GRST 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Satrap, Peloponnese, Bodrum
25 Jan 2017
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He is a greek historian who was born in halicarnassus in the persian empire (modern day. He lived in the fifth century bce (c. 484 c. 425 bc) He is widely referred to as (cid:862)the fathe(cid:396) of histo(cid:396)(cid:455)(cid:863) He was the first historian known to have broken from homeric tradition. The histories if the only work which he is known to have produced. Some of his stories were fanciful and others inaccurate he recorded only what he was told which was only as accurate as what he was given. It was an empire based in western asia, founded by cyprus the great. The achaemenid empire was created by nomadic persians. The (cid:374)a(cid:373)e (cid:862)pe(cid:396)sia(cid:863) is a g(cid:396)eek a(cid:374)d lati(cid:374) p(cid:396)o(cid:374)u(cid:374)(cid:272)iatio(cid:374) of the (cid:374)ati(cid:448)e (cid:449)o(cid:396)d (cid:396)efe(cid:396)(cid:396)i(cid:374)g to people origination from persis (modern day iran and iraq) Medes: despite its success and rapid expansion, the achaemenid empire was not the first. At some point in 550 bce, cyrus rose in rebellion against the medes.
