{"id":101164,"date":"2026-07-09T02:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=101164"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:41:57","slug":"the-ancient-greeks-03-enter-the-persians-2-cyrus-destiny-and-the-making-of-an-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/07\/09\/the-ancient-greeks-03-enter-the-persians-2-cyrus-destiny-and-the-making-of-an-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ancient Greeks 03 &#8211; Enter the Persians 2 &#8211; Cyrus, Destiny, and the Making of an Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UkbXa_Dm2uE?si=qOS1p_0KyPbqb4nB\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>seangabb<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 16 Feb 2026  <\/p>\n<p>Greece: A Brief History, c.700 BC &#8211; 500 AD<\/p>\n<p>Who was Cyrus the Great? How did a minor Persian ruler come to dominate the Near East? In this lecture we examine Herodotus&#8217; account of Cyrus&#8217; miraculous survival, his overthrow of the Medes, and the conquest of Lydia and Babylon. We analyse Persian imperial strategy: flexible governance, religious tolerance, and pragmatic rule. We also explore how the Ionian Greek cities of Asia Minor first came under Persian control \u2014 setting the stage for future rebellion.<\/p>\n<p>Empire did not emerge through chaos alone. It was built through method. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seangabb Published 16 Feb 2026 Greece: A Brief History, c.700 BC &#8211; 500 AD Who was Cyrus the Great? How did a minor Persian ruler come to dominate the Near East? In this lecture we examine Herodotus&#8217; account of Cyrus&#8217; miraculous survival, his overthrow of the Medes, and the conquest of Lydia and Babylon. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,7,370],"tags":[1527,1617,1101,1468],"class_list":["post-101164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-middle-east","tag-ancientgreece","tag-herodotus","tag-persia","tag-seangabb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qjG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101165,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101164\/revisions\/101165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}