Re: [cybalist] avestan and vedic

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 2109
Date: 2000-04-13

 
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From: John Croft
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 5:57 AM
Subject: Re: [cybalist] avestan and vedic


Sorry, a stupid blunder. Thanks for the historical correction.
 
Piotr
 
You are right with the dates for Zarathushtra, as much as one can be,
but wrong with the Dynasty.  The Sassanids were a Middle Persian
dynasty, deriving their name from Sassan, "lord" of Fars under the
Parthian Arsacids.  The first Saasnid Shahanshah (King of Kings) was
Ardashir who reigned from 220's to 240 CE, about 700 years after
Zarathushtra.

Piotr, I think you were meaning the Archaemids, who ruled Persia from
Cyrus (Kurush) II (559-530 BCE) until the death of Darius III
Codomannus (336-330 BCE) at the time their empire was incorporated
into that of Alexander.