f Xenophon, The Cyropædia (translated from the Greek by J.S. Watson and Henry Dale).

Chapter II. The Median or Scythian Empire

[b] Herodotus, op. cit.

[c] Theodore Nöldeke, article “Persia,” in the Encyclopædia Britannica.

d A. H. Sayce, The Higher Criticism and the Monuments.

e The Holy Bible.

f R. W. Rogers, History of Babylonia and Assyria.

g Ctesias, Persica.

h Berosus, Βαβυλωνικά.

i Strabo, Γεωγραφικά.