After the Trojan War, some of the Athenian troops were said to have been blown off course, leading to the founding of Scione.

“That’s why Greek spread all over the Middle East ... who founded the Achaemenid Empire in 550 BCE: racism. “We are ...

“Cyrus” is the Latinized form of the Greek Kyros, derived from Old Persian Kurush ... his defeat of the Median king Astyages in 550 BCE, his capture of Babylon in 539, and his death in battle against ...

550-530 BCE), founder of the Achaemenid Empire captured ... the privilege of collecting tolls from passing armies. While many Greek writers interpreted this as a sign of Achaemenid weakness ...