Persepolis : ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire under Darius & his successors. The administrative capitals were elsewhere – notably at Susa & Babylon.
... Are you not Thoas? Page 203 THOAS Thoas of Macedon. ANTIOCHUS Thoas, we shall be friends. Will it be long Before we march together through the world To stable our horses in Persepolis? He turns to speak to Timocles who has just entered and goes into the house. MELITUS This is a royal style and kingly brow. THOAS The man is royal. What a face looks forth From... It is their horsehooves ride into my heart. It shall be done. What have I any more To do with hatred? Parthian Rodogune, Have you forgotten now your former pomps And princely thoughts in high Persepolis, Or do your dreams still linger near a throne? RODOGUNE I think all fallen beings needs must keep Some dream out of their happier past,—or else How hard it would be to live! CLEOPATRA... sons And my dead husband lives. All's sweetly mended. I do not wish for hatred any more. The horrible and perilous hands of war Appal me. O, let our peoples sit at ease In Grecian Antioch and Persepolis, Mothers and children, clasping those golden heads Deep, deep within our bosoms, never allow Their going forth again to bonds and death. Peace, peace, let us have peace for ever more. Page ...
... peacock, Indian, 334 Pehan, 380 Pehoa(town), 84 Peithou. 525 Peri, M., 406 Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. 173, 247, 380, 417-8, 475-82.520, 541, 601 Persepolis, 384 Page 635 Persians (Parsua), 333 Peterson, 346 Petrie, Sir Flinders, 238, 239 Phanes, 483 Phegelas (Bhagalā), 63 Phegus ...
... become h. In old Persian an ethnic name Doha- is attested, also as a proper noun in the administrative tablets found at Persepolis; the masculine plural is used as the name of a province of the Persian empire, placed before the similarly used name of the Sakas in a Persepolis inscription of Xerxes (h 26). In the Greek sources Herodotus (1,125) is the first to mention the people called Dáoi, as... presence of the haoma-cult, involving a religious drink no less than a god, is attested. Among the finds of the Persepolis Treasury were mortars and pestles for haoma, on one of which the Aramaic word hwn (= havan meaning "mortar") was written, a use corroborated by Seal 20 at Persepolis, which pictures together the fire-altar, the haoma-mortax (similar to those dug up in the ruins), a "Magian" ...
... taken as directly influenced by those earlier royal dwellings abroad. Spooner suggested that a close parallel to the excavated palace may be perceived in the Achaemenid Hall of Hundred Columns at Persepolis. But his views have not been generally accepted. 2 Raychaudhuri 3 goes pointedly further in connection with the Pātaliputra palace. After quoting the phrase that with this palace "neither... appropriately digress a little to a subject we have already touched upon: the pillared palace excavated at Pātaliputra, which Spooner tried to parallel with the Achaemenid Hall of Hundred Columns at Persepolis. We have cited the general criticism 1. Indian Archaeology Today (1979), p. 102. 2. Prehistoric India (Pelican. Harmondsworth, 1960), p. 185. 3. Ibid. 4. Op. cit., p. 364... wake of 1. Ibid., p. 183. 2. Op. cit., p. 185. 3. Ibid., pp. 184-85. Page 462 Darius's conquest - that is, the conquest he made of what the inscription at Persepolis (c. 518-515 B.C.) and the Hamadan Gold and Silver Tablet inscription as well as the inscription at Naksh-i-Rustam call Hi(n)du. 1 Darius's earlier records, the Behistun inscription (520-518 B.C ...
... modern Ravi), 283, 290, 353, 355, 357 Pasadyumna, 356 pavitra, 345 Pazyryk, 317 Periano Ghundai, 182, 249, 253 pernēmi, 291, 347 Persepolis, 206 Persepolis Treasury, 319 PGW, see Painted Grey Ware Phillips, E.D., 317 Piggott, Stuart, 181 fn., 182, 189, 192, 233, 237, 249, 251, 253, 261 Pipru, 207, ...
... , Give me a look that when I bend my brows Pale death may walk in furrows of my face, or passionately, Is it not passing brave to be a king, And ride in triumph through Persepolis? Page 71 or frantically, Lo here, my sons, are all the golden mines, Inestimable drugs and precious stones, More worth than Asia and the world beside... And shall ...
... (of a person's speech) using very few words. Page 73 would explore the sea route from the Arabian Sea to the Persian Gulf. As for Alexander, he had decided to reach Pasargadae and Persepolis by passing through Ramballa, Poura and Hormuz, that is to say following the Southern road, the closest to the coastline. This road was by far the most difficult of the three. Why had Alexander ...
... were now abolished and that henceforth they might live under their own laws. (...) Page 39 After the battle of Gaugamela Alexander advanced through the province of Babylonia, Susa and Persepolis, conquering one after the other all the most important cities and provinces of the Persian Empire. Alexander was by nature exceptionally generous and became even more so as his wealth increased ...
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