Discovering Cyrus the Persian conqueror astride the ancient world - Zarghamee, Reza 1978- (Mage Publishers, 2014)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Prologue -- A note on the major sources -- A note on the rendering of names -- Ancient names -- Modern Iranian toponyms -- Cast of characters -- Prelude -- A nascent people : the arrival of the Medes and Persians in Western Iran -- The march of empires : Assyrians, Scythians, and Medes -- A life shrouded in myth : Cyrus' origins and early years -- Overthrow of the Medes : symbols of power -- Subjugation of Lydia and Ionia -- The sun and the sky : Iranian religion in the age of Cyrus -- In the paths of heroes : the conquest of Eastern Iran -- The fall of a civilization : the Persian conquest of Babylonia -- The Lord's anointed : Cyrus and Israel -- One king of many, one lord of many : the royal ideology and administration of the Persian empire -- The Persian Oecumene in reality and art -- With horse and bow : the ancient Persian army -- Cyrus the father : the glory days of Cyrus King of Persia -- The way of the warrior : Cyrus' death in Central Asia -- The empire after Cyrus -- Epilogue: Cyrus' legacy -- Appendix I: Cyrus, Darius, and the early history of the Achaemenid Dynasty -- Appendix II: Titles and name of Cyrus -- Appendix III: Additional thoughts on the Median worship of Mithra -- Appendix IV: Cyrus and the cult of the Goddess Anahita -- Appendix V: Ugbaru, oebaras, Gobryas, and the land of Gutium -- Appendix VI: The Babylonian chronicle -- Appendix VII: The Cyrus cylinder -- Appendix VIII: The verse account of Nabonidus -- Appendix IX: The dynastic prophecy -- Appendix X: Second Isaiah and the Cyrus cylinder -- Appendix XI: Second Isaiah, Cyrus, and Yahweh the Creator -- Appendix XII: Cyrus and the Book of Daniel -- Appendix IX: The Satrapies -- Appendix XIV: Paradises -- Appendix XV: Herodotus' roster of the Achaemenid Army -- Appendix XVI: The Saka Tigrakhauda -- Appendix XVII: Saka epic traditions -- Appendix XVIII: The Cyrus legends and the Iranian epics