The Rise of the Persian Empire: Professor Matt Waters on Ancient Empires and Cyrus the Great
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The Origins of Cyrus
There was a lot that I really enjoyed in your book. One of the things that I liked about is we've talked about the Greek sources and the Greek tradition. There wasn't a single tradition about Cyrus that the Greeks were interpreting. And likewise, it's amazing to me that you can have some of these distinct differences where Cyrus is obviously he's from a royal lineage.
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