Identifier: mediababylonpers00ragouoft (find matches)
Title: Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna), 1835-1924
Subjects: Zoroastrianism Iran -- History Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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false Nebuchadrez-zar, w^hom he put to death. This expedition occu-pied several months, and while he was detained inBabylonia, no less than nine countries revoltedagainst him at once, of which he gives the list: Per-sia, Susiana, Media, Assyria, Armenia, Parthia, Mar-giana, Sattagydia, and Sakia. (See map.) 9. This second rising of Elam was of little import-ance, and the people themselves put it down, cap-tured the leader and slew him. Far greater was thedanger in Media, for there a man of the name ofFravartish (Phraortes), a Mede, had declared him-self to be Khshatrita, of the race of Kyaxares andcalled on the country in the name of its most popularnational hero, the founder of its greatness. The ap-peal was eagerly responded to : even the Mediantroops w4iich had been left at home, went over tothe pretender, who was proclaimed king of Media.The rising in Sagartia was headed by a man whoalso gave himself out as a descendant of Kyaxaresand set up an independent kingdom. ))ut by far the
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<: J, 1 .. in CO 378 MEDIA, BABYLON, AND PERSIA. worst feature in this confiscation was tlic defectionof Persia proper; another false Bardiya appearedthere, and the people accepted him. lie was strongenough to initiate aggressive proceedings, bysending out troops against the satrap of the Ara-chosia, one of the few loyal servants of Dareios,and to bear most unflinchingly the brunt of severalbattles, though the result was not favorable to him-self. The fortunes of Persias lawful and heroicking may well be said to have been desperate atthis juncture. Detained in a rebellious country bya siege of which the issue was doubtful, cut off fromthe rest of the empire, he could rely only on thetroops he had with him, as he expressly says that only those Medes and Persians who were with himremained true, and they were few in number. Yetof these few he was forced to send off two detach-ments to try and stay the evil in Media and in Ar-menia, whence the insurrection was rapidly spreadingto Assyr

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