 | Christiane Bird - History - 2002 - 420 pages
...envoys from all over the Achaemenian Empire came to Persepolis to pay tribute to the king of kings. "I (am) Darius the great king, the king of kings, the king of lands, the king of this earth, the son of Hystapes" reads one inscription from Persepolis, in words... | |
 | Doron Mendels - Religion - 2004 - 194 pages
...behead unsuccessful commanders at sea. 1 1 . See lines 24-5, and compare Darius' Behistun expression: 'I am Darius, the Great King, the King of Kings, the King of Persia.' See too the notes by HD Broadhead (ed.). The Persae of Aeschylus (Cambridge: Cambridge University... | |
 | Michael LeFebvre - Religion - 2006 - 326 pages
...his own righteousness — not his political constitution — as the source of Persian superiority: I am Darius, the great king, the king of kings, the king of Persia, the king of the provinces... By the grace of Auramazda am I king; Auramazda hath granted me... | |
 | Asia - 1909 - 928 pages
...subdeities of his own. Again let us recall there can be but one " greatest." (Thus) saith Darius the King : I am Darius, the great King, the King of kings, the King of these numerous provinces,* the son of Vishtaspat the Achsemenid. (Thus) saith Darius the King: Through the gracious... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1847 - 538 pages
...refer to the passages of the transcript commencing with Roman numerals. — ED.] COLUMN I. Par. 1. I am Darius, the great King, the King of Kings, the King of Persia, the King of (the dependent) provinces, the eon of Hystaspes, the grandson of Arsames, the Achtcmenian.... | |
 | India - 1879 - 974 pages
...doubt the words were settled in the council of the great king, in tbe form that altereth not : — " I am Darius, the great king, the king of kings, the king of the " Persians, the king of the lords, the son of Hystaspes, the <c grandson of Arsames, the Achoemenian.... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1853 - 606 pages
...ЛЛге give two or three paragraphs, numbered as they stand in the first column, of the inscription. "1. I am Darius the great King, the King of Kings, the King of Persia, the King of the dependent provinces, the son of Hystaspes, the grandson of Arsames the Achaemenian.... | |
 | Samuel Birch - Assyria - 1874 - 208 pages
...some facts which had not been made known before. MEDIAN TEXT OF THE BEHISTUN INSCRIPTION. COLUMN I. 1 I AM DARIUS, the great King, the King of Kings, the King of the Persians, the King of the Lords, the son of HYSTASPES, the grandson of ARSAMES, the Achaemenian.... | |
 | Religious education - 1899 - 846 pages
...decree. Tims snith Cyrus king of Persia. With some similarity the famous Behistim inscription begins, ut seam, woven from the top throughout. 34 Persia." The Lord God of heaven bath given me nil the kingdoms of the earl h . This sentence is remarkable... | |
 | Aeschylus - Greece - 1960 - 436 pages
...lines of infantry. 21 For Persian names see App. v. 24 Cf. the Behistun inscription (see App.) : ' I am Darius, the Great King, the King of Kings, the King of Persia.' This seems to be the earliest mention in the extant Greek literature of the title ßoccrtÄEUs... | |
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I am DARIUS, the great King, the King of Kings, the King of Persia, the King of the provinces, the son of HYSTASPES, the grandson of ARSAMES, the Achaemenian. 
