Two titans of ancient conquest go head-to-head! Join us as we compare Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great across five ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

It would be another three centuries before Rome absorbed the Greek city-states into its own empire in 146 BC. The Persian Empire: Asia & Egypt: Originally founded by Cyrus the Great in 559 BC ...