Catholic Encyclopedia: Persia
This is most clearly noticed in trilingual inscriptions, from the 510s BCE, written in persona Cyrus, but were likely written by Darius. They also give a window into what Persian royal ideology looked like, seeing the king as the agent of the divine Ahuramazda, and the one who maintains order. Several years later, Cyrus expanded westwards, defeating Croesus, the king of Lydia, in 546 BC, thereby adding the western part…Read More