Posted on 04/20/2004 8:06:37 AM PDT by presidio9
It seems to me the Iranians I know aren't privy to that fact. They just claim their ancestry to be Christian.
Could it be that their enemy bent on slaughtering them just happened to be Christian also?
From what you said Rome was the aggressor, the guys who decide they wanted someone else's space. Not sure why you would blame the Iranians / Persians for this. Right now we are scrambling and praying to protect our own little plot on this planet from aggresors.
I really don't know. Someday I'll work on googling this conundrum but any links you can provide to support your assertions would be appreciated.
Those vile vild people do lots of that. It's about the only thing they are good at...
Along through the book I have distributed a few anachronisms and unborn historical incidents and such things, so as to help the tale over the difficult places. This idea is not original with me; I got it out of Herodotus. Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects."
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Vast and Deadly Fleets May Yield Secrets at Last
New York Times | April 20, 2004 | William J. Broad
Posted on 07/25/2004 6:26:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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The Persian Wars
By: Professor Livio C. Stecchini
Saturday, January 01, 2005
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/persian_wars6.php
"Herodotos reports that the fleet consisted of 1207 triremes and 3000 lesser fighting ships and supply ships (VII 89, 184). The figure of 1207 triremes is itemized by specifying the number of ships contributed by the several subjects and allies of the Persian Empire (VIII 89-95). Nobody has succeeded in proving that any of these partial figures is questionable; the contributions made by the Greek subjects of Persia corresponds to what we know to have been their naval strength in other episodes of Greek history. Herodotos' figures are confirmed by several other sources. The historian Diodoros (XI 3) states that the triremes were 1200 at the time of the muster at Doriskos; the orator Lysias (II 27) mentions an initial force of 1200 triremes, whereas the orator Isokrates mentions 1300 triremes at the beginning of the campaign (VII 49) and 1200 on the eve of the battle of Salamis (IV 93); Plato (Laws, III 699 B) speaking in general terms refers to 'one thousand ships and more.' In order to find a trace of disagreement it is necessary to refer to the narrative of the historian Ktesias, as summarized by the Byzantine writers of the ninth century, Photios; in this text the figure of the triremes is given as 1000, but the text contains such an accumulation of obviously wrong information that either Ktesias or Photios must be dismissed as totally unreliable."
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Ancient Persia at War
by Kaveh Farrokh
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Some of their ancestors were Christians. Christians were never dominant and always lived under some restrictions, never so onerous under the Pre Mohammedan Zoroastrian rulers as later under the various caliphs, sultans, and shahs. Christians were often physicians and advisers to the king.
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