Western Civilization

rev. ed. (Harmondsworth, England, 1980). See alsoM. E. Aubet,

The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies and Trade,

2d ed. (Cambridge, 2001), andG. Markoe,Phoenicians(Lon-

don, 2000), on Phoenician society.

THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE A detailed account of Assyrian politi-

cal, economic, social, military, and cultural history isH. W. F.

Saggs,The Might That Was Assyria(London, 1984). The Neo-

Babylonian Empire can be examined inH. W. F. Saggs,Babylo-

nians(Norman, Okla., 1995).

THE PERSIAN EMPIRE The classic work on the Persian

Empire isA. T. Olmstead,History of the Persian Empire(Chi-

cago, 1948), but see alsoL. Allen,The Persian Empire(Chicago,

2005), andJ. M. Cook,The Persian Empire(New York, 1983),

for new material and fresh interpretations. On the history of

Zoroastrianism, seeS. A. Nigosian,The Zoroastrian Faith:

Tradition and Modern Research(New York, 1993).

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Notes

1. 2 Samuel 8:2.


2. Psalms 137:1, 4–6.


3. Psalms 145:8–9.


4. Psalms 121:2–3.


5. Exodus 20:13–15.


6. Isaiah 2:4.


7. Quoted in H. W. F. Saggs,The Might That Was Assyria
   (London, 1984), p. 261.


8. Ibid., p. 262.


9. J. C. Rolfe, trans.,Quintus Curtius I(Cambridge, Mass.,
   1971), pp. 337–339.
   10. Quoted in J. M. Cook,The Persian Empire(New York,
   1983), p. 32.
   11. Herodotus,The Persian Wars, trans. G. Rawlinson (New
   York, 1942), p. 257.
   12. Isaiah 44:28, 45:1.
   13. Quoted in A. T. Olmstead,History of the Persian Empire
   (Chicago, 1948), p. 168.
   14. Quoted in Cook,The Persian Empire, p. 76.
   15. Yasna 44:3–4, 7, as quoted in A. C. Bouquet,Sacred
   Books of the World(Harmondsworth, England, 1954),
   pp. 111–112.

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