Persians
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Persians is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 10, 2024 and February 05, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “Xenophon was a mercenary who fought beside Persians”; “the Persians as one of their many vassals”; “Byzantines and Persians were both exhausted from fighting each other”. It most often appears alongside Byzantines, Carthage, Rome.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: January 10, 2024
- Last seen: February 05, 2026
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- Byzantines (2 shared issues)
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- Carthage (2 shared issues)
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- Rome (2 shared issues)
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- Zvi (2 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Xenophon was a mercenary who fought beside Persians, making him potentially qualified to know things about Cyrus. He was a member of Socrates’ inner circle along with Plato, making him potentially qualified to know things about political philosophy (Plato’s Republic might be a response to Cyropaedia or vice versa; classicists aren’t sure).
Cyropaedia consists of eight books, exploring themes like: Who Even Were The Persians? This question has bothered me for a long time.
Don’t say Persepolis - it was built after Cyrus’ conquests, and wasn’t even really a city as much as a ceremonial palace complex. And don’t say Pasagardae - it was also built by Cyrus. So where did Cyrus come from? Who were the pre-Cyrus Persians?
45: Where is the original menorah from the Second Temple? We know the Romans took it when they sacked Jerusalem. We think the Vandals took it when they sacked Rome, and brought it to their capital of Carthage. The Byzantines might have taken it when they sacked Carthage, and maybe brought it back to Jerusalem? After the Persians sacked Jerusalem in 614, the trail goes completely dark, although there are the usual legends that it was hidden away, to be returned in the age of the Messiah (or something). Other people say it never left Rome, and is still hidden somewhere in the Vatican.
Inline links: Where is the original menorah from the Second Temple?