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Uri_nil t1_j4sccex wrote

Also it’s not the real Cyrus the founder of Persia and guy who resettled the Jews/paid for the temple etc it’s one of the descendants like Cyrus 3 or whatever. Long gone glory days.

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kevlarbuns OP t1_j4sdbwa wrote

Ohhh, that makes a lot of sense. I’m kind of new to Anabasis and got to where they camp below the walls of Nineveh and marvel at an ancient city being so abandoned. I was getting a headache trying to contextualize the overlap.

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HPLolzCraft t1_j4tatim wrote

This Cyrus was a pretender who hired them through the ionian Greek part of the empire and took them to challenge his cousin, I think, and they won the battle but Cyrus died in the process.

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kevlarbuns OP t1_j4tc02k wrote

Gotcha. I need to brush up on my Persian history post-Xerxes. I think my brain glazes over when I hit the Ataxerxes. Ataxerxeses.

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