in the east.

The Persians may have been influenced by Greek and Thracian peltasts.

The term does not necessarily designate ethnic Persians, but has also been applied to those societies that may not have been ethnically Persian or Iranic, but whose linguistic, material, or artistic cultural activities were influenced by, or based on Persianate culture.

Qandala, like many other Somali ports on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, may have been frequented by Phoenicians, Egyptians, Persians, Yemenis, Greeks and Roman sailors.

Since Daniel was a statesman during the Persian conquests, the Book of Daniel could have been written in a period when the Persians had their greatest influence on Aramaic, believed to be in the mid 6th century BC.

In 425 BC, which is about the time that Herodotus is thought by many scholars to have died, the Athenian comic dramatist, Aristophanes, created The Acharnians, in which he blames The Peloponnesian War on the abduction of some prostitutes-a mocking reference to Herodotus, who reported the Persians ' account of their wars with Greece, beginning with the rapes of the mythical heroines Io, Europa, Medea and Helen.

Procopius adds that the object was later sent back to Jerusalem where there is no record of it, although it could have been destroyed when Jerusalem was pillaged by the Persians in 614.

The locations of Sattagydia and Hindush and the extent of their boundaries have not been identified either though it is certain that these two tributaries existed along the river Indus as the name Hindush is analogous with the Indus and was derived by the Persians from the Sanskrit word Sindhu.

Friction between Athens and Peloponnesian states, including Sparta, began early in the Pentecontaetia ; in the wake of the departure of the Persians from Greece, Sparta attempted to prevent the reconstruction of the walls of Athens ( without the walls, Athens would have been defenseless against a land attack and subject to Spartan control ), but was rebuffed.

After the Bani Utbah Liberation of Bahrain in 1783, different Arab families and tribes mostly from Qatar moved to Bahrain to settle there since the Persians have been expelled from the Island.

Plutarch said the inhabitants of Caria carried the emblem of the rooster on the end of their lances and relates that origin to Artaxerxes, who awarded a Carian who was said to have killed Cyrus the Younger at the battle of Cunaxa in 401 B. C " the privilege of carrying ever after a golden cock upon his spear before the first ranks of the army in all expeditions " and the Carians also wore crested helmets at the time of Herodotus, for which reason " the Persians gave the Carians the name of cocks ".

The Persian Emperor Cambyses II upon conquering Ancient Egypt sent ambassadors to Macrobia bringing luxury gifts for the Macrobian king to entice his submission, but instead the Macrobian ruler replied with a challenge for the Persian ruler in the form of an unstrung bow, that if the Persians could manage to string, they would have the right to invade his country, but until then they should thank the gods that the Macrobians never decided to invade their empire.

Sagitta's shape is reminiscent of a arrow, and many cultures have interpreted it thus, among them the Persians, Hebrews, Greeks and Romans.

The Persians were one of the first civilizations to have tales of blood-drinking demons: creatures attempting to drink blood from men were depicted on excavated pottery shards.

* As the Persian satraps have gathered for a war council at Zeleia, Memnon argues that it is preferable for the Persians to avoid a pitched battle and adopt a scorched earth tactic.

Artabazanes claimed the crown as the eldest of all the children, because it was an established custom all over the world for the eldest to have the pre-eminence ; while Xerxes, on the other hand, urged that he was sprung from Atossa, the daughter of Cyrus, and that it was Cyrus who had won the Persians their freedom.

However, the Athenians did not have the manpower to fight on land and sea ; and therefore combatting the Persians would require an alliance of Greek city states.

According to Herodotus, two more ships defected from the Persians to the Greeks, one before Artemisium and one before Salamis, so the total complement at Salamis would have been 368 ( or 380 ).

If the survivors of 546 were in fact herdsmen ( speculation ), then all the Xanthian nobility had perished, and the Persians must have designated some other Lycian noble, whom they could trust.

Pausanias ' desire for revenge seems to have turned towards the man who had failed to avenge his damaged honour ; so he planned to kill Philip, and some time after the alleged rape, while Attalus was already in Asia fighting the Persians, put his plan in action.

The Pleiades are a prominent sight in winter in the Northern Hemisphere and in summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and have been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world, including the Māori, Aboriginal Australians, the Persians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Maya, the Aztec, and the Sioux and Cherokee.

Many of the worst, like PKD in Persians and HCM in Maine Coons, have been nearly eliminated due to preventive screening, long term tracking and study by geneticists.

American Shorthairs, Persians, Himalayans, Exotics, and British Shorthairs have been used as outcrosses to develop this breed.

* The Persians under Darius II see their opportunity to play off one Greek city-state against another and to recover control of the Greek cities of Asia Minor, which have been under Athenian control since 449 BC.

Exotic shorthairs as is the case of Persians and other Persian derived cats have a high chance of inheriting PKD, a disease that can lead to kidney failure.

The unfinished one is perhaps that of Arses of Persia, who reigned at the longest two years, or, if not his, then that of Darius III ( Codomannus ), who is one of those whose bodies are said to have been brought " to the Persians.