Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Persepolis' has mentioned 'Persians' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Persepolis is derived from Ancient Greek: xcexa0xcexb5xcfx81xcfx83xcexadxcfx80xcexbfxcexbbxcexb9xcfx82, romanized:xc2xa0Persepolis, a compound of Pxc3xa9rsxc4x93s (xcexa0xcexadxcfx81xcfx83xcexb7xcfx82) and pxc3xb3lis (xcfx80xcfx8cxcexbbxcexb9xcfx82), meaning "the Persian city" or "the city of the Persians". | WIKI |
| To the ancient Persians, the city was known as Pxc4x81rsa (Old Persian: xf0x90x8exb1xf0x90x8exa0xf0x90x8exbcxf0x90x8exbf), which is also the word for the region of Persia. | WIKI |
| [6] Because medieval Persians attributed the site to Jamshid,[7] a king from Iranian mythology, it has been referred to as Takht-e-Jamshid (Persian: xd8xaaxd8xaexd8xaa xd8xacxd9x85xd8xb4xdbx8cxd8xafxe2x80x8e, Taxt e Jamxc5xa1xc4xabd; [xcbx8ctxc3xa6xtedxcax92xc3xa6mxcbx88xcax83ixcbx90d]), literally meaning "Throne of Jamshid". | WIKI |
| Play media Reconstruction of Persepolis, capital of the Persians | WIKI |
| Diodorus Siculus writes that on his way to the city, Alexander and his army were met by 800 Greek artisans who had been captured by the Persians. | WIKI |
| They explained to Alexander the Persians wanted to take advantage of their skills in the city but handicapped them so they could not easily escape. | WIKI |
| Some sources indicate that the Persians were betrayed by a captured tribal chief who showed the Macedonians an alternate path that allowed them to outflank Ariobarzanes in a reversal of Thermopylae. | WIKI |
| Many historians argue that, while Alexander's army celebrated with a symposium, they decided to take revenge against the Persians. | WIKI |
| He adds: "[Alexander] burned the whole of Persepolis as revenge to the Persians, because it seems the Persian King Xerxes had burnt the Greek City of Athens around 150 years ago. | WIKI |
| Ctesias mentions further, with regard to a number of Persian kings, either that their remains were brought "to the Persians," or that they died there. | WIKI |
| Depiction of united Medes and Persians at the Apadana, Persepolis. | WIKI |
| If it is true that the body of Cambyses II was brought home "to the Persians," his burying place must be somewhere beside that of his father. | WIKI |
| [46] It is perhaps that of Artaxerxes IV, who reigned at the longest two years, or, if not his, then that of Darius III (Codomannus), who is one of those whose bodies are said to have been brought "to the Persians." | WIKI |
| (2) At this point, one of the women present, Thais by name and Attic by origin, said that for Alexander it would be the finest of all his feats in Asia if he joined them in a triumphal procession, set fire to the palaces, and permitted women's hands in a minute to extinguish the famed accomplishments of the Persians. | WIKI |
| It was most remarkable that the impious act of Xerxes, king of the Persians, against the acropolis at Athens should have been repaid in kind after many years by one woman, a citizen of the land which had suffered it, and in sport. | WIKI |
| (3) One of these, Thais by name, herself also drunken, declared that the king would win most favor among all the Greeks, if he should order the palace of the Persians to be set on fire; that this was expected by those whose cities the barbarians had destroyed. | WIKI |