At the beginning of 546 BC, after the fall of Sardis, the capital of the Lydian king Croesus, the Persian ruler Kurush, known to the Greeks as Kyros and in the common Latinized form today as Cyrus, ruled over most of Asia Minor. According to Herodotus's Book I of Histories, his troops pacified the last pockets of resistance, incited every now and then by those among the Lydians who still could not come to terms with the fall of their kingdom, one of the four most important powers in the region. Cyrus' priority was to occupy the coastal cities inhabited by the Ionian Greeks, thanks to which he could acquire the first fleet in the history of his empire. Support me at: https://patronite.pl/mrocznewieki https://buycoffee.to/mrocznewieki Mroczne Wieki is a historical podcast hosted by Michał Kuźniar based entirely on publications (scientific and popular science), source texts and his own conclusions. Cover: Midjourney AI Sources: Cyrus Cylinder, anonymous author, https://www.livius.org/sources/conten... Herodotus of Halicarnassus, History, Czytelnik, Warsaw 2020 Xenophon, The Education of Cyrus (Cyropaedia), ISKŚiO UWr, Wrocław 2014 Book of Isaiah, Jerusalem Bible, Pallotinum, Poznań 2018 Ctesias of Cnidus, Ctesias of Cnidus. Fragments in Excerpta Constantina, University of Gdańsk Publishing House 2019 Studies: Briant P., From Cyrus to Alexander. A history of the Persian Empire, Eisenbrauns 2002 Eliade M., History of religious beliefs and ideas. Volume I, PAX, Warsaw 1988 Llewellyn-Jones L., Persians: The Age of the Great Kings, Basic Books 2022 Mallory JP, In Search of the Indo-Europeans. Language, Archeology and Myth, Thames & Hudson 1999 Olmstead A., History of the Persian empire, PIW 1974 Reczek J., Iranian languages, in: Indo-European languages. Volume I, PWN, Warsaw 1986 Watters M., King of the World. The Life of Cyrus the Great, HighBridge 2022 [audiobook] Soundtrack: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/a... https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/w... https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/7... https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/I... https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/w... • Contact • Sonora • Dawn of Man • The Empty Moons of Jupiter Creative Commons Licenses: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... 0:00 The Tale of the Fish and the Flute Player 5:30 The Origin of the Persians 12:25 Zoroaster and Religion 19:00 Migrations to Iran 25:00 Elam, Anshan, Ancestors 30:00 Medes 35:00 Sources of History 44:40 The Legend of Cyrus Herodotus 55:50 The Legend of Cyrus Ctesias 1:04:00 War with Lydia and Croesus 1:19:00 Expansion to the East 1:22:45 Conquest of Babylon, Nabonidus 1:37:00 The Hebrews and the Rebuilding of the Temple 1:42:00 Administration of the Empire 1:47:50 Massagetae and Tomyris 1:52:00 The Tomb at Pasargadae 1:59:35 Acknowledgements, Sources