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Persian Empire   /pˈərʒən ˈɛmpaɪər/   Listen
Persian Empire

noun
1.
An empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.  Synonym: Persia.





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"Persian Empire" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the despot and his party. But in other cases he would not agree to the impulsive proposals of the Athenians, and he opposed them when, elated by their power and good fortune, they talked of recovering Egypt and attacking the seaboard of the Persian empire. Many, too, were inflamed with that ill-starred notion of an attempt on Sicily, which was afterwards blown into a flame by Alkibiades and other orators. Some even dreamed of the conquest of Etruria and Carthage, ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) • Plutarch
 
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... Themistocles, was one of the few Greeks who, when Xerxes, the King of Persia, invaded Greece with a great army and a huge fleet, thought it possible to resist the Great King (that was the title which the king of the Persian Empire bore). He had much difficulty in persuading the generals of the other Greek states to fight at all, or even to await the coming of the enemy; some he bribed, others he bullied, till at length the Persian fleet was totally defeated ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various
 
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Words linked to "Persian Empire" :   Asia, empire, imperium, peri



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