Rise of the Persians
The Ancients
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Herodotus's Discourse on the Medes
We've got some idea of what he might have been called an old iranian, and it translates a spear thrower. And what he does essentially, he begins to kind of, not exactly unite the tribes of the medes but certainly arise more and more as a figurehead for the medes. So he rises in power time and time again. Now, of course, herodotus, the greek historian, when he tries to think about these people, the medes, he's going on nothing other than a bit of hearsay and a lot of fantasy.
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